Just realized

[moon_custafer]

that I have never seen anyone eat peas with a knife in real life, but I’ve read generations of books, cartoons, magazine articles, and humorous rhymes about how you shouldn't do it, but I've never seen anyone actually try to do it in real life.

I suppose there must have been some time period in which it was the norm, then it became backwards and outdated, then it died out completely? Like pouring tea from the cup into the saucer and then drinking from the latter, which I also never seen done in person (Bob Peck did it onstage in Nicholas Nickleby to demonstrate that his character was a salt-of-the-earth, old-fashioned Yorkshire farmer).

Comments

Re: I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life

[teenybuffalo]

Asparagus is a finger food, by me. As long as it's not served covered in dressing, you just pick it up by the cut end, flavor the tip, and eat down the stalk until you're done or it's too tough to bite easily, whereupon you wipe your fingers on a napkin. You could cut it into short sections and eat the sections with a fork, but there's no good reason to do that. It'd be like being served corn on the cob and laboriously cutting all the kernels off and eating them with a fork (which people also do, it's just not expected of them when corn is served).