In my country of England most of us our eel eaters. I prefer boiled eel and it is custom to eat with our mouth open. Its just our culture. Silly Americans! Bollocks on ye!
What are you trying to imply?.... I am American and have excellent table manners. It truly depends on the individual person, not where they are from. The first woman chews with her mouth open (RUDE!) and the second woman...there is a napkin on the table... USE IT!... I hate being seen as an unlearned, obese, nitwit; simply because I am American. You should look into ancient Greek culture and their eating habits... Have you ever heard of a room made specifically to upchuck in?... No? LOOK IT UP!
How can people eat everything with their forks upside down? Don't we want food to stay on the fork until it is in our mouths? You would have to stab everything you eat for it not to fall off? It sounds seem like a pain to eat that way..
@heyjenknee It takes years of practice, and too know what to put on your fork first. we don't just put one item on the fork. I find peas can be a bit tricky. Try to get a meal with something squashy to push the peas into lol
Based on my experience, which could be wrong of course, Europeans are VERY aware of which hand you eat with. I use my left hand and have frequently been mistaken for European/British. For that reason alone, I would say the second woman.
Fork use is less codified in the US than in the UK because forks were not yet common in England when the colonies were founded. Firm usage rules never really developed here. You see many versions but I do not see anything organically "more polite" about turning the tines down than keeping them up. Chewing with your mouth open is taboo in the US. If you see it, the person is probably being intentionally obnoxious or, more likely, it's a momentary lapse during an evening of laughter and liquor.
uhm.... which is which? (watching w/ sound turned off).... I've seen many Americans eat with their fork turned either way. I'VE eaten with my fork turned either way......
I love the British and have traveled to England (and other parts of Europe) quite a few times, but that whole 'using the fork upside down to put food into your mouth' makes me cringe. Always has, always will. It's like something an American toddler would do until they were taught proper table manners, or like someone who was raised in the backwoods. I've also seen Brits scrape peas & mashed potatoes onto their knives and then stick the knife into their mouth. What's up with that? Cheers. :-)
@LuceStulz That's funny, because I see it the other way round (I am English) To me the second Woman was eating properly, that's how I've been brought up to eat. If I held my fork the other way my Dad would have told me off for shovelling food into my mouth! Although...I've never scraped peas onto my knife...seems like an impossible task! Cheers to you too!
@HozzerEllis The peas in question were sort of co-mingled with the mashed potatoes which allowed them to be on the knife. I couldn't look away! As for fork up or down, doesn't it stand to reason that if the tines are concave, like a spoon, that would indicate it works best when held upright? I doubt anyone takes a spoonful of soup, turns it upside down and then puts it in their mouth. Ice cream would be an acception, however. :-) Anyway, I loved your reply. Cheers, again!
@LuceStulz I can assure you in England eating from ones knife is bad manners. When I was a toddler bad table manners, that I was told off for were: Eating off the knife, scooping peas since (in the UK) prongs of a fork face down (Typically people mix peas, I don't do that, I just spend ages spearing, lol)& eating quickly (why we eat prongs down). Also elbows off the table, mouth kept closed, fork in left hand and knife in right. I believe that is typical of British table manners. ;)
@HoneyFromTheHive If you have to spear each pea with your fork I'm sure that does keep you from eating too quickly. I'm getting such a great visual right now. :-) Another thing that doesn't seem quite right about eating with the fork upside down is having it bang against your top teeth, or perhaps hurting your tongue with a tine. At any rate this has been a fun discussion and you're all invited to my place on Saturday for one of my famous candlelight suppers!
Eh...both of these are kinda...normal. Except that last girl was so polite I feel like if I was eating with her I wouldn't feel relaxed hahaha, the first lady wasn't even chewing with her mouth open so I found that kind of weird.
Anyway you know whats sad? Having nasal allergies but trying to have dining manners. IF YOU DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH YOU CAN'T BREATHE!! So you have to cover your mouth, and then people are like 'what are you doing??' and then you have to explain...
One shan't require the expert services of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, to determine - via the prima facie evidence - that the COW lacking any identifiable exhibition of social decorum is the Colonial.
As the correct saying goes: 'The proof of the pudding, is in the eating'. - and in this case, how true - indeed!
Here's a way to spot an american eating. Whatever they do, they will NOT touch the knife. They cut everything with a fork and finish the whole meal with a fork. I see grown ass men who simply can't cut a steak. Everywhere I go out to eat in any of the 50 states except N.Y., I always have to ask for a fucking knife as it is an "unknown" utensil.
By the way, I'm an american, raised in Brazil, where EVEN a pizza is eaten with knife and fork! The waiter actually serves you the first slice in a pizza. Did you know that it took national TV millions + 8 years of ads to introduce chicken pizza into the U.S.? Same way done to inform americans that chicken can also be sold as a whole chicken? In the U.S, if its not on TV, FORGET IT! in 1995 I made chicken pizza and everyone was disgusted. Now, everyone in america loves chicken pizza? Fuck you!!
@formaset oooo, you're an angry little creature aren't you! I don't know what kind of Americans you socialize with and if you're only eating in U.S. prisons where knives are rare...but everyone I socialize with and am related to knows how to use a knife and cuts most of their food with a knife. Sometimes you don't NEED a knife....WOW! It can happen, don't let it ruin your day. And thanks for saving us with your chicken pizza, How could we have done without it for so long!
@Hawkfrostashfurfan Here we go again...I shoot weddings in 7 states. At the reception, each and every time, people cut the food with the fork. The 10% I see using the knife are probably foreigners LOL! Look man, americans vs. finesse don't blend well.
They both have bad manners. The first one is eating with her mouth open and the second one wipes her mouth with her hand after sipping her drink. FAIL.
The only country I've been in where they eat like the Americans is the USA. I've never been to Canada so I don't know about them. But in Europe and Australia, they eat the same way as we do the UK, in my experience. But if it's something you never need to cut up, I just use the fork upside down in the right hand - no knife. Of course, if we're in McDonald's, we use the knife in our dominant hand to cut the burger into bite-sized chunks.
@tomothy61 I'm from the US and use the side of my fork to cut things if it isn't steak or something.
But, why do you cut up your burger? The purpose of the bun is for you to NOT use eating utensils. A sandwich was invented specifically for the purpose of being able to hold it in one hand and, originally, play cards with the other. You're just making it more complicated than it needs to be.
@xXpurpletuesdayXx Ummm... we don't use eating utensils to eat a burger... that was a joke. Not a very good one, I agree, but a joke nevertheless. I've been known to use the side of my fork too when feeling too lazy to pick up the knife. And when I mentioned the upside-down fork I meant prongs pointing up. I realized that might be confusing just after I posted.
Isn't this called table manners? Besides, I don't think they're is a significant difference between British table manners and American table manners. I mean, both countries practice not using anything or do anything as not to disturb the guest. And there are others.
@nostalgiamelancolia1 I am British and hold my fork in my right hand, I was always told that right handed people tend to use their left hands (I don't really have a dominant hand), so I don't think it's a cultural thing!
Right im English so dont get hating, just saying these two women look like they are in different Environments, the second women (pressumed British) looks like shes in formal dress out on a formal evening whilst the first women (pressumed American is out in more informal environment) so therefore cant really judge, but why would you want to anyway were like the same country stop comparing.
@nudepanda101 Only partially true. Even on the couch, (In your underwear, eating Pizza and playing call of duty at the same time) one should retain 'proper' eating habits... or at least in the household I was raised in.
@bl0gwar Yes, I do slash with the prongs (closest side to/touching the plate) and I can do it to steak also...but only because I'm strong. It does hurt after awhile so I'll look around for a steak knife eventually. But for any and all other foods that aren't steak or liquid(y), I use a fork exclusively. I scoop mashed potatoes with it (all four tines touch the plate at the same time and it's held almost parallel to the plate bottom) with no problem...four plus decades now. I can eat...
@bl0gwar I can eat with the fork in my left and a knife in my right but...boy oh boy does it take a long time. I do that at fancy sit down dinners where I have lots and lots of time to chat (and am not very hungry!).
@dustymiller65 Oh, and the fork would be held upside down (to me) in the last post. That is, the correct way for everyone in the British Isles. It's only 'upside down' for most of us here in North America who grew up with it the other way. It does make you eat more slowly (which is better for you anyways) I'll say.
The second woman is British. She keeps her fork in her left hand and her knife in her right. This is also the way other Europeans use a knife and fork, not just the British.
Don't be fool enough to look down on a person for this alone. When the chinese were first exposed to westerns they found much of our mannerisms barbaric. The chopstick thing for instance, is based in Confucius's notion that tools resembling instruments of violence were an uncivilized thing to use for eating. They would have looked down on you much as you might look down on us.
@Irongiant347 I don't know if it is just a British thing, maybe other parts of UK or Europe do it. I am American and in the USA we eat with the fork tongs pointing up. Although we would use the fork, with the tongs pointing down, to hold food in place when we are cutting food with a knife and if we are too lazy to flip it over (tongs up) we would just to eat off of it with tongs still pointed down. I would say 9 time out of 10 an American would eat with the tongs pointed up.
@irongiant347 Also if you were to go to an American etiquette class they would teach you to cut your food with your knife in your dominate hand and your fork (tongs down) in your other hand. Then after you cut just one piece of food you put the knife down, flip the fork over (tongs up) then stitch hands so the fork is in your dominate hand, then bring the fork to your mouth put the food in your mouth and use your lips to remove the food (not your teeth). Switch hand, flip, and repeat
Aww, you have to switch hands that often? I just keep the knife in my dominant hand at all times...or, y'know, just eat with my hands 'cause I'm a messy American.
I would have guessed that the second woman was British because of all the booze on the table lol but I could hear an American accent in the background.
@meowool yeeeeerrrpp lemme getme spetoon.(dramatization) hopefully you will not base your judgment on one american, i'm sure it was just a joke though.
False correlation- you know nothing about the individuals and are making broad generalizations based on two random individuals. I have seen PLENTY of British people who eat like hogs at a trough and a roughly equal number of Americans who eat much more daintily than the woman in your video.
The first lady uses her fork to shovel food into her mouth, then chews with her mouth open. She's also slouched forward much more and probably has her elbows on the table.
The second lady uses the fork with the prongs facing down (as you should), always keeps her mouth closed when chewing and it looks like her elbows are off the table (though she too is slightly slouching). The British girl should have used a serviette (napkin) to wipe her mouth rather than the back of her hand, though!
the second girl is British because she put the fork in her mouth facing down, I am not sure how cameras work but seemed like it was her left hand too.
Let me guess that the brunette who is eating with gusto is an Italian American and the expressionless one who wipes her mouth with her fingers is British?
I think we'd have to see their teeth to really judge which is which.
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daroni1000 7 hours ago
@debbidee Or maybe how fat they are.
daroni1000 7 hours ago
First woman was the American. Her fork was right-side up.
Second was the English. Her fork was turned upside-down.
Squishyy123 13 hours ago
In my country of England most of us our eel eaters. I prefer boiled eel and it is custom to eat with our mouth open. Its just our culture. Silly Americans! Bollocks on ye!
McFattyMcFattFattt 14 hours ago
What are you trying to imply?.... I am American and have excellent table manners. It truly depends on the individual person, not where they are from. The first woman chews with her mouth open (RUDE!) and the second woman...there is a napkin on the table... USE IT!... I hate being seen as an unlearned, obese, nitwit; simply because I am American. You should look into ancient Greek culture and their eating habits... Have you ever heard of a room made specifically to upchuck in?... No? LOOK IT UP!
BlueEyedWarrior92 17 hours ago
How can people eat everything with their forks upside down? Don't we want food to stay on the fork until it is in our mouths? You would have to stab everything you eat for it not to fall off? It sounds seem like a pain to eat that way..
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@heyjenknee It takes years of practice, and too know what to put on your fork first. we don't just put one item on the fork. I find peas can be a bit tricky. Try to get a meal with something squashy to push the peas into lol
daroni1000 7 hours ago
Second person is English...but I actually knew that before I saw her take a bite.
magicpony9 4 days ago
Based on my experience, which could be wrong of course, Europeans are VERY aware of which hand you eat with. I use my left hand and have frequently been mistaken for European/British. For that reason alone, I would say the second woman.
diayag 6 days ago
Fork use is less codified in the US than in the UK because forks were not yet common in England when the colonies were founded. Firm usage rules never really developed here. You see many versions but I do not see anything organically "more polite" about turning the tines down than keeping them up. Chewing with your mouth open is taboo in the US. If you see it, the person is probably being intentionally obnoxious or, more likely, it's a momentary lapse during an evening of laughter and liquor.
pnyc1969 6 days ago
uhm.... which is which? (watching w/ sound turned off).... I've seen many Americans eat with their fork turned either way. I'VE eaten with my fork turned either way......
Lizzyerdify 1 week ago
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Um, then what were you expecting from this video when you saw the title mate?
JLXZ83 2 weeks ago
Second one was British. She was using her fork upside down.
IDislikeTheWorld 2 weeks ago 2
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Good one!
Gorbachenko 1 week ago
Obviously number one is American and number two British. Why? Because of how they hold their forks.
ataramprat 2 weeks ago
@ataramprat for shizzle.
SerpentStomper 2 weeks ago
@ataramprat exactly what i was thinking
bookfiend2009 2 weeks ago
I love the British and have traveled to England (and other parts of Europe) quite a few times, but that whole 'using the fork upside down to put food into your mouth' makes me cringe. Always has, always will. It's like something an American toddler would do until they were taught proper table manners, or like someone who was raised in the backwoods. I've also seen Brits scrape peas & mashed potatoes onto their knives and then stick the knife into their mouth. What's up with that? Cheers. :-)
LuceStulz 3 weeks ago
@LuceStulz That's funny, because I see it the other way round (I am English) To me the second Woman was eating properly, that's how I've been brought up to eat. If I held my fork the other way my Dad would have told me off for shovelling food into my mouth! Although...I've never scraped peas onto my knife...seems like an impossible task! Cheers to you too!
HozzerEllis 1 week ago
@HozzerEllis The peas in question were sort of co-mingled with the mashed potatoes which allowed them to be on the knife. I couldn't look away! As for fork up or down, doesn't it stand to reason that if the tines are concave, like a spoon, that would indicate it works best when held upright? I doubt anyone takes a spoonful of soup, turns it upside down and then puts it in their mouth. Ice cream would be an acception, however. :-) Anyway, I loved your reply. Cheers, again!
LuceStulz 1 week ago
@LuceStulz Exception not acception!
Scoff scoff
scarletrobin 1 week ago
@scarletrobin Correction excepted. ;-)
LuceStulz 4 days ago
@LuceStulz I can assure you in England eating from ones knife is bad manners. When I was a toddler bad table manners, that I was told off for were: Eating off the knife, scooping peas since (in the UK) prongs of a fork face down (Typically people mix peas, I don't do that, I just spend ages spearing, lol)& eating quickly (why we eat prongs down). Also elbows off the table, mouth kept closed, fork in left hand and knife in right. I believe that is typical of British table manners. ;)
HoneyFromTheHive 13 hours ago
@HoneyFromTheHive If you have to spear each pea with your fork I'm sure that does keep you from eating too quickly. I'm getting such a great visual right now. :-) Another thing that doesn't seem quite right about eating with the fork upside down is having it bang against your top teeth, or perhaps hurting your tongue with a tine. At any rate this has been a fun discussion and you're all invited to my place on Saturday for one of my famous candlelight suppers!
LuceStulz 10 hours ago
Eh...both of these are kinda...normal. Except that last girl was so polite I feel like if I was eating with her I wouldn't feel relaxed hahaha, the first lady wasn't even chewing with her mouth open so I found that kind of weird.
Anyway you know whats sad? Having nasal allergies but trying to have dining manners. IF YOU DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH YOU CAN'T BREATHE!! So you have to cover your mouth, and then people are like 'what are you doing??' and then you have to explain...
above: my childhood
Zeelchetoesa 3 weeks ago
They're both from Canada. Canadians don't give a fuck what the rest of you think. They're too busy being cooler than you.
ramesesradio 3 weeks ago 2
@ramesesradio Everyone hates canada even canadians
marypatrice3 3 weeks ago
is this some kind of contest?
HaishaKafuren 3 weeks ago
well they both had bad eating habits. first one woman ate with her mouth open while the other wiped her mouth with her hand instead of a napkin.
Genuinesigh 3 weeks ago 13
I use my fork upside down when I'm eating. It's much more efficient and doesn't quite look so messy. I also close my mouth when I eat.
iluvKH4eva 1 month ago
@iluvKH4eva THE FIRST WOMAN WAS AMERICAN, BECAUSE SHE WAS SHOVELLING THE FOOD INTO HER GOB LIKE A DIRTY PIG.
NUNCLEFRITZ 4 weeks ago
@NUNCLEFRITZ That's what a lot of Americans do.
iluvKH4eva 4 weeks ago
@iluvKH4eva THAT COULD BE WHY THEY'RE ALL FAT BASTARDS.
NUNCLEFRITZ 4 weeks ago
@NUNCLEFRITZ Most certainly. Where are you from?
iluvKH4eva 4 weeks ago
@iluvKH4eva THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE. ENGLAND
NUNCLEFRITZ 4 weeks ago
@NUNCLEFRITZ Bolsover, Chesterfield, myself. Why are you typing in capitals?
iluvKH4eva 4 weeks ago
@iluvKH4eva I'M PARTIALLY SIGHTED, CAPITALS ARE EASIER TO READ.
NUNCLEFRITZ 4 weeks ago
@NUNCLEFRITZ Oh right, okay then. Sorry.
iluvKH4eva 4 weeks ago
@NUNCLEFRITZ You need help reading your own comments?
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@bl0gwar "The correct way to use a fork" is whichever way you prefer..
God damn..
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purealba01 1 month ago
I don't get it. :/ They both eat kind of strangely to me! haha ;D
and... I wonder why she didn't use a napkin. haha XD
KryztalKitsu 1 month ago
One shan't require the expert services of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, to determine - via the prima facie evidence - that the COW lacking any identifiable exhibition of social decorum is the Colonial.
As the correct saying goes: 'The proof of the pudding, is in the eating'. - and in this case, how true - indeed!
BaronMcCausland 1 month ago
Here's a way to spot an american eating. Whatever they do, they will NOT touch the knife. They cut everything with a fork and finish the whole meal with a fork. I see grown ass men who simply can't cut a steak. Everywhere I go out to eat in any of the 50 states except N.Y., I always have to ask for a fucking knife as it is an "unknown" utensil.
formaset 1 month ago
By the way, I'm an american, raised in Brazil, where EVEN a pizza is eaten with knife and fork! The waiter actually serves you the first slice in a pizza. Did you know that it took national TV millions + 8 years of ads to introduce chicken pizza into the U.S.? Same way done to inform americans that chicken can also be sold as a whole chicken? In the U.S, if its not on TV, FORGET IT! in 1995 I made chicken pizza and everyone was disgusted. Now, everyone in america loves chicken pizza? Fuck you!!
formaset 1 month ago
@formaset oooo, you're an angry little creature aren't you! I don't know what kind of Americans you socialize with and if you're only eating in U.S. prisons where knives are rare...but everyone I socialize with and am related to knows how to use a knife and cuts most of their food with a knife. Sometimes you don't NEED a knife....WOW! It can happen, don't let it ruin your day. And thanks for saving us with your chicken pizza, How could we have done without it for so long!
frogbutt11 1 month ago
@frogbutt11 KNIFE IS NOT PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE! THAT'S THAT!
formaset 1 month ago
@formaset You're right, I give up....you're right....sigh.
frogbutt11 1 month ago
@formaset D:< TEXAS GIVES YOU KNIVES! So does Oklahoma, and Arizona, and New Mexico, and California, and many other real southern states!
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formaset 1 month ago
@Hawkfrostashfurfan Here we go again...I shoot weddings in 7 states. At the reception, each and every time, people cut the food with the fork. The 10% I see using the knife are probably foreigners LOL! Look man, americans vs. finesse don't blend well.
formaset 1 month ago
@formaset Hmm, weird, I am always given a knife and a fork wherever I've gone to eat in America.. Unless I'm having soup of course =)
purealba01 1 month ago
@formaset you are certifiable.
dilsnikdilznik 1 week ago
There's nothing I hate more then when people eat with their mouth open, it's nasty,
And I'm American.
zico739 1 month ago 10
@zico739 yeah, I am an American and that eating with the mouth open is nasty
inkey2 4 weeks ago
@zico739 The worst is when you see chefs or foodies, people who specialize in food, chomping down like cows.
relussier 4 days ago
eating with your mouth opens disguting you have to hear them chew and see the chewed food ew
crosscountry223 1 month ago
Someone needs to give that gal a napkin!
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They both have bad manners. The first one is eating with her mouth open and the second one wipes her mouth with her hand after sipping her drink. FAIL.
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The only country I've been in where they eat like the Americans is the USA. I've never been to Canada so I don't know about them. But in Europe and Australia, they eat the same way as we do the UK, in my experience. But if it's something you never need to cut up, I just use the fork upside down in the right hand - no knife. Of course, if we're in McDonald's, we use the knife in our dominant hand to cut the burger into bite-sized chunks.
tomothy61 1 month ago
@tomothy61 I'm from the US and use the side of my fork to cut things if it isn't steak or something.
But, why do you cut up your burger? The purpose of the bun is for you to NOT use eating utensils. A sandwich was invented specifically for the purpose of being able to hold it in one hand and, originally, play cards with the other. You're just making it more complicated than it needs to be.
xXpurpletuesdayXx 1 month ago
@xXpurpletuesdayXx Ummm... we don't use eating utensils to eat a burger... that was a joke. Not a very good one, I agree, but a joke nevertheless. I've been known to use the side of my fork too when feeling too lazy to pick up the knife. And when I mentioned the upside-down fork I meant prongs pointing up. I realized that might be confusing just after I posted.
tomothy61 1 month ago
@tomothy61 oh... sorry.. oops... xDD
xXpurpletuesdayXx 1 month ago
Isn't this called table manners? Besides, I don't think they're is a significant difference between British table manners and American table manners. I mean, both countries practice not using anything or do anything as not to disturb the guest. And there are others.
JLXZ83 2 months ago
What was the point of that? We use our mouths to eat. Brilliant observation.
j2times2006 2 months ago 2
I found this quite hard to masturbate to.
raven8699 3 months ago 19
@raven8699 Hard, yes, but not impossible.
diomedes39 3 weeks ago
I heard that Europeans use the fork with their left hand while we in America use it
with our right hand.
nostalgiamelancolia1 3 months ago
@nostalgiamelancolia1 it depends whether you are right or left handed. it makes no difference what country you are from
e7l13 3 months ago
@nostalgiamelancolia1 I am British and hold my fork in my right hand, I was always told that right handed people tend to use their left hands (I don't really have a dominant hand), so I don't think it's a cultural thing!
overgrowneden 3 months ago
@nostalgiamelancolia1 I just use the fork with whichever hand is convenient.
jeavjuaf 2 months ago
Right im English so dont get hating, just saying these two women look like they are in different Environments, the second women (pressumed British) looks like shes in formal dress out on a formal evening whilst the first women (pressumed American is out in more informal environment) so therefore cant really judge, but why would you want to anyway were like the same country stop comparing.
nudepanda101 3 months ago 2
@nudepanda101 Only partially true. Even on the couch, (In your underwear, eating Pizza and playing call of duty at the same time) one should retain 'proper' eating habits... or at least in the household I was raised in.
Aima267 2 months ago
@nudepanda101 You're not like the same country. For one thing, Americans see no difference between 'different' and 'weird'.
bl0gwar 2 months ago
I live in the UK and to me the US restuaraunts sounds louder with noise
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SexyStarTrekGirl82 3 months ago
Oh no! The fork's upsidedown!! Fix that! o_O
dustymiller65 3 months ago
@dustymiller65 So you use your fork like a spoon? To scoop with? You scoop with prongs? Do you slash with a trident?
bl0gwar 2 months ago
@bl0gwar Yes, I do slash with the prongs (closest side to/touching the plate) and I can do it to steak also...but only because I'm strong. It does hurt after awhile so I'll look around for a steak knife eventually. But for any and all other foods that aren't steak or liquid(y), I use a fork exclusively. I scoop mashed potatoes with it (all four tines touch the plate at the same time and it's held almost parallel to the plate bottom) with no problem...four plus decades now. I can eat...
dustymiller65 2 months ago
@bl0gwar I can eat with the fork in my left and a knife in my right but...boy oh boy does it take a long time. I do that at fancy sit down dinners where I have lots and lots of time to chat (and am not very hungry!).
dustymiller65 2 months ago
@dustymiller65 Oh, and the fork would be held upside down (to me) in the last post. That is, the correct way for everyone in the British Isles. It's only 'upside down' for most of us here in North America who grew up with it the other way. It does make you eat more slowly (which is better for you anyways) I'll say.
dustymiller65 2 months ago
The second woman is British. She keeps her fork in her left hand and her knife in her right. This is also the way other Europeans use a knife and fork, not just the British.
ramette99 3 months ago
Second woman is British
jeapiat 4 months ago
What kind of fuck tard made this?
DWarrior4 4 months ago
the second one wiped her lips with her hand instead of using a napkin... and she doesn't seem to practice good oral hygiene, bad teeth, so...
tanonginosibalasi 4 months ago
@tanonginosibalasi Americans are notorious for being sloppy, not british.
bl0gwar 2 months ago
Don't be fool enough to look down on a person for this alone. When the chinese were first exposed to westerns they found much of our mannerisms barbaric. The chopstick thing for instance, is based in Confucius's notion that tools resembling instruments of violence were an uncivilized thing to use for eating. They would have looked down on you much as you might look down on us.
JustThink00 5 months ago
The second woman is British, she is using the fork 'upside down' to eat.
callistocy 5 months ago 24
@callistocy or you could say, 'the right way up'
howamusing1 3 months ago
@callistocy why is that just a british thing, i thought its a normal way of eating? lol (im british btw)
Irongiant347 2 months ago
@Irongiant347 I don't know if it is just a British thing, maybe other parts of UK or Europe do it. I am American and in the USA we eat with the fork tongs pointing up. Although we would use the fork, with the tongs pointing down, to hold food in place when we are cutting food with a knife and if we are too lazy to flip it over (tongs up) we would just to eat off of it with tongs still pointed down. I would say 9 time out of 10 an American would eat with the tongs pointed up.
callistocy 2 months ago
@irongiant347 Also if you were to go to an American etiquette class they would teach you to cut your food with your knife in your dominate hand and your fork (tongs down) in your other hand. Then after you cut just one piece of food you put the knife down, flip the fork over (tongs up) then stitch hands so the fork is in your dominate hand, then bring the fork to your mouth put the food in your mouth and use your lips to remove the food (not your teeth). Switch hand, flip, and repeat
callistocy 2 months ago
@callistocy lol
Irongiant347 2 months ago
@callistocy
Aww, you have to switch hands that often? I just keep the knife in my dominant hand at all times...or, y'know, just eat with my hands 'cause I'm a messy American.
KeepUrDictionary 2 months ago
@callistocy Yep! Tines down = European.
JoyousinJesus 1 month ago
@callistocy And using her left hand
judgejudyslover 1 month ago
@callistocy That's how you are meant to use it, unless you are a child, it's common manners and it's a lot easier as you have more grip
drumlegend16 1 month ago
I would have guessed that the second woman was British because of all the booze on the table lol but I could hear an American accent in the background.
Is there a purpose to this?
ticketyboooo 5 months ago
First woman is American the second one is English (the fork).
EMPERORMIKI 5 months ago 2
i eat with my mouth closed. I live in america. It's you're family that brings you up not you're country.
xrickster97x 5 months ago 43
@xrickster97x Your *
kur0za 4 months ago
@kur0za see we can eat correctly but, our grammer still needs improvment.
xrickster97x 4 months ago
@xrickster97x *grammar and your spelling evidently..
meowool 4 months ago
@meowool yeeeeerrrpp lemme getme spetoon.(dramatization) hopefully you will not base your judgment on one american, i'm sure it was just a joke though.
xrickster97x 4 months ago
@xrickster97x you are family that brings you up and not you are country?
ramette99 3 months ago
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@ramette99 that has been pointed out in the comment section below.
xrickster97x 3 months ago
@xrickster97x and it's 'your'. You're is short for 'you are'
TrueBritishPatriots 2 months ago
@TrueBritishPatriots Thank you for saving me from having to tell them.
jeavjuaf 2 months ago
@xrickster97x I am? How is it I am's family? Was you are's family bad at proper grammar usage? And who is i? is i the same as I?
bl0gwar 2 months ago
@bl0gwar can not compute.
xrickster97x 2 months ago
@xrickster97x smartest comment made on youtube :)
scarlett4ever1 2 months ago
False correlation- you know nothing about the individuals and are making broad generalizations based on two random individuals. I have seen PLENTY of British people who eat like hogs at a trough and a roughly equal number of Americans who eat much more daintily than the woman in your video.
jenisedai 6 months ago
The first lady uses her fork to shovel food into her mouth, then chews with her mouth open. She's also slouched forward much more and probably has her elbows on the table.
The second lady uses the fork with the prongs facing down (as you should), always keeps her mouth closed when chewing and it looks like her elbows are off the table (though she too is slightly slouching). The British girl should have used a serviette (napkin) to wipe her mouth rather than the back of her hand, though!
Craig07L 6 months ago 2
No idea. How can you tell, unless you make broad assumptions about cultures based on how someone is dressed, or how someone holds an eating utensil?
useahammer 6 months ago 2
@useahammer Haha ... exactly what I was thinking.
gamblemadman 4 months ago
the second girl is British because she put the fork in her mouth facing down, I am not sure how cameras work but seemed like it was her left hand too.
lulu2lalas 8 months ago
yeah, I think the second lady is the brit......the way she held her fork......am I right?
inkey2 9 months ago
Let me guess that the brunette who is eating with gusto is an Italian American and the expressionless one who wipes her mouth with her fingers is British?
bluespiral58 10 months ago
The second girl is the British girl.
TheAnn2shoes 1 year ago