Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Here in Denmark, it’s almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.
Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Here in Denmark, it’s almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark.
Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
And we are not a pretentious people, so many don’t even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I must have missed that memo, but I completely agree. It’s just the best tool for the job.
No they don’t.
Neither am I. My preference is purely practical.
That’s fair. I only have them because I got some as a cheap “here, have this too” Christmas gift a couple years ago.
Before that, I had no idea how much better they are for the purpose than tea spoons.
Mostly true, but you’re allowed to own specialized cutlery, just like you’re allowed to own kitchen appliances that do a specific thing better than others that do more things.
Fixed it for you.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Yeah, half a century ago, I was minutes seven years old 🤷🏻
cabbage@piefed.social 12 hours ago
I moved to Denmark a few years ago, and have been picking up a line of cutlery whenever I see stuff I need in red cross stores. I have small tea spoons, big tea spoons, and one tiny cake fork.
I prefer the smaller tea spoons not only for ice cream cake, but anything served with ice cream. So typically that’s also a lot of pies. The fork is better for dry crumbly cakes, but the spoons are better for creamy cakes. I wouldn’t eat a tiramisu with a fork if I have a spoon available.
The bigger tea spoons I mostly only use for yogurt and stuff like that.