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.

[ummmm]

I use a knife to push things onto my fork.

[Jackdaw33]

I have known some people to eat sandwiches with a knife and fork.

[Peter Pedant]

standard american practice

cutting up everything at the beginning and then shovelling it all in

[AlwaysConfused]

I eat chicken drumsticks (for example) with my fingers. People who skirt around the bone with a knife, therefore leaving a huge chunk of meat only to be binned later, annoy me more!

[dave50]

TWR - You need to have a word

[mikey4444]

They have been watching too many American TV programs !

And/or...they haven't been brought up properly ! Elbows on the table was one of the worst sins that my brothers and I could have committed when we were growing up in the late 50's/early 60's !

[Slapshot]

I'm sad and regressed to childhood.... I just use a spoon when I can

[mikey4444]

AB Editor (14:32)


I expect your friend in the 70's that didn't have his hat on indoors as well !

My Mother, if she were still alive, would disagree with you most violently about whether it mattered or not !

[wildwood]

jackdaw //Let-handed people swap hands, knife in the left, fork in the right.//

Are you sure about that? I must have been doing it wrong all my life.

[1ozzy]

If the food can be eaten with one utensil why be pretentious and pretend it needs two?
If it needs two then that is a different scenario.

[ummmm]

I'm really fussy when it comes to table manners. But....I come from a family that eat like pigs. Watching them puts me off my food. All they'd have to do is add in the odd oink oink.

[aelmpvw]

i suppose lots of people need their right hand free for their mobile

[1ozzy]

That's a point Aelmpvw, must get the "selfie" with dinner.

[mikey4444]

Its the "elbows on the table" bit that my old Mum would have a problem with !

[Deskdiary]

Jackdaw33 - "Left-handed people swap hands, knife in the left, fork in the right."

I'm left-handed (or as my wife calls it - disabled) and I don't swap hands.

Not to bothered about the fork thing, however, I save a very special loathing for people who hold the knife like a pen. Shooting really is too good for them.

[ummmm]

And I have a son who does that, Deskdiary.......peow peow!

[ichkeria]

Country's gone to the dogs. Still : a man can always punch an underling if he doesn't get his steak :-)

[Marshwarble]

"When dining out, they eat with an elbow on a table eating with only a fork".

Where are you taking these dates, and do they ever meet?

[RATTER15]

When at home I only use a knife when it is required, when eating out I use a knife and fork as is expected.

[stuey]

It's also quite rude to yell out to a waiter "Could I have a fork n knife please!".