I went to charm school in the 80s and learned table etiquette, social etiquette, and social dancing. It has served me well to this day. I’m never worried about embarrassing myself or my husband at a business dinner.
I love this. Everyone should have to. I was fortunate enough to be in a public school system that still taught these things. Homecec taught table manners and hostesses. Gym class had dance on Fridays that taught social graces. We got so much more than they get now.
@Anoek66 it really does ruin people. You start out with thinking all the from from is nonsense to calling cold beans straight out of a can opened with a pocket knife..good enough. Before long..anything that requires any effort or shows regard for anyone else but yourself..is too much trouble.
I did, too. Lol. Finishing School. We got hatboxes as a gift at the end. The thing I will never forget is how to back up to a chair and feel it with the back of your leg. Then sit straight down and demurely slide back. “Girls! Do not be a “fanny reacher!!” 😂Lord have mercy if you stick your butt out looking for the seat and are, therefore, a dreaded ‘fanny reacher!’ You would be shocked how many women do this horrific move! 😬🤣 I notice Princess Catherine is NOT a fanny reacher.
Oh true! That’s interesting actually. I know they had finishing school in the years gone by yet I have never heard of that. I needed it . I’m 55 and I still always to drop something on my top 😂
I just came across your channel. Thank you for your video. I'm 76 years old. This is how I was taught to eat in the 1950s. My family was not rich, but middle class. Dad was a factory worker. But mother said just because we weren't part of the upper class we still should eat like civilized people. We always had cloth napkins beside our plates. ❤
In general , yes, in America people swap their knife and fork around. But when I was young I was told by my Grandparents to just "do what feels natural". So I never changed them around. My Grandfather was French and he always smiled when I left them in the proper hand. I remember them saying to my mother, she must be an old soul, lol
I am American and I am right-handed; however, I never learned the technique of cutting with my right hand and then switching my fork to my right hand to eat. Instead, I cut with my left hand and the fork remains in my dominant right hand. I am not certain why I learned it this way, it could be because my father was basically ambidextrous. All I know is, it works for me!😊
I’m American and if I’m eating something that requires to cut as I’m eating it, I do not switch my fork! If it only requires one cut or two then, yes I will switch 😊
Table etiquette hasn’t changed much. Whether people follow it or not is a different question. Some of the rules are different depending on which country you are from.
I think it's really a matter of formality. It seems like in the 1950's they had more occasion to be formal, from the evening meal to the office. Today, unless you're going to some rare special event like a wedding or a diplomatic reception or something, table etiquette seems less likely to come up.
@@jgood005 It's also a matter of execution. You can follow the basic rules without being very proper, sitting up straight, being done up etc. Makes a lot of difference in how "strict" it appears
I think it can also depend on the region. Here in the States, there differences between North, South, Midwest, West. There are also generational and cultural differences. I’ve been with people who start eating before everyone is served (like out at a restaurant) and been with people who wait. I was taught to wait so I wait unless one person’s meal is taking a lot longer. I’ve seen older people wait even then because that’s what they were taught. Burping and slurping are not seen as rude in some cultures, so it is good to be mindful of cultural etiquette in certain situations.
It may not have changed much, but the vast majority of younger people haven’t even got a clue that ‘etiquette’ exists! They don’t have to practice it anywhere and even in a high end restaurant they act like they are The Goops eating in front of the TV at home I notice people act like they’re in their living room watching a movie at public movie theaters….talking, munching and rustling, texting, and going in and out! When they come back from buying more food, they want whomever they are with to fill them in. smh Where would they learn formal or semi-formal manners? Manners are not even depicted anywhere for them to even observe them. I know my grandkids, who are nice kids, don’t even know how to dress in anything that doesn’t have an active wear label. It’s a lost part of our culture.
I was a child during the 1950’s. I grew up in a middle class suburb. Everyone just had one fork at mealtimes at my house. I have an older sibling and 4 younger siblings. The goal at mealtimes was to keep all of the children from arguing with each other. We ate at restaurants a lot, including at a pancake house. I recall just one fork for every person at the restaurants. Also, my father usually was working when we ate out at restaurants, so of course my mother did the ordering. My brother never pulled out a chair for any of his sisters. We had a couple and all of their children as dinner guests a few times. I recall just one fork for each person. I carefully watched this video to find out about what seems to me like 1950’s formal dining. I learned a lot! Also, (off-topic), if you watch “Queen for a Day” on you tube, you can get a good idea about how life really was for many people during the 1950’s.
Most recipes from that era never make enough frosting/icing. I has my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the early 50s. I finally gave it to a niece who loves to cook. At first, it was hard for me to part with it, but since she appreciates vintage things, I gave it to her. I'm 76, and I have no one to pass it down to. I love your channel. It brings back many childhood memories growing up in the 50s. ❤
Only thing missing is the silver coaster under the water glass, usually with a paper doily in it to absorb the water from condensation, or any spillage from drinking. In my family it was always a mortal sin to place down any glass straight on the table. Also, never forget to compliment the host about the meal and table setting, etc. Let them know you appreciate the effort they went through to put together the meal. Yes, even when it’s “just” mom cooking every day.
My parents were married for 63 years. Even if my Mom served my Dad leftovers, he still thanked her, every single evening, for making and serving dinner.
I'm 37, married 16 years and my husband always thanks me for dinner! It really makes me so happy because I always put so much effort into the meals I make and serve!!
@@planetoftheeps same, but I'm 39 and married for 13 years! My husband is always very thankful every time I cook. Which is daily unless it's a special occasion. I love cooking for my family 😊
Table etiquette has not changed that I'm aware of. We were raised the same way. My husband still opens doors for me, pulls out my chair and orders my food for me after finding out what I want. We raised our kids this way, and having adopted our grandson, are raising him the same way. He is 8 and opens doors for ladies at restaurants, stores. Sometimes he forgets but "papa" reminds him to be a gentleman. We are also raising him to say yes ma'am, sir, please and thank you. There is nothing wrong with manners and courtesy. Thank you for doing this video!! I'm from Texas, USA.
Your grandson will carry the torch for practicing common courtesy and mannerisms in to the next generation! Kudos to you ! Children need to learn this to carry on in society ❤😊👍🏻🙂
This is pretty similar to how I was taught by my mom (who was a child of that era in the US and had it drilled). Another critical rule: never reach for a serving dish. Always say, "Could you please pass the xyz?" That exact phrasing was required. It is also a hard requirement that, after everyone is done, there is a conversation about how wonderful the food was.
My husband always orders for me at restaurants because a) I have social anxiety, b) he wants me to be as comfortable and taken care of as possible and c) I love when he does 😂 I had no idea it was a 1950s thing too!
No, not at all. He's not deciding what food I eat, he's merely telling the waitstaff what I want to eat after I make that choice. Having traditional values/practices doesn't automatically mean you're being abused or controlled 😂
I had to learn etiquette because my parents were diplomats, and it is surprising how it has stayed the same since the 50s. Some people might find it complicated, but in my experience, they become a habit hard to unlearn. Some of them I used unconsciously, even when not necessary.
My grandmother taught me all about table setting, table manners, dinner etiquette, etc...I'm SO happy she did. I'm never embarrassed or worried about what to do. I'm ALWAYS the one everyone is asking what to do, what utensil to use, how to set the table, etc. I love all the knowledge she gave me.
I'm from Germany, born in 1988, my mother grew up in the 50s and my grandparents were born in 1908 and 1913. I don't know if it was the same in all areas of Germany, but I was taught the same etiquette with ONE exception: the dessert spoon/knife were on TOP of the dish, not to the left or right. Learned it that way from my grandparents, as they took care of me after school till my mom came home from work.
A video from Sage is like a fabulous Christmas present for me! I look forward to the day that the video is posted, and the anticipation drives me crazy! When I get the notification of a new video, I immediately rush to watch it! It always turns out to be the highlight of my day, or night, and the best present ever!❤❤❤
My daughters took cotillion and learned table manners there. They don’t use it at home but do when they are somewhere else. They also learned a trick for remembering which side for bread plates and drink glasses- just make your hand a into a “b” on the right and “d” on the left and that tells you what glass to drink from and where your bread plate should be!
Sage, you are correct, in the U.S. we typically cut our food the same way as you and then switch the fork to the right hand. I personally have a tendency to cut everything at the start of the meal so I don't have to keep using my knife. Plus it keeps us from bumping elbows with the left handed family members around our round table.😉 Hope you have a TERRIFIC week ahead.
For the Americans who may be confused at the wording: Entree is appetizer or starter, comes from the French language. The word also means entrance in French. Plat principal is French for main course. Why Americans changed entree to main course, who knows. Very confusing in my honest opinion.
My Scottish family taught me to put the fork on its side with the knife through the tines to signal that I was finished eating. My Canadian family all but licked the plate clean and kept the knife and fork in hand for the next plateful. 😀 Economic conditions greatly dictated table manners. Great video! 👏💜
Oh Sage I do love this etiquette instruction video which you recreated so beautifully, impeccable grooming included, and in amusing detail which made me giggle. I was brought up a child of the 60's and lived this way. When we (children) finished eating we always asked "May I leave the table"? before we were permitted to do so. When my own children were growing up in the 80's I was still setting the table with a real tablecloth until too many spills with beetroot /gravy/tomato sauce cured me of this etiquette habit from the past, and was replaced with placemats and paper serviettes!! Going out to work also helped lessen the ironing everything in sight urge in me. However my grown children still ask to be excused from the table, which delights me to this day. Sage, you have reignited an urge in me to set the table with a "proper" tablecloth and napkins the next time my family come to share a meal with us just to gauge their reactions. At least we never have a meal in front of the telly, but I will have to move our precious golden retriever from underneath the table so she doesn't get caught up in the table cloth. I always set the table with linen cloth and my best tableware at Christmas so why not do it more often. Good manners will never go out of style (I hope)! Love from South Australia. 🐾💐
I am from California and hold my knife in the right and fork in the left. But my mom was born in Germany so she taught us European table manners. I love that she taught me what all the utensils were used for! Just found your channel and I am totally enjoying your content! Thanks for all the Dining through the Decades episodes, those were fun.
I love this video thank you for sharing, I missed you. I have been watching old TV shows like, The Donna Reed show and Leave it to Beaver they did have table manners back then. :) People in the 1950's did have table etiquette that was so nice, but unfortunately todays families really don't eat at the table anymore. Things have changed quite a bit over the decade sad to say. I am sure there are still families or people out there that eat like that, I just don't know them. I didn't grow up in the 50's but we had to eat at the table with the family and had manners when we eat. I love the 50's, I always have and I wish we could go back to those times.
I definitely learned a few things! In my family we were brought up to use proper table manners, but some we missed. I'm American and left handed, so I don't switch my fork to my right hand. This was a great reminder to use good table manners. I think in America good table manners ( and manners in general) have really slipped.
I grew up with table ettiquette, from generations of teachings from my ancestors. Our dessert spoon and fork were actually at the top of our plate horizontally placed under the caviar wooden/ivory fork that was atop those two. Our table napkin was on our plate or glass instead of the right side (although I think this was just for added flair) I still set my table this way even to this day when I have company over. I also have the 5 O'clock rule with my cutlery once I'm done eating too. Great video I think this was so charming to watch! ❤
My husband was brought up on a stricter table etiquette than me. He still sometimes asks if I've finished eating because I've not put the knife and fork on the empty plate in the correct way. Apparently there's a special meaning of how the cutlery is laid to rest on the empty plate. Fork prongs up with the knife balanced between prongs, as well as fork lying separately from knife prongs down, are supposedly ways of communicating that you weren't particularly happy with the meal.
Being an American whose husband's job took us around the world I've found that most people in most countries think we Americans really don't know how to properly use a knife & fork.It fascinates them to watch us shifting the forks back & forth between our Rt & left hand. I was fascinated watching my in laws eat off the knife sometimes - they are British.I'm sure that is not excepted etiquette.
@@smileyraw My BIL lost their mother during WW2 and were raised by their father.That could have a lot to do with it. My husband did not eat off his knife , but he had left home quite young and was in an apprentiship, living away at his job.
@@ginger1549 I've read that the lower classes ( excuse the snobbery) used to eat off the knife sometimes in olden days up til the 1920s. Men don't care about etiquette as much as women do. It may also be a hold over from the cutlery of the early to middle 1900s. I'm 60 but grew up eating off a set of good cutlery from the 1940s. Mum loved them. But the width of the fork "bowl" was thinner than the knife! Eating peas etc was a nightmare. Mum told me that when my Grandma was out at a meeting and her Dad prepared dinner (ex Army man who knew how to cook) he taught them to put the mashed potato on the knife and then smush it into the peas! Mum mustn't know though. 😄😉
Oh I love this so much! What a great tutorial of a wonderful skill of yesteryear🥰🍴And everything is so pretty and aesthetically pleasing about this video! Your hair and outfit 😍, the gorgeous plates 💐, the vintage radio!! Ahhh!
Your videos are so respectful and so etiquette I love watching them. This is something this generation needs to see and start watching so they can learn how to be respectful how to be etiquette. I love it. I show my nieces your videos and they love them.!
Love this!!! I was always taught if you are not done, to keep your fork and knife separate on your plate but if you put them together it means you are done so they take it away. Definitely want to pass the knowledge of manners down to my kids one day too.
I’m from the U.S. (I’m 59) and I was taught to hold my fork in my right hand and never used the knife like you did, or held the fork with prongs facing down. I kind of wish I was taught to eat the way you just showed us. It just looks nicer than the way I was taught. I really enjoy your channel. ❤
Hi Page! I just love your channel. ❤ My Nanna used to tell stories when she was in the Australian Airforce of big signs in the Cafeteria saying “No Sword Swallowing”. Meaning - do not eat off your knife 🍴. It would seem even in the 1940’s & 1950’s people needed a gentle reminder of dinner etiquette. 😂
Sage, I love your videos! I think we sometimes lost how important eating together as a family (or with your friends) free of screen distractions! Love from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️
Its amazing how table etiquette has not changed that much at all. Rules vary depending where you go of course and on other things as well but not that much. Great explanations on everything as well.
Sage, I just found your channel and I knew I had to follow right away! I love your style and everything you do. Where are you? The end of your videos say that you post a video every Sunday 😩. Please keep making more videos. ❤❤❤
My mum was born in 1952 and she has told me in the past that socioeconomic status determined if table manners to this extent were used. She recalls being told to use knife in right hand and fork in left (which she passed on to me!) but her family grew up in housing commission in North Ryde (rent to buy scheme) and they never attended any dinner parties but were always taught basic manners you mentioned (not eating with food in mouth, waiting until others had food on their plate and were seated before starting their own) 😊
Yes, in America we are taught to switch hands. It wasn’t until living in Germany that I learned how to properly handle cutlery! I love your videos. You are so cute!
My parents have always thought etiquette is important and have taught me and my siblings this (for the record I am 17 currently). Aside for resting the knife and fork on the side and have umteen pieces of cutlery we do all this in our home. I might add that these manners certainly came in handy when I attended a formal dinner around Christmas and proper etiquette was necessary for all guests.
I can’t believe I’ve only just found your channel!! I LOVE 20’s-50’s info. I found you bc searching bobby pin hair curling search. You are adorable and your content in very much appreciated!
Zin the sixty's I got in a food fight at school, I was in big trouble. Now I am from the south in USA. Ladies Do Not Do This. So my Mama make me read at lunch for a week, The Good house Keeping book on table manner from the 50's. To this day I remember everything in that book. Lesson learned!!!!
Hi from France here :D Pretty good video ! I always enjoy watching your videos ^^ A little thing to know about the etiquette in my country : when we have a salad on the table, in our plates to be accurate, we are learned to never cut the salad (the leaves). It's a bit strange but, the tradition is that we cut the leaves by hand when we prepare the salad, and when we have it in our plates, we are taught to fold the leaves ^^ That's a funny difference to know
My mother taught me from an early age which fork, knife, and spoon to use by the time I was five. I wish these manners would come back to society. It's so nice to see people eating with manners and sophistication. Thanks to channels like yours maybe these types of ideas can return. Thanks for sharing this with us all. Very delightful to see.
I’m in my teens, but my mom married into a really old fashioned American family when I was a kid, so I remember having to learn all of this! Putting the napkin into my lap is a habit I still have, and honestly probably one of the most functional aspects of table etiquette lol
I think I learned most of my table manners at my grandparent's house during the Sunday dinners we had each week, in the 50's. (I am 80) I knew how to dip soup out of the soup bowl but have wondered these days how to get the soup from the spoon. I will do as you did Sage....I didn't realize it was to be sipped from the side of the soup spoon.
I love videos like this that remind me of things how to simply elevate eating to a dining experience - so graceful! Thank you Sage - very enjoyable. Comparable videos focusing on other countries’ table manners would be interesting too!
Hi Sage, so glad I found your channel. You're such a delight. I love how you start each video with "Hello Darlings". I think the most fascinating thing I learned was how people had to ration water by only having 5 inches of water in the tub. People really sacrificed back then. Always look forward to learning more from you, keep the videos coming! ☺️
I live in the United States, but the first time I met my cousins and aunt and uncle, I saw them eating as you do. That made me change best and makes more sense.
Hi Sage, thanks for a truly delightful informative show on manners, reminds me of the holiday dinners my family had. Even in old movies I've noticed they show the same manners at their dining scenes. I read Emily Post's great book on etiquette some years back, and hope you and others doing these nice shows might inspire people to see the value in them, especially all of our children. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I've been brought up similar and wish more "youngsters", though I'm only mid thirty, would learn about table manners, etiquette, speach etc. again.
Great video Sage I was brought up eating like that except I am left handed so I always have the fork in left hand.. you are correct I wish some of these things would come back…
Being a lefty I learned the "European" way of table etiquette and never felt out of place. I did have to learn to not be obvious about where I sat since sitting next to a right handed person here in the USA I would often have the issue of an elbow in my side
I'm an American who happens to be a leftie, so it works out well for me. I always thought it was odd, when I was young, to watch right-handed people switch their forks after cutting. I'd always think to myself, "if you're already cutting with your fork in your left, why not leave it there and eat with it, too??" lol I recall my mom having to move us kids around at the table so our arms wouldn't hit each other since we had two lefties in the family (I use my left only for eating and writing, whilst my younger sister is a total lefty).
i just watched a week as a 50's wife just before this one , i recall my mother at it non stop doing all the chores as you've shown, it just seemed normal , you mentioned the moon landing in another video , i recall sitting on our rather coarse grey carpet watching it on tv with my mother , you should get those electric remington hair cuter shavers and give James a short back and sides or fade with a comb over pomp 50's style and a dash of brylcream ,there easy to use ,i do my own in the mirror, he could still rock a 50''s goatee if he won't let the face bush go , it'd really even up your vintage look as a couple to next level , cheers big ears #CASHisKING
You look quite proper sage, lovely outfit and your hair is lovely too. I was a child in the 50's, but my family wasn't so formal, please and thank you was required😊🕊️
When I was very young, I was taught the ‘b’ for bread on left hand and ‘d’ for drink on right hand. I also learned that left has 4 letters so that’s the side the fork (4 letters) is placed on and right has 5 letters so that’s where the knife and spoon (both have 5 letters) are placed on. Everything gets set from working outside in. That always made it easy to set the table.
Absolutely adorable and funny that was also my childhood dinner etiquette my family is from the deep south and no elbows or slouching at the table and prayer giving thanks before we could start to eat🥰
Thank you for this lovely video! I would love to see more etiquette videos. Also, I guess I'm doing it "wrong," but I (right-handed) have always eaten with my fork in my right hand and knife in the left. It always made more sense to me to have the fork in my dominant hand. Plus, cutting with my left hand never felt weird. This way, I don't have to switch hands while eating.
Hi Sage. Yes, in America we use the fork in your right hand. We mostly cut it all up first (for myself, I think it’s a habit formed from cutting up our children’s food). Our schools no longer teach any of those skills. It’s a shame, really. 😢
If you have ever visited a grade school during their lunch break, you will see that they barely have time to eat all of their food unless they inhale it. There is no time for social graces. It isn’t good for teaching children to be polite grownups. It is definitely not good for their digestive systems, especially for those children that immediately go out for recess and are expected to run around after eating that way.
Perfect video! The video I've been waiting for! The manners of 50s, very beautiful. My grandpas teached them to my Mother, and she's teached them to me! And I use them! Really I think I'm the only in the world😊😂❤
I learned that as a child and still use what I learned especially when we go out. My mothers silver that I inherited has all the forks, spoons, knives etc. In the better restaurants all the silver is laid out like that but I believe it’s switched with forks laid out on the right, knives and spoons on the left.
In the USA we put the forks on the left and the knife & spoon on the rt, because we pick them up with those hands the after cutting the food we switch the fork to the rt hand.
I'm in the USA and being that I am left-handed I use my utensils the same way. Fork stays in my left hand and I cut with my right hand which I also keep in my hand as I eat. The only thing that I saw that is different here, I guess is the placement of your forks. Here our salad fork is the short fork which goes on the outside, then the other two forks which are the same length for dinner and desert. That is if there is a desert. If there isn't then you'd only have two forks. Thanks for your wonderful videos! I'm binging on all of them just now. I hope even after you become a nurse you'll be able to continue with your great videos! Thanks again!
Zwei kleine Korrekturen (ich habe die Etiquette während meiner Ausbildung gelernt, bzw. lernen müssen) 😅 1. Salat NIEMALS schneiden. Salat wird mit Messer und Gabel gefaltet (nicht einfach ohne zu kleckern 🙈) 2. IMMER erst die Lippen abtupfen, wenn man gegessen hat und etwas trinken möchte. Essenreste am Glas sind unappetitlich. Ansonsten wie immer ein sehr schönes Video. Auch wenn mein englisch mieß ist, freue ich mich auf jedes neues Video von dir 🥰
Good morning Sage. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. anothe great video explaining table manners in the 1950s. Too bad, nobody seems to want to follow them these days. 😉
This brought back some childhood memories, but my table manners are shot now. 😂 Depends on the school, but I was taught in a health book of all things, very basic, old-fashioned table manners for home. (Private school curriculum I suppose). I knew about everything except the multiple fork and knife set-up, which I didn't find out how to use until my late 20s. Before then I would be just confused eating at some restaurant with all this silverware. From the book, they actually included a spoon on the right with only one fork and knife. Since we are Filipino, it wasn't common for me to use a fork and knife, but to grow up using a fork and spoon for every meal. However, that health book did show me to cut with the left and switch the fork to the right, never cut between the tines, and never hold the knife like a spear (but let's face it, some foods can get tough to cut 😂). You'd think having a fork and spoon set up, it would also be easy to adopt the non-US way of fork and knife, but I cannot shake the feeling of using my dominant right hand to feed myself. After reading that etiquette section to oblivion, I used to set the table to be cute, with impractical pretty teacups for the beverage and folded disposable napkins. I thought it looked quite fancy. 😆
Hi Sage! I hope you & James are doing well! It always makes my day when I watch your videos! I can still remember my Great Grandmother teaching me these same etiquette rules when I was a child.. She wanted me to be a true lady. I've always remembered her lessons! Love from Arkansas ♥️
I went to charm school in the 80s and learned table etiquette, social etiquette, and social dancing. It has served me well to this day. I’m never worried about embarrassing myself or my husband at a business dinner.
I love this. Everyone should have to. I was fortunate enough to be in a public school system that still taught these things. Homecec taught table manners and hostesses. Gym class had dance on Fridays that taught social graces. We got so much more than they get now.
Thats great! I wish we had something like that now. Here in the Netherlands everything is super casual.
@Anoek66 it really does ruin people. You start out with thinking all the from from is nonsense to calling cold beans straight out of a can opened with a pocket knife..good enough. Before long..anything that requires any effort or shows regard for anyone else but yourself..is too much trouble.
I did, too. Lol. Finishing School. We got hatboxes as a gift at the end. The thing I will never forget is how to back up to a chair and feel it with the back of your leg. Then sit straight down and demurely slide back. “Girls! Do not be a “fanny reacher!!”
😂Lord have mercy if you stick your butt out looking for the seat and are, therefore, a dreaded ‘fanny reacher!’ You would be shocked how many women do this horrific move! 😬🤣
I notice Princess Catherine is NOT a fanny reacher.
Oh true! That’s interesting actually. I know they had finishing school in the years gone by yet I have never heard of that. I needed it . I’m 55 and I still always to drop something on my top 😂
I just came across your channel. Thank you for your video. I'm 76 years old. This is how I was taught to eat in the 1950s. My family was not rich, but middle class. Dad was a factory worker. But mother said just because we weren't part of the upper class we still should eat like civilized people. We always had cloth napkins beside our plates. ❤
In general , yes, in America people swap their knife and fork around. But when I was young I was told by my Grandparents to just "do what feels natural". So I never changed them around. My Grandfather was French and he always smiled when I left them in the proper hand. I remember them saying to my mother, she must be an old soul, lol
I am American and I am right-handed; however, I never learned the technique of cutting with my right hand and then switching my fork to my right hand to eat. Instead, I cut with my left hand and the fork remains in my dominant right hand. I am not certain why I learned it this way, it could be because my father was basically ambidextrous. All I know is, it works for me!😊
I 'm a leftie, so it works out for me. ;-)
I am in America as well, and I do the same!
@Pam Haynes I do this! We also have a random leftie/ambidextrous trait in the family
I’m American and if I’m eating something that requires to cut as I’m eating it, I do not switch my fork! If it only requires one cut or two then, yes I will switch 😊
Table etiquette hasn’t changed much. Whether people follow it or not is a different question. Some of the rules are different depending on which country you are from.
I think it's really a matter of formality. It seems like in the 1950's they had more occasion to be formal, from the evening meal to the office. Today, unless you're going to some rare special event like a wedding or a diplomatic reception or something, table etiquette seems less likely to come up.
@@jgood005 It's also a matter of execution. You can follow the basic rules without being very proper, sitting up straight, being done up etc. Makes a lot of difference in how "strict" it appears
I think it can also depend on the region. Here in the States, there differences between North, South, Midwest, West. There are also generational and cultural differences. I’ve been with people who start eating before everyone is served (like out at a restaurant) and been with people who wait. I was taught to wait so I wait unless one person’s meal is taking a lot longer. I’ve seen older people wait even then because that’s what they were taught. Burping and slurping are not seen as rude in some cultures, so it is good to be mindful of cultural etiquette in certain situations.
It may not have changed much, but the vast majority of younger people haven’t even got a clue that ‘etiquette’ exists! They don’t have to practice it anywhere and even in a high end restaurant they act like they are The Goops eating in front of the TV at home
I notice people act like they’re in their living room watching a movie at public movie theaters….talking, munching and rustling, texting, and going in and out! When they come back from buying more food, they want whomever they are with to fill them in. smh
Where would they learn formal or semi-formal manners? Manners are not even depicted anywhere for them to even observe them. I know my grandkids, who are nice kids, don’t even know how to dress in anything that doesn’t have an active wear label. It’s a lost part of our culture.
I was a child during the 1950’s. I grew up in a middle class suburb. Everyone just had one fork at mealtimes at my house. I have an older sibling and 4 younger siblings. The goal at mealtimes was to keep all of the children from arguing with each other.
We ate at restaurants a lot, including at a pancake house. I recall just one fork for every person at the restaurants. Also, my father usually was working when we ate out at restaurants, so of course my mother did the ordering.
My brother never pulled out a chair for any of his sisters.
We had a couple and all of their children as dinner guests a few times. I recall just one fork for each person.
I carefully watched this video to find out about what seems to me like 1950’s formal dining. I learned a lot!
Also, (off-topic), if you watch “Queen for a Day” on you tube, you can get a good idea about how life really was for many people during the 1950’s.
Most recipes from that era never make enough frosting/icing. I has my mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the early 50s. I finally gave it to a niece who loves to cook. At first, it was hard for me to part with it, but since she appreciates vintage things, I gave it to her. I'm 76, and I have no one to pass it down to. I love your channel. It brings back many childhood memories growing up in the 50s. ❤
Only thing missing is the silver coaster under the water glass, usually with a paper doily in it to absorb the water from condensation, or any spillage from drinking.
In my family it was always a mortal sin to place down any glass straight on the table.
Also, never forget to compliment the host about the meal and table setting, etc. Let them know you appreciate the effort they went through to put together the meal. Yes, even when it’s “just” mom cooking every day.
My parents were married for 63 years. Even if my Mom served my Dad leftovers, he still thanked her, every single evening, for making and serving dinner.
I'm 37, married 16 years and my husband always thanks me for dinner! It really makes me so happy because I always put so much effort into the meals I make and serve!!
@@planetoftheeps same, but I'm 39 and married for 13 years! My husband is always very thankful every time I cook. Which is daily unless it's a special occasion. I love cooking for my family 😊
@@JillWhitcomb1966 very sweet. Sounds like they lived in bliss ❤️
Where’s her placemat? It’s so weird 😂
Table etiquette has not changed that I'm aware of. We were raised the same way. My husband still opens doors for me, pulls out my chair and orders my food for me after finding out what I want. We raised our kids this way, and having adopted our grandson, are raising him the same way. He is 8 and opens doors for ladies at restaurants, stores. Sometimes he forgets but "papa" reminds him to be a gentleman. We are also raising him to say yes ma'am, sir, please and thank you. There is nothing wrong with manners and courtesy. Thank you for doing this video!! I'm from Texas, USA.
Your grandson will carry the torch for practicing common courtesy and mannerisms in to the next generation! Kudos to you ! Children need to learn this to carry on in society ❤😊👍🏻🙂
I'm from Texas and I did the same thing with my kids. It's how we roll (usually It's the way here in the south).
So that's why Dad wants me to tell him my order 😅
This is pretty similar to how I was taught by my mom (who was a child of that era in the US and had it drilled). Another critical rule: never reach for a serving dish. Always say, "Could you please pass the xyz?" That exact phrasing was required. It is also a hard requirement that, after everyone is done, there is a conversation about how wonderful the food was.
What if you were the person closest to a serving dish?
Your retro-outfit is just adorable! Light-lilac color is perfect for spring & Easter, especially in combination with light-limegreen.
Thank you so much! 💕
My husband always orders for me at restaurants because a) I have social anxiety, b) he wants me to be as comfortable and taken care of as possible and c) I love when he does 😂 I had no idea it was a 1950s thing too!
No, not at all. He's not deciding what food I eat, he's merely telling the waitstaff what I want to eat after I make that choice. Having traditional values/practices doesn't automatically mean you're being abused or controlled 😂
I order for my husband because I order healthy foods for him and well he can’t
I'm glad to see that your husband respects your values. Husbands and wives should respect each other regardless of the circumstances. 😊
@@SonicGamerGirl2006 they aren’t married yet
"Social anxiety" is a completely made up word for being an insecure person who refuses to show others the dignity of interaction.
I had to learn etiquette because my parents were diplomats, and it is surprising how it has stayed the same since the 50s. Some people might find it complicated, but in my experience, they become a habit hard to unlearn. Some of them I used unconsciously, even when not necessary.
My grandmother taught me all about table setting, table manners, dinner etiquette, etc...I'm SO happy she did. I'm never embarrassed or worried about what to do. I'm ALWAYS the one everyone is asking what to do, what utensil to use, how to set the table, etc. I love all the knowledge she gave me.
I'm from Germany, born in 1988, my mother grew up in the 50s and my grandparents were born in 1908 and 1913. I don't know if it was the same in all areas of Germany, but I was taught the same etiquette with ONE exception: the dessert spoon/knife were on TOP of the dish, not to the left or right.
Learned it that way from my grandparents, as they took care of me after school till my mom came home from work.
A video from Sage is like a fabulous Christmas present for me! I look forward to the day that the video is posted, and the anticipation drives me crazy! When I get the notification of a new video, I immediately rush to watch it! It always turns out to be the highlight of my day, or night, and the best present ever!❤❤❤
Yes, totally like Christmas morning!!🎄
Aww you are so sweet Rebecca! Thank you! 💕☺️
My daughters took cotillion and learned table manners there. They don’t use it at home but do when they are somewhere else. They also learned a trick for remembering which side for bread plates and drink glasses- just make your hand a into a “b” on the right and “d” on the left and that tells you what glass to drink from and where your bread plate should be!
But your hand makes a d on the left and b on the right?
@@jalapeno1119 yep, that's true..thx for clearing that up, I was confused..lol
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Sage, you are correct, in the U.S. we typically cut our food the same way as you and then switch the fork to the right hand. I personally have a tendency to cut everything at the start of the meal so I don't have to keep using my knife. Plus it keeps us from bumping elbows with the left handed family members around our round table.😉 Hope you have a TERRIFIC week ahead.
That's another table rule, you're not meant to cut with your elbows out like you're flying. ☺
@@kristinburton4953 and also cutting all the food at once is bad table manners. You must cut it one piece at a time and then put it into your mouth.
For the Americans who may be confused at the wording:
Entree is appetizer or starter, comes from the French language. The word also means entrance in French.
Plat principal is French for main course.
Why Americans changed entree to main course, who knows. Very confusing in my honest opinion.
As an American, yes it’s confusing.
My Scottish family taught me to put the fork on its side with the knife through the tines to signal that I was finished eating. My Canadian family all but licked the plate clean and kept the knife and fork in hand for the next plateful. 😀 Economic conditions greatly dictated table manners. Great video! 👏💜
Oh Sage I do love this etiquette instruction video which you recreated so beautifully, impeccable grooming included, and in amusing detail which made me giggle. I was brought up a child of the 60's and lived this way. When we (children) finished eating we always asked "May I leave the table"? before we were permitted to do so. When my own children were growing up in the 80's I was still setting the table with a real tablecloth until too many spills with beetroot /gravy/tomato sauce cured me of this etiquette habit from the past, and was replaced with placemats and paper serviettes!! Going out to work also helped lessen the ironing everything in sight urge in me. However my grown children still ask to be excused from the table, which delights me to this day.
Sage, you have reignited an urge in me to set the table with a "proper" tablecloth and napkins the next time my family come to share a meal with us just to gauge their reactions. At least we never have a meal in front of the telly, but I will have to move our precious golden retriever from underneath the table so she doesn't get caught up in the table cloth. I always set the table with linen cloth and my best tableware at Christmas so why not do it more often. Good manners will never go out of style (I hope)!
Love from South Australia. 🐾💐
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I am from California and hold my knife in the right and fork in the left. But my mom was born in Germany so she taught us European table manners. I love that she taught me what all the utensils were used for! Just found your channel and I am totally enjoying your content! Thanks for all the Dining through the Decades episodes, those were fun.
The little dances you do every time you take a bite of something are so cute!
My great grandmother taught me table etiquette when I was four. Thank God because when I dated my husband he was impressed with my manners ❤
I love this video thank you for sharing, I missed you. I have been watching old TV shows like, The Donna Reed show and Leave it to Beaver they did have table manners back then. :) People in the 1950's did have table etiquette that was so nice, but unfortunately todays families really don't eat at the table anymore. Things have changed quite a bit over the decade sad to say. I am sure there are still families or people out there that eat like that, I just don't know them. I didn't grow up in the 50's but we had to eat at the table with the family and had manners when we eat. I love the 50's, I always have and I wish we could go back to those times.
I definitely learned a few things! In my family we were brought up to use proper table manners, but some we missed. I'm American and left handed, so I don't switch my fork to my right hand. This was a great reminder to use good table manners. I think in America good table manners ( and manners in general) have really slipped.
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Sage you are a gem. Just love your vlogs so please regale us with more. Love from Canada
I grew up with table ettiquette, from generations of teachings from my ancestors. Our dessert spoon and fork were actually at the top of our plate horizontally placed under the caviar wooden/ivory fork that was atop those two. Our table napkin was on our plate or glass instead of the right side (although I think this was just for added flair) I still set my table this way even to this day when I have company over. I also have the 5 O'clock rule with my cutlery once I'm done eating too. Great video I think this was so charming to watch! ❤
My husband was brought up on a stricter table etiquette than me. He still sometimes asks if I've finished eating because I've not put the knife and fork on the empty plate in the correct way. Apparently there's a special meaning of how the cutlery is laid to rest on the empty plate. Fork prongs up with the knife balanced between prongs, as well as fork lying separately from knife prongs down, are supposedly ways of communicating that you weren't particularly happy with the meal.
So interesting!
Being an American whose husband's job took us around the world I've found that most people in most countries think we Americans really don't know how to properly use a knife & fork.It fascinates them to watch us shifting the forks back & forth between our Rt & left hand. I was fascinated watching my in laws eat off the knife sometimes - they are British.I'm sure that is not excepted etiquette.
Accepted.
That’s strange, in Britain our parents would quite literally hit us over the head if we ate from the knife.
@@smileyraw My BIL lost their mother during WW2 and were raised by their father.That could have a lot to do with it. My husband did not eat off his knife , but he had left home quite young and was in an apprentiship, living away at his job.
@@ginger1549 I've read that the lower classes ( excuse the snobbery) used to eat off the knife sometimes in olden days up til the 1920s. Men don't care about etiquette as much as women do. It may also be a hold over from the cutlery of the early to middle 1900s. I'm 60 but grew up eating off a set of good cutlery from the 1940s. Mum loved them. But the width of the fork "bowl" was thinner than the knife! Eating peas etc was a nightmare. Mum told me that when my Grandma was out at a meeting and her Dad prepared dinner (ex Army man who knew how to cook) he taught them to put the mashed potato on the knife and then smush it into the peas! Mum mustn't know though. 😄😉
@@smileyraw I'm Australian and caught hell for eating off or licking a knife.
Oh I love this so much! What a great tutorial of a wonderful skill of yesteryear🥰🍴And everything is so pretty and aesthetically pleasing about this video! Your hair and outfit 😍, the gorgeous plates 💐, the vintage radio!! Ahhh!
Thank you so much 🤗
Your videos are so respectful and so etiquette I love watching them. This is something this generation needs to see and start watching so they can learn how to be respectful how to be etiquette. I love it. I show my nieces your videos and they love them.!
Love this!!! I was always taught if you are not done, to keep your fork and knife separate on your plate but if you put them together it means you are done so they take it away. Definitely want to pass the knowledge of manners down to my kids one day too.
That look you had as you pulled in your own chair was, "where is James?" 🤣 I love you Sage!
😍😍😍😍😍😍 oh my god I always wanted to see a video of this kind! I am so interested in this stuff! ❤❤❤❤ thank you Sage
I’m from the U.S. (I’m 59) and I was taught to hold my fork in my right hand and never used the knife like you did, or held the fork with prongs facing down. I kind of wish I was taught to eat the way you just showed us. It just looks nicer than the way I was taught. I really enjoy your channel. ❤
It's just American style vs Continental style and both are correct depending on where you are from 😊
Hi Page! I just love your channel. ❤ My Nanna used to tell stories when she was in the Australian Airforce of big signs in the Cafeteria saying “No Sword Swallowing”. Meaning - do not eat off your knife 🍴.
It would seem even in the 1940’s & 1950’s people needed a gentle reminder of dinner etiquette. 😂
Sage, I love your videos! I think we sometimes lost how important eating together as a family (or with your friends) free of screen distractions! Love from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️
Its amazing how table etiquette has not changed that much at all. Rules vary depending where you go of course and on other things as well but not that much. Great explanations on everything as well.
Спасибо за замечательный видео-урок ☺️. Получить урок от такой милой учительницы - одно удовольствие 🌷🌷🌷🤗
Sage, I just found your channel and I knew I had to follow right away! I love your style and everything you do. Where are you? The end of your videos say that you post a video every Sunday 😩. Please keep making more videos. ❤❤❤
Good morning, what a great video. Going to church than having lunch. Do I will keep this in mind. Have a blessed day.
My mum was born in 1952 and she has told me in the past that socioeconomic status determined if table manners to this extent were used. She recalls being told to use knife in right hand and fork in left (which she passed on to me!) but her family grew up in housing commission in North Ryde (rent to buy scheme) and they never attended any dinner parties but were always taught basic manners you mentioned (not eating with food in mouth, waiting until others had food on their plate and were seated before starting their own) 😊
You do the same thing I do. I get things mixed around. "not EATING with food in mouth " good to know I'm not the only one .
Yes, in America we are taught to switch hands. It wasn’t until living in Germany that I learned how to properly handle cutlery! I love your videos. You are so cute!
I just wanted to tell you how much your videos have helped me lately. Going through a very rough time and your videis bring me joy. Thank you.
Aw thank you for watching Linda ☺️ I’m so glad you have enjoyed them. Sending all the love xx ❤️
Its good to see a revival of this etiquette. Very helpful.
You and James are so good together. I can’t wait to see the wedding-style videos! Congratulations!
My parents have always thought etiquette is important and have taught me and my siblings this (for the record I am 17 currently). Aside for resting the knife and fork on the side and have umteen pieces of cutlery we do all this in our home. I might add that these manners certainly came in handy when I attended a formal dinner around Christmas and proper etiquette was necessary for all guests.
I can’t believe I’ve only just found your channel!! I LOVE 20’s-50’s info.
I found you bc searching bobby pin hair curling search. You are adorable and your content in very much appreciated!
Zin the sixty's I got in a food fight at school, I was in big trouble. Now I am from the south in USA. Ladies Do Not Do This. So my Mama make me read at lunch for a week, The Good house Keeping book on table manner from the 50's. To this day I remember everything in that book. Lesson learned!!!!
Hi from France here :D
Pretty good video ! I always enjoy watching your videos ^^
A little thing to know about the etiquette in my country : when we have a salad on the table, in our plates to be accurate, we are learned to never cut the salad (the leaves). It's a bit strange but, the tradition is that we cut the leaves by hand when we prepare the salad, and when we have it in our plates, we are taught to fold the leaves ^^
That's a funny difference to know
I am an American, and I was also told never to cut, but to fold the lettuce leaves.
Gosh you're fun!! Live watching your channel Sage!
I was a Melbourne girl too!!
Have a awesome day!! Keep up the good work,you are a joy!!❤
Your posts always cheer me up. Thank you
Loved your take on this and the garden!! I hope it’s coming along beautifully- better weather is ahead
My mother taught me from an early age which fork, knife, and spoon to use by the time I was five. I wish these manners would come back to society. It's so nice to see people eating with manners and sophistication. Thanks to channels like yours maybe these types of ideas can return. Thanks for sharing this with us all. Very delightful to see.
I’m in my teens, but my mom married into a really old fashioned American family when I was a kid, so I remember having to learn all of this! Putting the napkin into my lap is a habit I still have, and honestly probably one of the most functional aspects of table etiquette lol
Well, where else would you put your napkin if not on your lap??
I think I learned most of my table manners at my grandparent's house during the Sunday dinners we had each week, in the 50's. (I am 80) I knew how to dip soup out of the soup bowl but have wondered these days how to get the soup from the spoon. I will do as you did Sage....I didn't realize it was to be sipped from the side of the soup spoon.
Table manners are great! Yes in America you showed us exactly right! Love this video! Bon Appetite!
I love videos like this that remind me of things how to simply elevate eating to a dining experience - so graceful! Thank you Sage - very enjoyable. Comparable videos focusing on other countries’ table manners would be interesting too!
I LOVE your vintage flower vase on the table. It is beautiful. Super fun video. Thank you!
Thank you! ☺️
Thank you for this video, nice to relearn proper table manners.
Hi Sage, so glad I found your channel. You're such a delight. I love how you start each video with "Hello Darlings". I think the most fascinating thing I learned was how people had to ration water by only having 5 inches of water in the tub. People really sacrificed back then. Always look forward to learning more from you, keep the videos coming! ☺️
Ty Sage I was born 1950 you brought back treasured memories
I live in the United States, but the first time I met my cousins and aunt and uncle, I saw them eating as you do. That made me change best and makes more sense.
They live in England
These videos are so valuable.
with much thanks,
Willow-Sage in Victoria BC Canada xx
Mom had a Better Homes and Garden Cookbook which had a chapter on setting a table. That was how my sister and I learned.
So important and so well done. Something to do everyday.
Love that radio on the table
Hi Sage, thanks for a truly delightful informative show on manners, reminds me of the holiday dinners my family had. Even in old movies I've noticed they show the same manners at their dining scenes. I read Emily Post's great book on etiquette some years back, and hope you and others doing these nice shows might inspire people to see the value in them, especially all of our children. Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I've been brought up similar and wish more "youngsters", though I'm only mid thirty, would learn about table manners, etiquette, speach etc. again.
Great video Sage I was brought up eating like that except I am left handed so I always have the fork in left hand.. you are correct I wish some of these things would come back…
Great to know. I forgot some of the etiquette manners. Thank you for the reminder.
♡ I really enjoyed this, and picked up a few reminders!
I love this kind of video! Thank you for posting! I would love to see more etiquette style videos.
Being a lefty I learned the "European" way of table etiquette and never felt out of place. I did have to learn to not be obvious about where I sat since sitting next to a right handed person here in the USA I would often have the issue of an elbow in my side
I'm an American who happens to be a leftie, so it works out well for me. I always thought it was odd, when I was young, to watch right-handed people switch their forks after cutting. I'd always think to myself, "if you're already cutting with your fork in your left, why not leave it there and eat with it, too??" lol I recall my mom having to move us kids around at the table so our arms wouldn't hit each other since we had two lefties in the family (I use my left only for eating and writing, whilst my younger sister is a total lefty).
Another leftie here! I never thought about how people switch back and forth, because I obviously never need to. 😊😂
i just watched a week as a 50's wife just before this one , i recall my mother at it non stop doing all the chores as you've shown, it just seemed normal , you mentioned the moon landing in another video , i recall sitting on our rather coarse grey carpet watching it on tv with my mother , you should get those electric remington hair cuter shavers and give James a short back and sides or fade with a comb over pomp 50's style and a dash of brylcream ,there easy to use ,i do my own in the mirror, he could still rock a 50''s goatee if he won't let the face bush go , it'd really even up your vintage look as a couple to next level , cheers big ears #CASHisKING
this is a great video , i learnt all this as a kid in the 60's , and you never forget it , a bit sad that all the class has gone from our world
interesting video! i'm in love with etiquette.. thank you for sharing! 😊
You look quite proper sage, lovely outfit and your hair is lovely too. I was a child in the 50's, but my family wasn't so formal, please and thank you was required😊🕊️
Oh thank you! ☺️💕
Your curls look fabulous Sage!
I ❤ the piano background music 🎶.
Hi sage really enjoy your video's and learning about the 50s life style it might have been hard but it was easier to understand much love Possum 😊
Thankyou so much Possum 😊
When I was very young, I was taught the ‘b’ for bread on left hand and ‘d’ for drink on right hand. I also learned that left has 4 letters so that’s the side the fork (4 letters) is placed on and right has 5 letters so that’s where the knife and spoon (both have 5 letters) are placed on. Everything gets set from working outside in. That always made it easy to set the table.
Thank you for another wonderful video we learned a lot in home economics when I was in school sad they don’t teach these classes anymore ❤
Absolutely adorable and funny that was also my childhood dinner etiquette my family is from the deep south and no elbows or slouching at the table and prayer giving thanks before we could start to eat🥰
Thank you for this lovely video! I would love to see more etiquette videos. Also, I guess I'm doing it "wrong," but I (right-handed) have always eaten with my fork in my right hand and knife in the left. It always made more sense to me to have the fork in my dominant hand. Plus, cutting with my left hand never felt weird. This way, I don't have to switch hands while eating.
Hi Sage. Yes, in America we use the fork in your right hand. We mostly cut it all up first (for myself, I think it’s a habit formed from cutting up our children’s food). Our schools no longer teach any of those skills. It’s a shame, really. 😢
If you have ever visited a grade school during their lunch break, you will see that they barely have time to eat all of their food unless they inhale it. There is no time for social graces. It isn’t good for teaching children to be polite grownups. It is definitely not good for their digestive systems, especially for those children that immediately go out for recess and are expected to run around after eating that way.
I switch hands. If I need to cut, my knife goes in the right hand and the fork holds whatever it is steady. 😊
Sage! You try so hard! I love this video!
Perfect video! The video I've been waiting for! The manners of 50s, very beautiful. My grandpas teached them to my Mother, and she's teached them to me! And I use them! Really I think I'm the only in the world😊😂❤
I’m Italian we always have bread and butter. I love learning new things about how different we all are. ❤
It's wonderful that you teach us this...
Lovely. My old preschool class at work couldn’t even sit in their chairs
I genuinely didn’t know eating with your fork backwards (facing you) was proper etiquette 🤔 lovely video as always, Sage! ❤
This is a great reminder for all
I learned that as a child and still use what I learned especially when we go out. My mothers silver that I inherited has all the forks, spoons, knives etc. In the better restaurants all the silver is laid out like that but I believe it’s switched with forks laid out on the right, knives and spoons on the left.
In the USA we put the forks on the left and the knife & spoon on the rt, because we pick them up with those hands the after cutting the food we switch the fork to the rt hand.
I think the radio is a lovely touch!
Sage, you're the cutest little thing and your voice is adorable 🥰
I'm in the USA and being that I am left-handed I use my utensils the same way. Fork stays in my left hand and I cut with my right hand which I also keep in my hand as I eat. The only thing that I saw that is different here, I guess is the placement of your forks. Here our salad fork is the short fork which goes on the outside, then the other two forks which are the same length for dinner and desert. That is if there is a desert. If there isn't then you'd only have two forks. Thanks for your wonderful videos! I'm binging on all of them just now. I hope even after you become a nurse you'll be able to continue with your great videos! Thanks again!
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Zwei kleine Korrekturen (ich habe die Etiquette während meiner Ausbildung gelernt, bzw. lernen müssen) 😅
1. Salat NIEMALS schneiden. Salat wird mit Messer und Gabel gefaltet (nicht einfach ohne zu kleckern 🙈)
2. IMMER erst die Lippen abtupfen, wenn man gegessen hat und etwas trinken möchte. Essenreste am Glas sind unappetitlich.
Ansonsten wie immer ein sehr schönes Video. Auch wenn mein englisch mieß ist, freue ich mich auf jedes neues Video von dir 🥰
Good morning Sage. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. anothe great video explaining table manners in the 1950s. Too bad, nobody seems to want to follow them these days. 😉
This brought back some childhood memories, but my table manners are shot now. 😂 Depends on the school, but I was taught in a health book of all things, very basic, old-fashioned table manners for home. (Private school curriculum I suppose). I knew about everything except the multiple fork and knife set-up, which I didn't find out how to use until my late 20s. Before then I would be just confused eating at some restaurant with all this silverware. From the book, they actually included a spoon on the right with only one fork and knife.
Since we are Filipino, it wasn't common for me to use a fork and knife, but to grow up using a fork and spoon for every meal. However, that health book did show me to cut with the left and switch the fork to the right, never cut between the tines, and never hold the knife like a spear (but let's face it, some foods can get tough to cut 😂). You'd think having a fork and spoon set up, it would also be easy to adopt the non-US way of fork and knife, but I cannot shake the feeling of using my dominant right hand to feed myself. After reading that etiquette section to oblivion, I used to set the table to be cute, with impractical pretty teacups for the beverage and folded disposable napkins. I thought it looked quite fancy. 😆
Hi Sage! I hope you & James are doing well! It always makes my day when I watch your videos! I can still remember my Great Grandmother teaching me these same etiquette rules when I was a child.. She wanted me to be a true lady. I've always remembered her lessons! Love from Arkansas ♥️
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I was waiting for your videos..❤🥹 I needed it. Love your content. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much! 🥰
@@SageLilleyman you’re most welcome! Blessings to you 🙏🏼