Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

RM = Roger Mills
CG = Christophe Grandsire

RM> Warning:  on my first trip to Italy, I was taken to task (granted, by
RM> another American, but he'd been there longer) for using the spoon---
RM> "That's strictly peasant-style!!"

CG> Peasant-style?!!!! Etiquette (the kind of things you have to follow when
CG> you're at the same table as a crowned head for instance) makes the use of
CG> the spoon with spaghetti *mandatory*!!! So there's nothing peasant-style in
CG> it!

Diff'rent strokes for different folks.  I prefer to use the spoon,
but sometimes There Is No Spoon.  Either way, I'm certainly not
judgemental about what other folks do.  Well, okay, that's not quite
true - my father doesn't twirl his spaghetti at all, but rather
cuts it up into bits that are small enough to be eaten sans twirling.
That has always made me cringe. :)

-Mark