NationStates Jolt Archive

although i'm really more interested in the difference between canada and the u.s. but yeah... if you are in another country, state which other country you're in if you please.

what i want to know is what you do with your knife when you're eating.

do you:

a) put it down after every time you cut/cut everything at once and put the knife down.

b) continually hold the knife in your hand, cutting what you need as you go and occasionally use the knife to push things onto your fork.

c) not use the knife at all: put the whole thing on your fork at once and ripping what you need off/eat it all in one big piece.

i am a combo of a, b, and c.

so i suppose you're an eating food in completely different way then?

also, if anyone is wondering why i'm asking an odd question, feel free to ask for an explanation.

Otherway!

I eat with my fists! errrrrrrr!

Acutally, like a surgen.

For in one hand. Knife in the other. Don't use the knife for pushing.....

well, the kinfe for pushing is more of a sidenote than anything.

I'm "B", USA. I also use my knife to stab anyone who tries to steal my food.

what i want to know is what you do with your knife when you're eating.

Personally I use my knife to fend off other scavengers from the kill as I scoop gobbets of still warm flesh up to my mouth with my free hand, but maybe that is just me.

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I generally use whatever method gets the food in my face quickest.

Knife and fork etiquette is so arbitrary.

I use my knife for everything, like a proper gentleman.

B, England

B.

I'm also from Britain - not sure why I'm in doors when the weather's nice though...

I use chopsticks

B, U.S.

Occasionally I'm "A".

I think most Americans hold the knife in the right hand (it is placed to the right of the plate), and so in order to use our right hands to eat we must put the knife down after cutting a slice and use our right hand for our fork (which is on the left of the plate).

When I was in England it seemed everyone kept the knife in the left hand constantly and kept sawing away vigorously with it, which I suppose is the Canadian way too?

I think most Americans hold the knife in the right hand (it is placed to the right of the plate), and so in order to use our right hands to eat we must put the knife down after cutting a slice and use our right hand for our fork (which is on the left of the plate).

I do that, but I don't bother to put the knife down, I just eat with my left hand.