I have no idea who started using a fish fork properly, first.
My entry into the line of discussion was simply to correct the idea that Donald Trump was from a "middle-working class neighborhood" called "Jamaica".
BTW, as an odd side note, Barbara Pierce Bush of Rye, was born in....Flushing Queens.
“BTW, as an odd side note, Barbara Pierce Bush of Rye, was born in....Flushing Queens.”
I think Flushing was also Nancy Reagan’s home town as a child. Small world, ain’t it ? A couple of my nephews and a niece were born in Flushing. Obviously a great place to be born.
I’m guessing Flushing was pretty close to rural (or as close to rural as anything in the 5 boroughs has been for the past century) when BPB an NDR lived there.
The Donald grew up in Jamaica Estates which is the ritzy side of Jamaica, Queens. Mario Cuomo had a house there too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens
Other parts of Jamaica can be slummy. Some are middle class