Eating food off your knife

K4t

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

Menas

Thanks for sharing!

Timberrrrrrrr

K4t wrote: »

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

Pffffff stabbing a big mac with a knife and eating it is not considered fine dining.

MsGiggles

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Pffffff stabbing a big mac with a knife and eating it is not considered fine dining.

We don't do fine dining round these parts !!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Very poor table manners there.

MsGiggles

I'll eat with my fingers in future !

K4t

Axel Panicky Snorer wrote: »

Very poor practical table manners there.

Indeed.

Mr. CooL ICE

Canteen in work has run out of clean knives a few times, so i used a spoon as a knife. Simpsons quotes can go to hell; it works.

YurOK2

I hate seeing people eating food off their knife or licking their knife. It is very bad table manners.

dodderangler

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Pffffff stabbing a big mac with a knife and eating it is not considered fine dining.

Eh since when is eating in macdonalds considered fine dining?

K4t

YurOK2 wrote: »

I hate seeing people eating food off their knife or licking their knife. It is very bad table manners.

But do you only hate seeing it because it's bad table manners? Objectively, what is the big difference between placing a fork and a knife into your mouth? Why does it produce such a strong emotion in you to see someone eating from their knife - how does it really affect you or anybody else in any way except inside your head full of preconceived notions of normality?

frostyjacks

If I'm in a restaurant, I like to lick my steak knife. I try and catch the eye of a woman on another table, then lick the pepper sauce very slowly off the serrated edge. It drives them absolutely wild, so it does.

crockholm

There is a sort of decorum about it.....if you have been working hard and a plate of bacon,cabbage,turnips and schpuds are put up in front of you at home,it's aok to use the knife and eat from the back of the tines of your fork,as is talking as you slurp down a pint of cold milk.

If you are at a fancy french restaurant and eating terrine de canard or escalope cordon bleu,perhaps it is better to act more formally....decorum,ya know.

The Backwards Man

It's a damn good day you have something on the knife to lick off. Be grateful.

The Dogs Bollix

frostyjacks wrote: »

If I'm in a restaurant, I like to lick my steak knife. I try and catch the eye of a woman on another table, then lick the pepper sauce very slowly off the serrated edge. It drives them absolutely wild, so it does.

Ohh frostyjacks stop teasing

Gran Hermano

frostyjacks wrote: »

If I'm in a restaurant, I like to lick my steak knife. I try and catch the eye of a woman on another table, then lick the pepper sauce very slowly off the serrated edge. It drives them absolutely wild, so it does.

Graham, is that you?

yeppydeppy

How terribly common!

r93kaey5p2izun

K4t wrote: »

But do you only hate seeing it because it's bad table manners? Objectively, what is the big difference between placing a fork and a knife into your mouth? Why does it produce such a strong emotion in you to see someone eating from their knife - how does it really affect you or anybody else in any way except inside your head full of preconceived notions of normality?

I agree but the same can be said about lots of things. I mean, people going out in public in pyjamas affects nobody else but the reality is that it's something that seems to upset lots of people because it's "wrong". That's the way of the world - see the thread about being snobby for how petty many people are.

Personally, it's not something I'd do but I wouldn't care at all if someone else did. I wouldn't do it in public because it's considered poor manners and I wouldn't do it in private because it just doesn't seem necessary or to add any advantage. It's just as easy to do it properly imo.

Boskowski

K4t wrote: »

But do you only hate seeing it because it's bad table manners? Objectively, what is the big difference between placing a fork and a knife into your mouth? Why does it produce such a strong emotion in you to see someone eating from their knife - how does it really affect you or anybody else in any way except inside your head full of preconceived notions of normality?

I'll talk to you again about 'what's the difference' when you're after cuttin your tongue.

brevity

The only time you can eat food with your knife is if you are cutting an apple.

Use the fork, that's what it's there for.

NachoBusiness

YurOK2 wrote: »

I hate seeing people eating food off their knife or licking their knife. It is very bad table manners.

What if there's no table?

In old cowboy and western movies, cowboys are always seen standing at campfires slicing peices of meet off a roast, eating it from the knife and then we hear gunfire in the distance, they toss away the food they haven't eaten, re-holster their knife, jump on their horse and save the day. Sexy of anything.

Sometimes I like to peel a apple with a knife and pretend I'm John Wayne.

wendell borton

That's not a knife.......this is a knife.

biko

I do it sometimes but it not good table manners.

#justculchiethings

Kovu

But the fork leaks!

walkingshadow

I prefer to eat all my food off the belly of a naked woman.

Triangla

K4t wrote: »

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

A friend of mine did that and died.

True story.

Arbiter of Good Taste

And do you then go and stick the knife in the butter OP?

Disgusting table manners

Overheal

Do you want to know how I got these scars?

Ruu

What kind of a barbarian are you?!?! :mad:

YurOK2

K4t wrote: »

But do you only hate seeing it because it's bad table manners? Objectively, what is the big difference between placing a fork and a knife into your mouth? Why does it produce such a strong emotion in you to see someone eating from their knife - how does it really affect you or anybody else in any way except inside your head full of preconceived notions of normality?

I hate it because it's bad table manners and because I think there's something "off" about how it looks. It just looks a bit wild or something.

And you could say "how does it really affect you" about anything in the world. Sure why don't we all just tie nosebags around our necks and do away with cutlery and crockery altogether.

Corvo

The only cool way to eat an apple is with a knife.

.Henry Sellers.

I eat my apples with a spoon.

Yellowblackbird

A knife is really a gateway object for progressive slavering.
The knife licker will quickly progress to licking people who are asleep and random bathroom surfaces.

lertsnim

I would have no problem with eating off a knife. I would feel sorry for anybody that would be put out by something like it. I can imagine you being put out or offended by almost anything.

topper75

Shepherd Incalculable Actor wrote: »

... it's considered poor manners and ...

Interesting passive voice. Considered by who exactly? It's not law. It's just a subjective thing and brings offence only through the eyes of the offended.

Most of this stuff dates from an age where people thought royalty to be divine and held the monarch's preferences and mannerisms as some kind of sacrosanct behaviour to be aped by all. In 2015, "table manners" should only be limited to ensuring that you don't do anything to directly spoil the meal of your fellow diners surely.

Remember - it's not so long since people used knives and knives only at the table.

For interesting background read, get Bill Bryson's At Home.

K4t

K4t wrote: »

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

Now we can never be friends.

Junkyard Tom

Axel Panicky Snorer wrote: »

Very poor table manners there.

Ooh a table? No recession in that fiefdom.

Plazaman

K4t wrote: »

The same way as you would with your fork. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I do it at home and in restaurants. So should you.

I shudder in restaurants when I see people licking their knife. Worser still when I saw an auld farmer codger with silage stained wellies do it and him in for the Sunday roast with the toothless wife (also a knife licker). I have not gone back to that restaurant since as no amount of dishwashing of said knives would belie the fact that I might get that said same knife for my next meal.

They'd have to open a new box of knives in front of me before I'd be convinced to go back (I suppose I could just bring my own but no).

topper75

Silage would want to be fierce powerful to stain rubber! LOL

I don't think this whole restaurant or eating with others thing is for you.

Corvo

Corvo wrote: »

The only cool way to eat an apple is with a knife.

Not with a table knife though, has to be a penknife.

Plazaman

Plazaman wrote: »

I shudder in restaurants when I see people licking their knife. Worser still when I saw an auld farmer codger with silage stained wellies do it and him in for the Sunday roast with the toothless wife (also a knife licker). I have not gone back to that restaurant since as no amount of dishwashing of said knives would belie the fact that I might get that said same knife for my next meal.

They'd have to open a new box of knives in front of me before I'd be convinced to go back (I suppose I could just bring my own but no).

But you'd use the fork she used to scratch her hole? Ya animal!

4zn76tysfajdxp

I eat meals made from rice with a spoon.

sligojoek

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

And do you then go and stick the knife in the butter OP?

Disgusting table manners

It's ok if you lick it clean first.

catallus

sligojoek wrote: »

It's ok if you lick it clean first.

That's what she said.

It really doesn't matter, in a 50 years when the Chinese (great bunch of lads) take over we'll all be using those chop-stick things anyways.

Interestingly, the origin of the English term chopstick is a corruption of the Chinese for "nimble-ones" :

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=chopstick

Junkyard Tom

catallus wrote: »

Interestingly...

I thought it was rather boring.

catallus

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I thought it was rather boring.

Learning is never boring!

TheLastMohican

Axel Panicky Snorer wrote: »

Very poor table manners there.

YurOK2 wrote: »

I hate seeing people eating food off their knife or licking their knife. It is very bad table manners.

Can you two paragons of etiquette explain why licking a knife at the table is out of bounds?
Surely the point of dining is conveying food to your mouth.
It's a bit like people saying that certain four-lettered words are "bad". WTF! I mean, four letters from an alphabet of twenty-six. You can say phty and it's OK but heaven forbid **** or ****. Pathetic ********.

Can we see the dessert menu please?

TheLastMohican

Plazaman wrote: »

I shudder in restaurants when I see people licking their knife. Worser still when I saw an auld farmer codger with silage stained wellies do it and him in for the Sunday roast with the toothless wife (also a knife licker). I have not gone back to that restaurant since as no amount of dishwashing of said knives would belie the fact that I might get that said same knife for my next meal.

They'd have to open a new box of knives in front of me before I'd be convinced to go back (I suppose I could just bring my own but no).

A bit of class there ........ taking out the false teeth before eating and sticking them behind her bra.

Junkyard Tom

catallus wrote: »

Learning is never boring!

Logarithmic tables.

K4t

Shepherd Incalculable Actor wrote: »

I agree but the same can be said about lots of things. I mean, people going out in public in pyjamas affects nobody else but the reality is that it's something that seems to upset lots of people because it's "wrong". That's the way of the world - see the thread about being snobby for how petty many people are.

It doesn't upset me in the slightest - it's different but only wrong in your head; and you should ask yourself why it upsets you.

Boskowski wrote: »

I'll talk to you again about 'what's the difference' when you're after cuttin your tongue.

Cut tongue not even once.

Triangla wrote: »

A friend of mine did that and died.

True story.

A friend of mine drove a car and died.

Fake story.

YurOK2 wrote: »

I hate it because it's bad table manners and because I think there's something "off" about how it looks. It just looks a bit wild or something.
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It's not bad table manners though - it's sensible and practical if anything. You hate it because it's different and because you've been brought up to believe it breaks a table etiquette you've been taught.

justchecked

So long as you don't slurp your tea op. I've been in the presence of a slurper the last few weeks. Traumatized.

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