En réponse à Roger Mills :
>Warning: on my first trip to Italy, I was taken to task (granted, by
>another American, but he'd been there longer) for using the spoon---
>"That's strictly peasant-style!!"
Peasant-style?!!!! Etiquette (the kind of things you have to follow when
you're at the same table as a crowned head for instance) makes the use of
the spoon with spaghetti *mandatory*!!! So there's nothing peasant-style in it!
> Still, it's faster, more efficient, and a
>little less messy than trying to wind noodles up with fork alone :-))
Indeed! And cutting spaghetti is just plain sacrilege! ;))))
>And you use bread to sop up the extra sauce....yum.
On the other hand, etiquette says that you *mustn't* sop up the sauce in
any way. What's left of the sauce in the plate stays in the plate. Doesn't
prevent me from doing it though ;)))) . I don't know etiquette to use it
constantly, only to use it if the occasion comes where it's better to
behave according to the rules ;))) .
Christophe Grandsire.
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