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Cutlery has not always been used when eating. People originally ate with their hands. Everyone ate with their hands regardless of social class. Kings, Queens, the rich, and the poor all ate with their hands. It was considered proper to eat with ones hands, and the early Catholic church deemed eating with ones hands as being holy. However, the creation of cutlery sets divided the upper and lower classes in the way they ate their meals. Continue reading Knife, Fork, Spoon