Do you ever take along a knife specifically to use at table when attending a BBQ or visiting a steakhouse for a meal?

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Hanne762 said:
Would you just admit that what you really want to do is display one of your knives in public? That's what this boils down to, isn't it?
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Do you assume the same thing about people who open carry firearms?

What about visible pocket clips? Do those people really want to display that they're carrying a knife in public?
 
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rhino said:
Pretty sure you want the clip point for bananas. I'm just sayin'.
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comes from an old post here....where guy tried to use his recon1 tanto knife to seperate bananas and cut this finger and bled all over the lady customers bananas. old joke deal....

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True Story 3/22/2017: I handed the customer 3 bananas off the 5 banana bunch and put them in the old woman's shopping cart, trying to make it seem as if I hadn't just rammed the point of my CS recon mini tanto blade into my index finger. We talked for about half a minute more. Right before we...
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jbmonkey said:
comes from an old post here....where guy tried to use his recon1 tanto knife to seperate bananas and cut this finger and bled all over the lady customers bananas. old joke deal....

Tanto Blades Suck with Example

True Story 3/22/2017: I handed the customer 3 bananas off the 5 banana bunch and put them in the old woman's shopping cart, trying to make it seem as if I hadn't just rammed the point of my CS recon mini tanto blade into my index finger. We talked for about half a minute more. Right before we...
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Well, there you have it. Had he used the clip point, none of that would have happened!
 
jbmonkey said:
comes from an old post here....where guy tried to use his recon1 tanto knife to seperate bananas and cut this finger and bled all over the lady customers bananas. old joke deal....

Tanto Blades Suck with Example

True Story 3/22/2017: I handed the customer 3 bananas off the 5 banana bunch and put them in the old woman's shopping cart, trying to make it seem as if I hadn't just rammed the point of my CS recon mini tanto blade into my index finger. We talked for about half a minute more. Right before we...
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As a relative newcomer here, thank you. I know what I'm reading through tonight!
 
rhino said:
There does not exist a knife or even an image of a knife that won't offend someone in some areas of the world. Far too many people are fixated on what other people do and too many of that group are endlessly seeking an excuse to be offended or outraged or pretend to be scared.
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rhino said:
Do you assume the same thing about people who open carry firearms?

What about visible pocket clips? Do those people really want to display that they're carrying a knife in public?
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I assume that when there's a knife that's totally capable of doing the job and someone insists on using their blade anyway. I don't think it's a wildly negative thing but, to be blunt (like many steakhouse knives) steak is awful goddamn easy to cut unless you really mess it up. Sure, if they give you plastic cutlery I absolutely advocate using your own knife, but this idea that the steak knives provided at even a low end chain steakhouse are somehow insufficient to the task seems to me to be a utter and complete fiction.
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
In this day and age where far to many people can look at ANY knife a freak out, and scream "he's got a machette" when it's a small LaguleI ... the likelihood of someone in the restaurant either raising a stink or calling the law is very high.
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"Very high"? In the US, at a BBQ or steakhouse? No.
JJ_Colt45 said:
And I have seen someone be asked to put their knife away as they are provided with a cutting utensil. So it's not considered ok in many places. And even if the staff may be ok with it, many of the people dining there at the time may not be. And it's not worth the hassle (right or wrong) to do so. If I feel the need to cut steak with my own knife I grill at home.
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Oh? Really? At a BBQ or steakhouse as asked in the first posting?
JJ_Colt45 said:
And for me if a butter knife won't cut the steak they serve me, it's the steak not the knife. I guess the man that was asked to put his knife away should have offered to whip up the matradee a sandwich so all could applaud and rejoice. :rolleyes:
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Nah. Even the tenderest filet will rip/tear rather than cut if the knife is dull. Some like their steak sliced rather than ripped/torn.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
I assume that when there's a knife that's totally capable of doing the job and someone insists on using their blade anyway. I don't think it's a wildly negative thing but, to be blunt (like many steakhouse knives) steak is awful goddamn easy to cut unless you really mess it up. Sure, if they give you plastic cutlery I absolutely advocate using your own knife, but this idea that the steak knives provided at even a low end chain steakhouse are somehow insufficient to the task seems to me to be a utter and complete fiction.
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Yep, EDC on my hip.. occasionally get some harsh looks from other patrons.. Never had a foul word from staff.
 
I will disclose: I have used my own knife at a restaurant a few times, and only once that readily sticks out in my mind. I ordered steak. The knife provided was dull, and a chore to use. So I used my modded Broken Skull. It was perfect and easily three times easier to cut the steak with. The blade dulled some, but the touch up when I got home was no hardship. I also vaguely remember cutting burgers in half if they were too large to pick up without making a mess.

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I no longer own the knife, but if I were to eat out and have need again, I would still not hesitate to use one of my own, unless whatever I had on me were such overkill that the attention it would draw might outweigh the convenience it would provide.
 
rhino said:
Far too many people are fixated on what other people do and too many of that group are endlessly seeking an excuse to be offended or outraged or pretend to be scared.
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Couldn't the same be said for knife owners who are afraid to carry their knives in public? I don't really care what somebody else thinks of my knife, and I have never been afraid to tell them so.....
The police aren't going to waste their time responding to a guy cutting steak with a knife in a restaurant. Thats just laughable, and the police would agree.....

Dispatcher: 911 What is your emergency?
Caller : (Whispering) I'm at the Outback Steak House and there is a guy with a knife at the next table....
Dispatcher : What is he doing with the knife sir?
Caller : He is cutting his steak in a way that seems quite menacing to me.....
Dispatcher : Uhhhhhhh.....OhhhKaaaaay (heh heh)..........We don't appreciate crank calls sir. 911 is for actual emergencies.......
 
rhino said:
Do you assume the same thing about people who open carry firearms?

What about visible pocket clips? Do those people really want to display that they're carrying a knife in public?
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I've never had a knife emergency in a restaurant. Where I live nobody openly carries firearms except police.
 
Arathol said:
Couldn't the same be said for knife owners who are afraid to carry their knives in public? I don't really care what somebody else thinks of my knife, and I have never been afraid to tell them so.....
The police aren't going to waste their time responding to a guy cutting steak with a knife in a restaurant. Thats just laughable, and the police would agree.....

Dispatcher: 911 What is your emergency?
Caller : (Whispering) I'm at the Outback Steak House and there is a guy with a knife at the next table....
Dispatcher : What is he doing with the knife sir?
Caller : He is cutting his steak in a way that seems quite menacing to me.....
Dispatcher : Uhhhhhhh.....OhhhKaaaaay (heh heh)..........We don't appreciate crank calls sir. 911 is for actual emergencies.......
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Thanks for speaking for all the cops. It would appear you’ve never been one by assuming people don’t call for even more trivial things. You better believe when that easily-offended upset diner calls 911, it’s not going to be about a guy simply cutting his steak with a “pocketknife” which you and I find normal, but a “gawd danged switchblade assault machete” before they hang up on said dispatcher after shouting “Just get somebody here!” Sure, the cop will probably laugh it off when he does get there, but is your razor-thin sliced filet worth the hassle?

Additionally, dispatchers don’t typically get to choose which calls get responded to or not.
 
Centermass said:
Thanks for speaking for all the cops. It would appear you’ve never been one by assuming people don’t call for even more trivial things. You better believe when that easily-offended upset diner calls 911, it’s not going to be about a guy simply cutting his steak with a “pocketknife” which you and I find normal, but a “gawd danged switchblade assault machete” before they hang up on said dispatcher after shouting “Just get somebody here!” Sure, the cop will probably laugh it off when he does get there, but is your razor-thin sliced filet worth the hassle?

Additionally, dispatchers don’t typically get to choose which calls get responded to or not.
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Was it? Huh. I guess I didn’t realize because it wasn’t followed by “Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Try the meatloaf, but don’t expect to be able to cut it with the silverware they provide.”
 
So I'm sittin' in this Steakhouse, and after looking over the menu...


...I ordered the ribs!
Problem solved!
 
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