Hi inran It is perfectly ok to be discussing this because all this cutlery is not part of our culture so we need to learn all this from someone else. First of all I would like explain to you the layout of cutlery on a table. Forks are placed on the left hand side of your plate and spoons and knives on the right. This is because if you need to use a knife to vut something, your grip is usually better with the right hand and the fork holds down the food with the left. But in case you are using a spoon and fork, then if it is noodles you would use the fork in your right hand and a spoon to help support your food in your left hand. The easiest way to tackle noodles is to dig your fork into the noodles and turn your fork around in a clockwise direction which will wrap the noodles around the fork thus making it easier to lift and put into your mouth. If there is a gravy along with it, then the spoon in the left hand will help to collect and put on the rice or noodles. Hope this helps and if this makes sense then you can ask for any more that I might help with.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Syed Imran Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 07:37 To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries Hi In fact, today's incident influenced me to write this on access India. It was somewhat hillarious, somewhat embarrassing After Christmas celebration in our college, I went to have lunch in our college caffeteria. Usually I bring my lunch box to college, but today I just forgot it at home. So, I and some of my friends went to caffeteria along with our Economics ma'm. Sitting on a seat in front of a circular granite table, I childishly said "noodles", when my friends asked me what I wanted to have. I gave the money to my friend, and he brought me a plate of noodles. It contained two disposable plastic forks, and boy, I thought this time I am caught! "No, not this time," I said to myself, "I somehow ought to give my best shot, best impression! and its going to work, somehow its going to work.". After thus assuring myself, I started on my own. I'm not going to narrate what happened then, but I ended up lying them that the food was not tasty and I then returned to classroom. First of all, it was embarrassing to discuss any kind of issue like this on the list, but I have overcome such embarrassment. As is the case, I would like to know some of your tips of using cutleries, like spoons, forks, knives etc properly, in front of sighted folks. Yes, one can always use their hands to have the food, but I think we too are entitled to eat "attractively". If not attractively, at least to save the time of washing our hands after the meal, we need to use such things. With best regards Syed Imran To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
