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I do this. I'm British and my American acquaintances laugh at me for doing so, but why does the hand you hold the fork in make any difference? It's not like there are left-handed and right-handed chips.
No, but chips are narrow and require some dexterity.
Those right-handed people who grow up habitually switching their fork to their right hand never develop decent left-hand fork-handling skills.
Why do you do it, out of interest? Do you just not like the feeling of chips in your hand, or is it a hygeine thing?
But if a culture always eats with the fork in the left hand, then they do not switch the fork to the right hand, because using the fork with the right hand is the opposite of using the fork with the left hand.
@intensely_human yeah I realize now that for them eating chips with a fork tines-down in your left hand is probably easy because they are used to it - they even balance peas on the backs of forks.
Hmm I wonder if it gives them more dextrousity in their left hands in general.
I was taught that it's rude to touch food with your hands. Most dishes that come with chips need the use of a knife and fork for the other items anyway, why put them down and grab one part of the food? Also, chips are supposed to be really hot.
That reasoning makes sense. We (kiwis) all use our fingers to eat battered fish, crabsticks, squid rings, battered sausage on a stick, etc etc but if you need a knife and fork for those anyway then putting it down for chips would be annoying.
That explains why a couple of the UK people in my life want plates for their fish, too. They probably want to use a knife on it, and doing that on newsprint is not a good idea.
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No? It just becomes normal. Same as not eating worms.