Comments on: I’m Going Bananas! http://corduroyorange.com/?p=124 The only Food Blog written by Jesse Sharrard Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:46:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Republic of palau http://corduroyorange.com/?p=124#comment-629 Republic of palau Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:01:07 +0000 http://corduroyorange.com/?p=124#comment-629 That's exactly the way I was taught to to peel a banana at dinner: strictly speaking the English way is that fruit eaten at table is eaten with a knife and fork. Watching someone try to peel a tangerine with a knife and fork is an excellent test of whether the diner is 'people like us' or not, which, like all those other eating shibboleths we have - like drinking soup away from you and passing the port - is the whole point of the exercise. That’s exactly the way I was taught to to peel a banana at dinner: strictly speaking the English way is that fruit eaten at table is eaten with a knife and fork.

Watching someone try to peel a tangerine with a knife and fork is an excellent test of whether the diner is ‘people like us’ or not, which, like all those other eating shibboleths we have - like drinking soup away from you and passing the port - is the whole point of the exercise.

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