Here you may learn how to eat dessert while you are a
guest. Choose the name of dessert which you are
interested in.
Please select dessert:
Cheese
Cheese is eaten by a fork (cheese is on a plate). You can put it on bread or cracker.
In Switzerland if cheese is spicy, they eat it with butter
Chestnuts
Chestnuts are eaten by hands and when they are hot. If its shell is strong,
you should use a knife. Chestnut tastes like sweet potatoes.
Avocado
Avocado is cut into two halves, removing a stone. A formed pit should be filled by sauce or crabs.
Flesh is eaten to peel using a dessert spoon.
Apples/Pears
Apples are cut into four parts, cleaned by a knife, shares are eaten by hands.
Pears are eaten with peel using settings.
Pineapples
Pineapples are eaten with the help of a dessert fork and knife, cutting triangle from slices.
Peaches
Peaches and apricots are cut into two halves using a knife and a fork and removing a stone.
Bananas
Bananas are eaten by a teaspoon or a dessert fork.
Grapes
Grapes are put on the plate, picking from a bunch. You
should eat each berry individually.
Oranges
Oranges and tangerines are cleaned from peel with the help of hands, are cut into shares and eaten also with the help of hands.
Grapefruits
Grapefruits cleaned, cut and covered by icing sugar, are eaten by a dessert spoon.
Watermelons
Watermelons and melons, cut into slices, are eaten by a dessert fork and a knife or teaspoon.
Lemons
Lemons,which are served up with tea as slices, are put in a cup by a special fork, juice is squeezed by a spoon. The rest you should take out and put on the edge of a saucer.
Wild strawberries
Wild strawberries are eaten by a teaspoon, if they are served up without leaves. But if they are served up with leaves, you may eat strawberries dipping each berry into icing sugar.
Cherries
Cherries are eaten in the fingers of course.The pit of the cherry
should be made as dry as possible in your mouth and dropped into
your almost-closed cupped hand and thence to you plate.