AIBU about the cake fork?!

[ProseccoPoppy]

I discovered this evening that DH thinks that although a spoon is "traditional", a cake fork is a suitable, indeed preferable, implement for eating sorbet

I think there's a reason most people use a spoon like being able to get dessert into your mouth quicker and that cake forks are for, well, cake... (Shocking stuff this).

AIBU to wonder what kind of a sorbet forking freak man I'm married to?

I have never eaten sorbet with a fork so can't possi comment.

On the subject of cake forks though.

They are little fuckers, they are designed for right handlers and as a left handed person they ruin my cake eating experience!

I do like how they look though.

I never realised cake forks were discriminatory Ginky. I was clearly ignorant! After some googling during the night feeds in depth research I now realise that this is a thing - not only did this website stock left handed cake forks but they have sold out because they are so popular (Ginky are you Cheryl/Sheryl? If not, she feels your pain).

Sounds like there are some people out there DH should meet... He'd get on with your nana Lemony - he told DMIL recently that not having cake forks was uncivilised because he knows how to get a reaction from her

Guess I should be grateful he doesn't consider sorbet to be finger food! Maybe the spork would be a happy compromise!

Urgh - link vanished - www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk/acatalog/pastry_fork.html

Fork all the way. ESP for ice cream, so you can take dainty little bits (as you eat the whole tub).

I'm having palpitations and it's only my privileged upper-class upbringing that is preventing me from stabbing some peasants with a fork! Sorbet is eaten with a spoon, common people. What's next, a straw you brought from working the fields?
Read and be ashamed.

www.learnenglish.de/culture/eatingculture.html

I know a family who all eat pancakes with a spoon. Any fule knows you use a knife and fork for pancakes.

Also I have had to ban my /dh from eating spaghetti with a knife and fork and cutting it all up. I've trained him to use a fork for twisting and a spoon to cup the end of the fork while he twists, like a civilised person.

If you can stab it and it stands you use a fork.
What about viennetta, I eat that with a fork. Would you?

I eat viennetta with a fork... a cake fork, come to think of it! But I think that's ok because you have a slice of viennetta. Sorbet does not come as a slice. In our house it comes in a wine glass hopes probably incorrect sorbet receptacle doesn't give Clandestino a coronary

Forks for pudding, any pudding, are essentially petit bourgeois and should be avoided. HTH.

The cake fork was invented in world war 2 as a weapon. It was made to look like it was part of the everyday cutlery set as a disguise if germany invaded. It could they be used during guerilla warfare. Even now regulations state that a cake fork must be capable of killing 40 germans before the tines get bent.

Poppy I nearly caused MIL to have a heart attack or go into mourning for the fate of her son and grandchildren by not owning cake forks 9 or 10 years ago ... funny how what winds up MIL'S vary.

I own them now though - serving cake without a fork would be taking English eccentricity too far for my German neighbors (and even offspring) to cope with, even my German DH struggled - and he's an atypical German, having been converted to drinking Yorkshire tea with milk by preference :o

Not always a class thing acasual - MIL is Croatian. .. seems like every MN thread has someone pop up and say that anyone not the same as them is aspirational middle class (which is obviously the worst insult there is).

Isn't saying petit beorgouir instead of aspirational middle class quite petit bourgeois in itself, or does the"dropping French into your English unnecessarily is frightfully try-hard and poor form" rule not apply when the words are italicised?

Tiggy I suspect it backfired then as cake fork ownership and use is rife in Germany and far less widespread in the UK. Even German toddlers are fully trained in cake fork use and practice regularly - even in kindergartens :o

Sounds like they're planning something....

I like plastic sporks. Is it a fork or is it a spoon? The ones in plastic packaging that fold out on a hinge are my favourite.

I've just realised that there aren't enough cake forks amongst my family and friends. I'm off to find a wholesaler that will give me bulk discount for 25 sets - that's my Christmas shopping sorted. Hurrah!

If you are dead posh and use a fork for sorbet, is it then ok to pick the bowl up at the end and drink the melty bits?

I fear you have taken me much too seriously weihnachtskanne. I thought about deploying a but felt a thread about cake forks might be an acceptable place for irony. For the record, I have absolutely no real opinion on cake forks.

Apologies for any offence given.

I have some cake forks which I have never used - not for sorbet, not for soup, not even for cake. I'm not proud and in fact having read this thread will spend the day in abject mortification.

Almost certainly Tiggy . In fact don't most European countries encourage cake fork use and ownership? I'm surprised the EU "out" campaign haven't made more of it - all those cake fork wielding children potentially mingling with nice peaceful teaspoon carrying British ones in schools and nurseries- sleeper agents the lot of them, and now some of them have been enticing those innocent British tots to defect to the dark side - how many more are there out there like Poppy's husband, after all he wasn't brought up a cake fork user (he probably had a nice spark as a child, no wonder his nice respectable mother is distraught), it's a national disgrace/ threat They don't want people to know about...

I'm thinking that eating sorbet with a cake fork could be good for the diet as surely you can't clean the bowl as well as with a spoon? Although it's just sugar and water anyway and I tell myself it's the low fat option ;)

Ah sorryacasual I'm a bit sick of the sneering at anyone who might do or say something not perceived as acceptably aristocratic or traditionally working class on some threads - it seems to be something some posters have to get in with wherever possible, and most of the things sneered at for being aspirational/ middle class are things that are normal in all walks of life in diverse other cultures, but just not in the immediate social circle of the class obsessed posters.

Apologies as you were parodying that, I just thought bloodyhell, another one! :o

I would be heating his bowl up ever so slightly in the microwave, put sorbet in and hand it to him with the fork.

Well it's obvious, you need a spork.

We're currently using our only cake fork to turn our oven on as the knobs come off. :-(

I can't eat cake without a fork now I'm over 40! Need to buy some more