Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11460569)
I love a bit of ham.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by Michael
(Post 11460576)
You are a ham.:lol:
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11460577)
Maybe a bit ...
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Re: WTF in America
I'm not sure if someone has posted this before (despite many years of lurking, I can't recall seeing it mentioned): What is up with the weird cutlery skills in America? I.e. fork in the right hand, hacking at something with a knife and then switching hands. As Dlake02 mentioned in his 'post' today, eating like a JCB, a very apt analogy, the way that food is scooped / shoveled.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by AlphaTangoMike
(Post 11470485)
I'm not sure if someone has posted this before (despite many years of lurking, I can't recall seeing it mentioned): What is up with the weird cutlery skills in America? I.e. fork in the right hand, hacking at something with a knife and then switching hands. As Dlake02 mentioned in his 'post' today, eating like a JCB, a very apt analogy, the way that food is scooped / shoveled.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by fozzyb
(Post 11470490)
In terms of calories delivered per second it seems a highly optimized engineering solution.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by AlphaTangoMike
(Post 11470485)
I'm not sure if someone has posted this before (despite many years of lurking, I can't recall seeing it mentioned): What is up with the weird cutlery skills in America? I.e. fork in the right hand, hacking at something with a knife and then switching hands. As Dlake02 mentioned in his 'post' today, eating like a JCB, a very apt analogy, the way that food is scooped / shoveled.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by fozzyb
(Post 11470490)
In terms of calories delivered per second it seems a highly optimized engineering solution.
Originally Posted by AlphaTangoMike
(Post 11470498)
... bizarre habit of taking a mouthful of water with each forkful of food.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11470502)
It's been covered a number of times, including lengthy treatises defending the practice by Michael and RoadWarriorFromLP. :rolleyes:
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11470506)
All that hand swapping really isn't very efficient though. It would take twice the amount of time to eat something that way, compared to keeping the fork in your left hand and the knife in the right the whole time.
(and for us lefties - there is nowt wrong with keeping the fork in the right hand the whole time ;) ) |
Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by fozzyb
(Post 11470512)
With practice the hand swapping can be done concurrently to the swallowing, keeping it off the critical path
That being said, I was just back in the UK and the noise my sister made when she was eating was mental. Plebs. |
Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 11470513)
Honestly, I wouldn't care if they used their feet to hold the knife and fork, if they'd all just keep their ****ing mouths closed while they chewed :sick:
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by AlphaTangoMike
(Post 11470485)
I'm not sure if someone has posted this before (despite many years of lurking, I can't recall seeing it mentioned): What is up with the weird cutlery skills in America? I.e. fork in the right hand, hacking at something with a knife and then switching hands. As Dlake02 mentioned in his 'post' today, eating like a JCB, a very apt analogy, the way that food is scooped / shoveled.
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Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by Sally Redux
(Post 11470516)
It's like no-one ever made it out of the remedial class in eating.
It has been a long, slow, and sometimes painful process but at last little Miss P is set to surpass the previous high water mark in cutlery manipulation which she set when she reached her second birthday. :unsure: |
Re: WTF in America
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11470541)
After 3½ years of daycare and 2+ years of school, little Miss P is no better at handling a knife and fork, now, at the age of 7 than she was at the time of her second birthday! :frown:
It has been a long, slow, and sometimes painful process but at last little Miss P is set to surpass the previous high water mark in cutlery manipulation which she set when she reached her second birthday. :unsure: It's funny when you see toddlers effortlessly manipulating chopsticks. |
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