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Default (2007-08-05) New survey on the RFC site: How do you hold your knife and fork

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> I'm happy to be shown I'm wrong, but the impression we have here in Oz
> is that "Americans" chop stuff up, then switch the fork to the other
> hand to shovel the bits into the mouth. Are you saying they do this
> one bite at a time? Or have I got my ethnics mixed?
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>


There is a phrase that I use (as an American) to answer a person who is
always saying "we" when he/she speaks for others, or for that matter, a
whole nation as you do here

"What's the matter, got a toad in your pocket"?

Where the hell is Oz anyway?

Just another dumb, uncouth American,
Dee Dee