How well do you know world customs for dining? (2013, live)

[countrylv22]

Originally Posted by Citizen401

If you go to high end social functions in Europe and the USA, you sometimes need to be aware of some basic differences in dining etiquette between the two areas:

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by Catbelle

5/11

I knew:

China
Austria
Spain
Japan
France

Some of them are not 100% true in my opinion.

I got five out of eleven too. Some of the questions are obviously "trick" questions, and it's a bogus little "test" but it was cute.

As for the video, I found it accurate though a bit over the top. For instance, it's important (I believe anyway) to pay attention to things like whether or not your hands should be in your lap - or how to place one's knife and fork on the plate to let the server know whether or not you're finished - but how to place your napkin in your lap? Nyahhhh! Who cares?

[The Postman]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

I got five out of eleven too. Some of the questions are obviously "trick" questions, and it's a bogus little "test" but it was cute.

As for the video, I found it accurate though a bit over the top. For instance, it's important (I believe anyway) to pay attention to things like whether or not your hands should be in your lap - or how to place one's knife and fork on the plate to let the server know whether or not you're finished - but how to place your napkin in your lap? Nyahhhh! Who cares?

Yeah most of those things are just bogus...who cares if your hands are on your lap or on the table or whatever?

As long as you're not being uncouth (picking your nose, eating too noisily, hawking, spitting, bumping into people) or being too messy, I say be free to eat how you feel most comfortable.

[Threestep2]

Push peas onto a fork with tines down? Juggling 101 anyone?

[BennyBucks]

You're meant to spear the peas with the tines of the fork facing down if I remember my etiquette correctly

Scooping the peas with the tines facing up means they can fall off and roll all over the dining table ... which is simply gauche, dahling

[Geggo]

Originally Posted by The Postman

...who cares if your hands are on your lap or on the table or whatever?

Actually where your hands are does matter here. No elbows on the table and no hands on your lap.

Using a fork as a shovel is quite accepted now, so is cutting a potato with a knife.

[The Postman]

Originally Posted by Geggo

Actually where your hands are does matter here. No elbows on the table and no hands on your lap.

Using a fork as a shovel is quite accepted now, so is cutting a potato with a knife.

Matters to whom? Some stuffy old lady? Be comfortable, I say.

[Geggo]

Originally Posted by The Postman

Matters to whom? Some stuffy old lady? Be comfortable, I say.

It doesn't matter for most occasions though it makes a difference when you have a job interview at a restaurant.

[Mac15]

I don't know any customs. When I get the food I just get my fork and knife out and start eating. I really do not care what way I hold my fork.

And Idk about you but nobody here holds their fork the European way.

[Mac15]

Originally Posted by Geggo

Actually where your hands are does matter here. No elbows on the table and no hands on your lap.

Using a fork as a shovel is quite accepted now, so is cutting a potato with a knife.

I didn't know it wasn't accepted!!!! And I frankly don't care if it isn't!