Re[2]: [tied] Re: long, flat, full

At 6:03:36 PM on Monday, October 6, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>

[...]

>>> A roast beef sandwich is a so-called open-face sandwich.
>>> Put a slice of bread on a plate, cover it with roast
>>> beef, and then cover that with gravy; you now have a
>>> roast beef sandwich. They are normally eaten with a
>>> fork.

> With a fork and without a knife ?

Sure, if the beef is tender enough to be cut with the edge
of the fork. Most (right-handed) Americans hold the fork in
the right hand and don't hold the knife at all; when they
need the knife, they shift the fork to the left hand, pick
up the knife in the right hand, use it, put it down, and put
the fork back into the right hand. The British style, with
the knife in the right hand and the fork upside down in the
left hand, is quite uncommon here.

Brian