Why is it, that when you put your knife and fork down when you are eating, the knife blade should face away from the fork... but when you are finished eating, the knife blade should face the fork?\n\nAnd....\n\nWhat do you do when you eat with chopsticks?
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It is an old wive;s tail. It will bring bad luck to you in the form of illness if you have them turned out. The positioning of knife and fork when not in use acts as a sort of semaphore, allowing the diner to indicate the degree to which he intends to pause in eating. Flatware should always be placed on the plate during pauses between bites. If this is to be a very short time, there is no set pattern. For longer waits, perhaps caused by a diverting twist in the table conversation, the diner places the fork on the left and knife on the right, so that they cross over the center of the plate. The diner preparing to pass his plate for a second helping places the fork and knife parallel to each other at the right side of the plate, so that there is room for the food. When the diner has finished, he signals this by setting the fork and knife parallel to each other, so they lie either horizontally across the center of the plate or are on the diagonal, with the handles pointing to the right. The cutting edge of the knife blade should face toward the diner (again, avoiding all possible aggressive implications), and the fork may be placed with the tines either up or down.
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Please listen to me.\n\nI actually do know what I'm talking about. You do eat using the European or Continental way. It is not rude if you were brought up using the Continental way. It IS rude if you are trying to be pretentious and thumbing your nose at the American way (which is to transfer the fork), but I don't think you mean to be pretentious. \n\nLet your wife understand that both ways are acceptable and simply reflect the person's upbringing or culture.
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If it fell butter side up, you might just pick it up, thinking whew that was a close one. When it falls butter down it gets hair and gross stuff all stuck in the butter, a more memorable experience. \n\nTest have been done and the results where that toast doesn't fall on one side more than the other. So the only explanation for this interesting thing is that it's a perception problem as I stated in the first part
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I have stuck a knife or fork into the stuck bread or whatever in the toaster and once when I was 8 it went through to the wires and I got a shock.  I still do it though only more carefully.
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There's a simple way to check if your wrists are hinging properly:\n\nOn your takeaway, when the club is roughly parallel to the ground and at waist level, stop your swing, if the toe of your club is pointing straight up, you are hinging your wrists correctly and you don't have to worry about it anymore.\n\nI'd like to take credit for this piece of instruction, but I gleaned it from one of Harvey Penick's books ;)
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i thought about a fork when i was reading ur question, what u eat soup with? lol
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The rule is that everything on your plate must be edible, even the decorative flowers that come with some salads.  Therefore, if something's edible, what purpose does it have except to be eaten?  If it bothers you, then you can leave the orange slices on your plate, but I wouldn't make any comments to fellow diners who happen to like oranges.
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Here is a great site that can help you. Also on chopstick manners.\n\nhttp://www2.gol.com/users/issott/JRHome/Convention/Chopsticks.html
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So you've got the look-down angle and you can cut a piece  of scrap to check that that's right, then you scribe top and bottom on your scrap with a 1/2 inch or 1/4 inch inset so you can see what angle you need from top to bottom? This is the 75 degree that you are talking about?\n\nIf so then, when you invert (assuming the top and bottom faces are parallel) you still have a 75 degree angled cut don't you?   Why not just cut for the look-down, offer it up and scribe then hand-plane?
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I think you just have to have a taste for some foods, and Sushi and Sashimi is that kind of food.  Light and delicate??  I don't consider Sushi like that.  I just love Sushi.  California Rolls are good, too.  But I have been eating Sushi and Sashimi for many many years and use chop sticks quite well, it is an acquired taste.  I am sorry you didn't like your meal.
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It is a little hard to explain. It can be a difficult task. You basically have to skin them. What we normally do is to take a small axe and chop down the back bone and cut the top fins off then take a sharp knife from that point down the sides right under the scales skinning it around the sides. I hope that this helps you, I know it is a little vague. Usually the bigger the fish the easier it is. Happy eating, Gar Fish is a very tasty fish when cooked right.
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Theoretically, you are correct. However small the additional weight is in one pan, the beam must rotate till it comes to vertical position.\n\nIn practice, the pivot about which the beam turns is not exactly at its center point.\n\nHowever we can make it as close as it is possible.\n\nNext is the sharpness of the pivot. Theoretically it should be a point. But with a microscope we will see it is some what blunt.\n\nAnother thing is mass distribution on both sides of the beam should be uniform. There is practical limit.\n\nBecause of these imperfections a small additional weight placed in one pan makes the moment about this small deviated point of the center equal to the moment of the less weight placed in the other pan.\n\nThis is called sensitivity of the balance. By careful manufacturing process we increase this accuracy.\n\nKeep a foot scale on your index finger and balance it. Since the finger has some width, you can easily balance it. The center of the scale can be displaced to some extent. \nBut it will be difficult to balance it on a sharp edge.  Depending upon the sharpness the sensitivity increases.\n\nIf every thing is nearly perfect the beam should oscillate about a mean position.
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hello.  i eat at home 97% of the time.  much cheaper, and much better quality.  who knows if who ever prepared your big mac washed their hands after the restroom break.  yeah, dishes suck.  but i eat like royalty, and so does my chubby puppy.  tonight i mixed together one can of baby peas,  one can of mushroom soup, one can of water, added one pound of cooked bacon.  simmered that for fifteen minutes.  then boiled a box of pierogies and topped them with the "chowder" stuff.  wonderful.  then i has a glass of ovaltine.  peace
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No, it's a lovely time to spend with friends and/or family, enjoying a good meal and talking - although if there's a lot to say, it's not so easy to eat!  Just remember, everyone else is eating too; nobody else is looking at you and noting what you're doing!  Do you notice how someone else eats?  No, unless they have bad manners and speak with their mouth full, or lick the knife, or something.  Try to focus on the others and eat as if you were at home.  No-one is judging you!  Relax and enjoy the food and the company.  (I know it's easy to say, as is all advice.)
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stay yourself...once you lose them for good sure...the day you do that i will have my tongue surgically split in half to make it look like a snake's. :)\n~some of these answers are really rude.
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Because the spoon and the fork made the spork for Taco Bell.\nYou will find your spoon someday. :)
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fork and spoon - right hand