How do you usually eat?

[Josquius]

I was eating with some Americans a few days back and I was surprised to find they were surprised when I complained there were no knives- apparently in America its the done thing to just eat with a fork. Which to me just sounds....wrong.
So I wonder...how do folk here normally eat?
Of course, it varies from meal to meal to a degree, but the majority of your meals?


edit- just researched this myself. Continental style is apparently what is normal to me, knife and fork in different hands and eating with it like so, American style is just picking up the knife when you need it.

[Eddie Teach]

Depends on how you define meals. American style for cooked dinners, hands for the majority of the food I ingest.

[Razgovory]

I have on good authority that you can get drummed out of the RCMP by eating peas with a knife.

[Monoriu]

At home?  A combination of chopsticks, fork, knife, and spoon, depending on what the wife cooks. 

[dps]

There's no option in the poll for just burying your face in the plate and slurping the food directly into your mouth. 

Seriously, knife and fork.  But, as Peter Wiggin noted, it depends on what you're eating.  No need for any utensils if you're having a burger and fries.  A full meal, you need all the traditional utensils.

[Ideologue]

I don't know what kind of Americans you met.  We use knives for items which require knives.  I don't use a knife much anymore, though, because most items which require knives are meat--but I certainly used a knife to eat steaks, grilled chicken, etc.  If you were using a knife to eat spaghetti, I guess that would draw weird looks.

Most of the food I eat is finger food, I guess.

P.S. the mindset that makes chopsticks acceptable is the mindset that has made every confrontation between Asian countries and the United States a ten-to-one casualty affair.

[Martinus]

Uhm, it depends on the meal? 

I eat soup with a spoon, a steak with a fork and a knife, asparagus and chicken with my hands, cake with a fork, fish preferably with a spatula and a fork (or, if a spatula is not availanle, two forks) and sushi with chopsticks. 

[Razgovory]

Eating soup with fork takes a long time.

[Caliga]

I like to eat rice with chopsticks.  White dudes are often impressed that I can do that.

[Razgovory]

I like to eat rice with chopsticks.  White dudes are often impressed that I can do that.

Now Marty is going to struggle with learning how to eat with chop sticks.  He'll probably poke an eye out in the process.

[Eddie Teach]

Now Marty is going to struggle with learning how to eat with chop sticks.  He'll probably poke an eye out in the process.

Posted by: Martinus
Uhm, it depends on the meal? 

I eat soup with a spoon, a steak with a fork and a knife, asparagus and chicken with my hands, cake with a fork, fish preferably with a spatula and a fork (or, if a spatula is not availanle, two forks) and sushi with chopsticks

[Ideologue]

Nigiri sushi's a finger food.

[Slargos]

I like to eat rice with chopsticks.  White dudes are often impressed that I can do that.

Today was the first time I successfully gobbled up a whole chicken stew with rice using only the chopsticks. Pretty satisfied with myself.

As for the question, in which I presume he's wondering FOR THE MEALS WHERE YOU EXPECT TO USE A KNIFE AND FORK YOU FUCKING DUMBASSES I usually work with the knife throughout the meal. I only put the knife down if I'm feeling particularly lazy. It's simply not polite.

[Razgovory]

Now Marty is going to struggle with learning how to eat with chop sticks.  He'll probably poke an eye out in the process.

Posted by: Martinus
Uhm, it depends on the meal? 

I eat soup with a spoon, a steak with a fork and a knife, asparagus and chicken with my hands, cake with a fork, fish preferably with a spatula and a fork (or, if a spatula is not availanle, two forks) and sushi with chopsticks

He's lying.  He can't do anything competently.

[Gups]

If I'm eating someting which doesn't require a knife (e.g a stew), I don't use a knife and I use my right hand for the fork.

Thought everyone was the same.