My wife uses a knife and fork for eating doughnuts. As a dutiful, supporting husband, I feel its my responsibility to point out to her she is weird every time she does it.

Did she mean barbarian up-thread?

Solingen make excellent knives I loved Nürnberg, am desperate to return to the scene of many of my crimes but it's a pain from here. Loved the food, and ate almost all of it with cutlery - roast goose almost every weekend with potato dumplings, cake every afternoon, the sausage... and omg the beer Sounds like you got stuck in with the local delicacies too! Did you like the place?

I loved it, I went to the xmas market too and stayed in Erlangen where I was working. Only went twice though.

could be barbarian. v is next to b on the keyboard.

I know Erlangen a bit, used to go there to pester the US soldiers to get us cheap fags from the PX Was it Siemens you worked for then?

No, but it was their factory I was working at. A scarily efficient clean factory!

Oooh, I know your sort.

What, penniless nicotine addicts?

Danny, you really do sound terribly British, old bean.



R.

I'm intrigued.........why would you need cutlery in a desert? Would this be to shift the sand, spoon by spoon? Does it have to be a particular type of spoon........soup, table, tea, des(s)ert?

And while we're on the subject, how many of you out there don't hold their mug by the handle, but cradle it in your hands? What's the current style?

cradle in hand thats me,have not used a handle in years when drinking from a mug or cup

I dunno about a desert, but I think I need one to dig myself out of this thread....

Sorry to butt in

I lived in Italy for a while and was told by my friends that spaghetti should be twirled around the fork using no other cutlery the addition of a spoon to help it stay on was for children and old people, knives for spaghetti are used by ignorant foreigners who don't know how to eat properly and tinned spaghetti is children's rubbish

just passing it on

One uses a bone china tea cup, preferable decorated with a floral motif. One holds the handle of course and extends one's little finger to counterbalance the weight of the cup.

Ideally the cup design should have some scalloped edge so that it makes the cup trickier for plebeians to drink from, ensuring that they slobber their tea thus confirming their place in society.

One should also use fish knives, pastry forks, sauce spoons and the like to reassure oneself that one has evolved.

..........so it WAS you lurking in the dark corner of my dining room!