Setting down knife & fork after a meal

Are you guys kidding me with all this? LOL
Where do you all eat? Does the same rule apply with plastic picnic cuttlery?   
Oy vey..pushing 40 and have to learn more table manners!   

So, have you been told off for not using your knife and fork in the "proper" British way while eating?   

Who, me?
I hold my fork in my left hand (prongs down unless it has to be flipped (rice etc)) and knife in my right, not 'pen style'... that's how I've always eaten, and from what I can tell, the English eat the same.

The correct way to place your cutlery at the end of a meal is knife and fork together, with the fork prongs facing up,  pointing  at 12 o'clock, with the handles off the plate.  If you need to leave the table part way through your meal, the correct way to place your cutlery is fork prongs down at 8 o'clock, knife at 4 o'clock with the handles off the plate.  If you have a napkin, it should be placed on the plate with the cutlery when you are done, or on the table beside your plate if you are not done.

4:20 HEE HEE!   maybe inside joke, or a jaded past  

I dont get it! 

The correct way to place your cutlery at the end of a meal is knife and fork together, with the fork prongs facing up,  pointing  at 12 o'clock, with the handles off the plate.  If you need to leave the table part way through your meal, the correct way to place your cutlery is fork prongs down at 8 o'clock, knife at 4 o'clock with the handles off the plate.  If you have a napkin, it should be placed on the plate with the cutlery when you are done, or on the table beside your plate if you are not done.

I agree with everything said above, except for the bit about the napkin.  If you need to get up from the table during the meal, your napkin should be placed loosely on your chair.  In some really nice places, the wait staff will have come by and re-folded the napkin by the time you get back.  At the end of the meal your napkin should be placed to the left of your plate, but never on top of the finished plate.

I agree with everything said above, except for the bit about the napkin.  If you need to get up from the table during the meal, your napkin should be placed loosely on your chair.  In some really nice places, the wait staff will have come by and re-folded the napkin by the time you get back.  At the end of the meal your napkin should be placed to the left of your plate, but never on top of the finished plate.

That's how I've been taught as well. And I loooove the places where the waiters come and refold the napkins! 

I dont get it! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

My husband has always used the 6 o'clock position. And as others have said, prongs up when done, down when you're still working on it.

4:20 HEE HEE! 

I just eat with my hands 

with hands, at 4:20! 

Glad I'm not the only one with a misspent youth! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

I had no idea.  Never heard of this... ever.
Even in the dope-smoking days of my youth!! 

I guess I'm an ill-mannered person,     When I'm done I'll just put the cutlery in the plate w/no concern where they are pointing and when I'm done and getting up to leave I'll just put the napkin on the table next to the plate.


 

I had no idea.  Never heard of this... ever.
Even in the dope-smoking days of my youth!! 

I am amused that Chary picked up on that so quickly! 

I learned about it from a friend looking for a room to rent in CA... 420 ok or 420 not ok. But even after reading this post I forgot what 420 was!!

I am a 4:20 woman, tines up... even with plastic cutlery. My sis likes to get the good stuff for Thanksgiving to help with the clean up!!

Paper napkin on the plate if done but generally not the cloth one... ew would you like to be the worker to pick it out of a meal later?

...and yes, I like the posh restaurants that re-fold your napkins if you leave the table. 

I am amused that Chary picked up on that so quickly! 

It's not really a misspent youth. It's more that I read a lot. 

It's not really a misspent youth. It's more that I read a lot. 

Suuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeee, if that's your story. 

Suuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeee, if that's your story. 

 
It's my story, and I'm sticking to it.