A meme picked up from the RT a few days back.
Five Worst Traits:
1. I never switch my fork back to my right hand after cutting my food--it's easier just to eat with the left.
2. I point at people when I talk excitedly.
3. I've been known to hide behind bushes, or fences, or the cereal aisle when I see someone I don't like coming towards me.
4. I weild my right of way as a pedestrian like a battle-axe.
5. I'm a chronic high-fiver.
4 comments:
I always thought you weren't supposed to switch hands with your fork? I thought that the correct way to do it is to learn how to cut with your left hand, so that it wouldn't be necessary. I'm with you on that one, anyway. I just eat with my left hand. Besides, to the observant person it makes you look ambidextrous. :)
European etiquette dictates that it is proper to hold the knife in the dominant hand and the fork in the other, and it is not necessary to put down the knife when eating.
American etiquette dictates that the dominant hand be used for the knife while it is needed, and afterwards the knife be set down as the fork switches back to the dominant hand.
So I guess you can just say that you're "being Eurpoean."
...or that I'm always in a state of warlike preparedness.
I've read a tiffany's etiquette book (don't ask why) that states the proper way, whether or not the knife is held in the dominant hand, is to never switch hands with the fork. It also states that it is actually improper to put the knife down while eating, at least until whatever portion of whatever you are eating does not require it for a significant amount of time. Also, one is not supposed to place the knife so that its tip and handle rest on the lip of the plate, but rather it should rest with the tip in the plate and the handle on the lip.
Also, I should shut the hell up.
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