Do you agree or disagree? Wash your hands before coming to table. Take your napkin and put it on your lap. Keep it there during the meal and use it to wipe your hands or mouth whenever necessary. Sit down straight and do not put elbows on the table. Do not eat from your knife. When you eat meat do not cut the whole piece of meat at once. Cut small-sized pieces, and then eat them with a fork. After you have cut off one piece of food, lay your knife down on the edge to the inside. Try not to stuff your mouth full of food. Also, do not talking when you have something in your mouth. While you are eating, put the knife and a fork you are using on the edge of your plate. Not to lay them down on the table. After each course, the knife and fork should be laid side by side in the middle of the plate handles to the right. This shows that you have finished and the plate can be removed. If you leave the knife and fork apart, it will show that you have not finished eating. Roast chicken and game are taken with hands. Hot and cold fish dishes are eaten with a fork. The entrees of fish are eaten with fish knife and fork. Meat dishes (beefsteak) are eaten with a knife and fork. Take your knife in your right hand and the fork in the left hand. Bread, biscuits, cakes, sandwiches and fruit are taken with hands. It is not polite to leave a spoon in a tea cup. Put your spoon on the saucer. Apples and pears are cut with a fruit knife on a plate into four or eight parts. Eat pudding and ice-cream with a dessert spoon. After meal put your fork and knife on the plate, not on the table.Do you agree or disagree? Wash your hands before coming to table.
Take your napkin and put it on your lap. Keep it there during the meal and use it to wipe your hands or mouth whenever necessary.
Sit down straight and do not put elbows on the table.
Do not eat from your knife.
When you eat meat do not cut the whole piece of meat at once. Cut small-sized pieces, and then eat them with a fork. After you have cut off one piece of food, lay your knife down on the edge to the inside.
Try not to stuff your mouth full of food. Also, do not talking when you have something in your mouth.
While you are eating, put the knife and a fork you are using on the edge of your plate. Not to lay them down on the table.
After each course, the knife and fork should be laid side by side in the middle of the plate handles to the right. This shows that you have finished and the plate can be removed. If you leave the knife and fork apart, it will show that you have not finished eating.
Roast chicken and game are taken with hands.
Hot and cold fish dishes are eaten with a fork. The entrees of fish are eaten with fish knife and fork.
Meat dishes (beefsteak) are eaten with a knife and fork. Take your knife in your right hand and the fork in the left hand.
Bread, biscuits, cakes, sandwiches and fruit are taken with hands.
It is not polite to leave a spoon in a tea cup. Put your spoon on the saucer.
Apples and pears are cut with a fruit knife on a plate into four or eight parts.
Eat pudding and ice-cream with a dessert spoon.
After meal put your fork and knife on the plate, not on the table.