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All-In [34486]
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What are the long forks for?
Oct 13, 2020, 3:26 PM
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I have silverware (not to brag). It's a decent set I bought when I moved in to this hizzle. I have forks also. I use these a lot.
Well, I've lost a few over time. And by a few I mean like 10 out of 12. How you lose a fork? You get high enough and they just start going missing. I sweatergawd there's someone conspiring to steal my forks.
Anywho, recently I discovered that on the far left side of my flatware organizer thingy, there sit a set of neglected forks that are about 1/2 inch longer than the forks I've been using. How do you discover forks in a house you've lived in for almost 3 years? Still pondering that myself.
So, besides being my interim utensil of choice, what are the long forks for? I don't ever remember growing up with multiple sizes, but I could be forgetting.
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Lot o points [180991]
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Longest fork is for main course.***
Oct 13, 2020, 3:28 PM
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Lot o points [163012]
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Shorter forks for salads, longer forks for dinner.
Oct 13, 2020, 3:29 PM
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HTH.
PS.
I hate longer forks and use shorter forks for everything.
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All-In [34486]
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Mrs G knows all about that, eh? ;)***
Oct 13, 2020, 3:31 PM
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Lot o points [180991]
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Oculus Spirit [79429]
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Just wait until/if you get married
Oct 13, 2020, 3:30 PM
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You inherent/accumulate all sorts of silver ware and dishes that have no functional purpose. Entire sets of dishes people have not used for 3 generations. Our silverware probably consists of a dozen different sets mixed together, not counting the entire new set we got as a wedding gift.
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All-In [34486]
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I do some shopping at discount stores and
Oct 13, 2020, 3:34 PM
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am also amazed that you can buy a fork. Just 1. You can walk to the counter of Big Lots or Dollar General with 1 fork and then check out and go home and use that 1 fork. If you lose the fork on the way home, you have to go back and get another one.
I'd like to know. the psycopath in that focus group who suggested that they wouldn't be satisfied if they had to buy a whole set....4...heck, even 2 forks, together.
Insanity.
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Oculus Spirit [79429]
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Maybe they're trying to quit using forks but just need
Oct 13, 2020, 3:40 PM
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one more for their pasta? Kind of like the people who only buy one cigarette at a time.
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Orange Blooded [4356]
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For when you get to the
Oct 13, 2020, 3:37 PM
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Lips and budtwholes. Not the salads.
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CU Medallion [53233]
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Re: What are the long forks for?
Oct 13, 2020, 3:38 PM
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hth
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Legend [17914]
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I knew there was one you in here
Oct 13, 2020, 3:59 PM
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can set a table but don't know how to wear a ball cap. 
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Re: What are the long forks for?
Oct 13, 2020, 6:32 PM
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I miss those long teaspoons. I have two I found sorting through the family silver.
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All-In [49171]
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ice tea spoons.
Oct 13, 2020, 7:50 PM
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pretty sure that's the proper name. I wonder if those came in yankee silverware sets.
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“Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand.....
Oct 13, 2020, 7:29 PM
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Whose wine, what wine where the hell did I dine?”
Heard originally Frampton had wanted to use fork but it didn’t rhyme with “dine”.
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Legend [17285]
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“Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand.....
Oct 13, 2020, 7:30 PM
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Whose wine, what wine where the hell did I dine?”
Heard originally Frampton had wanted to use fork but it didn’t rhyme with “dine”.
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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Long forks are for the adults
Oct 13, 2020, 3:43 PM
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short forks are for the kids.
hth
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Oculus Spirit [79429]
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I wonder why sporks never caught on
Oct 13, 2020, 3:51 PM
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They're really the best of both worlds, and could save sea turtles somehow.
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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Because I'd rather pick up fork stuff with a spoon and eat
Oct 13, 2020, 3:53 PM
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soup with a fork than use a spork for either.
Don't pick up #### with the weird fork side and only seem to stab you in the mouf when you use it like a spoon.
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Oculus Spirit [79429]
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One utensil to do it all, though. A 2 in 1 solution to
Oct 13, 2020, 4:03 PM
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stubborntigers problem, but you just want to #### on it because you hate sea turtles. Unbelievable.
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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If killing sea turtles keeps me from occasionally stabbing
Oct 13, 2020, 4:19 PM
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my mouf the #### THOSE TURDLES
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Heisman Winner [135867]
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I have a titanium spork for backpacking
Oct 13, 2020, 5:55 PM
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Has a can opener, bottle opener, serrated edge for cutting, real tines not those wide spork teeth, nice wide bowl for soup, weighs nothing
You come at it from the side with soup so you don’t get jabbbed. Pretty cool actually
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Oculus Spirit [97716]
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Salad fork. Goes to the far left. Smaller than the main
Oct 13, 2020, 4:17 PM
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dinner fork, which you use on your plate.
Then there's a smaller dessert fork and spoon which sit above your plate, facing ideally opposite directions. Then you can have a very tiny cocktail fork (mainly for shrimp cocktails or calamari, etc.) which would actually be placed to the farthest left beyond your dinner fork and salad fork. Then you have a regular dinner spoon which sits on the right to the right of your steak or dinner knife. Then there are tea spoons which are long, but small, used for stirring ####. The big fat spoons are soup spoons.
That's about it for the silverware at a place setting. Don't get me started on serving pieces.
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Heisman Winner [135867]
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^look at Emily Post^***
Oct 13, 2020, 5:51 PM
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Oculus Spirit [97716]
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My grandmother would be so proud.***
Oct 13, 2020, 9:35 PM
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When I went the summer Governors school in Charleston way
Oct 13, 2020, 4:18 PM
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back in '91, we had a formal dinner at the Omni one night - everyone was waiting for someone else to pick up the silverware, no one knew what to do with multiple forks...
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Oculus Spirit [79201]
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Start on the outside and work your way in
Oct 13, 2020, 4:22 PM
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just like with a woman
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Re: What are the long forks for?
Oct 13, 2020, 4:54 PM
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Do you have kids and how old?
My lazy ### teen would throw everything in the garbage when his mother made him clean his room. That included plates and silverware.
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All-In [34486]
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I do not have kids. But I did that once and got
Oct 13, 2020, 4:56 PM
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caught by Mom. Never again!
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