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I've noticed that in old films (Specifically, All Quiet on the Western Front), it seems like everyone holds their spoons and forks the way they hold a sword or a dumbbell, whereas now everyone I know holds cutlery like a pencil. Is that cultural or did something happen in history to change it?

by /u/fathercthulu in /r/AskHistorians

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