Does anyone acctually do that anymore?

Question

does anyone actually sit down at their dining room table with four spoons, and four forks, and siz knives just to eat an ordinary meal. I don't mean at weddings, and posh dinner parties, etc, but just when you and your family/friends/housemates just sit down to eat a 3 course meal?

Answer 1

nah you got no chance of me doing that its just a no go

Answer 2

I don't and I'm not aware of any of my family and friends following such procedures. Apart from anything else an ordinary meal doesn't consist of six courses, perhaps just one or two. So I think these days the minimum of cutlery necessary to eat your meal is all that most people would use. In fact, a lot of people doesn't even like to use a knife if they don't have to, which can reduce the cutlery right down to one fork.

Answer 3

My parents do. If I had a separate dining room I would. At the moment, with a foldaway table in the lounge which has stuff on top, it's just too much of a faff. As it is, I have small foldaway tables which people can use if they don't want to eat off their laps. We just use cutlery according to how many courses there are and what's being served.

Answer 4

I sit down at the table for my main evening meal and use the required cutlery, which usually consists of dinner fork, dinner knife, desert spoon though how much cutlery I use depends on what I am eating. If I have soup I add a soup spoon to that too.

How else does one get food into one's mouth unless it is a McDonald's type meal and eaten with hands, or a sandwich or something similar?

Answer 5

Nope, though I do on occassion break out the chopsticks when having Chinese/Japanese cuisine at home. It just seems to taste better that way if I tried really hard at making the meal (like sashimi, yum!). So I guess if I worked really hard at preparing a fine three-course meal, I might go to the trouble of laying out proper place settings (of course, I'd have to buy all the extra cutlery first, since I don't even own all the different silverware).

Answer 6

I do...just 1 set each of spoon, fork & knife, but still a very formal sit down meal two times a day with entire family (coz I take lunch at work)...

Answer 7

table for my main evening meal and use the required cutlery, which usually consists of dinner fork, dinner knife, desert spoon though how much cutlery I use depends on what I am eating. If I have soup I add a soup spoon to that too.

How else does one get food into one's mouth unless it is a McDonald's type meal and eaten with hands, or a sandwich or something similar?

Answer 8

I don't know how people manage without servants. My staff are highly trained to set the table right. You need sunglasses to view the cutlery, and the different sets of crystal glasses gleam in the light of the chandeliers. The chairs have to be exactly the same apart from each other, and the pure Irish linen napkins (NOT serviettes) have to be folded just so. Sorry - must dash, the gongs just gone, and I'll miss the aperitifs before dinner is served...

Answer 9

Even if it is just freinds for dinner just as a social night I have to say yes, I prefer proper etiquette when eating, none of this talk with your mouth full or which fork is for which dish that children seem to live by. I like manners at the table and insist upon them. It is not snobbish or posh it is merely correct behaviour. If it is just me no I do not use a full range of cutlery, but if anyone outside my household comes to dinner then yes.

Answer 10

No! I don't even know what you'd do with 4 forks, spoons etc?! Lol. Sometimes we sit at the table but we don't do all the 'proper' stuff. We don't see the point, and it's only extra washing up isn't it, which wastes water...etc etc

Answer 11

My wife and i ensure that at least once a week we have a proper sit-down meal with our children. When finished we take time to listen to each other. Its a great way to communicate with the whole family. Thats the problem these days, no-one has time for anybody else.