Someone had to ask the questions that matter.
Fork for everything that isn’t liquid. I actually kinda prefer chopsticks because they keep me from just shoveling shit in my gullet, and I don’t eat until I’m super full.
With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to [deleted]
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Fork of course, i’m not a barbarian.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 weeks ago
Fork. I hate when the spoon can’t be easily cleaned by the mouth which tends to be the case when it comes to cake. Yuck
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Yup and the deeper the spoon the worse it is! Agreed
blarghly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cakes disintigrate if you try to stab them, and often fall off a fork if you try to balance pieces on it. The socially acceptable answer is fork, but that’s for groupthink-following losers who probably went to college and shave every day.
Intelligent people like myself use a spoon.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Umm, does this count? I carved it myself, and sometimes actually use it…
jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
I don’t normally eat cake, but when I do it is a fork. If it were pie I would do a fork for apple, but a spoon for blackberry and cherry. If someone offered me a pie that wasn’t blackberry or cherry I would re-evaluate my friendship with them.
jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Edit to add: My friends wouldn’t serve me cake that isn’t moist enough to cling to a fork. There are some assumptions that might be specific to my particular friend group. If your friend group delivers you dry cake you might need better friends.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It seems to always be served with a fork but now that you mention it I think a spoon would be better.
Mothra@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
This is the opposite of my experience. I find usually, not always, cake comes with a spoon. I prefer a fork.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
On a ddg image search, most images that include cutlery include a fork. Only a few include a spoon.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised to hear that. Not sure I’ve ever been given a spoon. Why do you prefer a fork? Doesn’t some fall through?
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A dainty little fork, for most cakes. I make easy cakes not fancy cakes though. Ricotta cake, yogurt cake, pineapple upside down cake. Not so fluffy, more springy. Sort of a cornbread recipe, modified to make different cakes. So often it’s reasonable to cut a wedge and just eat it without a utensil.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
People who prefer using a spoon for (non ice cream) cake are the type of people who make a song and dance out of succumbing to temptation when they order it.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spoon keeps more of the cake on it.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Depends on the cake:
Hard to cut with a spoon: fork
Anything else: spoon
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Butter knife and fingers in casual situations, fork in semi- and formal situations.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The noble cake fork: “Am I a joke to you?”
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I eat most things with a spoon, but not a regular spoon, a teaspoon. But not ass.
Thoven@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
I prefer a spoon, but I’ve found that for most cakes a spoon isn’t long enough to take a proper vertical bite
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spoon
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I don’t eat cake.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Cake is finger food. I like feeling my food whenever possible before it goes in my face hole. It adds to the experience to me, especially licking my fingers after. Very… natural feeling. Also a lot easier, usually. Social norms be damned, I’m not stabbing leafs with metal spikes, I’m picking them up with my monkey hands like evolution intended.
But more important than my love of tactile sensations, I’m just not huge on refined sugar. Usually 1-2 tbsp for my ~6 cups of coffee, if I have coffee, and that’s it, so cake is well too much sugar for me to eat any faster than pinch by pinch without getting queasy. Might as well play with it while I’m there. Icing usually has a great texture (tho the increased use of palm oil in place of actual quality oil/butter leaves an oily film on my fingers -and mouth- that I don’t care for), and the variety of cake options are great to explore digitally as well, prior to orally. I find angelfood fascinating.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Spoon normally, any cake I stab with a fork falls off so I might as well use a spoon.