Poll: How Do You Hold Your Fork?!

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Fijiman

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I use forks sideways and hold them with my brain.

In all seriousness I have no real clue how I do it and don't care too much so long as the food is safely conveyed to my mouth.
 

Tsun Tzu

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I'm a douchebag.

Also, I wasn't even aware there was another way to hold a fork...it's up. The angle is designed that way to facilitate ease of food-shoving into the facial orifice.
 

DefunctTheory

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What? The only time I've ever seen someone in a movie hold a fork the wrong way (Downward) is when their doing pasta, and quite obviously trying not to get huge hunks of it in their mouths (So they don't have to spit so much into the spit bucket).

Are you sure you're not getting confused with spoons, which many people rotate in their mouths so they can lick out the concave part? Can you provide any examples for this bizarre behavior?
 

Something Amyss

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Tines face up when approaching my mouth. As to how I hold my fork, I actually trap it between my elbows like a normal person.

MarsAtlas said:
I'm confused what you mean by "up" and "down". I hold a fork quite similar to how I hold a pen or pencil. Like madwarper's picture but further up the neck, closer to the prongs. Fastest stabbing of food with the best control.
If you're not holding it in an icepick grip, you're not stabbing fast enough.
 

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Wakey87 said:
Down obviously, how you suppose to eat a steak with it facing upwards? =/
You spin it around before putting it in your mouth.

I'm a prongs up kinda guy. For me it's really just a shittier spoon.
 

Kolby Jack

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madwarper said:
Ummm... Neither?

You hold the fork in your hand hand under your thumb and between your fore and middle finger (perpendicular to the fist).
I do the left picture pretty often. Feels more natural to me. "Proper" ways to do things are often arbitrary rather than practical. Who gives a shit?
 

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I hold my fork to one's neck before telling them that I knew all along that the food was poisoned... *grins* Now, who's the "prong" one?

*ahem* I mean, sideways on the X-axis... I may or may not twirl the fork in question and/or bring in a finger or two if necessary...
 

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Scooping with the fork prongs up, stabbing with the fork prongs down. Seems fairly obvious to me as it's the only efficient way to do things.
 

krystalphoenix

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Pointing down is much easier for cutting up food, so that's how I was taught. I only really rotate to the pointing up variant if I need to scoop things up.
 

kurupt87

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Depends if the fork is flying solo or part of a daring duo of cutlery alongside the trusty knife.

Solo, right handed and prongs up.

Paired, left handed and prongs down.
 

Ugicywapih

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I generally eat with prongs pointing downwards if I'm stabbing the bits of food, or with prongs up if I'm shoveling them.

So, I swing both ways, I guess.
 

Johnny Novgorod

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Stab, cut, eat: down.
If I'm scooping, I dunno, noodles or mashed potatoes or something like that, then up.
 

Drops a Sweet Katana

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Both. At the same time. But seriously, I'm prongs down when the knife is involved or skewering is preferable and prongs up when it's better to scoop.
 

Cartographer

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First off, forks have tines, not prongs.

wikipedia said:
The fork is held with the left hand and the knife held with the right. The fork is held generally with the tines down, using the knife to cut food or help guide food on to the fork. When no knife is being used, the fork can be held with the tines up. Under no circumstances should the fork be held like a shovel
Yes, that means you're supposed to stab peas to transfer them to your mouth; learn how to eat, barbarian!

All you people talking about "scooping" food with a fork...
Really it's like you never paid attention to your tutors in finishing school...
 

Spaceman Spiff

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Up if scooping. Down if spearing. Always with a fist (never like holding a pen). Once had a girlfriend who was horrified when I wasn't holding the fork the "proper" way while we ate in a mall food court. Good times.
 

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I have no idea, probably mostly up so stuff do not fall off
I rarely use forks, almost everything i eat can be shoveled in with spoon
And i practically never use eating cutlery knives, which would seem ironic considering my voluptuous collection of knives

 

lacktheknack

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Am I cutting anything? The fork is a malleable tool that turns up and down as needed.