Setting the table
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Wow. Double wow. That's just brilliant!
kaneohegirlinaz
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Ditto!
I've gotta know how they smoothly get everyone to sit in the right place with a table that big and so long and obviously with two sides.
At events such as a wedding there's a list of names and then table numbers and it's easy to find where you go, but this.... how?
At events such as a wedding there's a list of names and then table numbers and it's easy to find where you go, but this.... how?
If google is to be believed, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t in this case, very detailed seating charts are made out well ahead of time, attendees are sat according to a strict order of importance, and the charts are sent out to all the attendees offices ahead of time, and there are indeed placards just to help, if needed.
kaneohegirlinaz
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TastyReuben that makes perfect sense!
Damn! And I thought the guests just pulled a ticket out of a hat at the front door and rode their luck!
rascal
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The Kommandant takes about 30 mins setting for 10. Condiment s have to be perfect stout. Knives polished as she sets them. Napkins and everything has to be perfect 
Im cooking so she needs to fill in time
Russ
Im cooking so she needs to fill in time
Russ
rascal
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Seating is who doesn't want to play as my partner . Im notoriously hopeless at euchre.
Russ
Russ
rascal
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Our table is half set for family dinner. Shirls upstairs getting changed so I took this Pic.
Russ
Russ
JAS_OH1
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I'm so glad to see the fork on the left. That's how I set the table. My DH grew up with the fork on the right. He always tells me I set it wrong, even when we go out and the fork is on the left and I point it out, lol.
Barriehie
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Ours goes, from the left:
salad fork, dinner fork (plate) knife with blade facing plate, soup spoon if soup otherwise dessert spoon. If there's a one off tool, claw picker or such, it goes horizontally above the plate with the handle pointing right.
Attention to detail...
This somewhat effete gentleman has got it right on the button here.
Proper table settings
I've a feeling that, in Mediaeval times, forks were not used; only knives (and hands). The knife was always placed for the dominant hand, which was the right hand; left handers were considered suspicious and even ungodly. Logically, I suppose, when the fork came into practice, the only place for it was on the left of the plate.
Proper table settings
I've a feeling that, in Mediaeval times, forks were not used; only knives (and hands). The knife was always placed for the dominant hand, which was the right hand; left handers were considered suspicious and even ungodly. Logically, I suppose, when the fork came into practice, the only place for it was on the left of the plate.
JAS_OH1
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Which works out for you and I and a few others who just happen to be left-handed! Makes perfect sense to me, LOL. My DH and his brother and parents, on the other "hand", are all righties so his mom just set the table in the "right" way (which is the wrong way).
I don't switch hands when I cut food though, I cut with my right hand and eat my food with my left hand. I noticed right-handed people have to stop and switch. Which is probably why my husband cuts up all of his food before eating, which makes it cold before he starts to eat. IDK, eating for some people is so complicated. We should probably just be eating with our hands like the Earl of Sandwich.
badjak
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Switch hands?
I'm a right hander, never switch hands or cutlery.
Knife and fork: knife right, fork left.
Cut meat per bite, use knife to get it on fork, bring to mouth with left hand.
Open mouth, put food in, chew, swallow etc.
Pasta & rice come with spoon and fork. Spoon on right, fork left. Use spoon and fork to get right proportion on spoon.
Bring to mouth with right hand, open mouth, put food in, chew, swallow etc.
Or in short: I use both utensils when eating. Not one, unless it is soup
I'm a right hander, never switch hands or cutlery.
Knife and fork: knife right, fork left.
Cut meat per bite, use knife to get it on fork, bring to mouth with left hand.
Open mouth, put food in, chew, swallow etc.
Pasta & rice come with spoon and fork. Spoon on right, fork left. Use spoon and fork to get right proportion on spoon.
Bring to mouth with right hand, open mouth, put food in, chew, swallow etc.
Or in short: I use both utensils when eating. Not one, unless it is soup