Eating food off your knife

.Henry Sellers. · 09-07-2015 02:09PM

I eat my apples with a spoon.

Yellowblackbird · 09-07-2015 02:10PM

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 · 09-07-2015 02:19PM

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 · 09-07-2015 02:45PM

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.

09-07-2015 02:58PM

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 · 09-07-2015 02:58PM

Axel Panicky Snorer wrote: »

Very poor table manners there.

Ooh a table? No recession in that fiefdom.

Plazaman · 09-07-2015 03:02PM

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 · 09-07-2015 03:09PM

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.

09-07-2015 03:10PM

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.

09-07-2015 03:11PM

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 · 09-07-2015 03:14PM

I eat meals made from rice with a spoon.

sligojoek · 09-07-2015 03:32PM

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 · 09-07-2015 03:52PM

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 · 09-07-2015 04:36PM

catallus wrote: »

Interestingly...

I thought it was rather boring.

catallus · 09-07-2015 04:37PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I thought it was rather boring.

Learning is never boring!

TheLastMohican · 09-07-2015 04:39PM

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 · 09-07-2015 04:44PM

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 · 09-07-2015 04:54PM

catallus wrote: »

Learning is never boring!

Logarithmic tables.

K4t · 09-07-2015 04:56PM

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.
.

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 · 09-07-2015 05:12PM

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

Hoooo.
Pluluuulurrp.
Paah.

Hoooo.
Pluluuulurrp.
Paah.

YurOK2 · 09-07-2015 06:00PM

K4t wrote: »

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.

It is bad table manners.

Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-07-2015 07:03PM

TheLastMohican wrote: »

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?

If you don't see it as poor manners then I would be wasting my time trying to explain it.
As for swearing: who said anything about that?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 09-07-2015 07:04PM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Ooh a table? No recession in that fiefdom.

What recession? The last one I experienced was in the mid 80s.

K4t · 09-07-2015 08:29PM

YurOK2 wrote: »

It is bad table manners. Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

It's behaviour borne out of pretentious wannabee aristocratic idolisation. You think eating off a knife is disgusting because you've been conditioned to do so.

Rough Sleeper · 09-07-2015 10:59PM

YurOK2 wrote: »

It is bad table manners.

Anyway, don't sweat it, you keep eating off your knife and I'll keep thinking it's disgusting.

It's probably my poor breeding that's led me to think like this, but in my uncultured view, looking down on someone else for placing in their mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining is more indicative of poor character than the simple act of placing in one's mouth the rightmost of the metal instruments most commonly used in European dining .

Had dinner with American family today; forks in the right hand and all that. It's always a good experience for highlighting the inherent absurdity of so-called table etiquette.

Ruu · 09-07-2015 11:07PM

Candie wrote: »

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

Slice it with a sword is the only way.

tomwaterford · 09-07-2015 11:21PM

K4t wrote: »

It's behaviour borne out of pretentious wannabee aristocratic idolisation. You think eating off a knife is disgusting because you've been conditioned to do so.

Would ya not be afraid you'd cut your tongue??

FishOnABike · 09-07-2015 11:29PM

topper75 wrote: »

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

“We need no forks to make hay with our mouths, to throw our meat into them,” poet Nicholas Breton in 1618

K4t · 09-07-2015 11:40PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Would ya not be afraid you'd cut your tongue??

No - just as I'm not afraid I'd poke my tongue/mouth/gums with the prongs of my fork.

tomwaterford · 09-07-2015 11:44PM

K4t wrote: »

No - just as I'm not afraid I'd poke my tongue/mouth/gums with the prongs of my fork.

Spoon is where it's at :pac:
I taught ye meant like a steakknife...(my relative used be a butcher and there's a stupid edge in knifes here)

Eating food off your knife

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