Noisy american eaters
Jan 25th 2012, 12:34 am
#16
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Re: Noisy american eaters
I haven't come across the noisy eater problem and as for holding the cutlery, like a lot of things over here, it isn't "wrong" it's just different.
Jan 25th 2012, 1:44 am
#17
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Re: Noisy american eaters
Jan 25th 2012, 1:52 am
#18
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Re: Noisy american eaters
I once went to Asia and people were using sticks to eat their food with. I mean, how bloody weird was that??? 
Jan 25th 2012, 2:19 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
Jan 25th 2012, 2:21 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
Jan 25th 2012, 2:28 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
You use two hands to hold your fork???????????
I'm sorry if my previous posts made fun of the handicapped
BTW you can't shovel with one hand ... would have taken me two days to get all the snow into the avatar picture on the left if I did it that way
Last edited by Rete; Jan 25th 2012 at 2:36 am.
Jan 25th 2012, 3:05 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
I'm curious about this gum smacking phenomenon.. Is this folks who forgot to put their teeth back in, left them in the beaker on the night table? Not sure if I've ever heard that one. In my experience the noisy ones are cracking open the squirrel heads to get at the yummy brains.
Jan 25th 2012, 3:18 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
My 3 year old objects to school only giving her a spoon to eat her lunch with. The other day they were trying to eat spaghetti and meatballs with a spoon. Mini me had only eaten the meatballs by the time I picked her up. When I asked why, she said "mummy, the boys and girls are using their hands to eat spaghetti! Look how messy they are. I'm not doing that". Fair point I thought.
Jan 25th 2012, 4:07 am
#28
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Re: Noisy american eaters
I think it's more common to eat with the mouth open here. Also cutlery is held in any number of bizarre ways which can appear somewhat comical to outsiders.
Jan 25th 2012, 4:27 am
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Re: Noisy american eaters
i still cringe at the memory of trying to eat a pizza with a (plastic) knife and fork during a lunch meeting at my (then) new office in NYC - the fork snapped in two and pinged off hitting a colleague sat opposite....
When in Rome.....
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