The New American Politics thread

[nik-]

I mean is there really cutlery etiquette for when one is eating a taco bowl?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by nik-

I mean is there really cutlery etiquette for when one is eating a taco bowl?

Talk about your childhood wishes
You can even eat the dishes

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

Not where I grew up but the thing is he mocked Kasich's eating habits so he's fair game.

I didn't know he did that. I try to notice Trump as little as possible.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

He's got his fork in the wrong hand.

It's a weird east coast thing where people swap the fork back and forth from left to right hand. They have it in the left when holding both fork/knife, but then swap the fork to their right (and putting the knife down) to use it for eating. And then swap back again.

My wife does this...the inefficiency drives me crazy.

[OffsideSpecialist]

Haha, I had no idea people ate with the fork in their left hand.

[troutman]

Switching fork hands is inefficient?


“I’ll tell you what I like about Chinese people … They’re hanging in there with the chopsticks, aren’t they? You know they’ve seen the fork. They’re staying with the sticks. I’m impressed by that". - Jerry S.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Table 5

It's a weird east coast thing where people swap the fork back and forth from left to right hand.

I'm not sure it's an east coast thing. I do it and I have no east coast connection.

[photon]

I do it if I don't otherwise think about not doing it, and have never lived further east than Saskabush.

[Table 5]

Sorry, miswrote that a bit. Its not necessarily just east coast, but I know it's pretty prevalent there (or at least more than I've noticed here) and something an east coast guy like Trump would probably do.

[Wormius]

The knife goes with the hand that can properly wield it. Non-dominant hand knifery is asking for trouble.

[Ducay]

Fork goes in the right unless a knife is present, then it goes in the left so you can execute scalpel like precision on cutting your Salisbury steak.

Or taco bowl.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Wormius

The knife goes with the hand that can properly wield it. Non-dominant hand knifery is asking for trouble.

I use my knife in my non-dominant hand. It's a miracle I haven't severed my jugular.

[#22]

Originally Posted by Wormius

The knife goes with the hand that can properly wield it. Non-dominant hand knifery is asking for trouble.

As a leftie growing up in Europe, I was trained in the art. Fork in the left, knife in the right. Always hold on to both utensils while eating, unless pausing for a drink

[Wormius]

I guess I meant more a problem for us people who are accustomed to using the right hand to cut with. I didn't mean, inadvertently slicing your jugular, just a clumsier experience with when trying to hold something down and cutting it with the opposite hands that you usually use for that. If I were using some tool, and needed to hold a workpiece down, then I would hold it with my left hand, and screw/saw/sand/hammer with my right.

[nik-]

personally I find that it's the hand holding the utensil that requires the dexterity, not so much the one simply sliding back and forth with the knife in it

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by #22

As a leftie growing up in Europe, I was trained in the art. Fork in the left, knife in the right. Always hold on to both utensils while eating, unless pausing for a drink

My mother ran a bed and breakfast outside Worcester in the UK, she could barely contain her contempt for Americans who would cut their food into chunks at the beginning of the meal then eat it with a fork like a toddler, she'd be in the kitchen loudly asking if we should call,their mummy's to cut their food up for them, the volume tended to increase with the amount of claret shed drunk, fortunately most of the Americans thought it was all some quaint faulty towers thing and loved it.

[Senator Clay Davis]

That taco bowl thing is truly some ace level trolling. Say what you will about Biff, but my goodness is his troll game strong. That would be why the crazy part of me wants to see what he would do in international relations, or what a UN speech would sound like.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

My mother ran a bed and breakfast outside Worcester in the UK, she could barely contain her contempt for Americans who would cut their food into chunks at the beginning of the meal then eat it with a fork like a toddler, she'd be in the kitchen loudly asking if we should call,their mummy's to cut their food up for them, the volume tended to increase with the amount of claret shed drunk, fortunately most of the Americans thought it was all some quaint faulty towers thing and loved it.

She couldn't just tut them and whisper under her breath?

[Itse]

Clintons emails now on WikiLeaks.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Itse

Clintons emails now on WikiLeaks.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/

Anything inditey in there?