Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:
> 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).
This right-handed European would consider using the fork with your right hand
to be a left-handed thing to do, _even_ if you ate with only a fork.
Andreas