"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 May 2013 15:45:41 -0500, Tara >
> wrote:
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>> http://www.epicurious.com/articlesgu...013/05/top-10-
>> rudest-grossest-most-annoying-habits-of-fellow-diners.html
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/beodge3
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>
> Yes! It's not just *my* pet peeve
>
> --Cavemen (and Cavewomen): "I know it sounds snobby of me," says a
> decidedly nonsnobby Epi editor, "but I can't stand eating with someone
> who doesn't hold their knife and fork properly."

How exactly do you hold it wrong? I don't know why but I tend to hold a
fork as the Europeans do. Tines down when poking into something like a
piece of meat and tines down when entering my mouth. This drives people
nuts and I've been told that I am doing it wrong. If so then all of the
Europeans are wrong too!