Why don't Europeans like spoons?
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- The Dark Horse
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
Before our first trip to the West I gave my wife intensive table manners lessons.
She adapted very well, not only for "easy" double forks, double knifes special occasions family dinners but also when going to expensive and very formal Michelin starred restaurants
Here, despice having a comfortable dinner table, she would still prefer to eat on the floor with a mug for glass, spoon only and an open munching mouth
Munching excepted I guess I can live with it but I insist nonetheless on having our girls properly educated to eat with civilized manners and apparatus.
She adapted very well, not only for "easy" double forks, double knifes special occasions family dinners but also when going to expensive and very formal Michelin starred restaurants
Here, despice having a comfortable dinner table, she would still prefer to eat on the floor with a mug for glass, spoon only and an open munching mouth
Munching excepted I guess I can live with it but I insist nonetheless on having our girls properly educated to eat with civilized manners and apparatus.
Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
Spooning ALWAYS leads to forking.
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
eat with hands, food taste better
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
Thanks for all the humorous and informative responses
OK, I get it now; it's a class thing.
Knives and forks for the nobility and upper classes, who had their own steaks, chops, slabs of ham and cheese, sausages, etc.
Spoons for the peasants, serfs, prisoners, mentally ill inmates, orphans, pupils, etc., who were usually fed en masse from large pots: soup, stew, porridge, gruel, etc. in bowls and who ate with spoons.
Still, you've got to admit that this is a bit weird:
OK, I get it now; it's a class thing.
Knives and forks for the nobility and upper classes, who had their own steaks, chops, slabs of ham and cheese, sausages, etc.
Spoons for the peasants, serfs, prisoners, mentally ill inmates, orphans, pupils, etc., who were usually fed en masse from large pots: soup, stew, porridge, gruel, etc. in bowls and who ate with spoons.
Still, you've got to admit that this is a bit weird:
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It is weird, he's holding his knife and fork all wrong.sigmoid wrote: Still, you've got to admit that this is a bit weird:
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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How so? It looks OK to me, a dumb uncultured American.It is weird, he's holding his knife and fork all wrong.
Should his pinkie be sticking out? Should the fork be held upside down?
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
Some Christians even went further than just thinking them weird!sigmoid wrote:
Still, you've got to admit that this is a bit weird:
God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating. -St. Peter Damian
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
there was some programme on discovery/history where some western people had to eat durian
my oh asked why they were using forks and not their fingers to eat it
she found it very amusing
my oh asked why they were using forks and not their fingers to eat it
she found it very amusing
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Re: Why don't Europeans like spoons?
I always associated spoons with child-like but maybe that was my Granny's fault, she didn't even allow shovelling of peas. You had to squish them on the back of your fork.
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