HOWTO EAT DIFFERENT FOODS

Bread and pastries

1. Generally, cookies, slices of cake without soft frosting and other non-sticky
pastires are finger foods. However, if they are served on a plate with a fork, eat
accordingly.
2. Spread a tortilla with sauce or butter; roll it; eat it from the end of the roll.
3. Eat pizza with a knife and fork unless it is a finger food for you.
4. Do not crumble crackers into a bowl of soup.
5. Hot baking powders biscuits, hot rolls and cornbread are buttered all at once;
however, do break them into bite-size pieces of eating.
Fruits
1. Small fruits such as cherries, grapes, raisins and candied fruits are finger foods.
Removed the pits between the thumb and first finger. Place them in the rim of the
plate.
2. To peel oranges, score with a knife from stem end to blossom end several times
around the fruit, then pull away the petal-shaped pieces of rind.
3. Eat oranges served sliced or in sections with a fork.
4. Except at picnics, watermelon is eaten with a fork; seeds are pushed to the side
and remain on the plate.
Meat, fish, poultry
1. Never chew the meat from chop bones or steak bone except at picnic.
2. To eat clams, oysters and snails out of the shell, steady he shell with the left hand
and remove the edible parts with the small seafood fork provided.
3. Use the dinner knife and fork for eating fried shrimps, soft-shelled crabs, fried
scallops and lobster served out of the shell. However, if shrimp have tails that are
intact, they may be held with the fingers, the edible part is eatento the tail, which is
returned to the plate.
4. Place the accompaniments to meat, fish and poultry to the side of the item. Place
it on the item with the fork.

Vegetables

1. Place vegetables relishes on the salad plate or dinner plate in the order of
preference when you help yourself to them
2. French fried potatoes and onion rings are fork foods. Potato chips and shoestring
potatoes are finger food.
3. Eat vegetables served in cream and stewed tomatoes with a spoon.
4. In general, pickled fruits and vegetables are fork foods
5. Use the knife with the fork in cutting wedges of lettuce that the fork alone does
not cut.
6. If it is not broken into halves, hold the cob between your two hands .

Reference
Kinder, F., Green, N., and Harris, N. (1984). Meal Management. 6 th ed. Macmillan
Publishing Company: New York.