robin1234

Yeah I've never figured out to use that kind of spoon either

Yorkieabroad

We did the same - I caught wife trying to garage sale the kids first cutlery sets the other day Needless to say, I rescued them, and they went in the box of other useless baby crap that the kids will say "wonder why he kept this" when they're clearing the house after I'm dead and gone...

Sad to say, we have now quite a few meals that are spoon and fork, rather than knife and fork, as we eat Asian style most of the time. The kids are probably better with chopsticks than knife and fork, but they can at least handle themselves in a 'proper' restaurant (eg a steakhouse) without embarrassment.

Yorkieabroad

We're old fashioned, and I'm embarrassed to say I still regard it as finger food - nibbling the corner of the Imperial Leather is most satisfying, and certainly easier than trying to cut it. I suppose if we ever went liquid, I may need to refer back to see which sort of spoon would be most appropriate

Pulaski

I'm more of a coal tar connoisseur myself, but misuse of the soap spoon just makes me foam at the mouth. ..... Or maybe it's just the soap?

Yorkieabroad

Are you my grandma? She is the only person I've ever known to use it!

Pulaski

I don't think so, for at least two substantive reasons, and probably a myriad of supporting reasons.

I've always liked it, as does little Miss P, despite Mrs P's best attempts to persuade her otherwise as Mrs does not like it at all.

Ruth16

The cuts of meat are so tough Brits need a knife because they cook the meats to death , but I've never heard a yank complain about how Brits eat.

SultanOfSwing

Eh?

That makes no sense . Even eating a nice, tender and rare, I might add so hardly cooked to death, fillet steak (or filet, to use the US vernacular) in the UK, I still needed a knife to cut it.

Unless I'm eating pulled pork out here, I always need a knife to cut my meat.

Sally Redux

Maybe she's thinking of burgers, or meat loaf

SultanOfSwing

OK, I'll give her that. I eat burgers by hand. I do use a knife with meatloaf, even though I can cut it with a fork, through force of habit.

Poppy girl

That's because they don't know any better

Anian

Wasn't he left handed? Just like most of the presidents. I eat the left handed way, much easier to use the knife in my left hand.

I've been training my kids to use knives, if only as something to scoop food against for now. They are using children's cutlery sets from the UK, US ones don't have knives, not even pointless blunt ones.

Ruth16

True, Brits have no clue how to grill a good piece of meat

SultanOfSwing

Absolute bollocks.

Nutek

Grilled?