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Everyone on TV (Yes, I am one of those. I not only own a television, but I also watch it.) eats by holding his/her fork in the left hand and knife in the right. I only pick up the knife when necessary, and when I do, I shift my fork from my right hand to my left. When I am done cutting, I lay the knife down and shift the fork back to my right for eating. Am I the only one who does this?


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A bunch of people waste motion like that.

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Originally Posted by 5sdad
Everyone on TV (Yes, I am one of those. I not only own a television, but I also watch it.) eats by holding his/her fork in the left hand and knife in the right. I only pick up the knife when necessary, and when I do, I shift my fork from my right hand to my left. When I am done cutting, I lay the knife down and shift the fork back to my right for eating. Am I the only one who does this?

I do too and I do everything right.

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That is interesting. I know this habbit from Americans only and from very few Germans. Generally the older generations in Germany use to hold the cutlery in both hands while eating.

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I do the opposite of the OP as I am left handed.


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I sit down and cut all my meat at once, with the fork in my left hand and knife in the right. Then I'm finished with the knife and eat the my meal with the fork in my right hand.

I also don't use a spoon to twirl my spaghetti.

But, I'm a barbarian, so......

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Originally Posted by eaglemountainman
I sit down and cut all my meat at once, with the fork in my left hand and knife in the right. Then I'm finished with the knife and eat the my meal with the fork in my right hand.

I also don't use a spoon to twirl my spaghetti.

But, I'm a barbarian, so......


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I am a cut as you go type guy myself


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Perfect set-up for a left-hander.


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sometimes, and this is one of those times, we just over think things


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Cut my meat all at one time with knife in the right hand fork in the left, and then eat it with fork in the right hand.
I drink bourbon with ice and a ginger ale, use my pants to wipe my hands and wear a hat at the dinner table.
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I'm a barbarian.
Cut with my right, eat eith my left.
Until I get the meat all cut, then eat with my right.

Efficiency baby. No fudging around when I got a good piece of
flesh on the plate.


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Originally Posted by mathman
A bunch of people waste motion like that.


I'm a cut with the side of the fork kinda guy...

If I need to use the knife on a piece of meat I'll fork left/knife right it, stab it and eat it off the knife point...efficiency baby

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5sdad, I do it exactly like you do. It must be my European upbringing. My mom and grandparents immigrated....legally...through Ellis Island with a sponsor back when my mom was 13. Came over on a boat. 60 years ago. That is how I learned and never thought it weird until my now Xwife made fun of it. I also run the cutting knife between the tines of the fork to cut my meat and got made fun of for that as well.


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That's not how I read the OP. Isn't the European way to leave the fork in the left hand, knife in the right?

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To clarify: my fork lives in my right hand, except when I shift it to my left and use it to hold meat that I cut. Once the meat is cut, the fork goes back to the right hand for eating. Knife is on the table when not in use.


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That's how I understood your post.

I mostly eat with my right hand. If there's something, steak for example, requiring cutting I then eat Euro style and leave the fork in the left and use the knife with the right.

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The commonwealthers do it that way.

Fork in left hand.


You could conquer the entire English speaking world if you took their butter knives away.

They cant cut with a fork and also have not figured out how to use a thumb to load peas on said fork.


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I was once a guest in the officers mess of a British warship. The English, fork in left hand, mostly upside down with meat entree. And I was once a guest at a fancy schmancy dining room in the Olympic Hotel in Seattle, I watched the other people closely so I wouldn't embarrass myself or my host. Americans cut and switch.


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