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WCDT: 2328-2332 (26-30 November 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Bp92009:
Hey, First Time Poster, Long Time Reader here.
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--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 28 Nov 2012, 07:58 ---Cutting as you go along is what you should do, but you are still expected to switch the fork to your right hand to eat each bite.
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In America or where? That sounds awkward and exhausting. °O
In Germany usually when held in the left hand, the fork points downward. Held that way it is no problem to put (especially) meat in your mouth using your left hand. Even turning the fork up to hold it more like a shovel is considered "normal".
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As a business-type person, i can tell you that these are the two major styles of eating, called American and Continential style (go look the up on wikipedia for the history, its actually quite interesting).
Basically, the way it works is that continental style has the fork with tines down and in your left hand, knife in right. American style has fork in right and knife in left, but swaps when it comes time to cut things (but the tines are placed up when eating).
End result? American style is viewed as "Unprofessional" By the rest of the western world (ie. europe + colonies of europe (pretty much everywhere but large parts of asia)), except in America. You wont be viewed as rude, you are just going to be viewed as an american that does not honor their business customers (if you dont care, eat how you want)
Business people are really picky about their dress codes and customs, even if they make absolutely ZERO sense at all.
Caspian Sea Monster:
WELL. Since we seem to going completely overboard on this utensil-handling analysis and are doing statistical research now...
• I am 'Merican (originally from southern California)
• I am right-handed
• For steak and similar hunks of meat and such things, I keep the knife in my right hand, fork in my left hand, holding both utensils with the pommel against the center of my palm, index finger running down the back of the fork/spine of the knife blade, and the concave surface of the fork pointed down at the plate. I cut as I go along, don't switch hands, and don't reposition the fork in my hand while eating. I was taught this to be the "proper" way of doing things (also ninja'd by Bp92009); I don't really care about that, but in terms of simple mechanics it makes enough sense.
• For most other food, anything soft enough to be cut with the edge of the fork, fork goes in right hand, left hand is unaccounted for, probably using a laptop or something.
• Spoons are for soup. I know that's obvious but we're being thorough here, right? Right.
• Chopsticks are obligatory for southeast Asian or faux-Asian cuisine.
• Miscellanea: My mother uses a spoon in her left hand as a surface against which to twirl spaghetti noodles around her fork.* My father uses a knife to cut his spaghetti up in a manner similar to steak, thoroughly cutting it up before switching back to fork only and consuming said food. I only use a fork for spaghetti and tend to look like a moron when I eat it.
• I am not polite company. (I'm from southern California, remember?) I have never given a single flying fuck serious consideration as to whether or not I'm doing things the polite and/or "proper" way, and also intentionally set the table with all utensils on the right-hand side of the plate because god dammit I'm right handed and the "proper" place setting is silly.
• 80% of my diet is pizza, for which the use of utensils is sacrilege and serves only to invoke the wrath of the gods.
• I'll leave you with this thought.
*This is what it looks to me like Emily's dad is doing, but that doesn't make terribly much sense since they aren't eating spaghetti.
ANYWAY.
The thing I'm surprised by is that Emily's parents didn't say anything about her chopping off all her hair.
Blackie62:
Well jeez now I feel like such an ambidextrous rube for cutting with my left hand and forking with my right.
Also I would love the punchline of the comic being that Emily pulled the old high school move of holding a party at her parents house while they were away for the weekend without telling them.
riccostar:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 27 Nov 2012, 22:52 ---I'm convinced it's some sort of sentient zeppelin...I don't think Hannelore would really be comfortable with the idea of a hat.
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Worry Hat!
DSL:
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--- Quote from: DSL on 28 Nov 2012, 09:07 ---... You leave my relatives out of this.
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< { (_) } > *shake*
Aaaaaaahem....
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(Switches fork from left to right hand, knife from right to left hand, puts spoon in pun jar.)
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