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Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by ironporer
(Post 8549379)
Thank God the French invented 'proper' eating utensils, otherwise we'd all be drinking our gruel straight from the bowl and eating the odd fowl with our fingers...like Brits did for centuries.:p
http://neoneocon.com/wp-content/uplo...henryviii2.jpg I suppose The Brits invented the arbitrary and seemingly ridiculous rules of usage for these utensils as a way of holding up their noses in superiority at the rest of the world.;) |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Trixie_b
(Post 8550099)
Errmmm While I accept that everyone has their own style I love eating out and dining out. I think there should be some ceremony over food, even when your at home.
I love food and someone has gone to a great deal of effort to present it to me. |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by sunflwrgrl13
(Post 8550061)
Just leave your cutlery on the plate when you're done - what's so complicated about that?
The point is that servers in the US often have no choice but to ask you if you have finished because they can't be sure that you're finished unless (a) you have eaten every scrap of food on your plate, (b) you use Ye Old Cutlery Signal (TM), (c) you push aside or stack the plates so that it's obvious that they are no longer needed, or (d) they ask you about it. And since they rightly assume that most diners don't want unwanted plates to stay on the table for long and since (a)-(c) often don't apply, they usually end up asking. The interruption may annoy some of you or make you feel rushed, but you should see from this that they have their reasons for asking that have nothing to do with shoving you out the door. |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
(Post 8550109)
And since they rightly assume that most diners don't want unwanted plates to stay on the table for long and since (a)-(c) often don't apply, they usually end up asking. The interruption may annoy some of you or make you feel rushed, but you should see from this that they have their reasons for asking that have nothing to do with shoving you out the door. |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Oh joy. Another knife & fork thread.
Threads like this make me want to cut myself. Can somebody please advise as to the proper utensil to use for this? |
Re: Knife and fork usage
I eat my food the way I was taught, with a knife and fork (never put down unless for drink or when finished)
Hubby eats how most mericuns do, just a fork used for both cutting and putting food in mouth. I have never tried to change the way he eats, he has never found my way strange, my kids have grown up watching both of us eat, I never pushed either way as 'better' and both my kids eat with just a fork. |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Leslie66
(Post 8550127)
Oh joy. Another knife & fork thread.
Threads like this make me want to cut myself. Can somebody please advise as to the proper utensil to use for this? |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
(Post 8549695)
That isn't it. Servers clear plates as quickly as possible because Americans get pissy when dirty plates are left on the table for too long.
The problem is that most Americans don't use the universal signal for indicating that we're finished (laying the knife and fork together on the plate), so the servers have to ask. They aren't trying to rush you, at least not most of the time. Bull Dinky. If that there the universal code, then why don't the waitstaff in the US know about it. I was a server for more years than I wish to recount and in fine dining as well. Never heard such dribble. Wherever do you come up with these generalizations and as an American you are awfully down on us. Phfft! |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Rete
(Post 8550138)
Bull Dinky. If that there the universal code, then why don't the waitstaff in the US know about it. I was a server for more years than I wish to recount and in fine dining as well. Never heard such dribble.
Wherever do you come up with these generalizations and as an American you are awfully down on us. Phfft! |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Can I change the subject slightly to Doggy Bags. Just wanted to say, I am not an ex-pat or living in the US but we have holiday'd there all over tonnes of times. I love America and just wanted to say I adore the way that Americans seem to order everything on the menu, with coupons for discounts and then take it all home for later! Unfortunately, we too have seen and done this so many times over there that we do it in the UK too. No one has ever refused us, but we do sometimes get some funny looks. :D
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Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by RoadWarriorFromLP
(Post 8550109)
... but you should see from this that they have their reasons for asking that have nothing to do with shoving you out the door.
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Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Leslie66
(Post 8550127)
Oh joy. Another knife & fork thread.
Threads like this make me want to cut myself. Can somebody please advise as to the proper utensil to use for this? You've been damned by the elite. It is not utensil but CUTLERY. Please read the entire thread before posting, Les, otherwise the elitists will have your nail your hide to the dining room wall. |
Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Bob
(Post 8550152)
it's exactly that though....bums on seats, they ain't going to be earning many table tips if you sat there all night and if that's what they rely on rather than the wage, you feel that pressure too.
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Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Leslie66
(Post 8550127)
Oh joy. Another knife & fork thread.
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Re: Knife and fork usage
Originally Posted by Rete
(Post 8550154)
You've been damned by the elite. It is not utensil but CUTLERY. Please read the entire thread before posting, Les, otherwise the elitists will have your nail your hide to the dining room wall.
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