Unofficial Etiquette Pollage

[primroseburrows]

After hearing a discussion on the radio about table manners and cultural/national ways of eating, I got curious and decided to ask you guys about it. According to the program, there is more than one way people in Western countries use a knife while eating. I did not know this, which shows just how much I don't know about culture.

So anyway, a poll:



[Poll #1409363]

Comments

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I dunno--I've yet to see Twin Peaks (I know, I suck). According to Manners Lady (whose name I forget), it's 'American' and 'Continental'. This website has more description of the difference.

The names beg the question, though: What about Mexico and other countries? How do Mexicans/Russians/Egyptians, etc. hold their forks and knives? And then there's the whole other issue of chopsticks. Oh, teh complexity of it all. *angsts*

[dragonflymuse.livejournal.com]

European, Continental... tomato, to-mah-to ::g::