eating etiquettes

[cacian]

do you /would you you eat with your hands
or is it knives and forks?

it seems it is considered wrong to eat with your hands.

which would you rather do if you could?

[Mohammad Ahmad]

knives and forks
or
hands?

which do you do you prefer?

If your dinner is soup, do you need any of forks or knives?

[cacian]

If your dinner is soup, do you need any of forks or knives?

well normally soup is a starter but that is beside the normal everyday food. would you eat with your hands is what I am asking. :)

[MANICHAEAN]

Much Arabic food is eaten by the right hand. It is also a common practice in the Philippines, even rice!

[Volya]

It really depends what food you are eating and what company you are in.

For example, eating a chocolate trifle with your hands at a dinner party would probably be frowned upon.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

Those with military duties often they used to eat with their hands because of their critical time, I myself have severed in military...
As someone replied the method of eating depends on the food type, our food especially at noon and evening, is normally cooked rice associated with broth either it contains meat or not offering on the table in two separated plates so the spoon is necessary here, neither fork nor knives normally we use and suppose there is starters also we eat by using spoon, however, in public restaurants and cafeterias using forks or knives is common. Now I want to ask you the same question:
How do you eat?

[Eman Resu]

Here in America, the garden trowel enjoys immense popularity, although the coal shovel is slowly supplanting it as portions become increasingly extra-super-duper-colossal-sized.

[Emil Miller]

Here in America, the garden trowel enjoys immense popularity, although the coal shovel is slowly supplanting it as portions become increasingly extra-super-duper-colossal-sized.

Which accounts for the waistlines becoming extra-super-duper-colossal-sized.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Here in America, the garden trowel enjoys immense popularity, although the coal shovel is slowly supplanting it as portions become increasingly extra-super-duper-colossal-sized.

Ha, ha. Do you want fries with that?

A work colleague told me an amusing story about his trip to America. He is fellow who likes his food always telling me off for eating boiled eggs and salads and dreams of forcing burgers down my neck. Anyway he went into McDonald's and was hungry so ordered two meals. The woman behind the counter realising he was from England - well he is Jamaican English - tried to worn him but he insisted on two meals not realising that US meals there ate huge. One of the servers shouted "there is a crazy Brit here who insists on two meals" "well ok".

So when he saw the flying saucer size potions of his two meals I can only imagine his face!

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'll eat with my hands
I'll eat with a fork
I'll use a spoon
and even a "spork"

Look, I'll use anything as long as it gets "...in my belly*
* to quote Fat Bas&#rd from Austin Powers

btw- first freeze the soup, then you may use your hands.

[dralexisnoble]

I only eat meals with a formal table setting, although sometimes if I'm in a daring mood, I'll leave out the lobster pick.

[Eman Resu]

I only eat meals with a formal table setting, although sometimes if I'm in a daring mood, I'll leave out the lobster pick.



Egads! The sort of chap who'd likely use a Piccalilli spoon as a berry server. Abominable. Catastrophic. Positively heinous.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Here is one of my most perfect pieces of original rhyme.This thread seems most fitting to share the genius to the world finally and is another reason why I am employed in the wrong area. (Think TS in a bank...?!)

Please note that the following is copyright and belongs to me exclusively. Do not copy without permission.

You must read the following in a 'geeky' quiet, almost afraid of speaking, sort of tone. (This is not me of course, but the verse demands it.) I share this around the house on a weekend basis:

I like sausages especially when they're free,
I like sausages I had them for my tea.

Thank you.

:hurray:

And do I use a folk with the sausages? You god damn right I don't!!

[Eman Resu]

Anyone who's ever paid £3 for a pint o' Tennent's 70 knows them free sausages ain't free, mate.

[cacian]

Much Arabic food is eaten by the right hand. It is also a common practice in the Philippines, even rice!

right hand only? that is quite restricted no?

[cacian]

Those with military duties often they used to eat with their hands because of their critical time, I myself have severed in military...
As someone replied the method of eating depends on the food type, our food especially at noon and evening, is normally cooked rice associated with broth either it contains meat or not offering on the table in two separated plates so the spoon is necessary here, neither fork nor knives normally we use and suppose there is starters also we eat by using spoon, however, in public restaurants and cafeterias using forks or knives is common. Now I want to ask you the same question:
How do you eat?

it depends on what I am eating. a trifle I would use a spoon it is too sticky otherwise.
cheese and biscuits I pick with my hand and use a knife. it depends on the texture and the appropriateness of it.

[cacian]

Here is one of my most perfect pieces of original rhyme.This thread seems most fitting to share the genius to the world finally and is another reason why I am employed in the wrong area. (Think TS in a bank...?!)

Please note that the following is copyright and belongs to me exclusively. Do not copy without permission.

You must read the following in a 'geeky' quiet, almost afraid of speaking, sort of tone. (This is not me of course, but the verse demands it.) I share this around the house on a weekend basis:

I like sausages especially when they're free,
I like sausages I had them for my tea.

Thank you.

:hurray:

And do I use a folk with the sausages? You god damn right I don't!!

hehe it is funny a nice little rhyme you got there Neely. it is interesting you use the word TEA . i say dinner others i have known, posh people for example, they would use the word supper.

[chris_eriksson]

There is only one way to eat chicken and anything barbecued. With your hands. It isn't good if you don't get some on you.

[JBI]

I've used fork and knife twice in the last year and a half, I've been using chopsticks primarily since I got here, and don't even have western tableware in my home. Generally speaking, I am not particularly comfortable eating with my hands in China, or the East in general, yet usually am not willing to use dirtier places' chopsticks. It's common in Chinese restaurants to wipe down everything before use, whether it be out of fear or to show the restaurant owner what you think of their establishment (meaning gesturing to this not being a "proper restaurant").

[MANICHAEAN]

Cacian. Not when you consider that only the left hand is used for cleaning one's anus in such regions of the world.

[Paulclem]

right hand only? that is quite restricted no?

It's about what the left hand is/ was used for.

[Delta40]

Cacian. Not when you consider that only the left hand is used for cleaning one's anus in such regions of the world.

Ha ha would that be the southern region by any chance?

[MANICHAEAN]

Keith Flloyd once cooking kangaroo tail said he preferred eating the tapered end.