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Article #4181Re: eating with fork tines up or down
From: Curlytop
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:33
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 18:33
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Ian Jackson set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum: > However, some 50 years ago, I was at a semi-formal dinner where the > attendees were university engineering staff and their students. The guy > I was seated next to was one of the lecturers, and I was surprised when > he specifically asked the waiter if he could have an extra desert spoon. > I tactfully asked him why, and he replied that, as there were peas on > the menu, any engineer with any common sense would use a spoon to eat > them. I can't say I disagree with him. I too were brung up proper, so I set the fork whichever way up is appropriate - tines up or down as required. Using a spoon to scoop up the peas is a definite no-no though. There was one occasion where I had to reverse the usual layout - after I had broken my left arm. For a while I could not raise my left hand far enough to reach my mouth, so I had to have the fork in my right hand and the knife in my left. Very difficult to get used to the reverse movements at first but I managed it. (Finger movements were unaffected by the injury, and full use of my left arm was gradually restored.) -- ΞΎ: ) Proud to be curly Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply
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