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Originally Posted by KC911
Everyone I see on TV, stabs a piece of meat and puts it in their mouth with the fork tines curving downward .... a European thing.
Can't recall anyone I've ever been around doing it that way .... a southern thang  ? |
Yea, them funny folks in furin countries on TV and movies do it with the tines down. I figured that started in Australia, and caught on for some reason.
True story, back when i still lived at home, I met a chick that was French, named Sophie, and in the US to learn better English, and experience American culture. Her mom was rich and very upper crust, and "proper" and came to Alabama to visit her daughter.
We were having a 4th of July family party at my parents lake cabin at Lake Martin, in AL. Imagine a 100% typical American family, shorts, barefoot, boat at the dock, drinking from cans of soda or beer, a hamburger and fried chicken meal and kids laughing. And this aristocrat French lady that did not speak but a little English in the middle. We all dig into the burgers and chicken with our fingers, and forks are used for baked beans or potato salad only.
Sophie said something to her mom as she came outside with an astonished tone in her voice. We all looked at Sophie as an explanation as to what was said. She had told her mom it was the first time ever that she had seen her mom's feet. Her mom just could not bring herself to eat fried chicken with her fingers and was trying to use a knife and fork on a chicken leg and her hamburger.
Finally quoted the old adage, "when in Rome do as the Romans do" and her mom put down the knife and fork and held a chicken leg and bit into it. She said she had many firsts that day and felt like an American. He first time to be barefoot outdoors, first time to drinking right from a container and not from a glass, first time to eat with her fingers, and the first time to be on a small boat in a lake and on and on.