Etiquette lessons?

[Lallans]

Being a lefty, I eat European style - not transferring my knife and fork. Frankly, when I see people do the American style, I find it sort of annoying. What I'm intrigued with is how some Scots scoop food onto the back of the fork tines and successfully transfer to the mouth without dropping anything.

Crudely put, you mash things up and sort of paste them on. My kid brother, when he first saw another kid doing this back in the day, pronounced it "disgusting." But if memory serves, he was hardly one to talk.