Which way round do you hold your cutlery?

[Tricky Dicky]

Left handers are posessed by Satan himself, so said my elderly aunt................

Well, we are ..... but we only go sacrificing and murdering every month or so, so it's not too bad.

 

[algie]

I'm right handed and have fork in right hand and knife in left.

Same here. It's annoying when you go out for a meal and swap the cutlery about for someone to say "no that's the wrong way"

 

[KZNSeagull]

No problem with any of that, we more or less had the same, but not strictly enforced. Elbows on the table a big no,no - and it still annoys me today when I see it in others.

Indeed. Annoys me too. As does chewing with mouth open (Sir Alex take note) and talking with a mouth full.

 

[MikeySmall]

My missus eats with her fork in her right hand - shes from Brum and calls it Left Caggy.

The Dialect Dictionary - Word Caggy Handed - Language your way

 

[Badger]

Fork left, knife right for most meals UNLESS it is a fork only meal (curry, chilli, spag bol et al.) in which case it's fork in the right hand and the knife becomes redundant.

 

[ridda]

My missus eats with her fork in her right hand - shes from Brum and calls it Left Caggy.

The Dialect Dictionary - Word Caggy Handed - Language your way

I'm right handed but use my knife in my left hand, same as your missus.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Indeed. Annoys me too. As does chewing with mouth open (Sir Alex take note) and talking with a mouth full.

I probably would have mentioned the gum chewing too, but it's not a mealtime gripe (I hope). I hate seeing people chew gum at the best of times, but chewing it with their mouths open is just awful - apart from anything else it makes people look really stupid and ignorant.

 

[ChilternGull]

Although I am left handed I hold my fork in my left hand and knife in my right. The only thing I do right handed. But when I lay the table I lay it left handed with fork on the right, knife on the left and spoon pointing to the right! I cause chaos when eating out as I usually move the glass from the right to the left. Don't mention the plate for the bread roll!

 

[footychick]

I'm left-handed and have my fork in my left hand.

Same here