Everyone knows you eat peas with your knife.<BR><BR>To be honest, much of etiquette is designed to help the middle class feel superior to the lower; the upper class doesn't have to care, and usually ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If 19th-century “upper crust” Americans thought that aping British aristocracy was the height of sophistication, how is it that the American style of eating (swapping the fork from ...