Why is it

[staceyb]

When you eat with a knife and fork and you have your fork in your left paw (or right if your left handed) and knife in right it feels comfortable but when you try and eat with just a fork and you use your left it feels totally weird? Or is it just me?

[alexkp]

It is one of the great mysteries of the universe, and the main problem Einstein was working on at the time of his death.

Either that or it is simply what you are used to.

[Incorrigible]

I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard

[Plotloss]

Sporks.

Now they are underrated cutlery items...

[ApexClipper]

staceyb said:

When you eat with a knife and fork and you have your fork in your left paw (or right if your left handed) and knife in right it feels comfortable but when you try and eat with just a fork and you use your left it feels totally weird? Or is it just me?

Yup, weird as hell!

[minimax]

Plotloss said:

Sporks. Now they are underrated cutlery items...

absolutely right

[KingRichard]

Incorrigible said:

I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard

dinner forks? Hay forks? Pitch forks? Garden forks?

[Nicol@]

Feels completely normal.

But then I am a left handed person who eats right handed.

A fork alone will be in my left hand too, so nothing unusual for me.

[KingRichard]

Nicol@ said:

Feels completely normal. But then I am a left handed person who eats right handed. A fork alone will be in my left hand too, so nothing unusual for me.

Just unusual to everyone else...

[tvrolet]

KingRichard said:

Incorrigible said: I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard dinner forks? Hay forks? Pitch forks? Garden forks?

Fork handles?

...quite apt at this time of year.

[KingRichard]

tvrolet said:

KingRichard said: Incorrigible said: I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard dinner forks? Hay forks? Pitch forks? Garden forks? Fork handles? ...quite apt at this time of year.

No. four candles... handles for forks

[Bomber Denton]

KingRichard said:

tvrolet said: KingRichard said: Incorrigible said: I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard dinner forks? Hay forks? Pitch forks? Garden forks? Fork handles? ...quite apt at this time of year. No. four candles... handles for forks

Fork off!

[davetherave1970]

Fork Handles or Four Candles?
Edited coz you all beat me to it.....not with a fork

>> Edited by davetherave1970 on Thursday 22 December 14:00

[GregE240]

staceyb said:

When you eat with a knife and fork and you have your fork in your left paw (or right if your left handed) and knife in right it feels comfortable but when you try and eat with just a fork and you use your left it feels totally weird? Or is it just me?

Thats because you weirdos are right handed.

For us left handers is second nature.

[C C]

Eating with a fork only you use it up side down. So it relay becomes a pronged spoon. Just try eating soup with your soupspoon left-handed...

[blindswelledrat]

Incorrigible said:

I use 2 forks, as I am a greedy bastard

what a good idea.
I currently use my hands.

[ErnestM]

To add to the discussion...

In the US, custom is to cut with knife in the right hand and holding the article to be cut with the fork in the left hand. After cutting, you place the knife down, switch the fork to the right hand and then use the right hand to lift the cut item to eat it.

Easy way to spot Americans in restaurants. Another would be the 10 gallon hat.


ErnestM

[ledger]

ErnestM said:

To add to the discussion... In the US, custom is to cut with knife in the right hand and holding the article to be cut with the fork in the left hand. After cutting, you place the knife down, switch the fork to the right hand and then use the right hand to lift the cut item to eat it. Easy way to spot Americans in restaurants. Another would be the 10 gallon hat. ErnestM

I have heard this before, is it really widespread, any idea why

[ErnestM]

Dunno. Just the way that it is. having some of my formative years in the UK, I tend to do a bit of both depending upon where I am and with whom I am dining.

My wife noticed one time that I was not switching hands and I had to explain to her why...


ErnestM