ChattyCathy wrote:
> Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article >,
>> Goomba38 > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> People with good manners never cut up all their food at once. What a
>>> barbaric way to eat.
>>
>> This is a worldwide newsgroup, and manners vary by country. In some
>> countries it is bad manners to serve food that needs to be cut at the
>> table. The cook is expected to cut all food into pieces before
>> serving. Knives and forks are not even present at the table.
>
> Exactly Dan. *Some* people around here seem to forget that r.f.c. is
> indeed a world-wide group, or even that the Earth is round, for that
> matter...

Let me clarify my previous answer. Phred was asking about the perception
that *Americans* cut up all their food and shovel it in. My response was
about the manners of *Americans* who are trying to do "the right thing"
at table.