How To Hold A Knife

[diddlydo]

Why is it becoming increasingly common for people to hold their knife like a pencil? How do they actually cut anything like that? Were they not taught any table manners?

[Mosaic]

I once shared an office with a very smart, skinny, tall, intelligent well-paid and well-spoken woman who ate like once of those machines the council sends round to clean the grids. A working lunch was a nightmare. Now that's offensive.

[THECORBYLOON]

I'm right-handed but use a knife and fork in the "wrong" hands, I wear a watch on the right wrist too. I also stir tea anti-clockwise which is what left-handers tend to do. I also use ma left hand to pour the tea into a saucer before drinking it.

[Old_Geezer]

I tend to believe folk can use their eating implements as they wish. But I understand the impression that society is just growing thicker each generation when they can't even get the simple things right. Makes one sad to see how society is deteriorating. Each individual issue being not a great one, but the combination of many perhaps being a warning sign ? That said I have to say I've not noticed the issue, but there again I rarely watch someone eating.

[Georgiesmum]

When my boys were small, they sat up at the table with a spoon and pusher. Anyone remember those?

[maggiebee]

Still have a baby's spoon and pusher given as a present - never been used though. I tend to use a fork only when eating at home. If eating out though, I'll use both knife and fork in the correct manner.

[joko]

i don't believe that that is the correct way - it may be the most common way, but its not the only way nor the easiest way, or necessarily the best way.

it is just the way pompous people from 100s years ago and victorians etc decided was polite and correct and it has stuck - but we all know how utterly over the top about doing things 'correctly' they were, and how pointless and stuffy it all was - there is a very good reason why that kind of society no longer exists...

knives and forks are not shaped to our hands, to fit exactly into our fingers - they are essentially just sticks with different ends on.

its like saying there is only one way to hold a stick

my sister eats like this, she even sometimes hold the fork like shes stabbing and holds down her meat to cut it... i must admit when i first 'noticed' i was a bit surprised as none of the rest of the family do that ... i guess its just the way that came naturally to her and it stuck ...

[JeniPeni]

I'm the same as you Corbyloon - except, no saucer for me!