Comments on: To Dredge or To Shovel?

By: Laurel

Laurel — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:55:59 +0000

Onto the BACK of the fork? That’s just crazy talk! It’s sloped the wrong way! It’s upside down! How on earth does he eat peas? I think the American way of doing it is better because you’re not waving sharp implements toward your face with your left hand. Don’t give in to this European propogranda. Eat proud. You’re American and shovel it in with pride!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:17:25 +0000

ha ha ha, We both laughed, cuz it’s too close to home, so to speak…. I tried dredging for a week… Almost starved, AND came close to injury… Guess my hands are to Americanized… I keep forgetting to go ‘way back’, and read your earlier posts…. Always a good read…

By: Ileana Snellgrove

Ileana Snellgrove — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:20:59 +0000

Every single time I see blogs as very good as this since I need to quit bludging and start working on mine.Thanks

By: Melinda

Melinda — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:07:44 +0000

I’m American through and through and was actually taught to “dredge”. I even tilt my bowls away from me and eat dessert with a spoon and fork (fork being the knife). When I went to Scotland it didn’t strike me as odd to eat that way because I thought that’s how one ate. Growing up, I was the odd one out around friends because of it.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:54:08 +0000

Agghhh!! I can’t believe you were trying to train anyone to eat “American Style” as you call it. It is the height of bad manners to eat without knife and fork in hand (fork in the left hand) in the civilised world. I had to spend so much time training my American missus how to eat so that we could go to restaurants without me being terribly embarresed.

By: Corey T

Corey T — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:45:44 +0000

I’m a shoveler through in through. Liam, although raised in the US, flip/flops between dredging and shoveling… Maybe Gregory will end up ambidextrous.

Americans also have a tendency to stab food with a fork at every opportunity… I think we just prefer the speed and efficiency. The good news is that we’re all using utensils… unless of course we’re at the Bunratty Medieval Banquet.

Spelling can be an adventure as well. Notice I write American style – shoveling vs shovelling – color vs colour, but sometimes I just can’t resist writing City Centre vs City Center. Then there’s the pronunciation of “H” and “Z” — “haych” and “zed.”

Uh-oh, I think I’m jumping ahead to different blog post