# Do You Hold The Knife With Your Dominant Hand, Or The Fork With Your Dominant Hand?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 16, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-hold-the-knife-with-your-dominant-hand-or-the-fork-with-your-dominant-hand/824614 "2018-11-16T14:30:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-hold-the-knife-with-your-dominant-hand-or-the-fork-with-your-dominant-hand/824614/81 "2018-11-21T21:23:24Z")

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> [@BwanaBob](#):
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> That’s pretty petty of you to believe that your culture defines the default way of using cutlery, and that someone who doesn’t do it your way has a “lack of ability”. This coming from people who cannot be arsed to pronounce certain foreign/non-local food words properly.

Is that a whoosh or a withering self-criticism?

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