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Old May 30th 2008 | 5:13 am
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Does anyone apart from me still do the very unfunny 'oh look, I've pea'd on the floor' comment?
erm ..... no.
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 5:58 am
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Default Re: Using both a knife & fork when eating

Originally Posted by Tuppence
Does anyone apart from me still do the very unfunny 'oh look, I've pea'd on the floor' comment?
Yes, and when carving a turkey or chicken I ask 'Are you a breast or a leg man?' and give my best Sid James laugh. Welcome to Carry-on-British-Expats!
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 6:15 am
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Originally Posted by Rete
Curious - do you eat your eggs over light with a knife and fork, or your pizza, or fried chicken or hamburger or hot dog?
I eat almost all solid food with both a knife and a fork.

Hamburgers that are unable to fit in my mouth due to the size of the patty and sheer quantity of food inside the two buns are eaten with a knife and fork.
Chicken wings are eaten with a knife & fork as I find it easier to peel every last scrap of meat off the wing with a knife.
If the pizza was boiling hot and I was hungry, I'd use a knife and not risk burning the roof of my mouth.

I don't know what eggs over light are but I probably would eat a hot dog with just my hands.
 
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Default Re: Using both a knife & fork when eating

Originally Posted by Danny B
I eat almost all solid food with both a knife and a fork.

Hamburgers that are unable to fit in my mouth due to the size of the patty and sheer quantity of food inside the two buns are eaten with a knife and fork.
Chicken wings are eaten with a knife & fork as I find it easier to peel every last scrap of meat off the wing with a knife.
If the pizza was boiling hot and I was hungry, I'd use a knife and not risk burning the roof of my mouth.

I don't know what eggs over light are but I probably would eat a hot dog with just my hands.
^^^What he said except for the chicken wings, if I were to eat them they would be finger food.

Eggs over easy I don't care for but I would dip my toast in the yolk and eat the remaining white with a knife and fork.
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 8:23 am
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
^^^What he said except for the chicken wings, if I were to eat them they would be finger food.

Eggs over easy I don't care for but I would dip my toast in the yolk and eat the remaining white with a knife and fork.

How does using a knife on hot pizza make it cold enough to eat without burning the roof of our mouth I have had several friends who eat pizza with a knife and fork but never for that reason. I use the K&F if the pizza is "loaded".

As for the eggs over light, I'm with you and for peas I use the fork in my right hand to scoop them up.
 
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Default Re: Using both a knife & fork when eating

Originally Posted by Rete
How does using a knife on hot pizza make it cold enough to eat without burning the roof of our mouth I have had several friends who eat pizza with a knife and fork but never for that reason. I use the K&F if the pizza is "loaded".

As for the eggs over light, I'm with you and for peas I use the fork in my right hand to scoop them up.

I think you tend to cut the pizza into a smaller piece which may cool a little on it's way to the mouth. I don't know it just seems to work better for me, once the pizza has cooled a little then it's deffo finger (hand) food.

I keep the fork in my left hand to scoop the peas but then I am left handed so maybe that's why.
 
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
I think you tend to cut the pizza into a smaller piece which may cool a little on it's way to the mouth. I don't know it just seems to work better for me, once the pizza has cooled a little then it's deffo finger (hand) food.

I keep the fork in my left hand to scoop the peas but then I am left handed so maybe that's why.
Riveting thread this isn't it?
 
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I thought rivets were for airplanes or should I say aeroplanes.
 
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Default Re: Using both a knife & fork when eating

Originally Posted by Steve_P
I think you tend to cut the pizza into a smaller piece which may cool a little on it's way to the mouth. I don't know it just seems to work better for me, once the pizza has cooled a little then it's deffo finger (hand) food.

I keep the fork in my left hand to scoop the peas but then I am left handed so maybe that's why.
I think it's a fear thing. I know that on more that one occasion, upon biting into a hot pizza all the cheese has detached and slapped against my chin leaving an embarassing red mark. Like napalm but not.
 
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Default Re: Using both a knife & fork when eating

What I never figured out was why all the Brits I was exposed to at school (everyone but me basically) held their forks upside down? Surely it's significantly easier to use your fork as a scoop then trying to keep food on a convex surface, not to mention how on earth do you eat off it without stabbing your tongue?

After several years of people very rudely trying to convince me to turn my fork around I just stopped eating lunch altogether. That'll teach 'em
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 10:23 am
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I've always held my fork in my right hand - not sure why, just feels "right" (no pun intended), despite the fact I'm right handed..... So I'm looking forward to no longer being a weirdo
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 10:26 am
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I've always held my fork in my right hand - not sure why, just feels "right" (no pun intended), despite the fact I'm right handed..... So I'm looking forward to no longer being a weirdo
My OH has the same problem....he is a bloody weirdo
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 10:28 am
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My OH has the same problem....he is a bloody weirdo
You'll be the weirdo when you get to Canada and we'll both be right
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by G77
You'll be the weirdo when you get to Canada and we'll both be right
hmmmmm ya think?? mind you when we go on holiday and i see people in restaurants trying to cut steak with the blunt edge of a fork, i know theres definitely weird'er out there...karma sent for being a weirdo
 
Old May 30th 2008 | 10:34 am
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hmmmmm ya think?? mind you when we go on holiday and i see people in restaurants trying to cut steak with the blunt edge of a fork, i know theres definitely weird'er out there...karma sent for being a weirdo
Now that is weird - I find it hard to cut a steak with a steak knife (with my left hand ).... Maybe I'd do better with the fork in my right hand?
 


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