posted on September 26, 2001 10:30:37 AM
If the airlines take knives off of meal trays will they also be taking forks? (I think I've already read that forks are going along with knives) If/when they remove them is that going to include business and first class? Will this only be required of domestic flights or of any carrier that flies in or out of the US?
posted on September 26, 2001 10:41:34 AM
Is it an American assumption that everyone uses a knife and fork the same way? It'll be harder for those who eat Continental fashion if only a fork is left. But I'll bet we're going to see a lot of sandwiches and fingerfood.
posted on September 26, 2001 10:53:00 AM
I think they are solving the problem by eliminating meals on domestic flights (some airlines have already announced this). Unless you fly first class, then you get a meal.
posted on September 26, 2001 10:56:39 AM
Bet they don't stop serving alcohol, though. Can't you just imagine those heavy-drinking air-rage types on an empty stomach? LOL.
posted on September 26, 2001 11:03:57 AM
I saw in the paper how they are screening all such items coming into the terminal at all - even in deliveries. What are they going to do? Chain all the knives in the kitchens to the counter so they can't be carried away?
When I worked as a bus boy in a restaurant in high school we had a black lady that came to our restaurant every day and made salads. That was alll she did for about 3 hours nad then went home. She carried a huge expensive chef's knive about 18 inches long and a sharpening steel in a leather portfolio. She always claimed a slicing machine bruised the cabbage for coleslaw and ruined it. She could shave a head of cabbage into slaw with that knive in about a minute. She woould take the bus to work and back in the bad part of town.
We always joked that someday somebody was going to mug her and get a surprise but it never happened.
posted on September 26, 2001 01:40:45 PMsaabsister: don't blame the US for using utensils differently. *That* is the fault of the British. Though I myself eat in the "continental" fashion as its easier & less time consuming.
posted on September 26, 2001 04:09:24 PM
MurphyBird, the fork is held in the left hand. Food is pushed onto the back of the fork using the knife and pressed down so that it won't fall off. The fork is raised -upside down and using the left hand - to the mouth. So the knife is used for more that just cutting the food. (I hope that made sense.)
