Knives are out for British diners

[mrtrebus]

Sad news, although this may not be so relevant to my American cousins who eat in a rather bizarre way when compared to us brits!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul/21/knife-manners-etiquette-debenhams

 

[BlueBalls]

Are we? This is news to me :dunno:

I can see getting rid of the cup and saucer in favour of a mug because a cup and saucer is rather annoying to use, and quite poncey if you want my opinion.

 

[mrtrebus]

Are we? This is news to me :dunno:

I can see getting rid of the cup and saucer in favour of a mug because a cup and saucer is rather annoying to use, and quite poncey if you want my opinion.

:nono:
Where do you precariously perch your custard cream without a saucer?!?

 

[sproing99]

:nono:
Where do you precariously perch your custard cream without a saucer?!?

All biscuits are served on side plates with doilies in the Sproing household. They are then conveyed to the mouth without the need for intermediate staging crockery.

 

[BlueBalls]

:nono:
Where do you precariously perch your custard cream without a saucer?!?

You take a piece of kitchen roll, make a little well in your hand and then place as many as you can in there and once you're done, you can throw it away. No fuss, no muss

 

[mrtrebus]

No, you take a piece of kitchen roll, make a little well in your hand and then place as many as you can in there and once you're done, you can throw it away

One can only assume you are from The T'North?

 

[BlueBalls]

One can only assume you are from The T'North?

London

 

[mrtrebus]

London

Really?!? I shall inform the authorities of your behaviour & they shall march you to the great cities boundaries & banish you to parts unknown never to return!
Harumph! :hatsoff:

 

[BlueBalls]

Really?!? I shall inform the authorities of your behaviour & they shall march you to the great cities boundaries & banish you to parts unknown never to return!
Harumph! :hatsoff:

I'm probably just younger than you are .

But if I have to go, minidog can I crash with you?

 

[mongo18]

Americans use only forks and it pisses me off, especially when I sit down for dinner and my wife gives me just a fork and nothing else. What the fuck am I supposed to do, push the food onto my fork with my finger? You need some sort of backstop.

 

[Ainttalkinlove]

SPORK is the answer to all of our problems of course we still need the knife. but not just any knife we need a KNUIFE.

http://www.harrisoncustomknives.com/collectorknives/9 bowie 2.jpg

 

[Ceska]

Americans use only forks and it pisses me off, especially when I sit down for dinner and my wife gives me just a fork and nothing else. What the fuck am I supposed to do, push the food onto my fork with my finger? You need some sort of backstop.

Forks?
True red-blooded Americans eat using only the face, breathing when absolutely necessary.
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/uploads/image/stand_by_me_lardass_pie_eating.jpg

Sure, fancy pants (clever trousers) elites like David Hasselhoff use hands, but most Americans find such ostentatious displays to be pretentious and condescending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXJ5ZJODmM


Besides peas, what do you eat that is so mobile you need more than one utensil to corral it?

 

[mrtrebus]

Forks?
True red-blooded Americans eat using only the face, breathing when absolutely necessary.
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/uploads/image/stand_by_me_lardass_pie_eating.jpg

Sure, fancy pants (clever trousers) elites like David Hasselhoff use hands, but most Americans find such ostentatious displays to be pretentious and condescending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXJ5ZJODmM


Besides peas, what do you eat that is so mobile you need more than one utensil to corral it?

Manners maketh the man.
:hatsoff:

 

[DOA82]

Debenhams conducted the study eh? Did they stop to wonder that maybe people were only buying forks cause thats all they can afford from the place.

Just because sales are down does not mean the whole bloody country is switching their eating habits. Christ did they ever stop to think that people might just be buying their cutlery somewhere else?

Oh no people arent shopping at Debenhams! The recession must be worse than we realise! The world does not fucking revolve around debenhams, one of the last of the ageing department stores, like John Lewis who think their clientelle have right to look down on the rest of us cause wed rather shop somewhere cheaper to save a few pennies?

Fuck right off.

 

[mrtrebus]

Debenhams conducted the study eh? Did they stop to wonder that maybe people were only buying forks cause thats all they can afford from the place.

Just because sales are down does not mean the whole bloody country is switching their eating habits. Christ did they ever stop to think that people might just be buying their cutlery somewhere else?

Oh no people arent shopping at Debenhams! The recession must be worse than we realise! The world does not fucking revolve around debenhams, one of the last of the ageing department stores, like John Lewis who think their clientelle have right to look down on the rest of us cause wed rather shop somewhere cheaper to save a few pennies?

Fuck right off.

Debenhams is hardly fucking Harrods!?!?

 

[Riffy]

:nono:
Where do you precariously perch your custard cream without a saucer?!?

Surely to God the biscuits are just shovelled into the mouth directly from the packet, therefore obviating the need for such a device as a sideplate.. and it saves on washing-up too!!

 

[BlueBalls]

People do not buy their cutlery, they steal it from friends, relatives and restaurants.

:rofl:

 

[CunningLinguist]

Americans use only forks and it pisses me off, especially when I sit down for dinner and my wife gives me just a fork and nothing else. What the fuck am I supposed to do, push the food onto my fork with my finger? You need some sort of backstop.

Why are you pushing anything onto the fork in the first place? A fork works just as well as a spoon for scooping.

 

[mrtrebus]

Why are you pushing anything onto the fork in the first place? A fork works just as well as a spoon for scooping.

Yeh right! Try "scooping" soup with a fork!

 

[CunningLinguist]

Yeh right! Try "scooping" soup with a fork!

While I'm doing that, you should try pushing soup onto a fork and eating it that way. All the "backstops" in the world won't help you with that.