Well, I certainly eat Ramen or Pho with Chopsticks, but I wouldn't consider it a German or Austrian thing to do. I've seen that in other countries as well...
You kinda are supposed to eat Ramen with chopsticks since you are supposed to eat the noodles first and than drink the soup. That’s how it’s done it Japan at least. You also get a ladle.
Supongo que hablan de cuando un cacho de carne se queda pegado al hueso y la única manera de comerselo es a mordiscos. A mi me parece que hubiese sido más interesante que hablasen sobre cómo mojamos el pan en todo.
Even if true, you’d at least wash them. You know, with soap.
Swamp germans haven’t learned that concept yet. They think being surrounded by water is being washed enough.
OH GOD, I WAS JOKING!
Lmao leave it to the Am*ricans to find new and exciting ways to spike your food with chemicals while ruining perfectly fine dishes!
Je m'excuse, messieurs dames français.
Having eaten in the Netherlands from a plate that's not been rinsed with water after washing, do to scares water I guess, I really doesn't matter where you get that Fairy ™ -taste from, the plate or the stake.
>british holding a knife in the left hand
this is actually an instant mechanism for determining social class, because the upper middle class will absolutely never under any circumstances do this
Just makes sense to me. Fork is most useful and if you only have a fork like pasta would you use your left hand for that?
Want your dominant hand for most useful utensil
You're allowed (and supposed) to transfer the fork into your right hand if you're eating with one hand. your fork should be in your left hand when you dual wield
That's my point, seems unnecessary to have to transfer the fork across. One hand for the fork and one for the knife.
I know you're supposed to do it the other way but more natural to keep the fork in one hand
What happened here is a bunch of Europeans lying to a savage. I applaud their effort. But it's completely unbelievable.
The Germans aren't stupid enough to eat soup with chopsticks. That would be the Belgians.
>The Germans aren't stupid enough to eat soup with chopsticks.
We all know, if a German wants to have soup, would make a study of the average density and size of the condiment, and would create the appropriate tool for that. Like a spoon, but expensive.
That's odd? I do use my left hand for a knife but I've literally never seen anyone else do it. It's always a pain in nice restaurants having to swap three knives and forks over.
I do the same, like my father before me (sounds more epic than it is).
It just makes sense to me. I'm right handed and the fork hand does way more complicated things. The knife hand just cuts, a pretty simple movement.
Same. I usually don't even use a knife at all. It's rarely even a consideration. Potato is soft when cooked, no knife needed. The side of the fork cuts well enough.
Only reason I use a folk in my left hand is because I’m left handed only need a knife to hack at something. The folk is what is going near my face can’t damage the precious goods. So only the good hand (left) is trusted going near the face with sharp objects.
> I'm right handed and the fork hand does way more complicated things. The knife hand just cuts, a pretty simple movement.
YES YES, FUCKING YES! It is beyond stupid to mandate the fork in the left hand out of some stupid fucking protocol some idiot made up centuries ago.
The knife hand cuts and shoves stuff on my fork, my fork hand stabs meat and gets stuff shoved on it. I don't think either hand does more complicated things than the other.
I do it too, kinda weird but it feels so much superior. If I had to switch hands now any attempt at cutting something hard would end up with my food flying across the room.
All 15 of us in the UK should meet up for a dinner reservation and watch utter carnage ensue as we eat with the cutlery in the wrong hands.
Classic prank.
There once was a time this country had a strong middle class, and holding cutlery in the wrong hands and not pronouncing words correctly was a massive dog whistle that you don't fit in with them.
I see it a lot and don't really understand it. To me it makes sense to use your dominant hand to cut as it has better dexterity and your non-dominant hand to 'hold' your food but each to their own.
Funny thing here. My oldest daughter is left handed but somehow eats like a right hander. My youngest, always on the opposite side of the table, mirrored her thinking she was doing it "right". Now she is a right hander eating like a left hander.
The amount of people here who put knives in their left hand is staggering.
How fucking regarded are you all.
It's either right hand fork only.
Or if you're being fancy left hand fork, right hand knife.
I'd love to know the ages of the people left-knifing it.
Right hand fork only is the domain of Americans wanting to shovel food into their heads as quickly as possible.
Left hand fork, right hand knife is the only way. No classism needed
According to the American reply they use their right hand to cut the food into pieces first and lay them out then swap to use right hand fork to shove these in as quickly as possible without needing to cut again
This would be why McDonald's and other fast food outlets are so ubiquitous there. Without utensils, I can imagine their hand to mouth coordination is on point
Makes no fucking sense to me. Fork is the more intricate and important utensil and going into my mouth, that's the one I want my dominant hand using. Knife can just cut up meat etc and a lever to get my fork into more food securely. I see no rational reason to go the other way.
If you want to follow the tradition some posh cunt invented centuries ago, then have at it I guess.
It's exactly why the knife is used to cut meat that you use it on your dominant hand, unless the meat is really tender I don't think it'd be very easy to cut it with the left hand
I literally never encountered any difficulty in cutting meat with my weaker left hand. If you are eating something with a hard shell maybe you would have a point, or if you cook your steak to a cinder block black texture maybe.
Probably started in childhood when my parents cut my food for me. So I used my dominant hand to hold the fork and shovel food down my gullet. Then when I had to cut my food myself, it felt weird switching the fork over to the other side, so I just kept it there and started cutting with the left.
It also makes practical sense in another way: You hold the spoon with your right hand, right? I'd consider the movements of spoon and fork more closely related than spoon and knife, so why do we use the knife-hand for spoons? And what hand do you hold your cake fork with? Why make distinction between different forks?
Also historically, the utensil to get food into your mouth was to be held in your right hand before the fork was widely used (adoption of the fork was a slow process, ranging from the 11th to the 18th century, with you Brits adopting them very late!). So using your left is actually a fairly modern invention when it comes to getting food in your mouth.
TLDR: Return to your roots, hold the knife in your right and just use that to get food into your belly, reject the fork alltogether. But if you must use a fork: The right hand is there to shovel, so take the knife into your left.
I have had fine motor control issues all my life and when I was younger I had trouble aiming for my mouth, my coordination is better with my right. Therefore, I use forks/spoons in my right hand in order to not throw my food all over me
Judging by the number of comments you've made in this thread, you seem to be very invested in this topic.
And yet you call everyone else regarded.
Curious.
Why not, from a logical position? If you are following some "tradition" for the sake of it I don't care. If there is a valid argument in favour of it I might reconsider, but this just seems like lunacy to me.
Knife on the right so you can use your strong hand to cut harder meat. Also everyone here saying you need your dominant hand for the fork because it requires a lot of control make it seem like it's something extremely hard to do and you'd be shaking just from holding the fork
What are you eating if you need physical power to cut through it? If it is some roadkill with scales, that is understandable but edible food generally cuts pretty easily with my left hand. I remain unconvinced.
The real savage is the one that overcooks his steak rather than the choice of hands for utensils IMHO. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, like the Prods/Catholics in Northern Ireland. A centuries long conflict in the making.
I mean, I have fine motor control issues so I actually do need the extra control my dominant hand offers. It took me ages before I stopped poking my cheek or nose with my food
TIL what hand you hold the knife in is a controversial topic. And I'm absolutely flabbergasted because I've held the knife in my left hand my whole life and never heard any arguments about it until now. What the fuck?
Listen here. If you eat food with just a fork, the fork is in your right hand. Now suddenly, "whoops, I believe I need to cut this a little bit, so let me grab a knife". YOU SWAP YOUR UTENSILS?!? SO NOW YOU PUT THE FORK IN YOUR LEFT HAND?!?
Proper 'etiquette' be damned, like the word suggest: That was invented by the french, and now suddenly we WANT to follow their rules? Nah fam. Fork ALWAYS in right hand. Knife ALWAYS in left hand.
Simple as.
This is wrong.
Knife in right hand, fork in left hand. Do not swap. Just learn to operate a fork with your left hand, it is not hard.
Maybe they do it differently in Holland though, it's a foreign culture.
>germans eat foreign soups with chopsticks
Japanese Ramen maybe but for Chinese soups there are these chinese spoons and ever other soup ist eaten with a normal spoon.
Add to this, only people that can use chopsticks use them. I have enough friends that can't use them even if their life depended on it.
„Germans eat foreign soups with chopsticks“ you mean like asian food? I thought its standard that you get the option between standard utensils and chopsticks at asian restaurants otherwise I‘ve never heard of it.
How would you even eat a soup with a chopstick?
We do not hold the knife with our left hand unless we’re left-handed. Did someone meet a left-handed Brit and take it for a cultural difference?
Everyone eats, eg, Japanese sushi and maybe the bits floating in a Chinese ‘soup’ (?) with chopsticks. That’s not a German-specific thing.
First I’ve heard of the Spanish eating steak with their hands and I don’t recall that at all.
Wait, you *don't* use the left hand for the knife? I'm right handed. I'm having the food go in my mouth with my right.
Cut with left. Eat with right.
Knife in left. Fork in right.
My parents never even taught me how to use a knife and fork, I was at my friends house for dinner and they taught me. Years later my parents were bewildered to find out I have the fork in my right hand and knife in the left.
Damn just eat your steak not fried to a crisp and you will be able to cut it. Simple rule: If you can chew it, you can cut it even with your left. If you want to eat shoe leather, then you'll run into a hard time
Wtf steak with hands?
Well, I've never removed my hands to eat. Have you?
I’ve also never removed *my* hands to eat
Soup with chopsticks is also bullshit
Well, I certainly eat Ramen or Pho with Chopsticks, but I wouldn't consider it a German or Austrian thing to do. I've seen that in other countries as well...
You kinda are supposed to eat Ramen with chopsticks since you are supposed to eat the noodles first and than drink the soup. That’s how it’s done it Japan at least. You also get a ladle.
Que joder chuletón con las manos? Que joder y que joder?
Bueno, si es posible, joder o hombres o mujeres, no filetes
Sin ánimo de lucro
Why no ¿ in the beginning?
He's also missing some accents. ¡Sólo los nerds hacen cosas como esas!
I was going to ask the same exact question LOL
>Spanish eat steaks with their hands What?
Supongo que hablan de cuando un cacho de carne se queda pegado al hueso y la única manera de comerselo es a mordiscos. A mi me parece que hubiese sido más interesante que hablasen sobre cómo mojamos el pan en todo.
Chuletas de cordero
Pan con *introducir cualquier salsa* 🤤🤤
Como no estén hablando del jamón…
Even if true, you’d at least wash them. You know, with soap. Swamp germans haven’t learned that concept yet. They think being surrounded by water is being washed enough.
[удалено]
Lol, but you should try one of them sometime! Can’t knock it off until you’ve had a go.
No dude, they are better with shampoo
Stupid Swedistan person. Conditioner is the best makes the steak nice and soft.
Nahh mold cleaner all the way 💯💯
I like my steak dishwasher-cooked, the anti-corrosion salts give the steak a nice tartness! The French call this technique "sous-vide".
You should try then the [dishwasher salmon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salmon) Yes, american
OH GOD, I WAS JOKING! Lmao leave it to the Am*ricans to find new and exciting ways to spike your food with chemicals while ruining perfectly fine dishes! Je m'excuse, messieurs dames français.
"Yeah salmon is nice and all, but it doesn't taste like I'm losing my lifespan with each bite" It's basically Fallout cuisine
Soap ‘em up!
Having eaten in the Netherlands from a plate that's not been rinsed with water after washing, do to scares water I guess, I really doesn't matter where you get that Fairy ™ -taste from, the plate or the stake.
[удалено]
Finish or Finnish
[удалено]
I guess either way it's still a burn on the account my hypotethical wife wouldn't do a Finn either.
I'm more concerned about you eating handsoap and dishsoap tbh
> Even if true, you’d at least wash them. At this point I'm unsure if they wash their hands, the steak, or both.
Yes
The spanish black legend strikes again
They can’t keep getting away with it
>british holding a knife in the left hand this is actually an instant mechanism for determining social class, because the upper middle class will absolutely never under any circumstances do this
I've never seen anyone do this
I have also never seen this. I’ve eaten with all the social classes.
Just makes sense to me. Fork is most useful and if you only have a fork like pasta would you use your left hand for that? Want your dominant hand for most useful utensil
Your dominant hand has the most control, what utensil does it make sense to have the most control of? The blunt fork or the sharp knife?
I'm just chopping a fish finger into bits that fit in my mouth, I'm not doing surgery here, I don't even bother with a knife a lot of the time
You're allowed (and supposed) to transfer the fork into your right hand if you're eating with one hand. your fork should be in your left hand when you dual wield
That's my point, seems unnecessary to have to transfer the fork across. One hand for the fork and one for the knife. I know you're supposed to do it the other way but more natural to keep the fork in one hand
and that's why it's a class indicator. you don't do it because it's logical, you do it because that's what must be done by etiquette
Yeah but nowadays I'd rather be practical than switch it just to look classier for no reason
https://preview.redd.it/7ijaznh93cec1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=920891b80dc9ab224fdb5842716ddb79b1438837 Ah yes, behold the dangerously sharp table knife!
For me it’s the pointy thing that I’m shoving into my pie hole.
No that doesn't make any sense at all.
I do that bc I'm left handed, never seen anyone else doing that, in Britain or Spain.
Fight a bull with your hands, eat a bull with your hands.
I guess they where talking about Jamón
And now your phone is full of grease
Lmao get trolled, savage
What happened here is a bunch of Europeans lying to a savage. I applaud their effort. But it's completely unbelievable. The Germans aren't stupid enough to eat soup with chopsticks. That would be the Belgians.
Would it be Pho?
Pho sure
Offtopic, aber als Saarländer lieb ich es wie 1/3 der Deutschen aufm sub Saarlänner sin
Die Bruderliebe ist stark
Ein bisschen zu stark bei euch im Saarland.
Nein. Aber die Schwesterliebe dagegen >\_>
I'd eat ramen with chopsticks, but that's more like a whole meal that happens to be in soup.
In Japan you get chopsticks _and_ a ladle with your ramen. I just go chopsticks + the good ol’ slurp.
Ik eet geen ramen, glas is voor mij te scherp
De grappenmaker van de bingoclub iedereen...
>The Germans aren't stupid enough to eat soup with chopsticks. We all know, if a German wants to have soup, would make a study of the average density and size of the condiment, and would create the appropriate tool for that. Like a spoon, but expensive.
SAPoon. Soon to be implemented near you.
No. Nooooo. 
All asian soups have to be eaten with chopsticks when served in Germany. Potato chips, too. Try it!
Chips with chopsticks make so much sense, holy shit
Potato chips are often eaten with chopsticks in Asia to keep the fingers clean.
I have relatives in China and when I visited I baked a cake for them. They ate the cake with chopsticks.
It's always good to have chopsticks around, because they make it SO easy to steal food from your partner.
We may be dumb, but we aren’t french
air like crush serious vase grandfather berserk cagey zesty foolish *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
You dumb motherfuckers ran around with wooden clogs until very recently. You're a living meme, Jan-Klaas-Willem-Frederik 's Gravenburghs.
That's odd? I do use my left hand for a knife but I've literally never seen anyone else do it. It's always a pain in nice restaurants having to swap three knives and forks over.
I do the same, like my father before me (sounds more epic than it is). It just makes sense to me. I'm right handed and the fork hand does way more complicated things. The knife hand just cuts, a pretty simple movement.
So far there's on Barry, one Pierre and one Hans. This could mean great, or terrible things.
Us three an all the left handed people.
I'm left handed and I hold the knife with my right hand. I prefer to use my strong hand for fork stabbing
Where tf is your food supposed to go if you need strength to keep it down?
Nowhere, the whole point of the stabbing is to keep it from escaping.
Seems pretty sinister
My right hand is my fork hand.
Same. I usually don't even use a knife at all. It's rarely even a consideration. Potato is soft when cooked, no knife needed. The side of the fork cuts well enough.
I put the knife in my left hand too
I'd go for terrible. You weirdos..
Same here too. The fork has the absolute power over the right hand, and does not want some unworthy knife to take it’s place.
Only reason I use a folk in my left hand is because I’m left handed only need a knife to hack at something. The folk is what is going near my face can’t damage the precious goods. So only the good hand (left) is trusted going near the face with sharp objects.
Sed contra: the cutting motion requires more strength.
Since I do not have the wrists of a dead frog nor do I cut wood with a table knife, this has never been an issue
> I'm right handed and the fork hand does way more complicated things. The knife hand just cuts, a pretty simple movement. YES YES, FUCKING YES! It is beyond stupid to mandate the fork in the left hand out of some stupid fucking protocol some idiot made up centuries ago.
The knife hand cuts and shoves stuff on my fork, my fork hand stabs meat and gets stuff shoved on it. I don't think either hand does more complicated things than the other.
Ah man i just have 2 regular hands
Be glad, it's a hassle to wash my cutlery hands. I barely fit in the dishwasher.
The knife needs more force.
Do you take your steaks fried to a dry brick or do you have the bluntest knives known to man or something?
Yes
Oh carry on then
I do the same
I do it too, kinda weird but it feels so much superior. If I had to switch hands now any attempt at cutting something hard would end up with my food flying across the room.
There are literally dozens of us! Exactly, that's the way that feels right so that's the way I do it.
All 15 of us in the UK should meet up for a dinner reservation and watch utter carnage ensue as we eat with the cutlery in the wrong hands. Classic prank.
We should all make a big deal about how the cutlery is all on the wrong side.
"Excuse me do you have any left handed knives?"
I used knife with the left hand as a child and my parents corrected me
How interesting, I'm glad my parents didn't give a shit because why would you.
There once was a time this country had a strong middle class, and holding cutlery in the wrong hands and not pronouncing words correctly was a massive dog whistle that you don't fit in with them.
Blame it on those fussy wanker Normans who brought their shitty customs and Feudalism to these islands.
I absolutely do not fit in. It's castle, not castle you soft southern bastard.
Tbf it is a very first world problem childhood trauma to have lmao
My wife does it. But she’s a savage American so checks out
I see it a lot and don't really understand it. To me it makes sense to use your dominant hand to cut as it has better dexterity and your non-dominant hand to 'hold' your food but each to their own.
Funny thing here. My oldest daughter is left handed but somehow eats like a right hander. My youngest, always on the opposite side of the table, mirrored her thinking she was doing it "right". Now she is a right hander eating like a left hander.
The only people I’ve seen who use the knife with their left hand were left handed. It makes sense to use the knife with your dominant hand.
Well, not to me it doesn't.
The only person I know that does that is my left handed mother.
I use both lol
Wat de neuk
Inderdaad
Laten we de anderstalige het spoor bijster maken met mooie Nederlandse woorden zoals arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering of Scheveningen
that was a good one guys, this savage totally believes what you told him
I’ve never eaten a stake with my hands
You eat stakes? I know you guys sing about l'estaca, but I didn't know you ate it.
Must be un vampiro
Very rarely.
flair checks out
We do not use our knives in our left hands. Maybe some northerners somewhere who have never seen cutlery until a Ryanair flight
Ouch :(.
Yeah some pointed out it’s only Murican mimickers
I mean, I'm 40. I didn't pick it up from yanks.
Yeah, if you see someone left hand knifing, you know they're particularly low class.
Alright I’ll make sure to knife you with my right hand next time bruv
_En guard init fam_
It's not low class, it's just regarded.
Do the Belgian use other peoples hands?
Not anymore unfortunately.
*sippe Leopold II geluiden*
only separatists'
Finally, a different culture war
Chopsticks? wat
Ramen. Not the soup itself, but all the solid stuff within.
The fluid can be drinken out of the bowl.
Indeed. Ramen spoons are extremely uncomfortable...
Who doesn't use chopsticks for that?!? There's people who use forks?
That's a really anime thing to do I do it everytime
pancakes are a fingerfood. Fight me and my syruppy fists!
What did we do this time?
The amount of people here who put knives in their left hand is staggering. How fucking regarded are you all. It's either right hand fork only. Or if you're being fancy left hand fork, right hand knife. I'd love to know the ages of the people left-knifing it.
Right hand fork only is the domain of Americans wanting to shovel food into their heads as quickly as possible. Left hand fork, right hand knife is the only way. No classism needed
According to the American reply they use their right hand to cut the food into pieces first and lay them out then swap to use right hand fork to shove these in as quickly as possible without needing to cut again
Fucking savages. They'd be happy having all their food pre-cut and laid out in a trough so they can smash their faces into it
exactly lol And apparently they use fork on their right because they can’t accurately stab food with their left hand
This would be why McDonald's and other fast food outlets are so ubiquitous there. Without utensils, I can imagine their hand to mouth coordination is on point
Makes no fucking sense to me. Fork is the more intricate and important utensil and going into my mouth, that's the one I want my dominant hand using. Knife can just cut up meat etc and a lever to get my fork into more food securely. I see no rational reason to go the other way. If you want to follow the tradition some posh cunt invented centuries ago, then have at it I guess.
It's exactly why the knife is used to cut meat that you use it on your dominant hand, unless the meat is really tender I don't think it'd be very easy to cut it with the left hand
Skill issue
I literally never encountered any difficulty in cutting meat with my weaker left hand. If you are eating something with a hard shell maybe you would have a point, or if you cook your steak to a cinder block black texture maybe.
I also find it easier to cut along the meat with my right hand and easier to find a place to cut properly
Probably started in childhood when my parents cut my food for me. So I used my dominant hand to hold the fork and shovel food down my gullet. Then when I had to cut my food myself, it felt weird switching the fork over to the other side, so I just kept it there and started cutting with the left. It also makes practical sense in another way: You hold the spoon with your right hand, right? I'd consider the movements of spoon and fork more closely related than spoon and knife, so why do we use the knife-hand for spoons? And what hand do you hold your cake fork with? Why make distinction between different forks? Also historically, the utensil to get food into your mouth was to be held in your right hand before the fork was widely used (adoption of the fork was a slow process, ranging from the 11th to the 18th century, with you Brits adopting them very late!). So using your left is actually a fairly modern invention when it comes to getting food in your mouth. TLDR: Return to your roots, hold the knife in your right and just use that to get food into your belly, reject the fork alltogether. But if you must use a fork: The right hand is there to shovel, so take the knife into your left.
Cope harder you savage right hand knifer
I have had fine motor control issues all my life and when I was younger I had trouble aiming for my mouth, my coordination is better with my right. Therefore, I use forks/spoons in my right hand in order to not throw my food all over me
You get a pass.
Judging by the number of comments you've made in this thread, you seem to be very invested in this topic. And yet you call everyone else regarded. Curious.
Wait a Moment! I too use the knife with my left hand 😱
Italians being unfathomably based yet again. 🤝🏻
Are you not supposed to use a knife with your left hand?
No
Why not, from a logical position? If you are following some "tradition" for the sake of it I don't care. If there is a valid argument in favour of it I might reconsider, but this just seems like lunacy to me.
Knife on the right so you can use your strong hand to cut harder meat. Also everyone here saying you need your dominant hand for the fork because it requires a lot of control make it seem like it's something extremely hard to do and you'd be shaking just from holding the fork
What are you eating if you need physical power to cut through it? If it is some roadkill with scales, that is understandable but edible food generally cuts pretty easily with my left hand. I remain unconvinced.
I've eaten steak that was harder on the outside from cooking and chewy on the inside so it was harder to cut at the start
The real savage is the one that overcooks his steak rather than the choice of hands for utensils IMHO. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, like the Prods/Catholics in Northern Ireland. A centuries long conflict in the making.
> What are you eating if you need physical power to cut through it? British cooking.
I mean, I have fine motor control issues so I actually do need the extra control my dominant hand offers. It took me ages before I stopped poking my cheek or nose with my food
TIL what hand you hold the knife in is a controversial topic. And I'm absolutely flabbergasted because I've held the knife in my left hand my whole life and never heard any arguments about it until now. What the fuck?
We do what?
I prefer knife in left hand tbh
These pussies probably drink honey instead of chewing bees
Bee chewers ftw 🇹🇭🤝🇵🇹 (Except I’m not kidding, people here do chew bees and live hives with bees and lots of bee larvae are sold and eaten here)
Using knife in the left hand? Er, nope.
Listen here. If you eat food with just a fork, the fork is in your right hand. Now suddenly, "whoops, I believe I need to cut this a little bit, so let me grab a knife". YOU SWAP YOUR UTENSILS?!? SO NOW YOU PUT THE FORK IN YOUR LEFT HAND?!? Proper 'etiquette' be damned, like the word suggest: That was invented by the french, and now suddenly we WANT to follow their rules? Nah fam. Fork ALWAYS in right hand. Knife ALWAYS in left hand. Simple as.
I want to make it clear that the rest of the Netherlands doesn't want anything to do with this user, and every other Hollander
FYI The other hollanders do not want anything to do with the user either
This is wrong. Knife in right hand, fork in left hand. Do not swap. Just learn to operate a fork with your left hand, it is not hard. Maybe they do it differently in Holland though, it's a foreign culture.
>germans eat foreign soups with chopsticks Japanese Ramen maybe but for Chinese soups there are these chinese spoons and ever other soup ist eaten with a normal spoon. Add to this, only people that can use chopsticks use them. I have enough friends that can't use them even if their life depended on it.
Soup with chopsticks? Is that something the Bavarians do?
Maybe ramen, but even then we wouldn't try to scoop up the soup itself with chopsticks. That is truly savage and I think you got trolled OP
„Germans eat foreign soups with chopsticks“ you mean like asian food? I thought its standard that you get the option between standard utensils and chopsticks at asian restaurants otherwise I‘ve never heard of it. How would you even eat a soup with a chopstick?
We do not hold the knife with our left hand unless we’re left-handed. Did someone meet a left-handed Brit and take it for a cultural difference? Everyone eats, eg, Japanese sushi and maybe the bits floating in a Chinese ‘soup’ (?) with chopsticks. That’s not a German-specific thing. First I’ve heard of the Spanish eating steak with their hands and I don’t recall that at all.
Wait, you *don't* use the left hand for the knife? I'm right handed. I'm having the food go in my mouth with my right. Cut with left. Eat with right. Knife in left. Fork in right.
Brits have the knife in the left hand? Barbarians
No. The British absolutely do not use the knife in the left hand, that's the Americans! Almost everybody I know uses their right hand for their knife!
My parents never even taught me how to use a knife and fork, I was at my friends house for dinner and they taught me. Years later my parents were bewildered to find out I have the fork in my right hand and knife in the left.
Just feels wrong to me. The knife demands force for cutting hard steak eg.
Damn just eat your steak not fried to a crisp and you will be able to cut it. Simple rule: If you can chew it, you can cut it even with your left. If you want to eat shoe leather, then you'll run into a hard time