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to rissoles, cereal and, in general, to anything that is soft enough to
be comfortably eaten with spoon or fork
6. What is the way to eat chicken?
Birds are not eaten with fingers. Cut off and eat as much as possible
by using your knife and fork, eat the remaining part by the end of the
bone.
7. How should you cut your meat?
It is wrong first to cut all the meat you have got on your plate in
small pieces and then eat it. Cut off a slice at a time, eat it, then cut
off another, holding your knife in the right hand and your fork in the
left hand. The pieces must be small, manoeuvrable and chewed with
ease.
8. What is the correct way to eat cheese and sandwiches?
Cheese is one thing that may be spread with either a knife or a fork.
All ordinary sandwiches are eaten with your fingers.
9. What should you know when you help yourself to condiments,
gravies, pickles, jellies.?
Remember that gravy should be put on the meat, and condiments,
pickles and jellies at the side of whatever they accompany.
10. How should one eat vegetables, potatoes, macaroni?
Place them on your fork with the help of your knife.
11. What is one supposed to do with the stones (pits and seeds) while
eating stewed fruit?
Eat them quite bare and clean in the mouth and drop them into the
cupped fist or take them from your mouth on your spoon and then
place them on your own saucer.
12. How should one eat fruit and berries?
Apples and pears are quartered, usually with a knife. All juicy or
soft fruit (or cake) is beat eaten with a fork; in most cases it is a
matter of dexterity rather than rule. If you are able to eat a peach or
ripe pear in your fingers and not smear your face and not let juice
run down, you may continue the feat.
An enjoyable way to eat oranges is to slice the two ends of the rind
off first, then putting it on one end and holding on the plate with
fingers of the left hand, cut the peel off in vertical stripes with the
knife. Then cut the peeled orange in half at its equator. After this
each half is easily cut and eaten mouthful by mouthful, with knife
and fork together. Water-melon is cut into large-size pieces or
slices and usually eaten with a knife and a fork. Or, if with a fork
alone, remove seeds with tines and then cut piece with side of a

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