Why Do Some Many People Eat With Only A Fork These Days?

[dave50]

Especially on television whether it be real life or a drama and also I've noticed it more and more when dining out, they sit with elbow on the table eating with only a fork. What's happened to using a knife and fork correctly? i suppose it's yet another piece of etiquette that's not considered important these days.

[stuey]

And wot's the kerect way of entering a soft-boiled egg? Decapitate it with a knife, or tenderly tap the shell with the back of a tea-spoon and remove the tiny fragments, and then insert aforementioned spoon into the egg?

[douglas9401]

I can't envisage having to use my left hand like that at the table, that would be taking informality too far, but I've logged the info just in case.

[Jackdaw33]

More important, Stuey, is which end to open, the big end or the little end. Read Gulliver's Travels to learn more about the big endians and the little endians.

[trt]

One hand is kept free for their MOBILE PHONE!

[shoota]

Some eggs these days have ends of equal radius.....

Do those people starve?

[mccfluff]

i think the way you behave whilst you are eating is more important than what cutlery you use (or don't use)

[mccfluff]

you decapitate eggs, make it quick and clean, don't prolong it!

[Tilly2]

a)Not talking with food in your mouth.
b)Chewing with your mouth closed.

Two more bits of etiquette.

[baza]

I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
it makes the peas taste funny
but it keeps them on my knife.

[Jackdaw33]

...and no elbows on the table. The saying was, "All joints on the table will be carved."

[Jackdaw33]

To invert the fork, in order to scoop peas on it, was the height of bad manners.

[mccfluff]

that's exactly what i mean tilly - chewing or eating and talking with your mouth open is rude/disgusting.

Using or not using cutlery is neither of those things

[graeme74]

i use a splayd its a knife,fork and spoon in one

[Jackdaw33]

I didn't know it was called a splayd but I was given one a while back when I broke my shoulder and only had the use of one arm. It has a sharp cutting edge and the fork bit is offset at an angle of 90 degrees, a bit like those italic nibs you used to get with Osmiroid pens.

[AlwaysConfused]

Just as long as people don't with their mouth open or make disgusting noises whilst eating (slurping, crunching, and also including scraping cutlery across the plate), I couldn't care less whether they use a knife or not.

[trt]

A Swiss Knife would be better!

[pastafreak]

Jackdaw33
I presume they use the knife to cut up the food then transfer the fork to the other hand to eat it.

Yep...that's how I used to do it...before moving across the pond. Now,that feels odd.

[gingejbee]

....because eating with only a fork is the sensible thing, if a knife is not required....

[TWR]

Dave, My ex Wife's Cousins husband uses a spoon for everything including his Sunday Lunch.

[Baldric]

As long as his Carer is happy!