12 Sep 2009, 8:42 pm
12 Sep 2009, 9:31 pm
12 Sep 2009, 10:25 pm
dude, growing up in my house, we all got just our food and either went off to our rooms to eat or brought something home and sat around on the floor to eat - chicken or rib dinners, etc. but then we're a buncha wacky persians. and screw "table settings" - we just grabbed our knives and forks out of the drawer. 
my main problems are eating in front of strangers, or cutlery scraping/chewing noises when it's too quiet.
one thing though, i apparently "eat english" (keep fork in left hand, cut pieces off with right) and always have, don't know where i got it from. perhaps my dad.
Tory_canuck
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13 Sep 2009, 3:31 am
Stinkypuppy wrote:
Shebakoby wrote:
That whole 'cutting with the right hand with the fork in the left, and eating with the 'wrong' (left) hand annoys me too. I found I cannot do it. I am NOT left handed and refuse to try to eat off a fork in my left hand. I must cut all the food first and then swap the fork back to the proper hand after putting down the knife.
Why not just hold the fork in your right hand and cut with your left? Just because the fork is placed on the left side of the plate at the start of the meal doesn't mean that the fork has to stay on that side. When I go out to eat with NTs they'll just switch the fork and knife if they need to, the ones I hang out with don't think of this as a big deal.
I am left-handed so I don't have this dilemma.
I cut with my left hand and keep my fork on the right.Im right handed but find that cutting with my right and holding with the left with my fork is akward.I hate the whole switching thing.Mom tried getting me to do the switching thing....she eventually gave up and I was free to do what I have been doing and do all along.
