To be surprised at friend eating so oddly?

[Notfootball]

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?

I would put my fork in my right hand (like a spoon) if I was turning it over to shovel eat something like peas etc, rather than turning it over in my left hand and using the knife to push the stuff on (which we'd have got a rap over the knuckles with mums fork if she caught us doing it )

I'm with bedhaven and her sister (who is immensely sensible in her choice of men), not putting your knife/fork together at the end is just untidy and is leaving something undone is unforgivable

' is leaving something undone is unforgivable' fucked up changing the sentence half way through

Fuck it, you know what I meant.

'Fuck it, you know what I meant.'

(and if you do, can you tell me? )

agent

welove i dodn't know that i though it was just down to handedness. i've tried using my left in the past but i'm all elbows when i do. fun to watch. but awkward as fuck.

Oh my God, the fork in the wrong hand thing makes me fucking angry.

It's NOT bad manners.

The opinion that eating left handed is wrong is the last ignorant remnant of the old school of though who tried to teach that being left-handed was wrong.

The people who used to tie children's hands behinds their back to make them use the right one.

Sorry but it's one of the few things that pisses me right off.

Eating off a knife however, that's just plain weird!

When my great aunt was young she was told not to lick her knife. She did it anyway & cut her tongue. She bled for ages afterwards. Knives do not belong in the mouth!

My foster sister does eat off her knife sometimes, usually while her fork is still travelling from her mouth back to her plate. In her defence, she mostly grew up in care homes where her food would be nicked if she didn't inhale it! Makes me cringe every time she does it though. I'm really squeamish when it comes to the possibility of a sliced tongue!

In your sisters case Jojo, nobody could judge her knowing why she does it.

So I'd only judge her until I had that knowledge .

Line runner.....almist like a left handrd pencil...difficult to describe if you haven't clocked it but basically historically inaccutate

I have no objection to people eating left handed...my BIL does, fork in right hand knife in left but because he eats properly and doesn't shovel or swap it really isn't noticeable.

I sometimes swap hands Do I look like I care that you wouldn't approve? Why do something that's just bloody uncomfortable to please people with some book of 1930's manners?!

Santa - hope you are keeping our spreadsheet up to date - I'd hate to end up on an MN meet up with the fork judging lot

Sorry notfootball got a bit distracted

Why on earth would she eat off her knife?? As this is something new - you have to ask what it's all about - then report back!!

You're so common Chipping.

Do you not aspire to climb socially?

'you have to ask what it's all about - then report back!!'

Seconded, I'll not sleep for thinking of reasons for it her faux pas.

Also, when people hold their knives so the end is over the hand, between thumb and forefinger, instead of held next to the palm, 'inside' the hand.

AgentZigzag - I keep falling off the lower rungs thank fuck

Winky - Really? Do they not keep 'tipping'?

agent and tia, yup, face down, no hands. Devoured it. Passata all over his face and probably mozzerella up his nose
We were hoping he would become a regular but we never saw him after that. or she could have made the whole merry episode up

Wrong, wrong, wrong on all levels but what makes be itch is when the knife and fork is not put together when someone has finished eating. I practically have to sit on my hands to stop from leaning over to do it for them.

She might cut her tongue or lips, but otherwise I can't see the problem.

YouSeveredHead: what makes be itch is when the knife and fork is not put together when someone has finished eating

Hmm. In the USA (at least, near SF), if you leave your cutlery apart in a restaurant, you'll find the waiting staff removing your meal. Alternatively, even if the plate is empty, if the cutlery is together, they won't take the plate away. You see, the 'rule' is exactly opposite to the rule in the UK.

Don't know if I've ever seen anyone eating from their knife - but far more importantly than that - anyone who HOLDS THEIR KNIFE LIKE A PEN needs to be rounded up and summarily shot.

I can't even work out how the food would stay on the knife, that's not common it's just odd surely

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

No. They don't.

And it's not left/right hand prejudice, it doesn't matter if you use your right hand for your fork if you are holding the knife in your left and using it correctly.

Oooooooh shockers that's where I live

DH and I saw a woman (older as well) at the movies eating her popcorn in the queue without her hands- just put her face in the container foraged out a bit ate it, went back for more. Not as bad as pizza man but up there. She was really quite well dressed and with some friends too, I think her hands were full, but surely she could have waited?

I always found people who cut their pizza up to eat it really fucking weird. Then I did it and it tastes soo much better- why?!

I can't picture how food would stay on a knife though.. Weird.

Out of a table of 6 children at our school xmas lunch, only one child had their knife and fork in the correct hands! Knife in lfet, fork in right! I find myself correcting them as obviously no-one else ever does....... And breathe....
It seems they start off eating the things that dont need cutting by using the fork in thier right hand and then when they need the knife, just picking it up in the left hand. Aggggghhhhh! Dont get me started on holding knife and fork like a pen....