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And dont eat with your elbows on the table and dont eat with just your fork.

Occasionally, I eat my supper from my lap.

I remember Cake Forks and Ice Cream Spoons.

Also Damask Serviette's and Table Cloths.

Liz, I would have loved to have seen that, with your OH fighting the waiter for his dinner.

Huia.

Depends on the upbringing I suppose, my o.h. has awful table manners so his sons had too, I was horrified. None of them knew that in a restaurant if you put the knife and fork together on the plate it signalled to the waiter that you had finished with your meal, I tried to tell him but he said I was a snob. Then one day the waiter came and tried to take his plate lol .......

I used to watch some of the children when I was a school dinner lady, and I'd cringe at the way they used their cutlery etc.

Lizx

Must admit I would never eat off a knife. At school we were always provided with a spoon and a fork for dessert and to this day I still prefer to eat with both utensils but no-one else seems to bother. -jl

I was taught that not only was it badmanned but dangerous as knifes can be sharp.

very unseemly Julia - and young people today have no idea how to use a knife and fork properly and the American style of just using a fork to eat puzzles me no end

Brief is the span between primitive & modern man or chef!

Absolutely! But you've just reminded me of what one of my teachers put in my autograph book when I left the school :)

"I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life
it makes the peas taste funny
but it keeps them on the knife"

When I was a child, I was taught that to eat off of the knife, was exeedingly bad mannered.
Last night, we caught part of the Masterchef - The Professionals programme. This is to find a meal fit to be served to Michelle Rouix, and one of the judges, is his second in command. Twice, I saw her testing the contestants offerings, by eating of the knife.
We were totally gobsmacked. Surely this is a social faux pas, of the highest order and very unseemly

Julia in Derbyshire