Phred wrote:
It really is an interesting
> variation on methods of feeding. I wonder how it is that you folk do
> that and we in Oz (and, I think, Kiwiland) don't?


I'm no expert on the history of table manners. I do recall reading an
Emily Post etiquette book that came out just after WWII. In it, she
decries the "new" American system of switching the fork to the right to
bring the food to the mouth. She called it ridiculous. I don't have
the book in front of me, but I seem to remember something along those
lines. If my memory of the book is correct, the American way was a fad
that caught on in relatively recent memory.


--Lia