Submitted 11 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Wooden chopsticks. Metal is too loud to eat with, plus I’m clumsy enough to end up biting the fork and hurting my teeth.
I do like playing with forks though! Some heavier and more angular shapes, like 4, tend to have a really nice balance to them though and are satisfying to twirl in my fingers while I’m working on something.
Lmao. Impressive how you manage to fuck up such a basic task as eating.
Survival of the fittest needs to be a thing again.
I’d put money on being more proficient with chopsticks than you.
Buddy, someone as tonedeaf and antisocial as you would be the first one to go. You’d be excluded from your social group and would die alone in the wild.
We are talking about fork shapes, you about susrvival of the fittest, smh…
Also team 2
Head of 2, body of 5.
This is the only correct answer
This is the correct answer
I agree, but if we could include the prong to base ratio of 4, that’d be great. I feel like 2’s head is to… idk, flimsy? Either the base should extend further or the prongs be shorter. Great shape otherwise though…
4 looks too spork like. No thanks
Yeah, the actual fork bit of 2 is nice but I don’t like utensils with dump truck ass; they’re top heavy when in use.
Nah just two all round
My partner has ADHD and autism and they swear by 5. That’s IKEA’s cheap fork and in our house I’m forced to use all the other forks (which are better so whatever). In their words: “all the other ones are too pointy”. I don’t fucking know.
Those all look horrible, mine’s better, it kinda looks like it has the head of #2 and body of #5
2 but 3 would do as a second tier choice if 2 was dirty.
Also whoever said the tines of 2 and the handle of 5 is correct.
Definitely not 5 because it looks like it’s trying to be a spoon, but you can’t eat soup with a fork (well, technically you can but it’d take a long time).
of the ones losted? 2. However, have you considered wood fork?
Depends on the weight for me.
All those with cupped handles look light and need the cupping for structural support, but 5 is thick in the right way. The head is wrong, though.
All heads are wrong for me. Either to long vor thick.
1
2 or 5
5, 1, 3, 4, 2 but I don’t actually like any of them. I want the smallest functional fork available (generally around 15cm/6”)
Why would this not apply to neurotypicals? seems to me that most people would have at least a slight preference
I am wondering the opposite as a neurodivergent. Why aren’t all of them kind of fine? Like, one is going to be better than the other, but it seems like a hard pick.
Maybe I am too autistic to consider about forks.
I agree, but “slight” is the operative word here. I’m autistic and there are some cutlery that feel so unpleasant in my hand that I can barely force myself to use them. In the past, it has even resulted in me hardly eating (when the lack of good cutlery was due to the nice ones being missing rather than just dirty). I felt very silly that I was letting myself go hungry over an irrational preference, but I find that some battles aren’t worth fighting.
I have also found that other neurodivergent people often have strong opinions on cutlery, which has been a wee source of solidarity. I think that, in addition to the concrete reality of people’s preferences, there’s a reinforcing cycle where once a cultural thing becomes associated with a particular group, there will be in-group jokes made about that association, which reinforces the link. That is to say that the relevance of this meme somewhat transcends the reality of the relative frequency of neurodivergent people having strong opinions on cutlery
My guess is neurodivergents tend to be more militant in our preferences because the factors that affect the choice weigh a lot heavier on us. Like how loud crowded areas aren’t really pleasant for anyone, but it can be down right crippling for neurodivergents because of how severe the over stimulation is.
Apostrophe catastrophe.
Oh, there are forks: #2.
This is exactly what I thought, and in the same order.
I’ll pick 1 as it looks the comfiest and I hate big forks.
I like 1. \5 is one of the worst things ever created
It probably says a lot about me to be able to articulate this, but it’s 100% 3 because of the way the head has a low flare leading to a high taper. The others are all way too flat or round.
I don’t like any of them
The only valid choice is 3, I want the full weight of the fork to be the tongs so they don’t knock cups over.
Hot take: 1
It’s about how they stack, I like a neat stack 👄
All of them have a flat handle. My personal preference is for a cylindrical handle. Heavier and easier to hold. Flat cutlery that looks like it was stamped out of sheet metal won’t do at all.
Also when the tines have like sharp corners from the stamping — ick. I’m not a machine, sir. Please do be keeping ur industrial design away from my mouth. ;x
1 by far.
1 looks decent.
1 - the tines on it are plenty long and it’s narrower than most of the others
I’d pick 5 but none of these look all that comfy
Wow we are so different. I don’t even want to be in the same room as 5. I like the edges to be straight straight straight like a hitscan ray no band tyuuuuu
Yeah, I didn’t think I was fork divergent… But I jumped straight to 5.
Handle of 5 is the best. They usually also have a bit of a weight in it, I hate light forks.
It doesn’t, that’s Ikea’s fork, I know it. It’s super uncomfortable for me but I’m the neurotypical in the house, my partner only uses those.
but the handle could be a bit wider. i mean it is the best but not perfect at all.
My fork is the correct fork. None of these are my fork.
In the event of a fork loss, any of these forks could become my fork after a period of time, probably about a month or so until it felt right.
People who choose 4, are you doing okay? It’s okay to seek help.
3 is even worse
TastyPancakes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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