I Can’t Stop Laughing. According To This Chart, l Am Upper-Class! What Are You?

[ruthio]

@Harbal

One thing that struck me was the issue of peas. Apparently, a superior human being eats them from the back of the fork, while an inferior one would scoop them up with the concave of the fork. To me, this isn’t a matter of class, it is one of common sense. Why on earth devote any time and effort into acquiring the skill of balancing peas on the back of a fork? What is the benefit, other than to give you a misguided ground for claiming it somehow makes you better? The trouble is, if you refuse to struggle with trying to make peas stay on an upside-down fork simply to demonstrate that you refuse to participate in this silly class system we have, you are still letting your behaviour be dictated by it.

Anyone attempting to eat peas in any way other than safely in the curve of the inverted fork is showing a very low I.Q. in my opinion!

[Besoeker]

Definitely lower class. We have a collie…

[Artangel]

I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife

[JBR]

I appear to tend toward lower class, but I know how to hold my knife properly!

[Melgal70]

Out of interest, what class of people even bother looking at the Daily Mail ?

[Harbal]

@Artangel

I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife

I don’t like that idea,
it makes the peas too sweet.
Sweet peas are fine in vases,
But they’re not much good to eat.

[Artangel]

Mel, l think it appeared in other newspapers too.

[Melgal70]

Personally I’d only have put it on here if it was in a more highbrow paper Art. Got to keep ones standards up!

[wendeey]

What Newspaper Does The Queen Read? – SLFP

What Newspapers Do The Royal Family Read?

In addition to the Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Evening Standard, The Telegraph, The Times, and The Sun, there are other newspapers in the rota.

[wendeey]

I’m like the Queen I browse all the papers

[Harbal]

@wendeey

what newspaper does the-queen read?

I wouldn’t think she dare read any, these days.

[Melgal70]

Don’t know if it’s still true but newspapers used to be very good for cleaning windows and car windscreens. Think it was something to do with the acidity of the ink.

[Bruce]

@Harbal

One thing that struck me was the issue of peas. Apparently, a superior human being eats them from the back of the fork, while an inferior one would scoop them up with the concave of the fork. To me, this isn’t a matter of class, it is one of common sense.

Depending on the meal I tend toward the Asian thing of preferring a spoon and fork to a knife and fork.

Obviously if meat needs cutting a knife is needed (though you could cut it up before serving) but for most other meals a spoon and fork is better.

[ruthio]

What happened to the spoon and pusher?!

[Melgal70]

Is that a pub?

[ruthio]

@Melgal70

Is that a pub?

You are daft!!

[Bratti]

That means BS , right ?
I agree. Crazy assumption.

[MrFraggle67]

@PixieKnuckles

so I have no class at all

What can I say?

[swimfeeders]

Hi

The Social Norms of eating.

Very important in Polite Society and when having an Interview.

Especially important in Officer Candidates for the Armed Forces and in Private Banking.

I know that eating peas on the back of the fork, you have to stab them, is the right thing to do.

I learnt this by watching the posh ones from Private Schools when we had a meal at the end of Day 1 of interviews.

The most intelligent, highest scoring applicant was dismissed from day two for asking for ketchup.

The British Disease, we are not a meritocracy , you have to be part of the club.

[summer]

Your comments about eating peas correctly brought back memories Harbal…my mum was a real stickler for table manners and always insisted we used our fork correctly…I dreaded those dinners with peas…we had holes in our shoes and perfect table manners