Etiquette for Eating Bananas

If you are not given a fruit knife and fruit fork… “one may turn the skin back part of the way and hold the fruit in her fingers if she chooses, without shocking the proprieties.” – What Have We Here?  A sterling, gilded age banana server variation, with a matte gilded finish on the bowl and tines. One may get as formal as one likes when it comes to serving fruits at the table.

Charming Fruit Manners

“She has such charming fruit manners,” said a girl of a famous belle. “She doesn't know it, but she dips her strawberries in the powdered sugar, or holds her banana at breakfast, as if they were roses or violets You forget that eating is a material process, and are sure it is poetry. 

“I had seen so many people eat their bananas with a knife and fork that I looked for banana etiquette. I found that one may turn the skin back part of the way and hold the fruit in her fingers if she chooses, without shocking the proprieties.” – San Diego Union and Daily Bee, 29 May 1904

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