"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>
> "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
>>>
>>
>> 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!

In some places in the world people squat over holes to do their business
too, do you?

Cheri