To call dh a ponce over his use of....

[CyberspaceCinders]

pastry forks .......

I mean pastry fork

pastry

not

cupcakes ....

wrong

very wrong

Why is a pastry fork wrong? Or is it a man using a pastry fork you don't like?
I'm being thick praps but I don't understand

a pastry fork is what it's called

doesn't mean you can't eat a cupcake with it

clearly not a ponce but maybe a bit thick here, what is a pastry fork?

Oh I see, he was eating a cupcake with it. Well yes, that is wrong on many levels.

But they're also known as cake forks.

So YABU.

Hah.

Ah, but they are all right for slices of cake - but not for cupcakes.

Oh yes.

Good point.

Was it one of those Mr Kipling cupcakes? With the really thick icing on the top?

Or one of those fancy things from a patisserie?

Or worse, what should be called a fairy cake?

Nooooo, none of those would need a pastry fork. Except maybe a cream one. Mr Kipling could be squished together end to end and used to paint the ceiling, you can certainly pick it up. Fairy cake with a fork? Nonsense.
Squishy cakes or pudding cakes only.

ack, so many people whine that their men eat soup with their hands (or almost)

fair play to the cutlery using menfolk

*round of applause

Oh! So that's what those funny forks are in my parents' cutlery drawer

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_fork

Did you know that a fork that has a knife edge too is called a knork?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knork

The knork is a poor cousin of the spork.

Who are all these civilised people who own special forks? There are forks and forks in my house.

and to think i look down on my dh because he wont use a knife and fork.just a fork

I lurve cake forks. Love eating little flouncy things without having to lick my mucky hands.
My DCs first forks were pastry forks. No plastic nonsense when there is a drawer full of little forkies with one prong wider that t'others.
I think I might have an affair with your DH and his non-greasy hands...

Is ponce a southern term for something. I thought a ponce is a pimp.

However bad using a pastry fork is I can't see the link to ladies of the night (unless pastry fork is also a euphemism for something else)

God have I come across a coded sex discussion?

Nonnomum- Dd is using a pastry fork as her first fork too, they are perfect for toddlers!

DH and I use pastry forks all the time, perfect for something creamy/messy. A straight cupcake. No.

But can a cupcake ever really be straight?

Ponce- preening, "up themselves" type of person.

Hang on a sec, aren't CUPCAKES those bastard children of fairy cakes & muffins? Do they not feature several inches of squngy butter icing, presenting the hand-to-face eater with the unedifying options of icing on the nose, cake on the chin & fingers, and/or sticky stuff dropping onto your shirt-front? Plate & fork, deffo

Two gold stars to Mr Cinders, for eating like a civilised human being AND using the correct implement.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

not gold stars

do you mean
I have to buy him some more..

poncy forks as
I hhhhmmmmm
lost the others .....

and what about the worst sin

salad in a poncy glass side bowl....

What the fuck is a pastry fork? and kudos for using the word ponce, it's a great word that has been tragically over looked for years, reminds me of Withnail and I.

Anyway cake should be eaten with a spoon or fingers depending on the cake. what a ponce.

NO, the pastry fork has a side to allow you to cut into the cake, it is much easier and simpler to use you haven't lived until you have used a pastry fork! They must also come in a display case of five with a matching cake slice as well. :o

Spoons. Much more sensible.

oh

preens

i have a silver cake slice...