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  • In French, they have a different style in dinning.

    such as:

    1. They spoon soup toward themselves.

    2. They never use fork on right hand.

    3. They don't put the food on the fork's back.

  • Id rather listen to Lindo Korchi fork and knife video then this trash

  • "and you put the food in your mouth" oh really. I usually stick it in my eye

  • When i finish eating, i just crossthe fork and knife like an X. An push the plate a bit far. Don't know why... But that's in my house. I find this kind of things interesting. Thanks for the tips!

  • The smaller napkin to wipe your mouth with - larger napkin to wipe yer arse with. Right! Got it.

  • i have the fork in my right hand and my knife in my left hand i think its easier

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  • I think that doesn't correspond to the facts, because many people are not decent. They wear jeans and eat junkfood so those pecularities are interesting for the real followers of etiquette.

  • The Yank (American) version is ridiculous, you have to put the knife down every time and pick it up again each time you use the fork? ROFL!

  • Interesting...

  • I hate Etiquette.

  • The European style is so very creepy. What's with all the shoveling and piling? Are we eating or doing major excavation?

    I've noticed many scenes in WW2 movies that feature Nazi's dining,naturally,in the "refined" European style...and I can understand why American directors focus on this..it looks repulsive and BARBARIC.

  • Wow, cutting your food and resting your knife on the plate seems so strange to me! Coming from the U.K, you keep your knife in your right hand at all times and cut while you eat.

  • How does one eat mashed potatoes european style...

  • @MisterPrinceCharming Well, do you have some meat with your mashed potatoes? I am sorry if I'm not talking about the same potatoes as you are, because in my country the potato mash is made using milk and potatoes (quite yummy, actually). But when you do have meat, it goes the same as described with vegetables: You spear the meat, then with your knife you put your mashed potatoes on. Simple as that. I never really met anyone eating American style, must be tiring.

  • I always place my knife and fork at quarter past three when I'm finished.

  • Putting your hands under the table is so wierd and impolite, also whats all about the changing fork hand thing?! Do americans really eat like this? Never thought there were so many little differences in eating.

  • What happened to just eating food?

  • Most people in the U.K. use the 'continental' style - fork stays in left, knife in right. You should NEVER scoop food onto the fork tine-side up or hold the knife like a pencil. The tines only ever point up at the end of the meal in the finish position. I've only ever seen Americans eat in the American way and it always looks like it's the first time they've used a knife and fork, like they can't quite figure it out. We just assume they eat burgers all the time.

  • I hope my generation of efficiency and competition does away with all of this old, gaudy, useless shit

  • When I went to France they didn't use their knife and had to put the other hand on the table. I'm British and we usually always use the knife.

  • Too much damn work! Just eat

  • I like how everyone is like americans americanize everything, so typical. You do know where Americans "come from"?

  • I think it is about time I introduce Korean, Chinese and Japanese table manners and etiquettes to Westerners. All three cultures have markedly different ways of eating.

  • One part is mssing...when you go for a break during dining, how to place knife and fork in American dining style.

  • Spearing and shoveling food with the same hand is so crass! Take your time, you guys work very few hours as is.

  • @Missmarymac012 you seem to be quite racist

  • Gasp! Barbarians!

  • agayne

    

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  • Does it bother you Europeans that the vast majority of Americans don't give a sh*t what you think of them? If not, shut up. Thank you.

  • @Missmarymac012 Bother? Uhhhhh, naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. You will be happy to read that, as a European, I can confirm that the vast majority of Europeans doesn't give a fuck about Americans.

  • @Efteling4Ever So why are you trashing us. Americans NEVER think of you all.

  • @Missmarymac012 As if Europeans are thrashing you. Why? You read some anti-American posts? You should read all the BS post about Europe. No difference. And yes 99% of Europeans are indeed simply never thinking of you at all.

  • @Efteling4Ever They are fascinated wiht everything Americans do. 

  • @Missmarymac012 Yeah, sure.

  • @Missmarymac012 no, what does bother me is that you think you're actually posting an intelligent comment by generalizing about an entire continent of 50 different countries, each with their own cultures, histories, languages, general mentality, and so on... what you don't seem to understand that there is just as much cultural difference between, say, a belgian and a greek as there is between you and a venezuelan. stop thinking of "europe" as if it's some kind of united hive mind...

  • @keuteltjes actually, I have quite a bit in common with Venezuelans. Dime, comes mierda con el tenedor en la mano derecha o la izquirerda?

  • @Missmarymac012 i was talking about real americans (you know, the native americans and the white devils that killed them), not about the many hispanic refugees that fled north because they couldn't cut it in their own country...

  • @keuteltjes You are contradicting yourself. Almost ALL "hispanic" immigrants to the US are indeed "Native Americans" i.e., Aztecs, Pueblo, etc. However most "real" Americans are, like myself descendants of Europeans who fled institutionalized poverty, nepotism and a lack of opportunity and really bad table manners.

  • @Missmarymac012 do you even know what hispanic means?

  • @Missmarymac012 also: taco, taco, taco

  • @keuteltjes Sorry to disappoint you, but I am not Mexican. Asturian on dad's side. And as much as I oppose illegal immigration into my country, unlike you, I do not hate Mexicans. And you call ME racist?

  • I'm Canadian and I follow the European style.

  • i'm american and i've never seen a single person transfer their fork and knife. who actually does all this stuff?

  • Like always, I follow the European Rule....:D

  • etiquette, Just another form of controll Fgtry.

  • so americans don't use both hands? wtf

  • there is no such thing as "American dining etiquette", its basically British table manners many Americans use. And its very unsophisticated and improper.

    that is so typical of americans to "americanize" it... like the language 'american', it doesnt exist. I just think many Americans are desperate for sophistication, innovations and culture since they have none.

    French/German table manners is what is considered globally as the accepted dining etiquette.

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  • I don't know that I agree completely with your suggestion. In most of Europe, eating with a knife was easily acceptable into the 1900s, while in 19th century America, much of our middle to upper class society went to incredible lengths, nearly forbidding knives. In some areas of this milieu (the multi multimillionaires of the early industrial revolution), they even went beyond the mannerisms of the British royal court. On the whole, Europe is just as negligent to etiquette today as the U.S.A.

  • HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! American table etiquette...... LOL! Is this some kind of joke? Inferior yanks always fuck up! Bunch of fucking unsophisticated savages.

  • @indivum funny because during WWII americans had more class than filthy euro scum. Now it seems we are on par unfortunately.

  • This is very informative and well presented.

    What is the convention for the diner who doesn't give a flying fuck?

  • it is funny how we europeans make all around barbars, look where is USA and where EU unfortunatelly. Btw who cares about dining styles.

  • Hehe, she has no idea of Europe XD I am europe, and some stuff is correct some stuff she invented by her own :) One thing is importent if you eat in europe in upper class never bring your arm under the table doesnt matter wich arm. And don't go with your head towards the fork. only the fork moves to your head. this are the two most importent diffrences...

  • Typical American...

    There's tons of dining styles in Europe. Me for example does not eat like in the vid.

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  • I don't regard American behaviour at the table as a "style" of dining.

    But, I try and be helpful in a courteous manner.

    Believe me, there is a limit to everything. There is no "American dining style". Why would there be? Do they wish to integrate with us? Even Muslims can perform the trick of becoming immigrates and learning our tastes and perfumes.

    America has higher buildings, yes, many are also great achievements from an architechtural viewpoint, but they have no culture. Crazy.

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  • You forgot to show how to eat rice!

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  • wow why is the American dining style so..... rigged. switch hands everytime u put something in ur mouth

  • Well... as Europe isn't a country but a continent... I can assure you, you got pretty much a different etiquette in each country of europe.

    So there is no "Europe or USA"... there is "USA style... and then more than 50 european styles".

  • i eat the american way in home, and eruopean ay outside home (im european)

  • basically ones classy and the other is barbarian like/ no manners.

  • @OPL21stJS

    lol

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  • @LeeGeorge08 woah cool down dude canada has its flaws too

  • @LeeGeorge08 lol says the guy who whips his ass with his left hand

  • fuck dining styles, bunch of pretentious douchebags, just eat your goddamn food. if you don't get it all over your face and hands, you're doing something right

  • euros have no finesse they shovel the food in as if they were starving. euros are slobs. shovel shovel shovel!

  • I'm european and i just get a servant to place food into my mouth.

  • Oh please post a video on how to wipe your ass the american and european way as well You dumb cunt

  • @DESPlERRE Typical "AMERICAN" behavior...

  • @mayitos08 What do you know about america you dumb bitch? Go watch your cartoons baby go

  • @DESPlERRE Jajajajajajajaja... "Ettiquette" not for Americans... And go to watch the Simpsons.

  • how bout u shut tha fuck up and let me enjoy my burger lol

  • i really dont give a fuck which side my napkin is on -.-

    as long as the foods good, im fineee

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  • i'm american and i eat in the european style

  • @cleoandteddy well since most Americans come from Europe, it's not that weird ^^

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  • Americans have a dinning style ?! o_O

  • @Yevysm Yes, we omit the "cigarette smoking" between mouthfuls of "mushy peas" (coincidentally, that is what my toddlers called their first solid food)

  • It always amazes me that people feel the need for childish name calling back and forth over something so simple. Is it really that hard to see that maybe it's just a different style? I eat the "European way" and it's really not that complicated. I'm also right handed so that has no bearing on the fork, but the spoon. Why is it that the people who are so violantly against it are usually the ones that can't speak without cursing or sounding like a teenager having a tantrum.

  • o_O

    I just had a random thought while watching this....

    Why do I drink a soda from the bottle with my right hand, but if it's in a glass or cup, I use my left?

    Food for thought?

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  • As long as you chew with a closed mouth.  WHO GIVES A FUCK!!!!!!

  • This is what Canadians actually believe.

  • When I watch Top Chef, Padma always seems to lick sauce off her knife. This drives me spare as she could easily just rub the sauce onto her fork and eat it with that. It's also dangerous. Tom Colicchio has a very strange way of holding his cutlery too.

  • In Europe there's no just one dining style. There are many countries with different cultures and dining styles.... !

  • I don't like her hair cut.

  • to anyone saying "who cares?" don't forget that these are tips for eating in polite company. always eat however you like when you're alone or with close friends, but if you don't use good manners at a formal dinner, you shouldn't expect to be invited agan.

  • @fuunguus Leaning over your food, ducking your head down etc are considered very vulgar in polite company... at least in England. This was drilled painfully into my subconscious by my father when I was growing up, he had a penchant for impeccable manners. :(

  • I live in the US and I have never seen anybody eat using the "American" style, it is not American.

    Even the "Discussion" page in Wikipedia knows that.

    Just because a book says that it is the American style does not make it true.

  • People really put their napkin on their lap? LOLOLOL. I just eat over the dish! It isn't so hard to bend a little forward every time you take a bite.... try it.

  • @fuunguus The thing about we europeans keeping our hand above the desk is very accurate though, it feels so weird to sit with one hand below the table, almost like your a little disabled..

  • Huh.. who the fuck actually eats using the American style? Talk about an epic waste of time! Even my American boyfriend who is scarily patriotic does not eat in such a retarded manner.

  • Who really should give a fuck how someone eats food? I would just shovel food in my face if I could.

  • I'm American and apparently eat European style. It is definitely superior, it looks daintier and far less clumsy. I don't care if other people eat American style, *but* I hate when other Americans try to correct my style telling me the other way is rude. Shut up.

  • In all seriousness, who gives a shit?

  • Fuck this, both styles are retarded. I'll eat how I want. It's not like I shovel the food into my mouth with my hands.

  • I cannot believe that I am the 173rd thousand person to watch this silliness

  • what an empty little life you must lead

  • What is this business about hands being down when not in use? Hands are for gesturing, silly. And who cares how another person uses utensils if they do so in a nonthreatening manner? Robots, all of you...

  • This left-handed eating looks too difficult for me. As an American, I only use my left hand to open doors and jerk off.

  • @WrathofKhan13 Why, may I ask? What's with the extra step, just waits time. America, you so crazy.

  • @EjvindDark We are highly uneducated. I might stab myself in the face with the sheer confusion of the process.

  • @EjvindDark because im not left handed !!!! i refuse to eat with my left hand. to be honest though, i often just cut with my left hand and keep the fork in the right the whole time. sometimes ill even just poke and eat with the knife.

  • @WrathofKhan13 I don't like using my left hand for eating with a fork, it just feels weird, I am right handed. I just cut all my food up as fast as I can and then I can just put the knife down and my fork in the right hand and shovel it all down.

  • @WrathofKhan13 since when do you jerk off with your left hand? oh ya you Europeans whip your asses with that one to...

  • @staplehead3 I'm from Ohio, jackass. Get your sarcasm filter checked every 3000 miles.

  • @WrathofKhan13 na i just got it checked pal.

  • @WrathofKhan13 You sound like indians. You wipe your ass with one hand and the other to eat

  • @WrathofKhan13

    As a European i'd recommend you to use our style, because switching the vork in both hands at every single bite makes you so tired

  • @HugoElders I prefer the American style because I think it looks more refined but I keep the fork in my right hand at all times since I'm right handed and hold the knife in my left hand when cutting.. Switching hands is not necessary.

  • @FUOPEC1

    As a European i believe this to be the biggest bullshit i've ever heard. American and European dining style? Whether Americans visit European countries or Europeans visit North American countries - we do adapt to each other in most cases!

  • @WrathofKhan13 apparently we have much more in common than previously thought

  • Fuck this bullshit. Soft foods on the back of the fork? Switching the fork in your hands? If someone were to tell me to do ANY of that shit, I'd have to control myself from flinging my plate in their face!!!!

  • Seriously? When you spend all of this effort to tell people HOW TO EAT, you have way too much free time on your hands.

    It's only a meal, people.

  • I'm american and I just blend all the food up, put it in a trough and eat it face first.

  • @clg68

    I like your style.

  • I use th left handed version of the European style, but I'm right handed.

  • Fork?

  • Lol how about the who gives a fuck style damn it's just food

  • thanx....

    

  • she forgets to mention the european tradition of never lifting their arms during a meal as their overpowering body odor can kill everybody in the room LOL

    europeans smell like cheese and feet

  • @hslayerm xD not to mention americans smell like BO and goat shit

  • @hslayerm

    ಠ_ಠ

  • As far as you eat properly, don't put pressure on yourself with "dining etiquette". Eating must be a pleasure, of course you need a minimum of proper table manners, but don't make it so ceremonial.

  • @jawahel I totally agree

  • What the heck. You portray Americans so politely. The and goes wherever the hell it wants. Plus I am american and I and almost every one I know don't switch hands.

  • I'm a left handed American. I never transfer my fork to the my right hand. I don't really think the utensil has to be transferred to a particular hand for one to have good manners. It would be ill mannered to expect a right handed person to eat with his left hand and visa versa.

  • Too complicated for you, Vicarious? You must be an American!

  • I've never seen anyone put napkins on their lap before. Do you eat like a baby? Push vegetables onto the back of your fork?

    WTF

  • @VicariousReality7 The you must only eat at very low grade "diners"

  • there's yet another signal that tells the server that you are completely finished your meal, and that is when you BURP

  • Oh... my.... gosh. I will be so grateful until I die for this obviously VERY imporant clip.... exact eating etiquette.... I always think about this at the same time Im thinking about the wars going on around the world and starving children. PUKE!

  • Thumbs up if you farted while watching this video.

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  • Europeans have a dining style? I always thought europeans ate rats and cooked mice in berlin germany haha, Anyways nice example of Proper New York Dining etiquette

  • @PenkemperK9 *cough* -.-

  • I live in America and I have never eaten like this . This lady makes eating seem more confusing .

  • @azyaninvasion If you ever get to go to a charity event (fro example) this is the correct etiquette or else people will think you're an uneducated country bumkin....

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  • I have NEVER eaten like this.

    Because I'm from Canada.....Eh?

  • in my house theres always cursing and yelling at dinner time. when no one gets punched in the face we consider that a peaceful dinner. we started to all eat in our own rooms now. i eat piss and shit in my bed.

  • I've been taught to use the American style so I was lik wat? People don't switch hands? Lol but in end we r all healthy cuz we ate so it doesn't matter the way, either American or European, but tht it get to ur stomach is good enough for me

  • i've never witnessed anyone using the "american style" - people really do that?

  • @midnightfapper Yes they do....it's awfully annoying.....I would guess for a much as the eater as well as the observer...

  • I'm European and my elbows stay firmly on the table.

  • @TheAm6789 You're a rude person that doesn't know how to behave then?.....I'm not saying it but people who see you in restaurants will think this of you.....it's a judgement that's made.....the waiters also pick up on this so I'd be wary if I were you...especially if you go to an expensive restaurant

  • As in most fields...the European way is better.

  • @TheAm6789 not really. you guys are filthy. hygiene isnt a necessity w/ Europeans. hairy women, smelly people, & fucked up teeth. do you truly not know a single dentist? are braces too expensive for you people? as adults, our teeth look perfect as you see many kids here w/ braces or we go regularly to the dentist. now, back to food... our food is fresher (especially our produce), & we have higher standards for our produce. sure many eat fast food, but I wouldn't touch a single apple in Europe.

  • @ThumbOfMeganFox Typical ignorant american. Do you realise the hundreds of different cultures and traditions there are in Europe. Although you guys may think so, Europe isn't a country, its a continent. Braces etc are just as common over here, especially in teenagers. You make all these presumptions about food when you have no clue about them at all. How else would you eat apples btw? Do McDonald's in the US sell them?

  • @aspiringdrummer17 what does Europe being a continent (which I already knew, moron) have to do w/ what I said? Everything I said is true, still. How else would I eat apples? Are you truly confused on how to eat an apple? I wouldn't eat a single apple in Europe b/c there's no produce standards. Ours are clean, fresh... McDonalds does sell apples, actually... any more retarded questions? People FROM EUROPE tell US all the time how our produce is significantly healthier than theirs. Nice try haha

  • @ThumbOfMeganFox Food on the Continent is produced in some odd ways I'll admit but we don't get any of that stuff here in the UK. Our farm food produce is some of the best in the world and is renowned for it. America actually has a lower standard for food products, thats why America puts a lot more additives and chemicals in food than would be allowed in Europe. Having travelled to the US several times I found it quite surprising how many unnecessary indgredients there are in packaged foods

  • @aspiringdrummer17 If you see, I wasnt talking about 'packaged foods'. I very clearly talked about the produce... fruits & vegetables. a few people i met from Scotland have said this & others in England. i know a lot of our other foods are unhealthy. I agree to that wholeheartedly. but you have to admit it's pretty tasty hahaha (the restaurants I mean) but anyway.. I was only trying to get the person I originally replied to, to see how stupid their comment was. but its cool, I don't wanna argue.

  • @aspiringdrummer17 That's why "mad cow" disease comes primarily from imported British beef. I admit that free range produce is "good" but nothing like what you can get in the Mediterranean. American produce? Scare the bricks out of me...although again there are some people who take care although they are very small producers...

  • @ThumbOfMeganFox Good for you on being so ignorant....

  • @TheAm6789 - Europeans should thank America for saving their ass from the nazis!

    But regardless, USA has a better quality of life, in every possible aspect:

    1. Weather - nicer & wermer in the USA

    2. SPACE - USA is HUGE, with nicer, fresher and newer areas as against European areas- old and dark

    4. PRICES in the USA are cheaper and more afordable. In Europe its so expensive.

    5. PEACE ENVIRONMENT: USA is a SAFER, didnt experience any attacks on its territory (except 9-11) for over 150 years!

  • @ofri75 Dude, you must live in another dimension. The weather isn't really comparable. In the US you've got places like Alaska and Hawaii, in Europe you've got places like Norway and Greece. There's a little bit of everything on both sides of the Atlantic. In terms of what you call "space", almost all big European cities have old downtowns and new, modern, fresh areas. By the way, from the top 20 safest countries in the world, 14 are European. The US ranked #82. Google Global Peace Index.

  • @ofri75 I think you will find it was the Brits that saved europe from the nazi's albeit with american help. Never mind that

    1) much of the north american continent is subject to the vagries of weather as we are , from the tip of Spain, just a few miles from north Africa, and Crete, nearer to Tripoli than Athens, to the northern towns and cities of Norway, Sweden, Scotland and Finland. Hot and cold, hot and cold.

    4. Prices are cheaper, because you buy clothes made by kids who should be in school

  • @TheCoastguard01 Did you just fucking say the Brits "saved" Europe???

    First of all WW2 was won by the Russians.

    Second of all, i hardly believe 50 years of divided Europe, of which half of it was sunken in communist totalitarianism and poverty means it was "saved".

    Third of all, after 60 years of healing from WW2 wounds, europe is finally the worlds number 1 economy, with it's European Union and Euro, all being made possible by ..... GERMANY, which of course it's EU central state.

  • @stefanstalex

    Excuse me sir, but you are discussing World War II under a video showing diner manners.

    You are a dumbass and should be banned from Europe ASAP.

  • @stefanstalex In many ways, France, England and Russia were the once who won world war 2. They fought the hardest and used a lot of money each. France was the country which lost the most soldiers in combat, the Russians mostly killed them self. over 8 mill people were sent to the gulags and A LOT were Russians

  • @stefanstalex HOLY FUCK! It doesn't take an idiot to see that this comment totally ass raped the person being replied to. 

  • Respond to this video...

    You buy oil and coal from some very dodgy regimes and you pay your farmers a pittence, keeping them on the poverty line

    5 America is absolutely not safer. You appear to shoot each other with relish and you still gas, shoot, and electrocute prisoners. And as for environment, never heard of Nine Island ??

  • @TheAm6789 You cannot teach a monkey how to read. You can try, but it is futile. The monkey's arrogance is larger than a whole binary star system, as is its stupidity.

    Arrogance as a human is located only in a two things: money and europeans.

  • @TheAm6789 europeans are american as well as australian and new zilandic, the only difference is your manners

  • Mas puto! Pinche mammadas!