Are you aware that Americans are the only Western people who use a fork in the left hand to cut food but then shift the fork to the right hand to eat it? The fork was not used in England until the late 1700s, so it was rare or unavailable to pioneer American colonists. Not until the 1870s were forks universally accepted in the United States. The early American custom was to eat with the knife in the right hand and to spear food with its point-aided by a spoon and the fingers. When the fork was introduced, the custom of eating right-handed had become too much of a habit to be changed. The paragraph tells mainly
(A) when the fork was first used in England.
(B) when forks became popular.
(C) how an American eating custom originated.
(D) how the colonists ate their food.​