You know, that's the sort of thing that might make or break you, if you're trying to make a first impression at an initial business dinner with high value clients. I know it sounds ridiculous, but if you're wooing that kind of client, boorish table manners will scare them off. The higher class look down their noses at people that don't know classical proper etiquette.
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I just like to put my face right down into the plate and eat without using my hands
I only drink soup from the side of a bowl..
It's very true. I was working for a Japanese-based firm and we were out at this very fine restaurant for the Christmas party. Normally, I eat how I eat, but since it was drummed into me at an early age how to eat "properly" my brain went into auto-pilot mode and probably did it mostly correct (put the food in your mouth, put the cutlery down between bites etc).
The big boss visiting from Japan said something in Japanese to my boss, and he said afterwards that he thought I must be British by the way I held my cutlery!
I remember as a kid asking why I had to learn this, as we were now in Canada and my dad's cryptic reply was "there is a rhyme and a reason for everything. You will need this skill sometime in your life". Thanks, Dad...it actually furthered my career a little bit.
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exactly, if you don't have these skills, you are looked at as a complete idiot if the situation were to happen
if you don't switch your fork to your right hand (which I don't), most people look at you funny