I don't think we're angry, it's just really funny watching Americans eat cos it looks so childish and clumsy. For example, cutting it all up before you eat is what we do for young children who haven't learned to cut up their own food yet loool

It’s not just the British versus US way of using cutlery; it’s also all of Europe and much of the rest of the World vs the US way of using cutlery

The way the British lady in the video eats, is how we do it almost everywhere in the world. I've had many meals with colleagues from all over the world, and we all used the cutlery the same way - except the Americans 😉 It's up to you, whether you want to learn 'the world way' - but when abroad, your use of the cutlery screams 'hi, I'm American' 😁 Please note the way the British lady holds her fork, tines downwards and the handle 'concealed' in her hand - In your vlogs from the UK I noticed that both Will and you held your forks vertically, handle-in-the-air, giving you away as Americans instantly!

I'm Norwegian, but my mother was British and she was very particular about table manners. Her argument for that was that you never know who you'll be dining with in the future. No elbows on the table, tilt your bowl of soup away from you rather than towards you. Place the cutlery next to each other pointing towards 4 o'clock when you are done, or apart at 4 and 8 if you are not done. Hold the cutlery with your index finger on top, don't hold it like a pencil. Place the napkin in your lap. As an adult, I appreciate that all of this (and more) has become a habit for me, so I don't have to be insecure when I eat in social or formal contexts.

There's also the fact that if you cut it all up at once, you're increasing the surface area of the meat, which means it goes cold quicker.

The thing with keeping the knife in your hand is that it is not just for cutting up the food on your plate, it is also used to manipulate the food on to your fork.

I didn’t want to say anything but, for two educated Americans, I was astounded at the way you used your fingers to eat your food. We are taught, at the age of childhood, to eat correctly that means using cutlery rather than fingers. The girl in ‘green’ represents the way I eat.

"I'm going see what I've been doing wrong for the past... 19 years!" And "take a long hard look at the way I've been eating" - 😄 we love you for being a good sport!

Your way of eating isn’t disgusting. As other people have said it’s how little children eat. That’s why it’s so hilarious.

I recently returned from Croatia where I had noticed in a number of restaurants how neighbouring tables of Ukrainians, Italians, Croatians, British had the same table etiquette not the sloppy childlike method that many Americans seem to adopt.

Joel I enjoy your videos for a number of reasons. You are always extremely well mannered and respectful. You are also well spoken and keen to learn other cultures. I really love your work. Please don't stop producing your videos.

I'm always amazed at the types of food that Americans will pick up with their fingers.Table "manners" are drummed into us at an early age. Elbows off the table and sit up straight. The food is brought to the mouth, not lowering the head to the plate.

That was brave and well done for tackling. It’s not a British thing, or an insistence on ‘proper etiquette’ though - it’s just normal worldwide. Also the thing about being loud in restaurants, it’s because you’re spoiling other people’s experiences.

There's no problem with the way you eat - it's just that to our eyes, it looks like the way a toddler, or some uncouth slob would eat. "Table manners" is a thing over here - children are taught basic etiquette quite early on: Don't put your elbows on the table, use of cutlery, never eat with your mouth open etc., etc..

You don’t need to change your ways at all. You’re American living in America it would be like any of us to change. People were probably looking because it would have been unusual for us. You’re great just the way you are and that’s why you’ve got the following you have. Looking forward to your next one 🤗🤗

One step for man, one giant leap for mankind - the use of two items of cutlery when consuming food.

It's not just the British way of holding the cutlery, Joel- It's how every other nationality in the world holds it ( including us here in New Zealand and Australia) ie the fork STAYS in the left hand, ( yes, you're right, Joel- even though the vast majority of people are right handed), and is held with the prongs ( they're actually called 'tines') facing down, and at an angle, not vertically. There's nothing 'wrong' with the way you eat- it's just a little inefficient compared to the way the rest of the world eats.😉😀

4:35 Joel’s devastated face as he hears Mashed Potatoes are not eaten by a spoon 😂

Don't stress it Joel, do whatever makes you feel comfortable. Keep the great content coming, and ignore the haters.

Etiquette is nice but don't let it become a strait jacket. It's about showing proper respect for your host and fellow guests, and allowing everyone a set of minimum rules so everyone knows what to do and feels comfortable. If you're using etiquette to humiliate or ridicule people then you're forgetting the first rule of etiquette: never make someone uncomfortable.

She's right that's how I would eat it, sorry Joel your way reminds me of a child cut all there food up at the beginning and then let them shovel it in 🤣

I'm British and I eat how the British lady eats and we are taught from a young age to eat this way. You add a bit of everything onto your fork, always prongs down. The reason being all the items on your plate should complement each other. If I had scooped my food onto my fork prongs up like a spoon I would get such a telling off by my parents and told 'we are not barbarians' hahaha Also the restaurant side of things can vary. It depends where you are eating. If it's at at fast-food place or pub, it's a bit more relaxed conversation & volume wise but if it is at a nice restaurant then that is definitely toned down. I have seen people being asked to tone it down if they are being rowdy and being asked to leave if they continue.

I watched all your UK Trip Vlogs and I was stunned to see you hold a fork as if it was a pen, completely ignoring the handle. It's there for a reason. It gives you greater control and precision over your food.

As a British person, when I saw you eating the British food in your UK blogs, it looked like a child eating. It’s like one step up from eating the food with your hands.

Watching American adults cutting up their meat into small pieces before they eat it kind of reminds me of when American adults say they 'have to go potty' meaning having to go to the toilet. Both complete throwbacks to when they were children.

In the UK it's perfectly OK to use the fork in the right hand (of left if left handed), prongs up if the food needs no cutting, like a curry for example.

We need to talk about forks 🍴 the way some American hold their fork to cut. It looks so awkward. Also my experience of eating in the states. Sometimes you guys don't use knives... you just cut with the side of your fork. I was visiting for thanksgiving one year and I was presented with the typical meal. I was only given a fork... I'm thinking... how am I going to cut my meat. Everyone else seemed to be dragging their food around the plate. I had to ask my sister where my knife was. Everyone sat around the table was looking at me like I had 3 heads!!!! 🤣🤯

Poor Joel … I feel for you on this one. The American way is what it is and it’s the way you’ve been raised. In England we’re raised with very particular table manners that’s all. It looks painful to us seeing you “ shovelling” your food into your mouth and awkwardly swapping your fork over but it’s nothing really and you mustn’t feel bad. I hope you don’t. You’re a great young man and we all love you ❤️

Your eating? I don’t think we were annoyed or disgusted about how you didn’t hold the knife and fork properly - I think we were just frustrated that you hadn’t been taught properly in the first place. It’s funny seeing a 19-year-old learning something which we all learnt when we were about 3 or 4 :)

The problem really began in York, where you were introduced to Yorkshire pudding wraps (filled with roast meat and veg) - clearly a convenience food version of a Sunday roast. Later when presented with a REAL Sunday roast, with REAL Yorkshire pudding and REAL cutlery, you proceeded to stuff everything into the Yorkshire pudding, then pick it up in your hands and stuff it into your mouth. (I'll bet you'll have got a few strange looks from neighbouring tables after that effort!)

😘Joel, I read the comments in your previous UK videos and people were not at all angry - just amused😂and the intention was not to make you uncomfortable, so please don't feel like people were annoyed - quite the opposite, we were all intrigued by the complicated way of using utensils and the faff of swapping forks backwards and forwards 😋

We’re not angry we’re just baffled lol. My best friend is American, I’m British, and the first time I visited her in the States I was stunned at how she & her husband ate food. I was saying to them ‘what are you doing? Why aren’t you using the knife that’s right there?!’ 😂😂😂 It’s just so weird to us that you don’t use cutlery properly. I think if you sat down for every meal with a knife & fork and used them correctly for a week or two you’ll find you’ll never go back to your old ways #JoinUs 😉

I remember whilst working in Italy with quite senior US Guys back in the eighties, we all went out for a meal, I'd never noticed before but it was like eating with 3 year olds? I'd visited the States before in the seventies and it never struck me then but I suppose back home, 'Mommy' cuts everything up for them? One of them asked the waiter to take his pizza away and cut it into slices for him. You should have seen the waiters face!

I’m British and I eat like her. Watching Americans eat grinds my gears 😂no hate

Having watched a lot of videos of Americans visiting the UK or trying other foods, one thing I have noticed is how much you eat with your hands. It has been a bit of a shock to me as I have even seen people trying fish and chips or beans on toast by using their hands. Culturally, we do not use our hands for much other than fast food, but use a knife and fork for majority of our eating

I prefer to enjoy my food so I will sample each thing first on it's own, then combine the flavours - and the English way is much better at accessing the gravy! Also, eating our way, meat etc stays in one piece and is less likely to get cold and congealed! I served in the WRAF in the 60s on a bomber base and we frequently had USAF officers attached through NATO and in training they had learned our table and eating etiquette because formal dinners were part of their duties - guests during my period included Prince Philip! Actually most Brits see American eating style as lazy, as if the food doesn't matter, however beautifully cooked and presented and in a formal environment is thought uncouth!

Some of my earliest memories are actually learning how to use a knife and fork the proper way and what good and bad table manners are. It's very important in the UK and (as you saw in the comments of your vlogs) we get very upset about bad table manners. One of the most complained adverts of all time was not because it was scary/misleading/inappropriate. It was because kids were copying a KFC ad where people were singing with their mouths full.

I think in the U.K. tables manners are drummed into us from an early age. Even today, if faced with some particularly awkward peas and I turn the fork up to scoop them up I will do it very quickly and hope nobody notices haha

I'm British. For the last year I've had to eat 'the American way' due to a frozen left shoulder. I literally couldn't get the fork to my mouth with my left hand. I basically cut up all my food, whilst standing up, then swapped the fork to my right hand and sat down to eat. Thankfully my shoulder is improving and I am now back eating the traditional 'British' way. I enjoying watching these reactions. It also teaches me more about your culture as you're learning about ours.

I'm British. I was taught to eat like the British lady in this video. I tend to press or squeeze meat, potato and veg onto the fork and eat rather than eat individual food items. I keep the cutlery (fork in left hand, knife in right) in my hands. I only put them down to pick up my drink. When I'm finished I put the cutlery on the plate together. Imagine the plate is a clock. I put the knife and fork at "4:20" A very good friend of mine is American. He eats like most Americans. It doesn't anger or offend me. It's just his way as an American.

Joel I’ve never watched anyone eat before …. But I was fascinated with how you and your mate ate on videos 😂 …. It was like watching kids eat, no disrespect! Over here in UK your taught at a very early age how to use cutlery. Every meal …. Knife/fork/ Spoon for desert 😂 and steak and chips Joel …. We don’t eat steak with rice 🤮 but for steak … you wouldn’t use an “ordinary” knife … you use a “steak” knife 😊

I was amazed to see my cousin from Florida eating dinner when he managed to fork a whole potato and get it all in his mouth at once. Something which my dad would have knocked y block off for when I was 4. Cousin was 25 at the time.

Another great video Joel keep them coming your videos really do cheer me up keep them coming

Joel, eat the way that you feel comfortable. We are taught to use a knife and fork from a very early age, I'm left handed and in primary school I was always being scolded and told to eat right handed. As long as you eat with your mouth closed and don't slop food all over, you'll be fine.

It wasn't just that you were using the American method but the first time we saw you you held the cutlery like a savage

Hey Joel, using the American method of swapping the cutlery multiple times you just get one peice of food and one taste. Using the British (or international) method, no swapping of cutlery, multiple pieces of food & tastes in one hit. LIFE CHANGING mate. 🍽 👍

Where I'm from (Sweden/Finland), it really depends on the setting. If it's super informal dining (everyday family dinner etc) you'd just do whatever is most comfortable for you but as soon as it gets more posh than that you'd only have your fork in your left hand with the prongs downwards. And again when you're finished - if it's an everyday dinner scenario you'd just go with your dishes to the sink/dishwasher/whereever but if it's more fancy you'd place your fork and knife at "5 o'clock" (the way the UK person put them on the side would be kind of rude) and wait until everyone's finished for someone to collect the dishes. This is something at least I've been taught since I was small. Also if it's a fancier setting you'd wait until everyone/at least half have received their food to start eating - depending on the customs for the particular dining scenario. As for conversations, that depends on the situation. Usually at fancier sittings your conversations would be dependant on how well you know the person. At an everyday dinner you'd talk about whatever really. In any case if it's a restaurant it's super rude to be loud unless it's some type of a pub/bar, you don't want to disturb others or be disturbed by others

I tend to just use my fork, which I use for cutting as well. The only time I use my knife is when I can't cut with the fork. I do find the American way of eating very time consuming...My wife and I popped over into Italy to a restaurant to have dinner with an American couple we knew...Now Italian service is very slow at the best of times, but this combined with the time it took for the Americans to eat, it felt like we were in the restaurant forever. The woman cut everything up before hand and the guy kept changing hands. My wife and I finished each course long before the American couple. Then we had fun at the end of the meal with the Americans having a discussion about how much to tip, we simply told them that we don't tip. It was a looooong night.

I was also taught to never leave the table without first asking a parent for permission.

There's different levels of formality in eating. That said, it looked like JPS had never used a knife or fork before in the trip. As an Australian, I don't like the US way.

The UK way of using utensils, is they are seen as an extension of your body so the whole eating process is a smooth and efficient process

Brit here. I usually just eat things that are eaten by hand, or only require a fork/spork/spoon. I'm right-handed, but I eat with my fork in my right hand. If I need a knife, I use it in my left. This is how a left-handed person would likely eat in the UK.

We're taught as children how to use cutlery. We also had to ask to leave the table when we were finished eating. Lol watching Americans eat is like watching a toddler.

I was told , the height of bad manners was to put your knife in your mouth and also scooping food. People are judged for real when they eat lol

The knife in the right hand dates back to several hundred years ago , and was for defence, as in stabbing enemies who may attack while you are eating. Also forks are a fairly recent invention, or addition , to meals , before them we ate with our hands, cutting meat from the bone with the knife then either stabbing with the knife or just using fingers , but the knife stayed in the right had in case off attack.

Both pieces of cutlery at the same time 👍🏻 cut , load your fork and into your mouth it goes 🤣 load your fork with multiple items so you get the full flavour of the meal . A dessert is spoon or fork only depending on what the dessert may be , example - cheesecake , I would use a dessert fork only 👍🏻 when your meal is finished neatly rest your used cutlery on your empty plate . It’s polite .

I liked the video of Joel eating Yorkshire pudding with his Sunday roast, he picked it up and shoved peas on it and ate it like he was eating cheese on toast... 😋 I was like ... where's the knife and fork.... 😄 🤣 😂

People certainly shouldn't get angry about it, it's the custom there, and some of the comments were just rude. Unless of course its a British person doing it the American way, that's just wrong. As for whether you should change, that's up to you, its hardly a big deal to try it for a while. There could be video on seeing you and your house mates trying it. The advantages are not having to cut things up in advance, or keep switching round the fork and it gives you two implements to manipulate the food. The other advantage she didn't cover is that with the left had holding the fork, which you never let go of, the right is free to place the knife down and pick up a glass. Whether it looks better I leave to you.

When McDonalds first opened in the UK in 1971 people said that it wouldn't be successful, as the British wouldn't eat with their fingers. How wrong they were.

That was the right handed way to eat! Left handers (like me!) have difficulty cutting meat with the knife in the right hand, but, in company especially, have learnt how to! Meals in the US tend to be faster, so it seems to have evolved into the quickest way to shovel in food. With noise levels, although in a public place, I prefer to keep my conversation between me and my fellow diners, and also don't want my conversation drowned out by the next tables. Lastly, eating your main neal with a spoon, I may at home if it was pasta and I'm being a slob, but never in front of others, not since I was a baby!!

On a trip to the States, I went for a meal with a group of Americans. My nerves were in a state of distress by the final course, I couldn’t quite believe that they were eating like my five year old nephew! 😂

This was really brave of you to do. Well done!

I have lots of American friends, I have noticed they mostly use their fork and have seen them chasing their food round their plate. It’s funny the difference.

My parents were Dutch and would laugh about English people using the fork upside down. The Dutch reasoned that the fork has a bowl shape so that food could be scooped up. They considered it ludicrous to squash peas when they could be scooped. Your meal in our household was considered finished when you placed your knife and fork together with the tines and pointy end on the 12 and the handles on the 6. The rest of the table etequette is the same.

I’m not sure people were angry, I think they were shocked, probably as they’d not seen how Americans eat…. 😬

The first time I ate in a diner in America I felt like an alien. Everyone one in there ate the way that guy described (and it was one cut at a time) and then there’s me eating exactly like the lady described. Your way just seems caveman like and inefficient x

Restaurant etiquette is very important to adhere to in U.K. You will get lots of dirty looks if you don’t. Also eat with both knife and fork. Even children will get told off if they don’t behave and use cutlery properly. It’s considered extremely rude. Although appreciate as an American you have a different way of dining. We are taught from a very young age,not to talk whilst we have food in our mouth ,no resting elbows on dining table and using cutlery properly. Also not to scrape plate with cutlery whilst eating. There are a few rules written in stone that you don’t break. Again I appreciate that we are just accustomed to that.

Put it this way Joel...your learning alot , and just think how sophisticated you are gonna look when trying to impress a girl and her parents when u meet them and have dinner. Its all learning bro. And you're a step ahead of your peers

I want the footage of when they clearly got too exited about the drinking age in England and over did it. Man was asleep in the hall of his hostel lol

I was amazed at how you picked up the Yorkshire pudding with food inside and picked it with your fingers! That's a no no use a knife and fork as with Sunday roast dinner there is nearly always gravy on plate. As a family any Yorkshire pudding left over in the tray we use it as a dessert and sprinkle sugar, jam or lemon and still use a smaller knife and fork. After all the mixture for Yorkshire pudding and pancakes is the exact recipe for both.

As a Brit, I do find the American way a little odd, but it wouldn't bother me if we were at dinner together. After all, minus the cutting, it's not all that different to how we might eat pasta with just a fork in the right hand. You do you and I'll do what works for me. What's far more important - and this is regardless of where you come from and how you choose to hold your cutlery - are things like not chewing noisily or with your mouth open, and not talking with your mouth stuffed full of food.

I’m Australian and we use our cutlery same as Brit’s. Yes we start from the outside re cutlery and work in. Knife and fork together on plate, means waiter can take plate, not together, joined at top tip means haven’t finished. We ate like that at home growing up and also taught at high school. Rice um, I use a splade, looks like a wider shorter fork.

I took a friend from Norway to a nice lunch a few years back, he always thinks he is a bit posh and prides himself on his knowledge of things The meal went well and instead of a desert he decided to select some fresh fruit from the fruit bowl, he stated to tuck in and peeling a banana, when the waiter turned up with a fruit knife and fork, he was horrified that he didn't realize that there was an etiquette to eating fruit in a meal. It was worth paying for the meal to see him realise he didn't know everything!!

I'm literally less than one minute in and that British girl has bad manners too! If you're still eating, but want to put your utensils down you place them at a 4.40am/pm with the fork facing down. She is holding the knife & fork properly though with the index fingers straight (some hold them like a pen which is wrong).

I think it’s all to do with how you’ve been brought up! I’m British too and also learnt to use a knife and fork like the girl in the video. By the time I started school at four and a half, I knew how to use a knife and fork and even cut up my own food, so to me that’s the correct way to do it. However I will say that I do eat a lot of food now (I’m 57) with a fork in my right hand, usually meals such as pasta and meatballs, or chilli which don’t require a knife for cutting, on those occasions I wouldn’t lay the table with a knife at all!

8:33 I'm in the UK and I rarely use a knife while eating dinner/tea (in a café I'd use a knife but not at home) and I use the fork with my right hand.

I'm Swedish and we eat the same way as the English do

For most food, I would eat like Lauren describes. But if I was eating something that didn’t need cutting, like curry and rice or pasta in sauce, I would use the fork in the right hand in the American way.

In the UK when you're finished you place the knife and fork together, if you haven't finished ... like just having a rest ... the knife and fork is placed apart. This way, especially if you're in a restaurant, the server will know if you're finished or not.

Also where you place the knife and fork is a signal to the waiter/ress. If they are not together you have not finished.

In the UK children's first cutlery used to be a spoon and push. The spoon in the left hand and the push in the right to push semi soft or precut food on the spoon. Using the fork like a spoon encourages the diner to put the tines of the fork to far into the mouth, an accident waiting to happen. Also they open their mouths wider, not a pretty sight. That's why most Europeans would consider this a childish way of eating and something only done in private.

Watching many of the KZfaq channels with Americans try "British" foods, I'm amazed that it appears the US diners eat single items at a time... In the UK, the norm is to load the fork with numerous items to get a combination of flavours. The Full Monty breakfast means each forkfull will contain some egg, bacon, beans with a dab of HP sauce, even some crumbs of black pudding too, maybe all riding on a small square of buttered toast. It's these combinations at every meal which add to the taste and pleasure. One element at a time is soo boring!

We are taught left hand to hold and put items onto fork But more important was keep mouth closed while eating was way more important

As a Brit, I don't find the American use of cutlery "disgusting"; it's just awkward and a bit embarrassing (a bit like watching an adult who doesn't know how to tie their own shoe laces). We're taught cutlery usage as young children in the UK, so it's odd to see American adults eating in such a clumsy way, especially if they do it out in public at a restaurant (if they're at home in front of their TV then it's a totally different matter). The "disgusting" part (for me at least) is that many Americans talk while they have food in their mouths, and they also often chew with their mouths open. They also make noise while eating (chewing noises, slurping, nom-nom etc.). We would have been given a "clip round the ear" and a severe telling off by my parents if me or my siblings ever dared to do *any* of that at the family dinner table.

It's different 🤷‍♀️ .. the fact that you both were very polite and appreciative towards staff, and expressed enjoyment of what you were served (minus the black pudding..😂 forgiven!), is higher up on my list of dining etiquette than cutlery culture differences. It would be interesting if you tried to master the British way of eating, then invite your friends out for a meal at a restaurant, and see if they notice the difference 👀

I eat my pea's with honey, I've done it all my life, it makes the pea's taste funny but it keeps them on my knife.

my dad told me when I was knee high to a grasshopper that in the frontier era the family only had one knife and that was dads. So at meal times they cut everything up first then they all ate once dad had put his knife away. I suspect my dad was pulling my leg but its still an amusing anecdote.

Schools in the UK often ask that all children are able to eat with a knife and fork before they start at age 5. It is something that is expected alongside being toilet trained.

We were taught at an early age to use cutlery, when finished place knife and fork side by side, don't cross them (old superstition, if you cross them, you will have an argument) . Place settings for meals, not difficult, work from outside in towards the plate. Desert spoon and fork above the plate. It's a sign of good manners to eat properly at the table and is not just a British thing, but European. Its not difficult. Taught as a child not to talk at the table and never talk with your mouth full. Keep your mouth closed when chewing.

Honestly i have asked the question "what is he doing" when watching you eat 🤣🤣🤣 i find it amusing more so than a problem. But i do find the way we eat is more effecient and will have less mess lol

I remember my grandparents and parents drilling into us as kids, the correct way to eat. My grandmother also insisted we use a fork and spoon to eat dessert. We had to keep cutlery low down near the plate and no higher and finish by putting the knife and fork together neatly on the plate. Having excellent table manners is a huge thing in the U.K. but each to their own style. We are quite regimented in the way we do certain things.

Kudos to you for checking this out!

Another great reaction! Thanks for doing this as I, like many watching, were intensely triggered by the utensil usage of yourself and the Midwest Americans for example. My reaction to seeing how you guys eat was exactly the same to the woman on this video! I think that, for a lot of us Brits, the idea of cutting the food (meat) up before you start eating it and then swapping the fork over to your dominant hand is something that children do over here as they learn how to use the utensils, so it's a big culture shock to see grown adults doing the same thing; it's like somebody's forgot to show you the grown up stage of how to use a knife and fork! In fact, while watching Ethan on Midwest Americans do this recently I had to put my hand over the screen while he was eating!!! It just seemed so incredibly pointless to put the knife down and swap the fork over to the other hand! I'm like; WHY??? WHAT ARE YOU DOING???😫 As for eating peas, we rarely (I won't say never) turn the fork over and use it like a spoon to scoop them up. As the woman said, we just squash them into other food that we've already got on the fork. Only if we've misjudged the amount of peas we're eating in relation to other food on the plate so we have a lot of peas left over, might we then scoop them up on the fork, but its very much a last resort. As for the etiquette of where to leave your knife and fork at the end? Nah.......just leave it how you want on the plate but away from any remaining food. Once again, thanks for your reaction Joel and for opening yourself up to more good natured banter and, hopefully, constructive criticism!👍

Love your videos, they always make me smile. As a Brit that has travelled to America often and noticed the differences myself its interesting to see you discover them too from the other perspective. Love your openness to learning about a different culture. As for the eating I am right handed too and we just learn to eat using both hands. The knife is super useful too. If eating steak we use a specific steak knife. Keep up the good work 👍

I must be so weird, because I seem to have mastered the skill of rotating the fork to tines up or down to match whatever I want to eat. That's why forks are curved, so as to act as a scoop for things like peas or rice or whatever. As for etiquette, outside of strictly formal settings, as long as you manage to get the food from your plate and into your face without making too much mess or drama, most people probably won't even notice.

I very much doubt anyone would be anngry or offended, at least not in the UK and Ireland. As a continental European I have to admit that there are some countries where they would think you are a peasant (but those countries in any case generally tend to think that all foreigners are uncivilised ... oh, hello France). In the UK you are far more likely to offend someone by standing on the wrong side of the escalator than by how you hold your knife and fork. I will also go so far as to say that most of the British, when eating in private, throw etiquette out of the window and pretty much eat just like you with the fork in the right hand. Some will tell you it is the same in the whole of Europe, but that isn't really true.. there are subtle but obvious differences, such as positioning of knife and fork when you are talking, when you are finished (or even suggesting you'd quite like another helping) which tend to be an instant tell of someone's nationality.

Great video Joel yes we use the continental style in the UK. This is why I am convinced that in the States that beans on toast never took off because of how you use your silverware. Most Americans would slice the toast and then eat the beans off the toast with their fingers? Which is kind of messy whereas the Brits would push the toast and beans onto their fork with their knife.

I was subjected to etiquette lessons when in college so I eat like she was describing when in public. Maybe not the same at home on my own . Not angry with the way you eat just astounded at the amount that is crammed in with each bite.

I found the American way of eating to be rather ignorant, we were at a restaurant with a tour when we were on holiday and the American guy who was on the tour cut everything up then proceeded to rest his left elbow on the table and pretty much shovel food into his mouth. The Italian couple who were sitting next to us could not believe his table manners, napkin screwed up at the side of his plate he used, when eating to wipe his mouth. Totally disgusting in our opinion, there were a few of us on the tour that could not believe his table manners. He pretty much was the topic of conversation between a lot of the tour group. The tour group was mostly Europeans.

The knife and fork are coworkers lol they're companions that assist each other. The knife helps load food onto the fork and control. Cutting individual bites also stops food such as steak from going cold. Coming from the UK but living in Cyprus and seeing how other Europeans eat, I will say that we all use cutlery in this manner. The only time we would cut all the food up first is when we're cutting up food for children. Thought inspiring video, thank you 🙂❤️