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.

[Sipowicz]

.....how about "You for coffee?"

[stuey]

That would sound great in a Chinese restaurant:)

[RATTER15]

When in a Chinese restaurant, I also eat with a knife and fork, eating with bits of stick is just foolish!

[Sipowicz]

That's where I heard it!

[Backdrifter]

If this is a now devalued piece of "etiquette", then good. Because it doesn't matter very much, if at all. With the obesity problem the UK is facing, we should be more concerned about what and how much we're eating rather than which implements we use to put it in our faces.

I'm pretty good with the chopsticks but prefer cutlery, to me it seems a much more logical way to capture food. I'm reminded of a Jerry Seinfeld comment "You wouldn't go out and try to dig your garden with a couple of pool cues". How many chopsticks-haters have been annoyed by some domineering person in their party at a Chinese insisting everyone uses chopsticks?

[gingejbee]

Isn't "etiquette" just a set of rules invented by people who think they are superior to everyone else? And rules are made to be broken (starting a sentence with "and", for example).

[beso]

I learnt chopsticks when I was a uni student. (We ate a lot of rice.)

I was told in China that I was an expert.

Couple of good challenges for those interested.
Peanuts. A boiled egg with the shell removed.