Laura Eating GRRR!!!
 

She reminds me of my Sister I think...When some people eat with their fork like they are posh...you know what I mean when they use the fork the wrong way round. No wonder she dropped half her potato...you meant to use it like a shovel...that's why it's bent the way it is.

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LOL... I'm hoping the OP is joking or I'm retracting my LOL.

LOL all you want if I'm not joking :) because I hate people who do it, I'd like to know why though as I am openminded, but in a restaurant AKA Beefeater LOL or something that's not posh, I would pick a roast tato up without cutting in half like my sister tells me too lol...I like chomping on something huge rather than being sissy and cutting it

i do use a shovel, dont drop anything then.

So if you were, say, somewhere a little more elegant than a Beefeater, would you use your cutlery properly then? I'm not asking you out to dinner here, incidentally.

What do you mean?

You can use your fork as a board to then cut across food with the knife. You don't especially have to use a fork like a shovel.

Well I don't really go in a beefeater, I'm not into pub meals...I probably wouldn't touch a restaurant either, both ends of the scales are bad, you've got the snob/yob ends to deal with, so I prefer something sweet and relaxing...Like maybe I'll one day try going out for a curry at a restaurant, those little chicken pieces can be picked up with a fork in a normal way. No need for fancy nandy pandy pretend fakeness oh look how i'm holding a fork poshness :blush:

Like with Chips if I went to a chippy (Not often as I do oven chips at home) I would eat the greasyness with my naked fingers, it's all about the senses, sometimes having a sniff by putting it near me nose before passing it into my opening

They have special cutlery for infants and people who are unable to use proper cutlery!

What! I'm sorry but a fork is shaped to be used where the food goes on the inside of the curve!
Do you see people shovelling mud with the back of the shovel FFS!

Is there 'REALLY' anything more elegant than a Beefeater Livia?
Or are you just trying to show off??

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I'm really sorry that you think eating wonderful food and drinking great wine in a nice restaurant would equate to "poshness". I think that's all do to with your perception and little to do with the kind of people who might be eating there, and using table manners.

To be honest... I still think you're kidding. Well, I half think you're kidding.

That's the only place I could think of...I don't eat in any place...What's with the Elegance crap...Who wants to be snobby...

Using a fork like a shovel?? :nono:

God no!!

You're touching on one of my pet hates here! Jesus! I feel a super-rant re table manners coming on!! :)

LOL... Nah, Beefeater is haute cuisine, innit.

I'm happy to eat in the best place, like on holiday, I would read reviews of the best places to eat, but only based on the food and not the expense of the place.
I like Cozy nice places with good food definitly. And will eat nice and neatly, but not with an upside down fork :)
I had a nice Chicken with a peach on it once in mexico lol

Twas a joke my boy!....it's Harry Ramsdens for me!! :hugesmile:

I agree with the OP. You've gotta shovel!

mwhahaha let's go :hugesmile:

I love putting a whole load of mashed potato lining the boundaries of the strips of metal of the fork from the tips to the left side of the curve where the gaps dissapear and it meats the pure metal part. YUM...and then if I have some Roast Potatoes, I will push it in, and it will look like a toffee apple on a stick as I move it to my lips

I thought so!...You ought to be ashamed of yourself...messing with us more refined folk like that!! :hugesmile:

Awww Harry's :) I love the oven chips they make, though at £2 a kilo it's getting a bit into the luxory range, I like Morrisons Steak Chips at £1.20 for 2 Kilos :)

PMSL
This is a very Americanised way of using a fork, and very unsightly! Prongs of the fork should curve downwards and food placed on top of fork, small mouthfuls at a time..
This isn't being "posh" as you put it, but just simple manners and acceptable table etiquette! :)

Best thread on here atm, lol

Yep!...But it's the occasion is'nt it!!...You've got to pay for class!! :dance:

LMAO... enough already.

Ohhh But looking at Laura doing that with the fork was like listening to someone scraping their nails down a chalk board...I felt like OMG I can just about imagine the scraping from the fork as it touches the ceramics...Ohhhhh no...The same with Tights...I couldn't wear them or even touch them :)

OK Livia!...I'm off for some chips now!...Do you want me to fetch you anything??
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Aw.. god! People who use their teeth instead of their lips to remove food from the fork! aaaargh. I could scream!

Lol.. what have you got against tights??

Are you mocking me or livia or noone lol...I don't eat chips often...only oven chips almost everyday :)

Nah, you're all right. I've kind of lost my appetite... LOL

OMG! I've never seen this...have you been to a lot of places then :)

Apetite! it's 9:39pm, I hope you're not one that eats at this time of night for a meal...I have to eat by around 6pm-7pm or I'd pass out :hugesmile:

Lol! What do you mean a lot of places??
I've seen this sort of behaviour displayed in quite a few places and on the telly.. I'm sure Sophie (could have been someone else) from last years BB did it too! Oh, I could weep thinking about it!

I keep odd hours.

LOL! just been out to places to eat alot :) Well I eat nice and slow anyways, takes me about 45 mins to eat Oven chips and beans LOL...or if I'm going for it, I would have oven chips and chicken, oven chips are healthy...I did live in OZ for 4 months, and they didn't have frozen chips at all...so I bought Real Potatoes and had Mash and beans with Kethup LOL...was on a budget, still am, I like to save for nice holidays instead of buying expensive food.
Well anyways I used to make my own bread too over there...bought some lovely meat from butchers there and had nice food

hehe :)

I'm a slow eater too..
I like eating in restaurants, but I'm completely arsey about spotting a "shoveller" or a "fork teether" or even worse somebody eating with their gob open!!
I've had to swap seats before so I can't see said disgraceful behaviour in eateries!
Yuk Yuk Yuk!
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Happyland - I'm inclined to agree with you. but - there IS something worse than someone eating with their gob open and that's someone eating with their gob open, sitting opposite - and talking at the same time. :eek!:

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Oh don't! *boaks*
I remember a customer coming into my work... a big dirty filthy looking woman and she was stuffing a sausage roll into her mouth whilst talking to me.. bits of flaky pastry were flying out her mouth and I could see the rest of it in her mouth. I had to get somebody else to deal with her! YUK!

No you are not

http://www.ehow.com/how_2107398_use-...-properly.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Fork-and-Knife-Properly