To eat the 'wrong' way round

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I use my cutlery the wrong way round when eating- would you notice? Would you judge me?
Should I at the age of 32 just learn to eat the right way round?!

Thread about a thread?

It might screw with my head a bit - because I think it is one of those things where I would know that there was something that didn't look the way I expected it to, but wouldn't be able to put my finger on what it was.

But I wouldn't comment on it, or think you should change what felt right to you.

Yes and furthermore S. 2 of the Cutlery Act 1764 actually prohibits it. Fine of three groats and/or 3 days in the stocks.
We learn everything at police school.

The sil thread planted a seed I'm just wondering if you've all been secretly judging me for years

I'm getting a funny sense of deja vu

I use them the wrong way round too, but its the right way for me!

Is it Groundhog Day again?

What is the "wrong way 'round?" I assume you're not holding your fork by the tines instead of the handle...

Forks spoons knives!

Well as someone who frequently sets the table with knives and forks the wrong way around I probably wouldn't notice. If I did I would assume the person was left handed.

I knew someone would start another thread about this! As I said on the other one, it is deeply, deeply strange to care what hand someone holds their cutlery in, and anyone who is offended by someone with their fork in their right hand really needs to get a life.

DH uses his cutlery "left handed" despite being right handed. Nobody ever notices.

Is there another thread the. Sil one ?

DH uses his cutlery "left handed" despite being right handed. Nobody ever notices.

I thought you meant pudding first!

I don't think I've ever took notice of what hands someone holds their cutlery in. I've never heard of it being an issue before either. I often feel a world apart from the rest of mn after reading some threads.

I am another 'wrong un' despite being right handed.

I don't want to be friends with people who care about that kind of crap so judge away.

I also wear my watch on the 'wrong' hand. I am some people's worst nightmare

There is no 'right' and 'wrong' way.
There is left and right handed way (whichever hand you hold your knife in I believe)

Unless you are talking about the way in which you hold each piece of cutlery in your hands.

I'd notice and I'm pretty unobservant. I wouldn't judge as long as you held them properly.

I wouldn't care much about that, but some things do make me wince, particularly when people use spoons for a main course and, as a consequence, bring their face to their food rather than their food to their face.

But that's my issue.

I am right-handed but have always used cutlery the American way (knife in right hand to cut food, then knife down and fork in right hand to eat). Don't know why. I didn't even know it was "wrong" till DP commented on it.

So I might notice, but I wouldn't care!

My DH does this and so does my dd I must admit it does annoy me when dd does it perhaps its a genetic thing

Plenty of people hold their knife in their left hand and fork in the right. I would say as long as it is held properly and they are not stabbing at their food it is not bad manners.
I think bad manners would be telling someone that they are holding their cutlery incorrectly if they are not a child. It is probably bad manners if you eat the right way round and then leave your knife on the plate and eat with your fork only in your right hand. Loads of people do that though.

I eat the wrong way around too. So no judging here!

I wouldn't care. I do it however I feel at the time. I'm capable of doing it 'properly' but do I really need to with turkey jetters?

I eat the wrong way round but do hold my knife correctly.