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People of Estonia
Is this accurate? www.kwintessential.co.uk/re...
I think the info on the USA is pretty accurate... except the business about the knife and fork to indicate whether you're done eating or not.... I never heard of that before.
A friend sent me a link to the info on Brazil which was interesting to read.
And other countries care to chime in?
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Neat! Are you Estonian?
I'm American but did not read the part about Americans, just the Estonian part. When I eat out, I turn my fork tines down and tuck the sharp part of the knife towards to fork, so the cutting edge is never towards the person picking up the plate. I leave them on the plate. I had been told that this is a signal to the server that you are done but my mother was raised by her grandmother so it is probably an old and dated custom even though I always do that.
Hmmm, nothing too different from the stuff listed for Estonians. I think the manners and such are kind of similar in a lot of European countries. Having grown up Hindu and eating at a lot of Indian meals, I know Indians tend to eat with their right hand and never with their left hand. This was awkward for me since I'd been taught to eat continental style.
I don't know much about Estonia, only that it is just across the water from Finland and that the vikings trampled through it. Must be cold!
I guess I can think of something else. I'm Irish, Welsh and French Canadian. I only know that my Irish family held hootnannies regularly with drinking, dancing and lots of music being played. They made their own instruments and my brother and I have one, the devil's head fiddle our great grandfather made. I am a fairly awful musician! Must have skipped a generation. -
Thanks for the reply Minkey!!!
To answer your question... no. I'm not Estonian, but I've read that TS has developers who are, so I wanted to wave the flag. I went to High School (in the US) with the current President of Estonia so I'm always curious to read about it. -
Think I just added another country to my bucket list !
Never really read much about Estonian before but if that link is accurate it sounds awesome ! - I've met only one Estonian. I asked "are you Danish?" but I was wrong. Looked just like my Danish friend. My place to visit is Nordlingen, Germany--so cool!