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

[pingviini.livejournal.com]

Fork in left hand, knife in right hand, no switching hands. When we visited our relatives in America they had a lot of fun watching us eat. :) I don't know if they thought it was bad table manners or just exotic!

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Hehee! It's just another way of doing it, apparently. And more efficient, absolutely. The switcheroo seems to be pretty much a North American thing (although I don't know about Mexico, because nobody from there took the poll *g*).