We Yanks still set our tables with the European silverware arrangement. Forks on the left is for holding forks in the left hand. Hold with the left, cut meat with the right, then smoothly move food to the mouth, still with the left. Use knife to pile veggies and such onto the fork. Repeat until done. Nothing could make more sense.
A European would (and do) laugh at how Americans use their forks like eating shovels, especially those clods who hold the fork in a fist.
