[thechat] american table manners -- fork in right or left..?

Elfur Logadóttir elfur at elfur.is
Wed Aug 25 11:27:27 CDT 2004


.:| 
.:| My wife, Shell, has impeccable table manners, 

.:| raised to hold the
.:| fork in the left, cut with the right, put down the knife, 
.:| move the fork to
.:| the right, and eat. 

In Iceland, moving the fork to the right hand would be said to be bad table
manners, and when I read the above, that was my first thought.
But I know, we are pompous education snobbs :)

Elfur
*the dissing-iceland one*




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