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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2465144" data-attributes="member: 1656">I was startled by something I came across in a novel the other day.  Someone identified a person as 'impersonating an American' by the way he handled a knife and fork.The person in question had the accent, the in-jokes, etc, but he ate 'in the Continental fashion'.I'm interested to know:1. Are you left- or right-handed?2. Where are you from?3. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, cutting a steak?4. Which hand do you hold your knife and fork in while, say, eating a steak?5. Which hand do you hold your fork in while, say, eating a piece of cheesecake?6. Which hand do you hold your spoon in while, say, eating a bowl of cereal?For my part, I'm a right-hander from New Zealand.  I hold my knife in my right hand; I'll cut a bite-sized piece of meat, lift it to my mouth with the fork in my left, then repeat the process for the next bite.If I'm not using a knife, though, I'll hold the fork or spoon in my right.Left-handers I know do exactly the same with knife and fork - knife right, fork left - but when they have no knife, the fork or spoon is in their left.They think right-handers are crazy (it's always their primary hand that performs the table-to-mouth motion), whereas right-handers generally seem to prefer having the knife in their dominant hand, since holding something pinned to the plate with the fork doesn't need a lot of control... but if the dominant hand is otherwise free, you may as well use it for the fork or spoon.How do Americans do it?-Hyp.</blockquote>

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