Ho vissuto/trascorso del tempo in Svizzera e ho notato qualcosa che non ho mai visto da nessun’altra parte: il modo in cui molte persone tengono la forchetta quando mangiano.
Di solito è: • Forchetta nella mano sinistra • Tenuta molto verticale e in alto sul manico • Quasi verticale, con forte pressione verso il basso • Particolarmente evidente quando si mangia carne
Conosco lo stile generale europeo della “forchetta nella mano sinistra”, ma questa presa specifica sembra decisamente svizzera e, onestamente, un po’ inquietante da guardare 😅
Sono sinceramente curioso: • Viene insegnato a scuola oa casa? • È considerato il modo “corretto” o educato in Svizzera? • O è solo un’abitudine che si è sviluppata culturalmente?
Non sto cercando di giudicare: è solo uno di quei piccoli dettagli culturali che risalta davvero quando lo noti. Curioso di ascoltare prospettive svizzere e non svizzere.
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Yeah I’ve never seen that in my life lmao
I don’t remember seeing this once, except for maybe young children doing similar stuff.
I’ve lived here for 42 years.
Sometimes when the meat is hard, holding the fork the pen way is not strong enough to cut through
never seen that
No one except kids do that, tf you mean😂?
Actually, “insert a text to justify whatever and make it the best in the world”
Never seen an adult around here eat like that before..
Nobody I have ever seen other kids
Never seen it as dramatic as in the picture, but to answer the question, I guess: habit?
Those are the same people who chew with their mouth open, and moan when taking a dump.
From the outside it can look intense… but it’s just efficiency applied to dinner.
We… Don’t ? I saw a lot of American doing that, but that’s not our way to do it at all !
ancestral memories of stabbing habsburgs.
The Swiss have little manners, even less table manners.
32 years here never seen that
I do that, but it’s because I have a disability and lack fine control/strength in that hand. I bet this person on the photo is old, and have the same problem as me 🙂 And maybe there are just more and more old people and you see that more often.
Never seen here in Switzerland but many times in the Nerherlands.
Maybe because it’s actually easier to hold it like this when cutting steak
I switch fork/knife when eating/cutting.
I hold my “used ustensil” in the right hand.
When cutting => Knife in right hand
When eating => Fork in right hand
But that’s because that how it’s the easiest for me lol, pretty sure this is why he is doing that way
However I don’t do it as inelegantly as this dude, dude is assassinating his poor steak, I hold my fork the same way I’d hold it to eat. I never witnessed people doing it like he does
I don’t know for the others but for me there is no cultural etiquette about how you hold your cutlery here… I think?
Sorry, but as a original swiss guy (born and raised) of soon 43 years old, i have legitimately never seen any local here, holding a fork like that – not even people with physical disabilities that might struggle to hold a fork, knife or spoon the “right” way, for obvious reasons.
I have seen this a few times but more in the rural regions and I have the impression they weren‘t taught at home as the focus was more on teaching the kids how to milk a cow or fix a fence than how to hold a fork. And I‘m saying this in the best way possible, because I think it is more important to know how to milk a cow than how to hold a fork.
Only ever seen that in America.
Looks like American cutlery etiquette, which actually is old European etiquette. Maybe it still hasn’t died out completely in Switzerland?
That is not only wrong than also very uncommon to see, specially non children.
No they dont. LOL
Ah, the Waldegg maneuver, rarely seen nowadays
Buure
SchwitzerTutsch brutal habit, you don’t see this in the west Swiss.
My 5 year old holds their fork like that, but I’ve never once seen an adult do it here? Did you go on a trip with the kids from the short bus?
I’ve seen this on occasion, in Switzerland and elsewhere.
I work from the assumption it’s a) an arthritis hack, b) a particularly tough piece of meat, or c) a person raised by Klingons.
I do it sometimes, it just feels more natural to stab the fork into the steak that way because the grip / preparation for cutting is better. But then I remember I’m a lady and people might be watching so I switch and eat it normally lol
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Cutlery etiquette is ridiculous and shallow. This looks efficient.
No, this is not something that’s taught in shcools or at home, quite the opposite actually. No point in spending energy correcting a child handling his fork as long as the food’s being eaten.
If you ask me it shows growth as a culture, parting with the old pointless manners to focus on what truly matters.
But of course we have snobs too.
What kind of circles do you move in? 😂 I’ve never seen it in a restaurant, maybe with small children…
They’re old. Old people are awkward
Born and grown up her and I have seen this only with children or motorically clumsy people.
That is something i rarely see… and i live here since 41 years.
Simply meat from a too old cow that gave no more enough milk to make plenty of not so tasty industrial cheese…
Enjoy Switzerland 🐮
Do you have statistics? How many times have you seen this?
I see this only with kids and seniors.
Kids need to learn – seniors might have problem with rheumatism.
Because no class