Right Hand is for Spoon and Left hand is for Fork?
By maxilimian
@maxilimian (3099)
Indonesia
January 27, 2009 2:21am CST
Hi there, it's me again ..
Who told you to do that to eat on your plate? And what makes you obey to do that? 
and how about a left hander, did they do the same thing? well it's not applicable if you use a chopsticks to eat .. do you think it is because to make easier when eat or it's all about a table manner?
What do you think?
and how about a left hander, did they do the same thing? well it's not applicable if you use a chopsticks to eat .. do you think it is because to make easier when eat or it's all about a table manner?
What do you think?2 people like this
6 responses
@thorgrym (675)
• United States
28 Jan 09
In my research, American etiquette calls for using the fork in the left hand and the knife in the right hand to cut food. Once a few bites are cut, place the knife down and switch the fork to the right hand to eat unless you are left-handed. European/Continental etiquette calls for eating with the fork in the left hand.
For more information you can follow this link:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/menu/diningetiquetteguide.htm
So, it seems that it is too bad for you righties that you need to start eating with the fork in your left hand.
I always knew I had an advantage being a lefty.
I always knew I had an advantage being a lefty.@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
28 Jan 09
Maybe you are right, but it's a pity with left handed people, did they will be mark as unpolite people just because of they can't use spoon on the right hand? like we can't use spoon on the left hand?
@thorgrym (675)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I am left-handed. I hold the fork in my left hand but I also hold the spoon in my left hand. The only exception to this is if I am using the spoon to assist rather than to eat. The knife is almost always used in my right hand.
For me, I think it was just natural because the fork sits on the table to the left of the plate. I just pick it up and eat - no need to switch it to the other hand.
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@thorgrym (675)
• United States
28 Jan 09
No, silly, I don't ALWAYS hold the knife while eating.
Just that when I use the knife, it is always with my right hand. I am just not that dexterous with a knife in my left hand, so I use my right. Oddly, though, when I am preparing food any cutting that I do - chopping vegetables, carving meat, slicing bread, etc. - I use my left hand to do the work.
It has nothing to do with simplicity. Being left-handed, I generally have more dexterity with my left hand, so I use that for most functions. The left hand controls while the right hand supports. It just also happens to be logical for me to pick up the fork - which is placed on the left of the plate - with my left hand.
Just that when I use the knife, it is always with my right hand. I am just not that dexterous with a knife in my left hand, so I use my right. Oddly, though, when I am preparing food any cutting that I do - chopping vegetables, carving meat, slicing bread, etc. - I use my left hand to do the work.
It has nothing to do with simplicity. Being left-handed, I generally have more dexterity with my left hand, so I use that for most functions. The left hand controls while the right hand supports. It just also happens to be logical for me to pick up the fork - which is placed on the left of the plate - with my left hand.@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
31 Jan 09
Hix 
i know, i'm just kidding yaa i remember people said that it has something related with the brain function also being left handed, maybe a special things with it, i forget which part of the brain has something connected with it, left or right ....
i know, i'm just kidding yaa i remember people said that it has something related with the brain function also being left handed, maybe a special things with it, i forget which part of the brain has something connected with it, left or right ....@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
28 Jan 09
So you always eat with the knife on the right hand??carefull well i think you like a simple things, so when you see the fork on the left place of the plate you just grab it but did you eat with left hand with the fork?
well i think you like a simple things, so when you see the fork on the left place of the plate you just grab it but did you eat with left hand with the fork?
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
24 Mar 09
Dear friend,
I just obey the system may be the table manner which is taught to be well behaved in the society. Moreover to be comfortable with social values and social dignity. One could eat without these and even without a plate. But social values and caring and behaving well in society is accepted well and others also may be well behaved.
@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
25 Mar 09
yaa, so you think social culture creates it, that it is a must to do table manner, and it's not because of for easy use way
allright it's acceptable Have a nice day
allright it's acceptable Have a nice day 
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
27 Jan 09
Of course it is my parents who trained me to have table manners. I believe I was trained to use pork and spoon and eat with my right hand on the plate because that is the right table manner and not because it is easier. Actually whatever you have been used to doing is what is easier to do. With chopsticks, I simply can't eat. Ha!ha!ha! It is so hard for me!
@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
27 Jan 09
Well i guess almost all of parents teach their children to do that, luckily i have no problem with chopsticks but no one teach me how to eat with it, i learn by myself, i don't know how can i do it, instantly i guess it's a talent as an Asia people
but no one teach me how to eat with it, i learn by myself, i don't know how can i do it, instantly i guess it's a talent as an Asia people 
@Rainegurl (2156)
• Philippines
27 Jan 09
Hi, maxilimian
My parents taught me to eat. I continue doing what they taught me because I find it convenient. My right hand is for the spoon and my left hand is for the fork. My husband, however, uses his right hand for the fork and his left hand for the spoon. He is left-handed.
Gave up trying to learn how to use chopsticks. Just cannot do it.
Have a nice day! 
My parents taught me to eat. I continue doing what they taught me because I find it convenient. My right hand is for the spoon and my left hand is for the fork. My husband, however, uses his right hand for the fork and his left hand for the spoon. He is left-handed.
Gave up trying to learn how to use chopsticks. Just cannot do it.
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@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
28 Jan 09
Ooo i just know that left handed using the spoon and fork in the opposite way but i know some people, even they are left handed, but they still can eat with spoon on the right hand, only when they are writing, they use their left hand to do that, did your husband already learn to use spoon on the right hand?
but i know some people, even they are left handed, but they still can eat with spoon on the right hand, only when they are writing, they use their left hand to do that, did your husband already learn to use spoon on the right hand?
@mac_bb (156)
• United States
27 Jan 09
i don't really pay attention to this but i know one thing for sure i don't think i could eat my soup very effectivly if my spoon is in my left hand, and now that i think about it the only time my fork is in my left hand is if i am eating something like a steak in that case i use my left hand for the fork and right hand for the knife.
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@maxilimian (3099)
• Indonesia
27 Jan 09
How about noodle? with the fork on the right hand, you still can eat it with right hand, right?
with the fork on the right hand, you still can eat it with right hand, right? 