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Why do Americans only eat using their fork?
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Something a friend noticed and asked me
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Conners is correct. There is a tendency in the States and Canada to use primarily the fork whilst eating; the knife is sort of delegated to the position of an occasional helper. People will use both to cut a piece of meat, put the knife down, place the fork in their dominant hand, and pick up the meat. The fork is used as a shovel most of the times. Why this is I don't know, but there it is.
Seemingly, on this occasion, the Yanks have
got it right.
The fork is used like a scoop. And why not?
That is the shape of a fork. Only in polite
Britain do we have the affectation of trying to
eat peas, etc. from the back of the fork.
In polite society, in the UK, only those tasks
which are perceived to be difficult are regarded
as moral and 'correct'. If they are not, we make
them so.
Hence, we never tuck out napkins into our collars.
We scoop our soup with the front edge of the
spoon, and sip it from the back. Our table knives
must remain blunt, lest we are accused of using
an efficient tool wherewith to cut up our food.
We English do everything the hard way, and before
you ask : standing up in a hammock .
got it right.
The fork is used like a scoop. And why not?
That is the shape of a fork. Only in polite
Britain do we have the affectation of trying to
eat peas, etc. from the back of the fork.
In polite society, in the UK, only those tasks
which are perceived to be difficult are regarded
as moral and 'correct'. If they are not, we make
them so.
Hence, we never tuck out napkins into our collars.
We scoop our soup with the front edge of the
spoon, and sip it from the back. Our table knives
must remain blunt, lest we are accused of using
an efficient tool wherewith to cut up our food.
We English do everything the hard way, and before
you ask : standing up in a hammock .
Eat peas from the back of a fork? Sip soup from the back of a spoon (presumably you mean the part of the 'bowl' next to the handle, rather than the actual back of it - that really would be hard)? S0d that.
Gosh, I say. One never realised one was so crashingly vulgar. Next you'll be telling one that raising one buttock when at the dinner table, giving a brief toot on the bum trumpet, and crying "Wahey! That's the one!" isn't the way to show appreciation to the chef either. Golly.
Gosh, I say. One never realised one was so crashingly vulgar. Next you'll be telling one that raising one buttock when at the dinner table, giving a brief toot on the bum trumpet, and crying "Wahey! That's the one!" isn't the way to show appreciation to the chef either. Golly.
I always thought it was a throw back to childhood when Mothers used to cut up the food for the children and then they ate just using the fork. I have noticed that they cut all the food into bite sized pieces then discard the knife. Maybe we are all somewhat ambi-dextrious and they aren't. I do know that they are fascinated by us doing "that knife and fork thing" as my daughter-in-law calls it.
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