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Do you eat using the Continental protocols?
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:48 pm
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:48 pm
What messages are you conveying with your utensils?
This post was edited on 8/8/21 at 7:51 pm
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Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:49 pm to weagle99
I do eat that way. I kind of wish I could do the whole American hand-switching thing, but it just feels odd, almost like golfing left-handed.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:50 pm to weagle99
I just eat. When I get hungry.....I eat again. I've made it this long without protocols, I guess I'm doing alright.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:50 pm to weagle99
I had taco bell earlier and it left my protocol a little incontinental.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:51 pm to USMEagles
I am right handed but eat with my fork in my left hand but with the teeth facing up so I guess I am sort of a hybrid.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:51 pm to dbeck
Mr Worldwide here
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:53 pm to weagle99
I do not switch hands to cut my food. My non-dominant handles my cutting hand. Otherwise, you look like a caveman.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:56 pm to weagle99
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:56 pm to weagle99
I cut my food like that, but I don't worry so much about utensil placement unless I'm at a nice restaurant.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:58 pm to weagle99
What do YOU eat you snickers with? Your hands??
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:59 pm to Yat27
Isn't the American style to put your utensils at the 4 o'clock position if you're still eating and the 6 o'clock position if you're not? Seems like there's a lot of potential for miscommunication here.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 7:59 pm to weagle99
They used to catch American spies in the world wars because they’d cut their food the American way rather than the European way
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:14 pm to fr33manator
I didn’t know this was a thing.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:18 pm to weagle99
What are those silver things on the plate?
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:24 pm to weagle99
Count me as one of those. Fork in left hand, turned down. Knife in right. Anything else would be uncivilized.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:26 pm to weagle99
For cutting, yes. For sending signals of my meal progress, no. I've never heard of this to be honest.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:28 pm to fr33manator
quote:Seems like an urban legend. American spies very rarely pose as foreign nationals, even back then.
They used to catch American spies in the world wars because they’d cut their food the American way rather than the European way
They would either use Americans under civilian or diplomatic cover (not pretending to be foreign), or they would just recruit foreign nationals.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:30 pm to weagle99
We were taught in etiquette class that utensils at 1 o’clock was the sign for being done with the food. Idk.
Posted on 8/8/21 at 8:34 pm to Jobin
Fork and knife on the right side mean your waiting for seconds. Utensil handles at 5, pointing to 10 means you’re done.
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