Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?

• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I must have missed that memo

  Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, half a century ago, I was minutes seven years old 🤷🏻

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
      I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
      And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
      A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

      But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes

        Yeah, that was an autocorrect error lol

        those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.

        Whether they agree with me on the relative merits of dessert forks and tea spoons, I guarantee that most people prefer to use whichever one they find most convenient.

        Deciding that it doesn’t matter AT ALL to most people just because you seemingly consider using the slightly better option to be elitist compared to using an inferior (at the specific use) but more versatile utensil os a very weird take 😄

        A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well

        Nope. That’s categorically untrue.

        Some might prefer a teaspoon based on other properties, but the flatter profile of the fork makes it moderately better at cutting and infinitely better at stabbing your cake like a pitchfork gathering hay.

        for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work

        Again, that’s categorically untrue. More fluid-adjacent cakes might benefit from the scooping capabilities more than the stabbing and superior cutting abilities of the fork, but they’re by far the minority rather than the majority.

        But hey, have fun. Do what you like

        Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular, but thanks for the permission, I guess 🤷🏻😄

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• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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