AIBU not to use a fish-knife for my fishcakes?

[seoladair]

Husband and I sat down for a quick dinner of fishcakes with his parents last night. MIL suddenly leapt up and said "Oh no! We need fish-knives!"
She then berated my husband for his lack of etiquette in laying the table with ordinary knives.
The thing is, it was quite tricky to eat fish-cakes with fish-knives. I struggled on, but spotted MIL giving up and using her fork!

YANBU.

Who the buggery owns fish knives in 2012

Ah, FishKnifeGate! My own former MIL was positively obsessed with the wretched things. She even sneaked a set onto our wedding list!

YANBU. Fishcakes were not designed to be eaten with fish knives.

We do! Inherited from grandparents - perhaps the most useless thing ever to be left to a vegetarian.

Not sure on the fishcake point, though. Can't imagine they'd be necessary.

Fish knives are designed for whole fish, not fish cakes. They are used to separate the skin and bone and flake the fish into manageable mouthfuls

Huh?
I don't own fish knives, and we eat fish all the time.

I thought fish knives were invented to embarras people who didn't know that you're meant to only use a fork to eat fish.

I must admit to owning fish knives. But also inherited from great-grandparents. Which upset my former MIL even more for some perverse reason. Apparently it was evidence that I was uppity, despite never using the sodding things.

It was just me, DH, baba, MIL and FIL. Not sure who she was trying to impress...Probably trying to teach me to be a better housewife! :o

NoWave :o

The fuck is a fish knife?

yabu
think of the fish.
they have to have their own knives.
My sm was the same with cake forks...........

What I love is that the instructions on the M&S kind say 'serve with a fish slice.'

That'd be a pancake turner then, yeah?

Such grandeur for supermarket-bought fishcakes...

X-post Tee2012 - I think they were M & S actually. Maybe that explains the special etiquette!

See, they weren't just fish cakes, they were M&S fish cakes...

Fish knives are for fish fillet, surely?

I also have some, inherited from DH's grandmother.

We also got some asparagus forks from her (Don't ask me)

I've never used any of them.

You'll never stop people worrying about fish-knives (from 1999):

www.newstatesman.com/node/136462

Ha, that's so petit bourgeois! Very Hyacinth Bucket.

It's a bit socially insecure, I think. Unless you're royal, why bother? Even then why bother...? Bet the queen eats fishcakes with a normal knife.

Fishknives are common.

Love the New Statesman article.

I love my 1930s fish knives and forks they live in their special wooden box with the larger pair. At the moment proper cutlery is really out of fashion so you can pick up beautiful pieces of real silver cutlery really really cheaply in antique shops.

Hi Lizcat
Love silverware too. But would you eat your fishcake with fishknive?