Using A Knife And Fork Correctly

[dave50]

Has anyone else noticed how a lot of young people these days don't know how to hold a knife and fork correctly? Especially the fork, they have some strange ways of holding it.

[DTCwordfan]

you use plastic straws, ron......

[andy-hughes]

dave50 - "To those of you who think it doesn't matter, of course it does! I suppose you think it's ok to eat with your mouth open, curl your legs under you while you are sat down eating and generally be a total slob but hey it doesn't matter, as long as the food is getting into your mouth who cares?"

I have to echo Ecclescake's response here - the behaviour you add on is not connected in any way to eating with cutlery.

I think people should eat in a way that they are comfortable, subject to somple good manners, but the finer points of holding a knife or fork a certain way is really not relavent.

[BlackadderV]

...and putting your elbows on the table was a definite no no.

[stuey]

On a lighter note: http://monologues.co.uk/musichall/Songs-W/When-The-Minister-Comes-To-Tea.htm

[EcclesCake]

Ah yes, the mantra of my childhood.....'all joints on the table will be carved'

[Sqad]

Blackadder.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricular_branch_of_vagus_nerve

Indeed they did, they did it by rubbing behind their ears and hence stimulating a nerve........a branch of the vagus nerve which promoted vomiting and since that time it has been known as the "Alderman's Nerve" from the dinners of the Aldermen.

[BlackadderV]

That reminds me of the old joke about the lady who entertained the vicar to tea. She hadn't a sugar bowl so in desperation she shoved some sugar cubes down her bra.

Tea, vicar?

Yes please.

Sugar, vicar?

Yes please, two lumps (reaches into her bra)

Milk, vicar?.

Er, no thanks.

[Sqad]

LOL^^^^......I would have gone for the milk as well.....

[stuey]

And then, of course, we have the Vicar's, or Curate's, egg.

[tamborine]

Forget social niceties when Buck House eat from tupperware

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3323191/Footman-exposes-Tupperware-secret-of-the-Queens-table.html

[pugthedog]

dave I agree and its not just the young people if you ever watch come dine with me people on the show who think they are the bee's knee's don't kno how to their cutlery correctly

[pugthedog]

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[BlackadderV]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+curate%27s+egg+cartoon&sa=X&biw=1093&bih=514&;tbm=isch&imgil=U4xhr2dKhZTR_M%253A%253BPS0NtJCygcQg7M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FCurate%27s_egg&;source=iu&;pf=m&fir=U4xhr2dKhZTR_M%253A%252CPS0NtJCygcQg7M%252C_&usg=__0YyNTLevpGzpUC-hRRmNWvHjBYI%3D&ved=0CFMQyjc&ei=9RRqVOu5BcXmyQOkmIHIAQ#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=U4xhr2dKhZTR_M%253A%3BPS0NtJCygcQg7M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F3%252F3d%252FTrue_humility.png%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FCurate's_egg%3B483%3B284

[Netty7]

I couldn't agree more dave, I only pointed that out to my husband the other day, think girls are worse than boys, but they do hold their fork in the most bizarre way!

[Clanad]

Think the movie wherein an American spy is suspected because of handling of silverware was Charlotte Gray ...

[RandyMarsh]

Nope, totally not noticed.

[DSJ]

I have noticed it but not only in the young.

[Zeuhl]

Holding a knife like a pen is just a really bad technique

The forefinger on top method delivers downward pressure more easily and elegantly