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

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨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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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

        I have no idea what your problem is, I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
        I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.
        I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?

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