Re: First report on Conm

From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
Subject: Re: First report on Conm


> Bizarrely, Americans still *place* the fork on the left side and the
> knife and spoon on the right, but we hold the fork in the right hand,
> *except* when also using the knife, in which case we switch the fork
> to the left hand, cut with the knife, put both down, and then pick up
> the fork in the right hand to eat.  It is very gauche (or European)
> to eat with the fork in the left hand (pun intentional).
Are you serious?  How could I have lived in America for 21 years and never
noticed this???  I use the fork with my left hand and the knife with my
right.  If I put them down, I put them down on the same sides.  Why would
people put the fork on the left if they use it on the right?  This sounds
bizarre.

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