docellis wrote:I've pretty much refuse to learn table etiquette.
My etiquette begins and ends with utelizing my pinky to ensure that my glass/bottle of beer does not slip from my grasp.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
Tambourine Man wrote:Here's the one that drives me nuts. Why do we switch the fork back to our right hand once we've cut a piece of meat from some dead animal part? They do not do that in Europe. I've heard that Americans started doing it "in protest of the king" but it's just dumb. How true that is, I don't really know. It feels a lot more natural to just go ahead and eat with your left hand.
I only do it because I'm not amphibious. My left hand is pretty much worthless.
Tambourine Man wrote:Here's the one that drives me nuts. Why do we switch the fork back to our right hand once we've cut a piece of meat from some dead animal part? They do not do that in Europe. I've heard that Americans started doing it "in protest of the king" but it's just dumb. How true that is, I don't really know. It feels a lot more natural to just go ahead and eat with your left hand.
I only do it because I'm not amphibious. My left hand is pretty much worthless.
docellis wrote:I've pretty much refuse to learn table etiquette.
My etiquette begins and ends with utelizing my pinky to ensure that my glass/bottle of beer does not slip from my grasp.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
No, you're not. Watch Iron Chef America some night when the fat bastard, Jeffrey Steingarten's judging. Seriously.
docellis wrote:I've pretty much refuse to learn table etiquette.
My etiquette begins and ends with utelizing my pinky to ensure that my glass/bottle of beer does not slip from my grasp.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
Guarantee you that people noticed. I would have. I wouldn't have thought you were a bad person, but I would have to admit that my dining experience would be slightly less enjoyable because of it.
I'm not going to apologize for not liking peoples lousy manners. Some things I can tolerate - i.e. the overhand grip on the fork, others I can't. Like my sister and law eating potato salad. Appetite is gone after hearing/seeing that.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
Haha, I used to eat like that as a kid and my stepdad corrected that pretty quickly.
docellis wrote:I've pretty much refuse to learn table etiquette.
My etiquette begins and ends with utelizing my pinky to ensure that my glass/bottle of beer does not slip from my grasp.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
Guarantee you that people noticed. I would have. I wouldn't have thought you were a bad person, but I would have to admit that my dining experience would be slightly less enjoyable because of it.
All I'm saying is that I wish somebody would have pointed it out to me before. I honestly had no idea for 25 years. It's not like I grabbed it with my fist--I held it with my fingers. Just overhand instead of underhand.
docellis wrote:I've pretty much refuse to learn table etiquette.
My etiquette begins and ends with utelizing my pinky to ensure that my glass/bottle of beer does not slip from my grasp.
True story. I went my whole life using an overhand grip with my fork. It was only pointed out to me a couple of years ago that I am pretty much the only person on earth that eats this way. For some reason, I have never noticed that other people do not eat this way, and no one has ever noticed that I do it. Now I feel like a barbarian.
Guarantee you that people noticed. I would have. I wouldn't have thought you were a bad person, but I would have to admit that my dining experience would be slightly less enjoyable because of it.
All I'm saying is that I wish somebody would have pointed it out to me before. I honestly had no idea for 25 years. It's not like I grabbed it with my fist--I held it with my fingers. Just overhand instead of underhand.
