Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

Quoting Tristan <kesuari@...>:

> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 00:31, Iain E. Davis wrote:
> > > From: Tristan
> > > OTOH, we eat our
> > > spaghetti with a fork and soup spoon, that might count for
> > > something. And I would say that we might've had one in the
> >
> > Okay.. I have to know...what do you do with the spoon?
> >
> > Scoop up the leftover sauce?
>
> Well, that. But you can do that with a fork still. But the main use of
> the spoon is that you twirl the spaghetti around the fork (rather than
> cutting/breaking it up) and use the spoon as a base for the twirling,
> basically.
This is not unique to Australia;  I see it in restaurants in
America all the time. There is, AFAIK, no normative rule concerning
such use, though.

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