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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 was taught from an early age........you cut your food, then put the knife down, your spare hand in you
lap, and eat with your fork.
Elbows on the table, or more than one hand at a time eating got a fork in the arm! Seriously........
And we were pooooor. My mom always said you could be poor, but you didn't have to eat or smell like a pig.
Go figure.