You just invented a new fetish.:eek:

I yike my yongue...no yanks :(

Upside down. Lefty makes no difference I am a lefty also.

Proper in my example would be the fork between your index and middle finger with the handle of the fork laying at the base of your index and held in place with your thumb. The tines pointing up.

My daughter was holding the fork between her middle and fourth finger, tines pointing down and the handle pointing straight up. Elbow on the table :mad: poke a piece of food, pivot on her elbow and twist her wrist to put the food in her mouth.

For those of you that think manners and being polite don't matter, then you will be just fine if the next time you and your wife are out to dinner. As I pass by your table I belch and pass gas? Enjoy your meal.

Get off my lawn.

Improper utensil etiquette = belching and passing gas???

That's a new one.

Some cultures don't even use forks. I wouldn't bat an eye if your fork etiquette wasn't up to my standards. But walk by my table and fart? I won't be using the fork for food.

"I'll do the blonde at table six, please."


After being in the middle east, dining with multi-millionaires who grab handfuls of rice and meat, I'm just happy to see people use any sort of utensil in any manner possible.

I don't like having to wonder which is their eating hand, and which is their wiping hand.

Maybe you want to read the original post? This isn't just about utensil etiquette. That was simply an etiquette and manner issue I pointed out. One of many. It's manners and being polite in general. In fact the original post was about how people speak.

Unless Speeder wish to correct me. I don't think this thread is about "some Cultures" It's about here. But, to your point. "Some Cultures" Belch and fart, so what the issue?

There was such an etiquette in India at one time for sharing food from a common plate. But its' been years since I've been.

No kidding. I didnt realize I've been holding a fork wrong all these years. The shame!

Ha!
I eat differently when alone than with others.
Just about all the time now when I eat with someone, they've already decided that they like me.
I rarely have my non-eating hand in my lap, under the table.
Elbows on the table, being comfortable, is my style, lately.

Whew....been doing it "proper" all along....but I wasn't sure...had to actually go grab a fork and see how I held it. Tines pointing up you say....never seen them held any other way until recently....on TV...that's why I wasn't sure if'n I was doing it right :). Channel surfing one night, I ran across one of those cooking shows with 3-4 judges....each judge as they ate a bite had the tines pointing downward...got my attention and I went hmmmm....must be a hoity-toity thing I've missed out on.

LOL- tines down index finger at the base of the fork with the handle in the palm is the Continental or European way, or the "hoity-way". Also correct but different.

I think this is what we are talking about:
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/HC37JJ/woma...out-HC37JJ.jpg

One of the harder habits to break is table manners for prior enlisted.

My plate or dish is empty at least half a hour before everyone else. I just sit there politely...for half a hour. I don't eat with my mouth open, I use a fork (tines down in left hand and knife for scraping and cutting in left) But I appears I must eat very quickly and efficiently.

If I'm not paying attention I will have both elbows and arms on table cradling my meal like a baby. I also catch myself from time to time wetting a napkin to stick under my plates and glass.

On the small boats it would be MRE's whilst we were pitching and rolling, trying to hold on as well as stuff our face as fast as possible.

For the most part we were seated at tables so there's one of the bennies of a sea-going service. I don't know what kind of manners are created in a MRAP or a Abrams?

Now the Officer Corp ring knockers, those boys and girls get classes on pomp and circumstance, full on Emily Post.-WW