Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
I remember someone saying that he always relied on watching those around him for the correct etiquette to use, and this always worked until one day when he was in a situation where he realised everyone was watching him to see how to he was going to start eating some unfamiliar item. So I guess his method served him well up to that point, I mean, so well that it made him a role model. In my away-from-home youth, I used to wait to be served asparagus spears, which I had been told could correctly be eaten with the fingers- but no one ever did produce it in a mannered setting. So my one advanced tip on vegetables has lain dormant.
My only experience with asparagus is with it being part of something else, and usually the appropriate utinsels are a pair of chopsticks...