Eating food off your knife

YurOK2

K4t wrote: »

It's not bad table manners though - it's sensible and practical if anything. You hate it because it's different and because you've been brought up to believe it breaks a table etiquette you've been taught.

It is bad table manners.

Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

TheLastMohican wrote: »

Can you two paragons of etiquette explain why licking a knife at the table is out of bounds?
Surely the point of dining is conveying food to your mouth.
It's a bit like people saying that certain four-lettered words are "bad". WTF! I mean, four letters from an alphabet of twenty-six. You can say phty and it's OK but heaven forbid **** or ****. Pathetic ********.

Can we see the dessert menu please?

If you don't see it as poor manners then I would be wasting my time trying to explain it.
As for swearing: who said anything about that?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Ooh a table? No recession in that fiefdom.

What recession? The last one I experienced was in the mid 80s.

K4t

YurOK2 wrote: »

It is bad table manners. Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

It's behaviour borne out of pretentious wannabee aristocratic idolisation. You think eating off a knife is disgusting because you've been conditioned to do so.

Rough Sleeper

YurOK2 wrote: »

It is bad table manners.

Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

It's probably my poor breeding that's led me to think like this, but in my uncultured view, looking down on someone else for placing in their mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining is more indicative of poor character than the simple act of placing in one's mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining .

Had dinner with American family today; forks in the right hand and all that. It's always a good experience for highlighting the inherent absurdity of so-called table etiquette.

Ruu

Candie wrote: »

Not with a table knife though, has to be a penknife.

Slice it with a sword is the only way.

tomwaterford

K4t wrote: »

It's behaviour borne out of pretentious wannabee aristocratic idolisation. You think eating off a knife is disgusting because you've been conditioned to do so.

Would ya not be afraid you'd cut your tongue??

FishOnABike

topper75 wrote: »

Remember - it's not so long since people used knives and knives only at the table.

“We need no forks to make hay with our mouths, to throw our meat into them,” poet Nicholas Breton in 1618

K4t

tomwaterford wrote: »

Would ya not be afraid you'd cut your tongue??

No - just as I'm not afraid I'd poke my tongue/mouth/gums with the prongs of my fork.

tomwaterford

K4t wrote: »

No - just as I'm not afraid I'd poke my tongue/mouth/gums with the prongs of my fork.

Spoon is where it's at :pac:
I taught ye meant like a steakknife...(my relative used be a butcher and there's a stupid edge in knifes here)

jimgoose

It's true for Brendan Behan - it 'twas raining soup, we'd be out with forks.

sligojoek

The good lord gave us fingers before he gave us forks.

sligojoek

sligojoek wrote: »

The good lord gave us fingers before he gave us forks.

We also had leaves before we had toilet paper, but we're not going back to that.

Katgurl

Gross

catallus

Candie wrote: »

We also had leaves before we had toilet paper, but we're not going back to that.

Actually, using leaves as a natural substitute for bog-roll is one of the many possibilities forwarded by the UN as part of their sustainability plans.

Or one could just use one's hand/finger, like they do in poorer parts of the world.

And yet we revel in our wastefulness.....

Day Lewin

We also had leaves before we had toilet paper, but we're not going back to that.

Why not? Bio-degradable, minimal carbon footprint, sustainable, renewable. I'm voting for the leaf arse-wipe and the edible spoon.

catallus

catallus wrote: »

And yet we revel in our wastefulness.....

You can revel in your wastefulness, I'll be revelling in my supplies of TP.

NachoBusiness

Do it all the time. First I eat slices of corned beef off her breasts and then..

..oh wait, sorry OP, my bad, I went swimming early you see and still have a little water in my ears and so when I read your thread title I thought you said: 'Eating food off your wife'.

catallus

Candie wrote: »

You can revel in your wastefulness, I'll be revelling in my supplies of TP.

Won't you think of the children?

catallus

catallus wrote: »

Won't you think of the children?

No. I don't care how 'green' it is, I just refuse to wipe with kids. I'm happy with paper.

catallus

Candie wrote: »

No. I don't care how 'green' it is, I just refuse to wipe with kids. I'm happy with paper.

Ok, you win that one.

We're venturing onto dangerous ground here, I was told not to post about toilet-stuff anymore, so I shall respectfully bow out of this conversation.

JONJO THE MISER

YurOK2 wrote: »

I hate seeing people eating food off their knife or licking their knife. It is very bad table manners.

Oooh la la, ive been know to lick the plate clean after a good stew in a pub.

Eugene Norman

K4t wrote: »

It doesn't upset me in the slightest - it's different but only wrong in your head; and you should ask yourself why it upsets you.

Cut tongue not even once.

A friend of mine drove a car and died.

Fake story.

It's not bad table manners though - it's sensible and practical if anything. You hate it because it's different and because you've been brought up to believe it breaks a table etiquette you've been taught.

Look. Much table etiquette is nonsense. Like not swapping the fork in the UK bring polite, while the opposite is true in the U.S. And to hell with fish knifes, and those knives meant for buttering only. Death to that sh1te.

But putting a knife in your mouth is clearly more dangerous than a fork.

It's also more awkward. The prongs on the fork are going to be more useful by design and delivering pieces of meat or rice is just easier.

I am all for eschewing etiquette for ease. On my own I eat rissotto with a large spoon. But that's less awkward than a fork and a knife is always more awkward ( and dangerous) than a fork.

Sometimes The Man is right.

sligojoek

Candie wrote: »

We also had leaves before we had toilet paper, but we're not going back to that.

Too slippery. I prefer rabbits. much better traction.

NachoBusiness

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Oooh la la, ive been know to lick the plate clean after a good stew in a pub.

You should start a blog / website called ThePlateLicker.com

Go round reviewing cafes and restaurants and taking photos of how much food is left on the plate when you've finished. Highest compliment you could pay an establishment would obviously be a photo of a licked plate. Eventually leading to your site becoming so prestigious that you begin sending out Licked Plate awards which are then hung on the walls outside restaurants even taking presidence over Michelin stars. Best of luck. Don't forget us when your famous.

Day Lewin

@Eugene Norman
Hurray for the spoon! I salute a fellow Spoonist!

verywell

You need to stick your tongue out if you use a knife like that.

Eww, who wants to see someone's tongue sticking out and then licking a knife!

Gross

al22

Read somewhere -
Our ancestors used hands only...

Rawr

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Canteen in work has run out of clean knives a few times, so i used a spoon as a knife. Simpsons quotes can go to hell; it works.

I see you've played Knifey-Spoony before.

pwurple

Table manners are all based in common sense and not inconveniencing your companions.

Elbows on table? Pain in the arse if you are at a crowded table, it takes room from others, and make it more awkward for people to see you, make eye contact and talk to you.

Knife in gob? I know my eldest child cut her lip doing that, so it's obviously to stop making people repair sliced lips while they are having their dinner.

galljga1

katemarch wrote: »

Why not? Bio-degradable, minimal carbon footprint, sustainable, renewable. I'm voting for the leaf arse-wipe and the edible spoon.

Don't get those two mixed up.

YurOK2

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

It's probably my poor breeding that's led me to think like this, but in my uncultured view, looking down on someone else for placing in their mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining is more indicative of poor character than the simple act of placing in one's mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining .

Had dinner with American family today; forks in the right hand and all that. It's always a good experience for highlighting the inherent absurdity of so-called table etiquette.

Ah well, don't sweat it.

OneOfThem

K4t wrote: »

But do you only hate seeing it because it's bad table manners? Objectively, what is the big difference between placing a fork and a knife into your mouth? Why does it produce such a strong emotion in you to see someone eating from their knife - how does it really affect you or anybody else in any way except inside your head full of preconceived notions of normality?

Some people are just straight up pansies, basically.

Genghiz Cohen

K4t wrote: »

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

Very disappointed this wasn't the first reply.

bnt

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.

(poem by anonymous)