"We're tryin' to figure out how we're going to do this fork/spoon business," said Alice, one of the cooks in the school cafeteria. "They need a fork." Oliver: "Yeah, and a knife would be nice. They don't have a knife?"
"Oh no, no knives."
"You don't get your kids to use a knife and fork?" Oliver replies, confusion clouding his boyish features.
In an on-camera narration, he underscores: "[That] means from the age of 4 to 10, they never use a knife and fork!"
The conversation continues, with an incredulous Oliver: "This is school. You teach them how to spell, you teach them to read, you teach them to write -- you teach them to use a knife and fork!" he emphasizes. "You don't want to bring up a nation of kids that only use their fingers and a spoon!"
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