Why do people swap which hand the fork is in while eating?

>>21488898 (OP)
Knife requires more dexterity. It's a great way to eat.

>>21488903
It’s just a cutting motion, your left hand can easily do it and the fork stays in the right hand

>>21488898 (OP)
‘People’ don’t.
Plebeians with no sense of etiquette do.
Get your elbows off the table as well you fat oaf.

>>21488898 (OP)
I'm ambidextrous and I just knife shit with my left hand. Nobody gives a shit even in the highest end of restaurants.

>>21488911
are you also female? women tend to enjoy talking about themselves at any given opportunity.

>>21488952
thx for gender affirming faggot

>>21488898 (OP)
Only amerigolems do this.

>>21488898 (OP)
Dominant hand for fine motor skills (cutting), non-dominant hand for gross motor skills (shoveling). No switching hands while eating.

>>21488898 (OP)
>>21489136
>tool use
Why do you need a fork? Monodextrous cattle can shovel slop with their hands.

>>21489089
esl too... how unfortunate

>>21488904
No it is not you absolute pleb. To eat correctly with fork and knife you press the food onto the fork with the knife. Never stab with fork or use it is a knife.

There is a special place in hell reserved for people who hold their knife like a pen.
Absolutely barbarous behaviour.

>>21489155
Lmao what

>>21489160
Why are there so many deranged posts on this board how the fuck can you possibly hold a knife like a pen? How do you cut with this grip?

>>21489217
some guy who said this has been trending on tiktok lately i guess. people were posting him on /wsg/.

>>21489217
>How do you cut with this grip?
You press the knife on the good you want to cut and move it forward and backward.

>>21488898 (OP)
It's only Americans who do, because they have the cutlery skills of a 5 year old

>>21489400
lol, yes. Unlike your knifey nation where everyone is great.

>those hands
It might vaguely resemble meat and eggs but I bet it tastes like dog shit.

>>21489122
>>21489400
Fun fact. During the Cold War, this was something reason personnel were told to look out for when trying to spot American spies, and it’s something American spies were told to avoid doing

>>21489400
>It's only Americans who do,
I've noticed this, it's like they were never taught how to use a knife and fork. Bizarre behaviour.

>>21490631
Nice fun factoid.

>>21489195
Yeah you cut small pieces and then press them on the fork. You can make really tasty bites very easily that way. Small piece of meat, a bit of the veg, spread some mashed potatoes on top of it all. Boom you got an aqesome bite all thabks to using a knife and fork correctly.

>>21488898 (OP)
It's an exclusively American thing, and Americans are uncultured retards.

>european peasants in 2025 still ape the nobility as if they'll spontaneously become them

Lmao some shit really never changes

>>21490749
>t. "temporarily embarrassed millionaire"

>>21489155
>not pounding your forkfist into the plate till it cracks and yelling "NAILED THAT SUCKER" everytime you take a bite
borderline homosex, I must say

>>21490652
It's how I was taught by my American mother. She had gone to an etiquette school or something when she was young. Old money from the South. She told me to always put down the knife (quietly on the edge of the plate) after cutting something and put my fork back into my right hand to eat the bite.

Under no circumstances were you ever to cut everything before hand, but each time you wanted a bite. It really slowed down eating, as dinner was supposed to be for polite conversation.

If you put your elbows on the table she'd smack you.

>>21489122
Im right handed and use the fork with the left hand, Ivan.

>>21490067
They might be British. Handling a butter knife gets you arrested there.

>>21490752
Not an argument

>>21488898 (OP)
‘People’ don’t.
Americans who are plebeians with no sense of etiquette do.
Get your elbows off the table as well you fat oaf.

>>21490742
Sounds completely unnecessary. The thing you cut doesn’t have to be pushed on the fork because you already stabbed it with the fork and then the mashed potato or whatever is pushed on

>>21489160
the index finger is what cuts the food, not the fist.

>>21490909
Kek we got a Fancy boy over here.

>>21490652
>>21488898 (OP)
>it's like they were never taught how to use a knife and fork
you switch hands when the knife gets involved because the knife is the more important utensil.
you're very odd thinkers for not instinctively knowing this.

>>21489217
You’re a fucking idiot, son.

>>21489217
let me guess.
you write by pushing your thumb instead of scribing with your index finger.

>>21491109
You’re a swine.

>>21491116
can't hear you over the not 1, but 2 spacecraft that have made it outside the solar system.

>>21491115
I clench crayons in my fist actually.
Sometimes I eat them.

>>21491119
>ackshually

>>21491109
>The fork always goes in the left hand and the knife in the right. Holding either like a pen is unacceptable, as are stabbing techniques. The knife and fork should remain in the bottom third of the plate and never be laid down in the top half.
General Cowan is correct.

>>21491118
Eh?

>>21490776
Yes, it's even worse than "not knowing", Americans for some reason do it completely arse backwards on purpose. I've heard the same that "proper" etiquette is to, like a spastic, put the knife down for every single bite and switch hands like an autistic child

>>21488898 (OP)
Why do you care?

The practice of using a fork in your left hand and knife in your right hand to cut your food and then swapping hands to hold the fork in your right hand to put it in your mouth actually originated in France. I guess the idea was that it forced you to eat more slowly and made dining more of a social occasion. During the 19th century, basically everything French was in vogue in the US. Even in old western saloons of the time, French cuisine was dominant everywhere. So we adopted this stupid idea from the frogs even though they were even getting sick of it themselves by that time and it just stuck around as part of our American etiquette for some reason. As an American, I just keep the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right hand through the meal. Nobody taught me one way or the other but that obviously makes the most fucking sense rather than juggling your silverware throughout your entire meal. My point is don't put this one on my fellow mutts because the French are the ones who came up with this nonsense in the first place.

>>21488898 (OP)
normal people don't do this.

>>21489122
I'm American, and I have never done this, nor had I heard about it until 2006.

>>21489155
this fucker dabs his pizza.

>>21490776
your mother was a twat. she sucks dick in the same way. great for gooning though.

>>21488898 (OP)
fork always in left hand, knife always in right hand. never ever invert the fork, that's how retards eat.

American here.

>>21490855
It's not about which hand you use you fucking retard, it's about how you pre-cut everything and then only use the fork anymore