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Originally Posted by HarryT
How you use a knife and fork certainly is a difference - and is one of those things which really surprised me when I noticed. Americans generally cut up their food, then put down the knife, and eat using only the fork. British people (and other Europeans too) hold the knife and fork at all times.
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I came back from my first tour of Germany eating that way. my mother was appalled, having insisted on the utmost of decorum at the table at all times. I informed her that this was the way one ate at 4star hotels all across Europe, and besides which it made SENSE! I eat that way to this day as do my children. how the other style ever cropped up is beyond me!
I rarely eat toast. mostly only for hot sandwiches, and if that is the case, I don't butter it anyway