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To be surprised at friend eating so oddly?

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Notfootball · 16/12/2012 00:09

Went out for dinner with some friends tonight and one of them was loading up her knife and eating from it as though it were a fork. Do other people do this? Is this normal but no one told me?

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WorraLorraTurkey · 16/12/2012 00:15

I eat my peas with honey
I've done that all my life
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on the knife.

~ Spike Milligan ~

sorry, dunno but you just reminded me of that rhyme from my childhood Xmas Grin

Ellypoo · 16/12/2012 00:17

No, that's not normal. How weird!

shockers · 16/12/2012 00:18

I bet it was my SIL, she thinks she's very powsh because she's extremely rich... but she eats off her knife so she ain't.

shockers · 16/12/2012 00:20

Are you in the Lytham St Annes area perchance? (if you are, it's definitely her)

ProbationProbationProbation · 16/12/2012 00:22

Sort of unrelated but I worked in a restaurant at uni. My friend was working a quiet afternoon shift, and a bloke came in and ordered a pizza. When it arrived he proceeded to eat it like an animal WITH NO HANDS?!
Now before you say anything, he had hands, as he had been using them to drink, but just ate without. She's been disturbed ever since.

Using a knife like a spoon is just bad manners!!

violetpurplerain · 16/12/2012 00:25

I used to eat off my knife when I was kid and always got told off by my mother.

Its very 'common' apparently haha.

proofreader · 16/12/2012 00:26

definitely not normal....

Tomorrowslookingfine · 16/12/2012 00:26

Haha how strange. YANBU some people are just odd!

TiaMariaandEggnog · 16/12/2012 00:33

Probation - no hands as in head down to the plate and gnawing at it??? Confused

AgentZigzag · 16/12/2012 00:34

Loading up your knife with food is just plain weird unusual, but I'm Shock at the bloke eating pizza with no hands.

You mean with his face stuffed in the plate like a pig Probation?

I'm wracking my brains to think of why he'd do that (other than that's the way he was -dragged brought up to eat) and can only think of someone perhaps daring him to, or he had some kind of neurosis where he couldn't eat proper-- touch cutlery/let cutlery touch his food.

How did he stand all the pizza that must have been round his chops?

Welovecouscous · 16/12/2012 00:36

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SantaIAmSoFuckingRock · 16/12/2012 00:38

i've seen people eating off their knife, people who eat too fast and are horsing it into them. it does look odd. i dont think i could do it. would feel strange.

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Notfootball · 16/12/2012 00:40

No Shockers, we weren't there!
I've had dinner with her many times in the past and never noticed her do it before so it seems like a new thing. I almost want to ask her about it but I don't want to offend her.

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AgentZigzag · 16/12/2012 00:42

The fork or the no hands Welove? Grin

Bossybritches22 · 16/12/2012 00:52

Arrrgh this is one of those things I'm irrationally pedantic about.

Watching "Sherlock" the other day , the film version, with DD2 ( never got round to seeing it when i was released as I'm a Moffat version fan)

All going well with Robert thingy junior making a passable fist of the role considering he's a Yank, but AAAAAARRRGH he ate with his fingers over his fork like a navvy!!!!

Can't STAND the american thing of cutting up a piece of food and then transferring the fork to the right hand...WTAF????

Violet that was my grandma's ultimate put-down "it's common"

Xmas Grin

And before anyone says anything YES it DOES matter!!!

Welovecouscous · 16/12/2012 00:53

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Santasapunkatheart · 16/12/2012 00:54

Worst table manners of anyone on TV is Giles Coren. He's a foodie - so he should know better. He eats like a starving horse.

AgentZigzag · 16/12/2012 01:02

Is that in a similar vein to stick thin chefs being not as good as a one with a more 'fuller figure' Santas? (picking my words carefully there Grin) (in that a 'fuller figure' means they're trying/eating their own food so it must be good).

You're going to trust Giles Corens reviews as a critic if you know he loves his food more than one who looks like they could do with a decent homecooked meal?

bedhaven · 16/12/2012 01:05

Someone eating from a knife makes me twitch in my seat! However, manners exist to make others feel comfortable that they know what to do in "society" and adults should not be reminded of their poordifferent manners. It's fine for me to ask my kids to do as my Mum taught me and if my DH picks up a few tips on the way, wonderful! but I would never directly criticise his never putting his knife and fork together to indicate he's finished except in my head. My sister once told a first dinner date that if he licked his knife again she was leaving, he thought she was joking.

lidlqueen · 16/12/2012 01:06

who is that man who is known in our house as 'food porn man' he never seems to cook anything,just hangs around tasting stuff on cooking shows with really horrible greedy lips, going 'mmm. ahhhh. mmmm. delicious!"
Does anyone know who I mean?

SantaIAmSoFuckingRock · 16/12/2012 01:09

doesn't everyone cut their food the switch the fork into their right hand? i cant eat left handed Hmm

Santasapunkatheart · 16/12/2012 01:11

I know what you mean, Agent. But you can enjoy food without troughing in it!

Welovecouscous · 16/12/2012 01:12

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LineRunner · 16/12/2012 01:13

What do you mean, Bossy? 'fingers over fork like a navvy'

Trying to picture this.

stifnstav · 16/12/2012 01:16

Food porn Gregg Wallace?

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