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Article #4191Re: eating with fork tines up or down
From: cweil
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 07:36
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 07:36
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On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:50:28 -0700 (PDT), fabzorba <myles.abzorba@gmail.com> wrote: >WIWAL, I was taught to eat my dinner with a knife and fork used >together, and with the fork having tines pointing down all the time. >This was quite an art to master, especially with small items hard to >pierce, like peas. [---] We French look upom the habit of eating peas with a tines-down fork as a typically nonsensensical piece of British folklore.
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Subject: Re: eating with fork tines up or down
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:36:50 +0200
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