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Everyone was having a fish party so I grabbed my fish fork but once I arrived I realized I had grabbed my pastry fork instead. Everyone laughed at me. “Want a fish pie?” they kept asking. “Want a fish pie?”
God, I’m so embarrassed. I wish I had seen this chart sooner.
You really made me feel like I was there, laughing at you like the rest
Forks at the ready
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Damn, I want a fish pie now
But what happens when you are served a seafood dessert made with fruit and fish?
The Masterson’s will have a bit of a tizzy when it comes to hosting next months neighborhood afternoon soiree. I’m sure the Jefferson’s will have a chuckle at the end of the meal.
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Shrimp is bugs.
There’s an actual fork for spaghetti!?!
Why have I never seen one before? WTF is this conspiracy?
I’ve been to many italian establishments and have never seen them. probably just a gimmick nobody knows about
It would be so uncomfortable to use 😬
it looks like it needs to go to a fork hospital
just use a fork and a spoon for spaghetti like a normal person
I still think it’s weird using a spoon for spaghetti.
I’ve seen it done. I get why people do it. I still think it’s weird.
Whatever. Be weird. So your thing. As long as it gets the food from the plate to your face, who am I to say it’s wrong?
I don’t know why people can’t just spin their forks and have the spaghetti wrap around? Never seemed like something difficult or requiring extra tools
I get it, I don’t do it with a spoon, but I understand the problem it’s trying to solve.
Most forks are curved, so you naturally pick up the pasta so it lands in the concave side, but when you flip it over to start spinning, the pasta slides off the end or down to the handle. So it becomes a shitty game to try to keep the spaghetti on the fork while you twirl it to fit the whole thing in your mouth.
There’s a few solutions to this, like spinning the fork against the plate or using a spoon, or a fancy spaghetti fork (like in the OP). I’m sure there’s more, that’s just what I can think of.
I call BS. Every other fork (even the crab “pick”) I can believe it have seen. I do not believe in this.
I have never seen this. italians spin their fork in the spoon to wrap the noodles, seems to work fine. That spaghetti fork would have terrible mouth feel.
I’ve never seen an italian eat spaghetti with a spoon, but maybe it varies by region.
Seems like a common thing in North America. I’ve seen plenty of people use a spoon to hold the tip of their fork to spin it and ball up spaghetti (and similar noodle pasta).
I’m not even Italian, I think it’s weird. Far be it for me to tell anyone how to eat though. So I just shut my mouth and eat my spaghetti, my way.
It’s a very Italian American thing. It’s not really something you’d see in Italy.
Could be, an old Italian guy showed me the spoon as the base and fork as the spinning tool. But yeah maybe it is regional…or like giving white people a fork at an asian place
The list is disappointingly missing many variants, such as:
- The Spork (an invention commonly attributed to Samuel W. Francis, but which remains in doubt)
- The Knork, from the popular show Knork and Knindy (knanu-knanu)
- Neptune’s trident (four out of five dentists recommend it)
- Cluster fork (as experienced by yours truly at least once per fortnight when production goes down)
- The most ancient and purest form of all: the monofork, aka kebap skewer
The knork was invented by Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi.
Why would you eat a table?
Of all the fork shapes, the table fork seems the least useful for its named purpose.
All forks are table forks if you put them on the forking table.
With an honorable mention for the cocktail fork. If you don’t want to drink it, at least use a spoon
Most of those are threeks and twoks. Only a few forks.
This joke goes hard
Hows a crab meant to hold that?
With both claws.
Nice
Yeah if it’s a little one maybe, but if a crab can one-claw a knife then it can one-claw a fork. He’s not a little crablet anymore, Charlene.
Crabs come in many sizes and I was trying to be all inclusive. Indeed, some can one claw a fork, but others will need to two claw it.
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Better get out your pitchfork
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Table fork and salad fork are the same. Change my mind.
Well yeah, where else would you eat salad? The floor? Everyone knows that’s where burgers are served.
Salad fork is usually slightly smaller, but that’s about it.
Italians
- make weird noodles
- need strange tools to eat them
South east asians
- use literal sticks that chop
- make overcomplicated food that just needs to be grabbed
- breed special rice that sticks
Germans
- Spoon go brrr
I love sticky rice tho. Just saying.
Those Asians, they had some ideas, let me tell you.
I love that all of the responses in here are just forking jokes.
The Broadfork : https://www.easydigging.com/broadforks/articles/invention-broadfork-history.html
And remember if you see a fork in the road, take it.
What if I’m having fish salad for dessert?
