In am in NC. :)jackknifeh wrote:I'll be needing your address so I can come over the next time you cook steak. :D I used a smilie to indicate humor but I'm serious! Where do you live?
:D :D
Jack
I am the grill master. :cool:
I use one of my spydies to cut my steak sandwich nearly every day at my local cafe and no-one has ever said anything to me about it (although i did get a weird look from the owner one day when i used my temperance 2 :D ) and i use one at every other restaurant i go to. I'm in a smallish rural town though so farmers all carry at least a stockman and as long as you act sensibly a police officer wont hassle you. In australia the knife laws may be pretty bad but as long as you have a legitimate reason for it you're fine, and food prep counts. pubs are a different kettle of fish though, no-one cares around here as long as you look respectable and you're not being aggressive but i wouldn't take a knife to a pub in the city if you paid me!O,just,O wrote:Hello from Australia.
Take your own folder to a restaurant here. :eek: :eek: Gutsy but stupid move.
Not within 50 metres of the public bar or hotel. Our back yard at our house in town is closer than that.
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That is an excellent point. I have had to pick up broccolli sprouts from my lap a time or two because they shoot out from under a fork or dull knife instead of being cut. (some think I'm just clumsy :) ) I guess now the Spyder-crew has to come up with "the Restaurant". It's a folder model just for meals. :Ddj moonbat wrote:Sure, sure -- steak. Whatever.
Where I really like having a knife is dealing with salad. See, most places don't bother to cut their salad toppings (particularly tomato and cucumber slices) down to actual "bite size." So I have to finish the job for them. The table knife is just going to spew the veggies all over the table, because you have to push down hard to cut. But a really sharp pocket knife will slice through them without much pressure at all, so everything stays put.
Justify it to whom? No law against carrying a FB here, no law against using one in a safe and non threatening manner for a reasonable purpose, and it's not as if it would be the only knife in the room. I'm not talking about sitting there flipping a bali. I'm not suggesting that I'd pick my steak up on my fork and slash slices off it while it's dangling in the air. I'm just talking about using it the same way everyone else in the place would be using the knife they were given.Ankerson wrote:I wouldn't bet money on it.
It might not happen the 1st time or even the 5th time, but it only takes once to cause a real problem....
Then you would have to justify it, good luck with that...
Let one person call 911 and you will see exactly what I mean.....The Deacon wrote:Justify it to whom? No law against carrying a FB here, no law against using one in a safe and non threatening manner for a reasonable purpose, and it's not as if it would be the only knife in the room. I'm not talking about sitting there flipping a bali. I'm not suggesting that I'd pick my steak up on my fork and slash slices off it while it's dangling in the air. I'm just talking about using it the same way everyone else in the place would be using the knife they were given.
You're making me worry a bit about the mindset of folks in NC, Jim. Hope those in the part of SC where I'm headed will be less fearful. Still, I'd be willing to take my chances around here and pretty much anywhere else in the USA except NYC.Ankerson wrote:Let one person call 911 and you will see exactly what I mean.....
Hopefully you won't get to have that experience....
Try that there isn't any law against argument when the man shows up and see how far that goes...
Don't think you quite understand the situation.....unit wrote:If someone calls 911 on me for eating a steak, I would laugh myself silly. I can not imagine what I would have to explain?...
"Yes, officer...I am legally carrying and responsibly using this (legal) knife to cut my sons' food, and later after they are happily eating, I will use it to prepare my own food. The knuckle-head that bothered calling you is sitting over there, and no, I do not care to press any harassment charges..."
To answer the OP, yes, I use whatever knife will make my meal most enjoyable (legally).
As Paul said, I guess we will have to agree to disagree.Ankerson wrote:Don't think you quite understand the situation.....
The law is whatever the people running the restaurant or business say it is....
Written law is for the Courts and the lawyers.
Remember a lot people still view knives as they do guns so pulling out a knife in a public place is the same as pulling a gun out.
PE sheepsfoot, or wharncliffe.chuck_roxas45 wrote:What's the best blade shape to spread peanut butter and jelly?
Right on!chuck_roxas45 wrote:What's the best blade shape to spread peanut butter and jelly?
The Deacon wrote:You're making me worry a bit about the mindset of folks in NC, Jim. Hope those in the part of SC where I'm headed will be less fearful. Still, I'd be willing to take my chances around here and pretty much anywhere else in the USA except NYC.
First, I seriously doubt anyone would notice. I'm not talking about walking into the place with the knife in plain sight. It would be fully concealed, just as my folders always are. I'm not talking about "deploying" it in a flamboyant manner. All my fellow diners and the waitstaff would see, if they even noticed, was an extra knife on the table next to my plate. I don't dine with strangers, so anyone at my table would be well aware and accepting of my quirks and there'd be no loud "Jeez Paul, why'd you bring THAT here" to raise an alarm. And, trust me Jim, if the steak was tough enough that I felt the need to baton the Street Beat through it with a loaf of french bread, I'd up and leave.
Frankly, I think a folding knife, any folding knife, sitting on the table would draw more attention from folks passing by than any of the FB models I mentioned ever would and, if someone did notice the Street Beat, they'd be wondering what I did to rate the good cutlery rather than wondering who I planned to stab. I'd faster see someone being charged with abuse of the 911 system for calling in a "man with a knife" complaint against someone cutting his food in a restaurant than me being charged with brandishing.
So I think that, like a number of other topics, we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this.