Classic Or Dud: When People Use Their Old Pocket Knife To Eat A Piece Of Fruit.

I actually like to carry a knife, but seeing people do the fruit and pocket knife thing makes me say ewwww. Never more so than one time in Germany: I was staying in a youth hostel and one morning at breakfast a bearded man wearing shorts, a wooly jumper, sandals and a hat brought his breakfast to the table where I was seated (there were a couple of empty tables available, so my guard was already up). He took out a pocket knife and started eating his breakfast with it (fruit and cheese - German breakfast). Now he had clearly seen the cutlery as he loaded his tray but had chosen not to take any. I wonder why someone would do such a thing as choose to eat with a pocket knife when it's not a necessity - it seems different in a situation where cutlery is available; it's not like he was camping or whatever, as in some of the examples above). Is it about some strange need to feel self-sufficient? If so, why bother with the plate, the chair, the other trappings of civilisation. It stuck me that it was a back-to-nature/simple-things-of-life thing; it wouldn't surprise me at all if that guy was also a naturist.

i think I did this for about two weeks after I went to camp as a kid for one summer, also around the same time I saw some old movie where shirley temple meets Lincoln and he eats an apple this way.

I carry a knife now to stab fuckers with.

firstly, it is classic.

second, this personal steak knives thing is one of the greatest things i have ever read on ilx.

third: i think it's more of a familiarity thing than a showing off thing.

the pocket knife thing seems silly to me. yeah, you're tough, you have a weapon at the ready...why not just bite into the apple, though? or use the butter knife, which generally works as well?

A colleague asked me for a knife, and when I said no and what do you want one for, said he wanted to eat an apple. I suggested he just bite into the apple and he looked at me like I was some sort of eccentric.

i think you did the right thing. i wouldnt entrust a knife to alex either

Using someone else's pocketknife is like using someone else's toothbrush.

but bloodier