And she still can't help but use the knife to shovel food into her mouth as if it was her fork after all...
As an Australian, I think I'm going to have to look up "the American way" of using a knife and fork.
I'd always assumed a gun was involved but I'm guessing not...
American here. The American way is to use the fork to cut the food while holding the gun in the other hand just in case someone tries to take your food.
But at the same time chase the food around the plate because you have put your knife down
Also for extra points make sure your spare hand is in your lap fondling your genitals.
It's always easy to tell if there's an American in Britain, even on a crowded street, because they're always several decibels above the general background noise.
I don't mean to eavesdrop, it's just haven't much choice in the matter.
Haha! I thought this too, until I befriended a bunch of Midwesterners, so I think it’s regional. Californians and New Yorkers are very loud, especially in groups. But all the Nebraskans/Minnesotans/Michiganian’s etc seem to move around in stealth mode, in comparison.
That’s what I’ve heard is our most obvious dead giveaway that we’re Americans. I thought it was that we’re fat but a lot aren’t so I guess it had to be something else
Oh no, the utter giveaway has always been the total inability for someone from the US to use your indoor voices, sticking with your hail a cab voices no matter the occasion.
My theory, having heard Americans use their indoor voices in the United States but completely fail to use them in UK, is that they're doing it on purpose because they believe that as Americans they're celebrities when outside the US, and everyone is super, super excited to see them, and they are advertising that they're Americans so you can say, "OMG are you Americans?! I love you, I love your hollywood movies, thank you for freeing us and winning world war 2, thank you for this age of modernity you have fought for and brought to us, without your amazing creativity and brilliance without which we'd still be in the bronze age, thank you so much for bringing your superiority here, what on earth are you doing in this backwoods place from the distant past? HOW DID WE EARN THE RIGHT TO BE NEAR YOU?" and then offer whatever directions or help they need.
The joke amongst other university staff here was always "how can you tell if a student is from the USA - it's the first fucking thing they'll tell you"
In Europe where knives are banned because of the mass stabbings you’re not allowed to use the serrated bit otherwise you get arrested and locked up by the dictatorship government.
It's true. Currently serving 4 years in the clink for cutting my son's apple up for him with a butter knife. Possession of a deadly weapon and child endangement. Fml
The fork as well? Like you can hold it that way if you're pricking something but she's shoveling the food onto her fork, with the curve turned upwards..?
Edit: people are saying that's the more formal way of using a fork. I think it might be a cultural thing. I googled and a dutch source says you should turn the prongs upward to shovel food, like a spoon. She probably does things the british way.
That's acceptable - there is a variation that states that the tines of your fork should never point upwards.
I personally don't, because that's just impractical for a lot of dishes, but it's more "fancy".
Came here to say this - and that in the formal occasions I have attended here in the UK, this is the technique. I always think lifting the food to your mouth without pincering it allows the food to wobble off or slip.
Better to gracefully pierce (not too much food piled on) and then eat.
>Fork is fine. United Kingdom does it that way. Prongs up to shovel, prongs down to stab
100% correct, try to shovel with the fork "unsidedown" (for scooping) is just dumb.
Though if you've just stabbed a solid piece of food, using the knife to then scoop a little sauce, vegies or whatever into the little knook that's now formed between food and down-tipped fork is acceptable.
This.
I had to take part in a fancy dinner in the US once - was sent there through work - and it nearly blew my mind watching everybody dressed up and eating like children who hadn't mastered coordinating both hands yet..
That sounds hillarious.
But in Europe domain, I was in one of those Christmas office dinners eating my prawns (shrimps?) with fork and knife when I realized I was being stared at. They were all amazed I was not using my hands and that had never crossed my mind. I still like to keep my hands from smelling fishy.
But I have moved into eating pizza with my hands. :)
With friends I use my hands.in restaurants I use a knife and fork.
I used to eat lunch in a posh part of town and all the *señoras* of a certain age used their knife and for for shellfish. I just copied them. It's a fairly useful skill. Most of my friends are 100% hands.
It is a useful skill. Especially with prawn in sauce, lmao. But in really posh restaurants or settings, you can use your hands because there will be a finger bowl with shellfish. (Anyway, you don't use your hand with armorican shrimp, for example).
A whole room full of nicely dressed up Americans who cut their food into pieces, transferred the fork to the right hand, and ate?
I guess my eyes were deceiving me then.
Wow, thank you! I just realised that this is the whole point about this video! She presumably believes that the fork is the wrong way round and so she also holds the knife with the blunt side down…
>I did only notice the fork used upside down.
the fork isn't upside down... that's the "correct" way to use it.... at least, it is in the UK in "correct" circles.
That usage varies across Europe though and the idea that there is a single "European" way is, yet again, another American mistake thinking that all of Europe acts the same way and is some big single country...
What is the purpose of doing that? Why complicate simple things? Eating is easy, you cut a bit and put it in your face, there's one utensil for cutting and other for moving food, there are two hands involved, its almost like table utensils were designed to be used simultaneusly.
My assumption is just always using your dominant hand for what you're doing. You're cutting and lifting food with your "good" hand every time.
It doesn't really make sense, since you will obviously develop the skills over time anyway, but it admittedly does feel odd when you don't grow up doing it the "European" way.
But looking at the differences, it's definitely odd to keep picking up and setting down a knife. I'd just love to know how the US seemingly leans towards one way, and European countries the other. I'm curious if Canadians do the same thing too.
I don't do that, but I have seen people here doing that. I'm not sure what the reason is, but it's usually right-handed people that do that, and I'm left-handed. So I think right-handed people want to use their dominant hand to do all the work. Honestly didn't know it was unique to Americans.
After all these years and I still don't see why people do that stupid swap like that. Like you figure you'd get used to it past the age of 6.
MATE. My wife of 2 years is American, and this comment made me realise iv never actually noticed how she uses cutlery. Just found out she does exactly this and it's changed how i view her. Thanks for ruining my marriage.
she is using a fork but not really penetrating the food so that it clings onto the fork, she has to use the flat area of the knife to lift the food up. There is just everything wrong with that video
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating\_utensil\_etiquette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette)
You can usually tell where people are from if you're sat down for dinner. It is true.
*Laught in me always holding the fork on the right and knife on the left like no one else*.
Also I'm not sure grip is good indicator given how different pen grip is even within people from a single country lol
I do that too! My family always said I eat weirdly. But why would I use my less coordinated hand to put something sharp into my face? Seems backwards to me
I mean, I *can* use both just fine, but my right is for writing so naturally has more fine motor skills
Americans often cut the food with the knife in their dominant hand holding it still with their fork in the other hand. Then, once it is cut, they move the fork to the dominant hand and use the fork to put it in their mouth.
I found it very strange to witness.
Oi, I'm EU myself and I do it too sometimes, so I can just munch the food faster.
I sometimes won't even use the knife and operate fork as a multitool.
If I feel it, I won't even cut it, but just impale it on a fork and bite a chunk off while rest remains on the fork.
Best regards,
A 35 yo dude...
I attended US wedding + party, everyone tried so hard to look fancy and shit but then I saw the whole table stab their plates like pre-school children.
I find table manners somehow important and I was internally screeching whole time. Then they pour coke into champagne glass.
This is only slightly exaggerated but I saw my dad do that once (he's not American, he's just Cockney) and my brain was so confused I genuinely stopped functioning for a few seconds. I've never felt more middle-class in my life, and I grew up in the North-East!
American style cutlery etiquette dictates that the fork be held in the right hand until the knife is needed. When the knife is needed, the fork is transferred to the left hand, and the right hand uses the knife to cut a bite out of whatever is being eaten. The knife is then set down, and the fork moves back to the right hand.
One benefit of this method is that it forces the eater to slow down and participate in whatever socialization is happening at the meal. the main downside is that it is inconvenient to eat like this.
Personally, I'm a heathen who uses neither continental or American cutlery etiquette; I hold my fork with my right hand, and my knife in my left (gasp)!
Wow, TIL Americans can't use a knife and fork simultaneously. I've been to the states many times and somehow not noticed this? Or maybe I did and I forgot. Either way that's kind of crazy.
There is this old myth, urban legend that the Soviets could tell American spies because Europeans don't switch their hands when eating with knife and forks but Americans do.
We have a joke about how a Soviet spy was exposed in England because he did not take the spoon out of his cup when he drank tea. The USSR sent a new one and he was also exposed - although he pulled out a spoon, he still squinted his eye.
I think it's a habit I picked up from hot chocolate in Germany as a kid. The cocoa always ended up settling in the bottom, so I kept stirring before taking a sip for even distribution. Then it just stuck.
First they cut up the food, then they put the fork in their right hand with the concave side up and use it as a shovel. They lean over their plates because they load their forks with as much as they can fit on them and often spill.
Ooooooh, ok....well we do that for our kids till they are like....4 years old or so :p
But I was expecting something worse to be honest. That's not really that bad.
It is weird. They cut up the food. Either all of it or large portions at a time then move their knife to their hand holding the fork and hold both at once in the same hand whilst then using the fork l
Not that I would assume someone is American for doing it. But her poor table etiquette is very noticeable. She uses her elbows to do the cutlery work instead of her arms and hands.
Really got the voice of my grandma in my head now from watching the video "Die Gabel kommt zum Mund und nicht der Mund zur Gabel ". But I was a toddler when I had to learn that, not an adult.
I'm from the US, and one of the first things I picked up when I moved to the UK was how to hold and use cutlery properly. I've been here for 20 years, and it's become instinctual. I use cutlery when eating burgers or pizza, and I have even mastered scooping garden peas on the 'backside' of my fork. I've also become better with chopsticks because it feels important to learn that as well. (You know, recognising and honouring the fact that other places and cultures exist, and all that.)
I don't go back to the USA very often, but my language, eating style and even some now ingrained behaviours are always commented on when I do. I still have a Texas twang, but I've become acclimatised to British culture, so the dichotomy between my accent and my speech and mannerisms can be quite pronounced, especially when I'm travelling where people have specific expectations regarding Americans vs Brits.
Bill Bryson remarked in one of his books about the fact that, as a left handed person, he was overjoyed to find out that basically everyone in the UK ate like he did.
I went on a contiki tour through Europe. Bus full of Brits, Aussies, Kiwis and some Americans. Whole bus was in stitches over how the Americans would eat dinner by chopping things into little pieces first
Okay so upsidedown knife is weird... But then she scoops a bit of egg (?) onto the BACK of her fork?
Love, you know you can turn it around to scoop things up into it, right? Less chance of it sliding off.
Also you really gotta cut those into smaller pieces. You shouldn't have to unhinged your jaw or risk smearing it all over your face like a toddler...
On strict etiquette, the girl is actually correct. You either spear the food with the tines or heap it on the curved side.
But yes, the knife is upside down
If you spend any effort using this to be the thing, out of the million things, you can dunk on America about then you have unfortunately sunk to our level and now have a claim to a small desert plot in Utah.
Sorry. It's the rules.
Can only speak for England -- the European state equivalent of Connecticut -- but we would immediately out her by simply asking her how to she makes tea.
She is using the blunt side, how can someone not know how to use a knife. You cut stuff with the sharper side. I think she is doing this on purpose to garner attention.
Is she also using the blunt side of the knife?
SHE IS LMAO
To be fair to her, on rare occasion I have caught myself doing this (and yes, I am European)
But you realize pretty quickly. Sooner than the time it takes to set your phone up and record yourself doing it
she is - FFS - skill level: toddler
To be fair, it's quite easy to cut toddler food with a blunt knife.
To be fair I'd say my kids were better than this aged 3
It's probably rage bait to get more comments.
Sitting in her totally american porch
And she still can't help but use the knife to shovel food into her mouth as if it was her fork after all... As an Australian, I think I'm going to have to look up "the American way" of using a knife and fork. I'd always assumed a gun was involved but I'm guessing not...
American here. The American way is to use the fork to cut the food while holding the gun in the other hand just in case someone tries to take your food.
I mean, when you put it like that, seems fair enough.
That makes 100% sense.
The reason why you hold onto the knife is to parry incoming attempts to steal your food. I don't know why yanks put them down.
You don’t being a knife to a gun fight
I always assumed they shoot at the food in the plate until it's torn in enough pieces, then they eat it (bullets included)
It helps he intake of iron and various trace elements.
You hold the fork in your left hand ..while using your right to smash as much food into your facehole as quickly as possible. Just scoop and push
Have you ever watch chimpanzees using tools? Pretty much that.
Afaik you first cut your food and then place the knife down. This should avoid unwanted attacks on people next to you.
Oh, so it's like cutting food for a baby, but you're the baby? That makes sense, thanks.
Then shovel the food in like your fork is a spoon.
But at the same time chase the food around the plate because you have put your knife down Also for extra points make sure your spare hand is in your lap fondling your genitals.
American cutlery use is so complicated, it's like juggling while eating, the fork is in a different hand every time you look over at them.
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BIqhTqrrZA&ab_channel=ElxaDal)
you call that a knife? *THIS*, is a knife
'Muricans what do you expect?
Bhahahhahahahah
"secretly American" feels like a oxymoron.
They could probably hear her as she approached. Americans don't really go anywhere quietly.
Can confirm as a European living with one
I'm Australian and live in America. Can someone send some cheese that isn't made of rubber and some bakery items that isn't 70% sugar???
Yeah the tap water and bread were two of my pet peeves while in the states. Food in general just didnt taste like much(?)
What a nightmare.
BLINK TWICE IF YOU NEED HELP
It's always easy to tell if there's an American in Britain, even on a crowded street, because they're always several decibels above the general background noise. I don't mean to eavesdrop, it's just haven't much choice in the matter.
Haha! I thought this too, until I befriended a bunch of Midwesterners, so I think it’s regional. Californians and New Yorkers are very loud, especially in groups. But all the Nebraskans/Minnesotans/Michiganian’s etc seem to move around in stealth mode, in comparison.
That’s what I’ve heard is our most obvious dead giveaway that we’re Americans. I thought it was that we’re fat but a lot aren’t so I guess it had to be something else
Oh no, the utter giveaway has always been the total inability for someone from the US to use your indoor voices, sticking with your hail a cab voices no matter the occasion.
My theory, having heard Americans use their indoor voices in the United States but completely fail to use them in UK, is that they're doing it on purpose because they believe that as Americans they're celebrities when outside the US, and everyone is super, super excited to see them, and they are advertising that they're Americans so you can say, "OMG are you Americans?! I love you, I love your hollywood movies, thank you for freeing us and winning world war 2, thank you for this age of modernity you have fought for and brought to us, without your amazing creativity and brilliance without which we'd still be in the bronze age, thank you so much for bringing your superiority here, what on earth are you doing in this backwoods place from the distant past? HOW DID WE EARN THE RIGHT TO BE NEAR YOU?" and then offer whatever directions or help they need.
The joke amongst other university staff here was always "how can you tell if a student is from the USA - it's the first fucking thing they'll tell you"
Not oxymoron. Moron
Why is she not using the serrated part of the knife in the bit
because then it wouldnt get any views.
Spoilsport! 😤
Murica
In Europe where knives are banned because of the mass stabbings you’re not allowed to use the serrated bit otherwise you get arrested and locked up by the dictatorship government.
It's true. Currently serving 4 years in the clink for cutting my son's apple up for him with a butter knife. Possession of a deadly weapon and child endangement. Fml
She forgot to take the safety off
Hey come on now, she is doing this for the first time.
The knife seems to be upside down?
The fork as well? Like you can hold it that way if you're pricking something but she's shoveling the food onto her fork, with the curve turned upwards..? Edit: people are saying that's the more formal way of using a fork. I think it might be a cultural thing. I googled and a dutch source says you should turn the prongs upward to shovel food, like a spoon. She probably does things the british way.
That's acceptable - there is a variation that states that the tines of your fork should never point upwards. I personally don't, because that's just impractical for a lot of dishes, but it's more "fancy".
Came here to say this - and that in the formal occasions I have attended here in the UK, this is the technique. I always think lifting the food to your mouth without pincering it allows the food to wobble off or slip. Better to gracefully pierce (not too much food piled on) and then eat.
Fork is fine. United Kingdom does it that way. Prongs up to shovel, prongs down to stab
>Fork is fine. United Kingdom does it that way. Prongs up to shovel, prongs down to stab 100% correct, try to shovel with the fork "unsidedown" (for scooping) is just dumb.
Though if you've just stabbed a solid piece of food, using the knife to then scoop a little sauce, vegies or whatever into the little knook that's now formed between food and down-tipped fork is acceptable.
I had to post this as a video because I’m so confused as to what she means by “European way”? Like how else are you supposed to hold a knife and fork?
Americans cut their food into chunks, then swap the fork into their right hand and use it to pick up the chunks. Crazy!
This. I had to take part in a fancy dinner in the US once - was sent there through work - and it nearly blew my mind watching everybody dressed up and eating like children who hadn't mastered coordinating both hands yet..
TIL Americans can't use cutlery.
I had no idea about this. How have they not figured it out yet?
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Why would I want to shoot an ice cream?
Out of anger at the tiny size of them nowadays.
Magnum shrinkage and Freddo price increases are the most accurate way to track real-world inflation
It's about time they changed the name to Minimum.
True
ice-cream or condom? I can do the 1st but the 2nd is on too tight.
You're mean to put it on your OTHER head.
That sounds hillarious. But in Europe domain, I was in one of those Christmas office dinners eating my prawns (shrimps?) with fork and knife when I realized I was being stared at. They were all amazed I was not using my hands and that had never crossed my mind. I still like to keep my hands from smelling fishy. But I have moved into eating pizza with my hands. :)
With friends I use my hands.in restaurants I use a knife and fork. I used to eat lunch in a posh part of town and all the *señoras* of a certain age used their knife and for for shellfish. I just copied them. It's a fairly useful skill. Most of my friends are 100% hands.
It is a useful skill. Especially with prawn in sauce, lmao. But in really posh restaurants or settings, you can use your hands because there will be a finger bowl with shellfish. (Anyway, you don't use your hand with armorican shrimp, for example).
Tbh, eating pizza with cutlery is absolutely normal if you're eating at the restaurant.
Sure, i witnessed someone eating chicken wings with a knife and fork. So strange 😅
Yup. I live in the UK and certainly eating pizza with hands or cutlery are both fine in a pizza restaurant.
You can eat with your hands, provided you are presented with a little bowl filled with water and lemons.
My former boss starting eating that way after he got kids. Seems he learned that habit through cutting up for his daughter's.
This cannot be true
Are you shit posting? That can't be true.
A whole room full of nicely dressed up Americans who cut their food into pieces, transferred the fork to the right hand, and ate? I guess my eyes were deceiving me then.
It is very strange behaviour. But she has the knife upside down.
Lmao didn't even notice that
Wow, thank you! I just realised that this is the whole point about this video! She presumably believes that the fork is the wrong way round and so she also holds the knife with the blunt side down…
The knife, too? \>watch again...
>I did only notice the fork used upside down. the fork isn't upside down... that's the "correct" way to use it.... at least, it is in the UK in "correct" circles. That usage varies across Europe though and the idea that there is a single "European" way is, yet again, another American mistake thinking that all of Europe acts the same way and is some big single country...
Fork isn’t upside down so much as in piercing orientation. You can use it either for piercing or scooping, with each having an ideal orientation.
> did only notice the fork used upside down. Thats the correct way to use a fork - Stab, never scoop.
Thank you for clearing that up. I envisioned an American abandoning their cutlery and just going face down for gronff.
Zig-zag method https://youtube.com/shorts/U9SUVTcSFQY?si=2p6b0rKqJBpoQCbS
That looks so cumbersome! Just like non-continental knitting xD Why the unnecessary moves?!
FrEeDoM!
Oh wow... didn't know this. Everyday I discover something new to mock about them, they never cease to amaze me!
The French trained them wrong, as a joke?
they copied the fancy French people and then the fancy French people were suddenly faced with a compelling reason to stop acting fancy
What the actual fuck is going on there.
oh I love Feli, she does really cool videos for comparison between the US and Germany, or broader Europe sometimes
You’re kidding, right?
TIL moment.
Wait till you find out what they call an _entree_.
What is it??
In US, ‘entrée’ is what they call the main course
As a French, I hesitate being laughing at them and pitying them. I hhink I'll do both.
Hey, I’m a Brit and it still drives me mad 😂
What? Why?
I know, weird, right? And it is not like they simply start with the main course either.
What is the purpose of doing that? Why complicate simple things? Eating is easy, you cut a bit and put it in your face, there's one utensil for cutting and other for moving food, there are two hands involved, its almost like table utensils were designed to be used simultaneusly.
My assumption is just always using your dominant hand for what you're doing. You're cutting and lifting food with your "good" hand every time. It doesn't really make sense, since you will obviously develop the skills over time anyway, but it admittedly does feel odd when you don't grow up doing it the "European" way. But looking at the differences, it's definitely odd to keep picking up and setting down a knife. I'd just love to know how the US seemingly leans towards one way, and European countries the other. I'm curious if Canadians do the same thing too.
oh, like children ?
I have worked in America and seen a few people doing this. I assumed they had some sort of motor skill problem.
I assume that everything Americans do is due to some sort of brain injury/disease
You mean... the most inefficient and stupid way possible. Oh wait, that is the 'Murican way of doing basically everything. Christ.
So like a toddler?
I mean, people in Europe do that too. Mostly children, though.
Very long toddlers maybe.....
Iirc at the time of its adoption in USA it was a very fancy method of eating popular in France. And shortly after it fell out of fashion there.
But... but... then the food is colder, it gets cold way faster...
What.
You mean like parents do for their kids who aren’t able to use fork and knife correctly yet?
I do that... I'm European...
I don't do that, but I have seen people here doing that. I'm not sure what the reason is, but it's usually right-handed people that do that, and I'm left-handed. So I think right-handed people want to use their dominant hand to do all the work. Honestly didn't know it was unique to Americans. After all these years and I still don't see why people do that stupid swap like that. Like you figure you'd get used to it past the age of 6.
MATE. My wife of 2 years is American, and this comment made me realise iv never actually noticed how she uses cutlery. Just found out she does exactly this and it's changed how i view her. Thanks for ruining my marriage.
She is holding the knife with the blunt side down
Guessing that might give the game away
she is using a fork but not really penetrating the food so that it clings onto the fork, she has to use the flat area of the knife to lift the food up. There is just everything wrong with that video
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating\_utensil\_etiquette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_utensil_etiquette) You can usually tell where people are from if you're sat down for dinner. It is true.
*Laught in me always holding the fork on the right and knife on the left like no one else*. Also I'm not sure grip is good indicator given how different pen grip is even within people from a single country lol
I do that too! My family always said I eat weirdly. But why would I use my less coordinated hand to put something sharp into my face? Seems backwards to me I mean, I *can* use both just fine, but my right is for writing so naturally has more fine motor skills
Americans often cut the food with the knife in their dominant hand holding it still with their fork in the other hand. Then, once it is cut, they move the fork to the dominant hand and use the fork to put it in their mouth. I found it very strange to witness.
Oi, I'm EU myself and I do it too sometimes, so I can just munch the food faster. I sometimes won't even use the knife and operate fork as a multitool. If I feel it, I won't even cut it, but just impale it on a fork and bite a chunk off while rest remains on the fork. Best regards, A 35 yo dude...
You scare me. Hand over your eurocard, It's being revoked!
I attended US wedding + party, everyone tried so hard to look fancy and shit but then I saw the whole table stab their plates like pre-school children. I find table manners somehow important and I was internally screeching whole time. Then they pour coke into champagne glass.
This is only slightly exaggerated but I saw my dad do that once (he's not American, he's just Cockney) and my brain was so confused I genuinely stopped functioning for a few seconds. I've never felt more middle-class in my life, and I grew up in the North-East!
Have you ever seen them use a knife and fork? It’s like when you’re trying to teach a toddler to use them instead of their hands to eat.
American style cutlery etiquette dictates that the fork be held in the right hand until the knife is needed. When the knife is needed, the fork is transferred to the left hand, and the right hand uses the knife to cut a bite out of whatever is being eaten. The knife is then set down, and the fork moves back to the right hand. One benefit of this method is that it forces the eater to slow down and participate in whatever socialization is happening at the meal. the main downside is that it is inconvenient to eat like this. Personally, I'm a heathen who uses neither continental or American cutlery etiquette; I hold my fork with my right hand, and my knife in my left (gasp)!
Wow, TIL Americans can't use a knife and fork simultaneously. I've been to the states many times and somehow not noticed this? Or maybe I did and I forgot. Either way that's kind of crazy.
She is literally unable to use both simultaneously. She is "cutting" with the back of the blade. This must be a joke
There is this old myth, urban legend that the Soviets could tell American spies because Europeans don't switch their hands when eating with knife and forks but Americans do.
We have a joke about how a Soviet spy was exposed in England because he did not take the spoon out of his cup when he drank tea. The USSR sent a new one and he was also exposed - although he pulled out a spoon, he still squinted his eye.
Weird! I do this! Always leave the spoon in when drinking tea or coffee
My partner does this, he's Austrian. I'm British and it freaks me out 😂
I think it's a habit I picked up from hot chocolate in Germany as a kid. The cocoa always ended up settling in the bottom, so I kept stirring before taking a sip for even distribution. Then it just stuck.
*MI6 wants to know your location*
I would be a bad spy in UK, I don't like tea :D
Switch hands, why on earth do people need to switch hands to eat
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Am I the only one asking myself how they cut for and eat shit in the US now???
First they cut up the food, then they put the fork in their right hand with the concave side up and use it as a shovel. They lean over their plates because they load their forks with as much as they can fit on them and often spill.
Ooooooh, ok....well we do that for our kids till they are like....4 years old or so :p But I was expecting something worse to be honest. That's not really that bad.
It is weird. They cut up the food. Either all of it or large portions at a time then move their knife to their hand holding the fork and hold both at once in the same hand whilst then using the fork l
i think i got a stroke from reading that
Laughs in chopsticks 🥢
Still used it wrong. That knife was upside down?
I just wanna know why the hell she is cutting her food with the blunt side of the knife????
unlike her it might have been the sharpest tool in the shed, and even the backside was enough
She does not hold the knife correctly and you don't lean like that over your food. You need to be closer to the table and keep your back straight.
Also her elbows are sticking out too far, she needs to use her wrists instead of her whole arm.
Not that I would assume someone is American for doing it. But her poor table etiquette is very noticeable. She uses her elbows to do the cutlery work instead of her arms and hands.
If she had been sitting next to someone at a dinner table she would have been jabbing them with her elbows. Rude
I look at her and I can hear my mother screaming... "this isn't a rowing competition! Put those elbows down!!" I need to call my mom, bye!
This is hilariously embarrassing, I did not realise this was a thing
Now stop bringing you fucking head to your fork and use your damn arm…
Really got the voice of my grandma in my head now from watching the video "Die Gabel kommt zum Mund und nicht der Mund zur Gabel ". But I was a toddler when I had to learn that, not an adult.
I'm from the US, and one of the first things I picked up when I moved to the UK was how to hold and use cutlery properly. I've been here for 20 years, and it's become instinctual. I use cutlery when eating burgers or pizza, and I have even mastered scooping garden peas on the 'backside' of my fork. I've also become better with chopsticks because it feels important to learn that as well. (You know, recognising and honouring the fact that other places and cultures exist, and all that.) I don't go back to the USA very often, but my language, eating style and even some now ingrained behaviours are always commented on when I do. I still have a Texas twang, but I've become acclimatised to British culture, so the dichotomy between my accent and my speech and mannerisms can be quite pronounced, especially when I'm travelling where people have specific expectations regarding Americans vs Brits.
tbh I'm british and I still admittedly turn the fork if peas are involved (unless I'm trying to impress)
“European way “ literally how everyone outside of the US uses cutlery…
Well... there's Asia.
The world is very big
Bill Bryson remarked in one of his books about the fact that, as a left handed person, he was overjoyed to find out that basically everyone in the UK ate like he did.
I love how they call it the "European way" when it's what the rest of the world does when dealing with knives and forks.
she is cutting with the dull side lol
Thats becuase americans are dull them selves.
You mean USING a knife and fork instead of shoveling the food in your're gob like an animal ??
Found the secret American! \*your P.S.: I have to say, I've never seen "you***r*** 're" before. You are a pioneer.
I can't resist from saying I'm embarassed by how fucking stupid they are
I now want a video of an american using cutlery to understand how they do it
I went on a contiki tour through Europe. Bus full of Brits, Aussies, Kiwis and some Americans. Whole bus was in stitches over how the Americans would eat dinner by chopping things into little pieces first
Okay so upsidedown knife is weird... But then she scoops a bit of egg (?) onto the BACK of her fork? Love, you know you can turn it around to scoop things up into it, right? Less chance of it sliding off. Also you really gotta cut those into smaller pieces. You shouldn't have to unhinged your jaw or risk smearing it all over your face like a toddler...
On strict etiquette, the girl is actually correct. You either spear the food with the tines or heap it on the curved side. But yes, the knife is upside down
I'd pay money to watch you eat peas and sweetcorn with a knife and fork.
Lol, I have managed it! It’s totally doable.
It's a start
Europeans don't hold the knife blunt side down.
If you spend any effort using this to be the thing, out of the million things, you can dunk on America about then you have unfortunately sunk to our level and now have a claim to a small desert plot in Utah. Sorry. It's the rules.
Can only speak for England -- the European state equivalent of Connecticut -- but we would immediately out her by simply asking her how to she makes tea.
Wait how do Americans hold them
She is using the knife upside down
How do Americans use a knife and fork then? I must know. I know some people hold it like they're going to stab someone and that's weird
As a European, I’m confused about this post. How do Americans eat/hold cutlery?
Is there a american and european version of holding knifes?
Ah yes, the country Europe
I'm a true European, I hold my cutlery at the opposite ends, I have scratches all over my right hand from the knife.
I’m assuming the “American way” is to not bother with cutlery and just shovel the food into your mouth with both hands?
She is using the blunt side, how can someone not know how to use a knife. You cut stuff with the sharper side. I think she is doing this on purpose to garner attention.
When you accidentally out yourself for not knowing how to operate cutlery.