to think that no-one knows how to hold a knife & fork anymore - YOU DON'T HOLD THE KNIFE LIKE A PENCIL

[Proudnscary]

...It doesn't make you look 'ladylike' when you hold your cutlery like knitting needles/pencils with a stupid pinchy grip. It makes you look like a pleb.

When, pray, did this momentous change take place and WHY??? I see it everywhere and it makes me worry for the future of our children who will all look like cack-handed imbeciles if they grow up to eat like that.

As a general aside, Americans have no idea how to use a knife and fork simultaneously. A summer across the Atlantic has enabled me to confirm this time and again.

A few people have commented on Americans. An American in another forum explained this. You cut you food with your knife, put down the knife, transfer the fork to your right hand and transfer food to your mouth with that. I can't remember for certain, but I think you possibly then put the fork down while you chew and swallow. People who can't take the time to do all this have no table manners, they are disgusting greedy pigs, anxiously trying to shovel food down their throat as fast as they can.

So all of you who continuously hold you knife in your knife hand are uncouth. Americans wonder why you have no table manners.

My grandparents held their cutlery like this do it's nothing new.