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Original poster

To feel the need for dessert forks in my life?

77 replies

NotLoveActually · 19/03/2015 13:03

Just ate a slice of gooey chocolate birthday cake with one of my kids teeny forks. Lightbulb moment, I need dessert forks, like I want them in my life immediately! Text dh to tell him this, and ask if he sees any on his travels to buy them Grin he basically told me to get over myself and stop buying crap we don't need Angry so, AIBU?

OP posts:
squoosh · 19/03/2015 13:05

Years from now when you're in your twilight years, you'll look back on the 19th March 2015 as the day you realised you were married to a barbarian.

FuckItBucket · 19/03/2015 13:05

Pick the slab of cake up and eat it. None of this fork business

Pyjamasandwine · 19/03/2015 13:06

I agree and your dh sounds like mine. Go and buy them yourself op.

It's the way forward.

Doingakatereddy · 19/03/2015 13:07

I think your desire for dessert forks is masking a deep seated need for a good shag and a stiff G&T

lavendersun · 19/03/2015 13:08

Beware - seriously, I consider them pretty essential too although DH definitely does not. But, I felt truly awful when DD came home with her piece of cake in her lunch bag because she didn't have anything to eat it with, poor thing.

I had a lot of explaining to do.

Mumto3dc · 19/03/2015 13:09

Yanbu!

I was just in waitrose cafe and seriously thought about complaining that they only have big forks.... In fact now you've reminded me I think I will fill out one of their feedback cards next time I'm there.

Do I win?Grin

SomewhereIBelong · 19/03/2015 13:09

you neeeeeeddd dessert forks - you need them - really - when we had a party for DD then aged 7 we had her French friend ask us for a dessert fork to eat her cake with.

(oh yes - we eat cake AT the party, none of this squish into a bag to take home business).

Would have been tres, tres mortified if we were unable to provide one.... the only time we have ever needed one ever - and we had some!

Alternatively, just use a normal fork.

squoosh · 19/03/2015 13:10

Oh lavender, you're raising your own little Marie Antoinette.

Mumto3dc · 19/03/2015 13:11

Lol at lavender sun's dd, my ds had a friend round once and he asked for a cake fork to eat his cake with, I was v impressed!!

Original poster
NotLoveActually · 19/03/2015 13:11

It was the most gooey cake covered with malteasers and chocolate curls, I would have ended up washing half the delicious chocolate off in the sink Angry right that's it, internet search for dessert forks shall commence. could fair go a good shag followed by a g&t though Wink

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Tanith · 19/03/2015 13:15

We let the kids use them as cutlery Blush
There are some small knives that also came with the set - obviously they can't be cake knives and they're serrated so I don't think they're butter knives. The kids use them, too Blush

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 19/03/2015 13:16

Dessert forks are essential. In a pinch a normal fork or even a teaspoon will do, but they just aren't the same. YANBU

Original poster
NotLoveActually · 19/03/2015 13:18

I KNEW I was justified in needing to acquire these immediately

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MaxPepsi · 19/03/2015 13:18

search for pastry forks - it will speed things up for you Wink

wigglesrock · 19/03/2015 13:20

My mum and my nana have a strange, long feud going on about dessert forks, they are both convinced that the other nabs some from the cutlery drawer in their respective houses. That's how important dessert forks are in my family Smile. We don't have any.

Carrie5608 · 19/03/2015 13:26

YANBU we always had them growing up. Must buy some. Also soup spoons, I hate to see the Dc eating soup with a desert spoon.

first world problems

bertiebogtrotter · 19/03/2015 13:30

YANBU! I have desert forks and think they are brilliant, I have some that look like ordinary forks and some that have a knife bit down the edge. I picked them up fairly cheap from somewhere so not an extravagant purchase by any stretch of the imagination.

One of our families most prized heirlooms are my Grandmothers 'sporks'.

FlaviaAlbia · 19/03/2015 13:31

I have dessert forks and ice cream spoons, however, I am married to a similar barbarian who talked me out of buying mustard spoons. I don't know why I listen to him sometimes. I need mustard spoons.

Lavender - your daughter is brilliant Grin

helpmekeepstrong · 19/03/2015 13:32

Now you've made me go and eat cake [NotLoveActually] AND I had to use a dinner fork! Grin

MrsTerryPratchett · 19/03/2015 13:32

Move to Canada. Everyone here has them. It's odd.

JoanHicksonMIfive · 19/03/2015 13:36

I have all manner of cutlery. My family had bog standard cutlery and think I should get over myself. I love a cake fork so yanbu.

bilbodog · 19/03/2015 13:39

does anybody have fish knives and forks these days? I remember my mother having these - but I dont! I do, however, need cake forks now...........

Sgtmajormummy · 19/03/2015 13:40

Yes to dessert forks, also for spiking lumps of crumbly jam tart pastry without using a surreptitious finger! While you're there, why not invest in some sundae spoons, too? The long handles mean they're great for digging into the bottom of mayo jars without getting your hand dirty. Wouldn't be without mine! Grin

baggpuss · 19/03/2015 14:27

The fish knives and forks ha ha. They were a great source of embarrassment in my childhood. Nobody that came for tea had a clue what they were. I had forgotten all about . I want to go and get some..

SomewhereIBelong · 19/03/2015 14:32

I have pastry forks, sundae spoons and fish knives too - also have egg spoons - made from horn so as not to "taste" when eating a boiled egg.

I'm obviously well posh.....