[modeleng] Re: boiler making
- From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 13:28:10 -0600
Hubert,
I seem to recall my friends from Switzerland doing the "knife and fork
stuff" also.
Jesse
> My first business trips to the States involved a sudden linguistic
> learning
> curve!
>
> Another thing that happened was, when eating on my own in a restaurant
> (the
> curse of business travel!) the waitress would watch me eating, for a
> while,
> and then come over and say 'Say, you're from England'! When asked why,
> she
> would reply 'This knife and fork stuff!' In the States, as in Holland,
> you tend to cut everything up and then take the fork in your right hand
> and
> eat without a knife, whereas we tend to use the knife as a 'pusher'. If
> you think about it, this is more mechanically efficient!!
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