How not to eat with your hands

[starl]

In the USA, depending on where you're at, you want to drink a flavored carbonated beverage, you ask for a soda, pop or coke.

Does the same variance apply to eating utensils? When you're at a restaurant and they forgot to give you all the eating utensils, what do you ask for? silverware? cutlery? something else?

I'm in the upper midwest of the USA and say "silveware".. but at the same time, I grew up on an international base and it's been pointed out to me that i talk weird sometimes

Where are you from (specifically or generally) and what would you say if you needed all the eating utensils (fork, spoon and knife)?

Note - curious to hear what anyone speaking English says. If English is your second language (or 3rd, 4th, etc) - where did you learn it?

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

I say cutlery, or ask for the specific utensil (knife, fork or spoon).

 

[Smitty]

Unless you ask for the specific utensil, I say Silverware.

 

[Joe4]

Just ask for a "spork". That should cover all the bases!

 

[Taul]

oi numpty! you forgot the Knife & fork (west London)

 

[TinaP]

I live in Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border (midwest, but just barely), and I use silverware. In my mind, cutlery refers to knives and other cutting instruments only.

 

[Drrellik]

I would only have to ask for a Fork.

If the Chile needs a spoon it's to soupy, If the meat needs a Knife it's too tough.

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

When I lived in the UK I'd have had to ask for a chainsaw for my steak!

 

[starl]

I would only have to ask for a Fork.

If the Chile needs a spoon it's to soupy, If the meat needs a Knife it's too tough.

*lol* Drrellik. Where are you at?

 

[Drrellik]

Born and raised in TX, currently living in SC. (last 23 years)