An American's observations about his visit to England go viral

[Orang Utan]

The fork is not "upside down" it is simply the "correct way"

This is the "correct way":

 

[danny la rouge]

This is the "correct way":

So upside down is the correct way?

 

[fishfinger]

This is the "correct way":

For a spoon, yes.

 

[Orang Utan]

So upside down is the correct way?

If you're spearing meat it is, but not if you're eating a stew or a casserole.

 

[fishfinger]

If you're spearing meat it is, but not if you're eating a stew or a casserole.

Then use a spoon.

 

[Orang Utan]

For a spoon, yes.

Do you eat stew with your fork the other way round from that?
How about mashed potato?

 

[Orang Utan]

Then use a spoon.

I do often use a spoon and a fork.

 

[peterkro]

People in the South of England claim to enjoy a luminous red sausage called a "saveloy".

People in the Antipodes like savs most often fried in batter and also little red ones known as Cheerios.

 

[Celyn]

what's all that shit with putting your fork and knife down at 10 to 4?
i indicate to t he server that i'm not done by still having my knife and fork in my hands and indicate i'm done by eating all the food on my plate.

You might not want all the food on your plate.

 

[fishfinger]

Do you eat stew with your fork the other way round from that?
How about mashed potato?

When eating stew I usually use a spoon. With mash I usually push that onto the fork using a knife.

 

[Orang Utan]

You might not want all the food on your plate.

You might not, but i always clear a plate.
I don't think you need to be quite so exact about cutlery placing, just as long as they're on the plate fully

 

[danny la rouge]

If you're spearing meat it is, but not if you're eating a stew or a casserole.

You showed me a picture of an upside down fork and called it the correct way.

I am making no claim as to correctness of inversion, as it's a duel function tool to me: spearing and shovelling. But clearly shovelling mode (the mode you call "correct") is upside down from the primary mode (spearing), since the tool was designed to spear, or the inventor would have stuck with a spoon.

For me, the best way to hold it depends on what you're doing: for picking up peas you need it upside down. But that's only "correct" for that type of function. For spearing bits of pizza it'd be a foolish way to hold it.

 

[Orang Utan]

When eating stew I usually use a spoon. With mash I usually push that onto the fork using a knife.

the latter activity seems impractical to me.

 

[MrSki]

what's all that shit with putting your fork and knife down at 10 to 4?
i indicate to the server that i'm not done by still having my knife and fork in my hands and indicate i'm done by eating all the food on my plate.

It means you still want to eat either what is on your plate (& are just taking a rest) or you a going to have seconds. It is a signal to waiting staff as to whether to clear you plate or not.

 

[fishfinger]

the latter activity seems impractical to me.

Not if you've already got some meat or veg on the fork.

 

[danny la rouge]

People in the Antipodes like savs most often fried in batter and also little red ones known as Cheerios.

No, the game's up. I've just had it confirmed that this is a myth. Saveloys don't exist.

 

[Orang Utan]

You showed me a picture of an upside down fork and called it the correct way.

I am making no claim as to correctness of inversion, as it's a duel function tool to me: spearing and shovelling. But clearly shovelling mode (the mode you call "correct") is upside down from the primary mode (spearing), since the tool was designed to spear, or the inventor would have stuck with a spoon.

For me, the best way to hold it depends on what you're doing: for picking up peas you need it upside down. But that's only "correct" for that type of function. For spearing bits of pizza it'd be a foolish way to hold it.

fair dos, i guess as a scotch you eat flanks of dead sheep almost every day, so spearing is a more common activity, but my fork's primary function is as a shovel.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not if you've already got some meat or veg on the fork.

then why are you shoving more food on it?

 

[Chick Webb]

No, the game's up. I've just had it confirmed that this is a myth. Saveloys don't exist.

Scones are fucking disgusting. I can't lay that blame at ye're door though, Irish people like them just as much

 

[danny la rouge]

fair dos, i guess as a scotch you eat flanks of dead sheep almost every day, so spearing is a more common activity, but my fork's primary function is as a shovel.

Use it how you will, but the design is clearly tines pointing downwards. Hold them pointing upwards, and useful though that may be, it is inverted.

 

[peterkro]

No, the game's up. I've just had it confirmed that this is a myth. Saveloys don't exist.

Wikipedia appears to believe they exist in parts of the UK to:

Saveloy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Orang Utan]

Scones are fucking disgusting. I can't lay that blame at ye're door though, Irish people like them just as much

they're lush with butter, jam and clotted cream on. or just butter tbf

 

[danny la rouge]

Wikipedia appears to believe they exist in parts of the UK to:

Saveloy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And if I click on history, will I find you just wrote that?

 

[Chick Webb]

There is only one kind of sausage in Ireland. That's more of your foreign weirdness. It's probably cos ye're Germans.

 

[fishfinger]

then why are you shoving more food on it?

Because the fork is not full.

 

[Chick Webb]

French Germans.

 

[Celyn]

.. it's a duel function tool to me: spearing and shovelling...

Duel, eh? Forks at dawn!

 

[danny la rouge]

Scones are fucking disgusting. I can't lay that blame at ye're door though, Irish people like them just as much

That seems a bit gratuitous.

I like scones, but as you attest, their existence is not in question. Saveloys on the other hand probably don't exist.

 

[Orang Utan]

Because the fork is not full.

ah, you're one of those types who has to have a little of each food crammed on their fork. you know it would be easier if you turned it over and scooped it all up instead?

 

[Orang Utan]

That seems a bit gratuitous.

I like scones, but as you attest, their existence is not in question. Saveloys on the other hand probably don't exist.

i'm afraid they're all over england