To think this is very odd??(lighthearted)

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(Lighthearted post to prove point to OH)

My OH only ever uses a fork not a knife?? No matter what he is eating he will only ever use a fork and thinks that's completely normal, he says I'm weird for using a knife ???

Please tell me that this is weird

fobiddenfruitcrumble Tue 13-Feb-18 14:56:28
Do people really eat stir fry and noodles with a knife and fork?

Yes, wtf do YOU eat them with??

All those that think its snobby to use a knife, what are you teaching your children? How are you teaching them to eat? Like animals as well?

Noodles should be eaten with chopsticks obviously!

I think it looks awkward when people misuse cutlery
So now its an abuse of a fork if you dont use it as prescribed in the 19th century. lol

what are you teaching your children? I teach my children how to use cutlery to get food from their plate to their mouths. If when they grow up they decided to only use a fork then I hope society has become more tolerant of difference by then.

Noodles should be eaten with chopsticks obviously!
Well that is very rude, English rules of how to eat correctly do not permit any usage of sticks. Barbarians.

I only ever use a fork. I cut most of the food before cooking it. I don't like rare meat so the rest is easily cut with the edge of the fork.

Noodles are not a British food Julie.
In a noodle bar chopsticks are set and a fork provided on request...usually.

I would love to meet Julie and Eliza for lunch in a sushi restaurant.

Most people know how to use a knife but chose not to

I do not know a single person, in all my 50 years, who does not use a knife and fork to eat (unless it's spaghetti or the like)

I would like to say that I was brought up in a very working class environment and have rubbed shoulders and shared meals with many people of many different backgrounds. All used a knife and fork

Was anyone watching Dinner Date last night with the guy who was holding his fork like a shovel? No wonder she didn’t pick his sorry ass.

What would u do with your other hand tho

DH cuts up food then puts his knife down and transfers fork to right hand and uses fork only to transfer food to mouth.

DS uses fork only, anything big gets stabbed at one end and he just bites bits off - he's always found using a knife and fork difficult, I just leave him to it now, I know I've raised a Neanderthal but who cares as long as food makes its way from plate to mouth?

I tend to use "correct technique" if I'm sat at a table, cutting with knife, stabbing the food with the fork tines then pushing more food (like mash) onto the back on the fork. If however I'm eating something that does not require a knife (like pasta?) I use fork in my right hand and "scoop" !

I don't think there's a right and wrong way, as long as food makes its way from plate to mouth (and stays there!) and you're not slobbering open mouthed and chewing loudly does it REALLY matter??

I would eat sushi with my fingers, as that is an acceptable thing to eat that way. Same as a hot dog, or nuggets or whatever else, but if I eat a proper meal, something like a roast dinner for instance, I would use a knife and fork. Obviously.

Noodles are not a British food Julie Does that mean you only have to follow Victorian cutlery rules if its a historically English food? So that is why I only use a fork, because I eat mainly Italian, American, Chinese and Indian food. I can now marry into royalty without cutlery shaming my spouse.

Was anyone watching Dinner Date Was that the same episode where the woman asked if the leaning tower of Pisa was made of Pizza?

What would u do with your other hand tho You use it to cross you fingers in case you have to tell any white lies whilst you conversate properly.

Standards are important, whether table manners, speaking, spelling, grammar, how you dress...... It shows you have some pride in yourself and respect for others.

The fact so many pps chose to do ignore them is sadly telling.

It's normal in Wagamama!

Sushi with your fingers Eliza!

Forks should be used with the tines facing downwards .The knife should be held around the handle (not in a pincer grip )
If you are still puzzled about all this Julie,I suggest you Google '12 Essential Steps to Mastering Table Mannets".....Lots of helpful information for you there.

I suggest you Google '12 Essential Steps to Mastering Table Mannets
I am not actually planning on marrying royalty lol, I am a normal person and dont have a pole shoved up me behind. I think its a bit sad that people spend their whole lives constricted by such upper class old fashioned arbitrary rules.

If we all thought like that women would never have got the vote, we would never have gay marriage and we would never have invented the spork.

Not at all.
We can have progress and still have basic manners/standards .
PS; The spork was invented for camping .

Farty
DS uses fork only, anything big gets stabbed at one end and he just bites bits off - he's always found using a knife and fork difficult, I just leave him to it now, I know I've raised a Neanderthal but who cares as long as food makes its way from plate to mouth?

Presumably you are one of those mothers who wants her little boy to stay at home for ever and ever because there is no way on this earth he is ever going to get a girlfriend if he eats like that!

We can have progress and still have basic manners/standards
And yet no one on this thread has said why holding a knife in one hand is basic manners other than, just because Debretts.

Why is following a set of rules codified in the 1700's on how to hold specific cutlery as a way of signalling which 'class' you were now considered basic manners? Its nothing more than snobbery.

I expect much higher standards of people than such backward thoughts.

Actually, I find it easier to correctly use cutlery. I would find it far more difficult to use the back / side of a fork to slice (say) chicken than I would by holding it in place with the tines of the fork and slicing it with a knife.

And it does look more pleasant for those one is eating with than seeing someone use a fork only (especially if food is being stabbed and then bitten into as described by a recently PP).

But I suspect Julie knows fhis and is having a good time on this thread...

fobiddenfruitcrumble Tue 13-Feb-18 19:34:32
Sushi with your fingers Eliza!

I can't use chopsticks, I only ever tried when I was small. I eat Chinese/Thai with a knife & fork.

And I don't really eat sushi, I don't eat raw-things-that-should-be-cooked so have never been to a sushi restaurant. The only sushi I've had is from Tesco and Waitrose so I doubt that counts.

You mean “raw things that you prefer to eat cooked” Eliza. Pretty sure that the Japanese don’t believe that fish should be cooked.

All the more steak tartare for me, mmm.

Yes, completely my preference/my opinion, other people are completely free to eat whatever they like. As long as they use the correct cutlery

Unless it’s a steak I rarely use a knife. Can manage perfectly well with just a fork and always have. It drove my parents mad but as I was a poor eater due to illness as a small child they were just happy I was eating and let me get on with it. It drives my DP mad too though. Oh well..