Eating the 'wrong way round' - is it rude?

[MissCommando]

I was just looking on an opinions/chat website and am shocked to read that if you eat 'the wrong way round', it's considered rude.

Well I am right handed and I eat with my knife in my left and fork in right. I just cannot do it the other way round. A few of the women on this website were saying that you should change hands because it's very rude lol! My sister is the same as me.

I mean does it really matter which hands you use for your knife and fork? I couldn't give a monkey's which way round people hold their cutlery.

I think some people need to get a life. I won't be swapping hands.

[redcrx]

Did they explain why using different hands was considered rude by them?

tbh, as long as people at the dinner table werent using hands or slurping food off the plate i wouldnt think it rude at all

[cazzz1975]

my sister eats the same way as you, in fact quite a lot of people do. I would give nay sayers the middle finger ;)

[bobjugs12]

I'm the same as you MC.
Equal rights for cack-handed eaters, down with the cutlery oppression!!

[micmak]

I am left handed but hold my knife and fork the conventional way. Probably because I had seven bells of........... kicked out of me by the nuns at school.

[craft1948]

I'm right-handed but my sister is left-handed, we both eat with the knife in our right hands as we were taught this was the proper way....and it doesn't confuse the servants.

[Robinia]

I'm not bothered which hand holds the knife as long as it's held correctly (ie handle in the palm & not held like a pen). It shouldn't bother me, it's not the end of the world but it really does :o)

[brenda]

It doesn't matter a scrap which hand you use to hold your knife and fork.

Sometimes wonder though about the sort of people who originate this sort of garbage and come up with the edict that that it is rude to hold them in a different way.For goodness sake -have they really nothing better to do?

They must have a sad life.

[MrIncredible]

Don't care what hand you use to hold your knife and fork,I just like people to close there mouth's when chewing and try munching there food quietly!!!!!!!!

[flobadob]

I thought you meant dessert first then main then starter, that would just be weird. I'm fork right knife left. Also I can be quite rude.

[ummmm]

I make my kids swap to the correct way. I wouldn't if they were left handed.

[marval]

I am right handed, I eat with my knife in my right hand and fork in my left. My OH is left handed and eats with his knife in his left hand and fork in his right. I see nothing wrong with either way.

[jno]

redhelen, waiters in any posh restaurant will happily switch the cutlery around for left-handers. If they don't then feel free to do it for yourself. Does anyone really look at what hands diners are using?

Now I have a friend who eats off her knife and that does startle me.

[ummmm]

I have a cousin who licks the plate...he also doesn't chew his food.

[bobjugs12]

I have a pet dog who does that Ummmm lol

[woofgang]

I can't see why you would...have never heard that in western society before...although in some eastern societies where food is traditionally eaten with the fingers, the left hand is used for personal cleanliness and thus traditionally not used for eating.

[ummmm]

Because Butch...it's painful to watch a right handed person trying to cut a piece of steak with the knife in their left hand.

[gingejbee]

Use chopsticks - that'll confuse the critics.

[ummmm]

But with what hand ginge?