either, depends whether you like forks or spoons better. xD
in my family FORKS. the reason why is we wont eat soup. i went to tokeo last night and they said we go the day before thanksgiving and they gave me a stupid fork to eat my soup! DUMB! i hated their soup anyway soo lol
Wherever you want.
You may just want to put it on the plate as you serve the dessert ,or pass a small silver basket with the dessert. Informally, you may certainly do as you please.
On the table , at the top of the plate.
Anywhere you like. It's time to stop being a slave to outmoded, useless customs.
yes, but only to be cheated on. the spoon ends up having an affair with fork from a fine dining set, because the dish was very poor and could not supports Spoon's drinking habbit.
Depends on what I'm eating with it.
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Usually with a fork unless the dish is very soupy.
In most Europeon countries they eat with the fork in the left hand and push their food onto the fork eating with the fork pointing down and in very small amounts. More the French way which is why most French people eat 12 course meals but eating in very small amounts it's not unusual for people in France to eat like this on a regular basis and stay thin.
Generally there is a knife and fork, but if there isn't then the fork would go on the left side of the plate.
In some social gatherings or in high end restaurants the butter knife goes to the right and then the regular knife. On the left outer side the small salad fork and then the regular fork for eating your dinner. Remember: Work from the outside in towards your plate.
Because the American style developed according to the idea that rules of etiquette are more important than practicality. The European way is far more efficient and useful, and is the sensible way to eat with a knife and fork. This comes from an American.
Some cultures eat with their hands, some with chop sticks. Where knife and fork are used, it could be said, simply: that is just how things are. But, there is also more to it than that--
As to cultural origins, eating with utensils is, no doubt, an exercise in class distinction. Using utensils separates the people with (at least a modicum of) social standing (class) from those without. Among those having higher levels of social standing, wealth and class distinctions are further put on display by use of utensils made with varying degrees of crafted ornateness and of more or less content and value of precious metals.
Another reason -- and this reason also touches on the question as to why Asian emigrants to the west do not more readily, or in larger numbers, adopt utensils over chop sticks -- is that knife and fork are simply the most efficient solid-food eating implements over all alternatives (including chopsticks, including hands). Because efficiency (in contrast to oriental reverence for tradition and for one's elders) is and long has been regarded highly in the west, it is there that fork and knife are and have long since been the standard utensils for eating.
i am not are you? im sure you are not
yes i am
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probably because they are right handed and left handed Americans obviously would use their left hand.