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[-] TerrificTadpole@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

You really made me feel like I was there, laughing at you like the rest

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 6 points 1 week ago

Damn, I want a fish pie now

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

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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[-] s_s@lemmy.one 43 points 1 week ago
[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

fine dining can go fork off

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

When appearances and etiquette become more important than the food ..... I'd rather have a box of KD and watch some Netflix in my underwear.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

With what kind of fork tho

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Fork? .... I'd use the same spoon I used to make the food and eat it straight from the pot to save myself from doing more dishes than I have to.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Could be worse… could be like the old Japanese fine dining, where you’re just supposed to stare at the food and pretend to eat it.

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[-] NoneYa@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

There's an actual fork for spaghetti!?!

Why have I never seen one before? WTF is this conspiracy?

[-] starchylemming@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I've been to many italian establishments and have never seen them. probably just a gimmick nobody knows about

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 5 points 1 week ago

It would be so uncomfortable to use 😬

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

it looks like it needs to go to a fork hospital

just use a fork and a spoon for spaghetti like a normal person

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

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?

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[-] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I call BS. Every other fork (even the crab "pick") I can believe it have seen. I do not believe in this.

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[-] erp@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

The list is disappointingly missing many variants, such as:

  1. The Spork (an invention commonly attributed to Samuel W. Francis, but which remains in doubt)
  2. The Knork, from the popular show Knork and Knindy (knanu-knanu)
  3. Neptune's trident (four out of five dentists recommend it)
  4. Cluster fork (as experienced by yours truly at least once per fortnight when production goes down)
  5. The most ancient and purest form of all: the monofork, aka kebap skewer
[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

The knork was invented by Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Why would you eat a table?

[-] terribletortoise@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Of all the fork shapes, the table fork seems the least useful for its named purpose.

[-] Trex202@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

All forks are table forks if you put them on the forking table.

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[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Hows a crab meant to hold that?

[-] core@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Most of those are threeks and twoks. Only a few forks.

[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

This joke goes hard

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 1 week ago

Where are garden fork and tuning fork?

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Better get out your pitchfork

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Table fork and salad fork are the same. Change my mind.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, where else would you eat salad? The floor? Everyone knows that's where burgers are served.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Salad fork is usually slightly smaller, but that's about it.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I need that spaghetti fork.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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
[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I love sticky rice tho. Just saying.

Those Asians, they had some ideas, let me tell you.

[-] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 5 points 1 week ago

The Broadfork : https://www.easydigging.com/broadforks/articles/invention-broadfork-history.html

And remember if you see a fork in the road, take it.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I love that all of the responses in here are just forking jokes.

What if I'm having fish salad for dessert?

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That is such an underrated movie.

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Whenever I'm trying to get people to do something and they are ambivalent I always use the line "I thought I was teamed up with superheroes but I'm stuck here with Lazy Boy and the Recliner!" No one gets it.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Are the extra-thick tines on the fish and pie forks for cutting?

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