Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

[venta]

Can anyone tell me what they consider to be the defining characteristic (if any) of a fish fork ?

Incidentally, I too can use google. I want to know what you, yourself, with your own mind think constitutes a fish fork.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Funny shape. Thin edge, for going in edgeways.

Oh, hang on, that's a fish-slice. A friend of mine was basically incapable of saying "get a word in edgeways" without following it with "like a fish-slice".

Fish-forks are more for phrases like "bugger me sideways with a fish-fork", suggesting that they don't go in easily edgeways, though frankly I think any cutlery would be poorly suited to that sort of usage.

Owen and I were talking just the other day about incredibly specific kitchen-implements: melon-ballers, egg-slicers, teabag-squeezers, pastry-brushes, that kind of thing. When I helped to count my College's silver (!) I discovered that they had more than one pair of asparagus-tongs. I had to completely recalibrate my ideas of poshness!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Well presumably if it's a college they give asparagus to a lot of people at once, and if one person's doing all the tongings it'd take all day.

[venta.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was basically incapable of saying "get a word in edgeways" without following it with "like a fish-slice".

That just shows how terribly well-educated your friend is. I too say that. In fact, in my family the way to get people to be quiet if you have something important to say and can't get a word in is to shout "fishslice".

What are asparagus tongs, anyway ? How do they differ from other tongs ? Even this website (http://www.replacements.com/piecetype/flat_piece.htm), which provides ten pages of increasingly bizarre specialist cutlery doesn't mention them.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

What a great site! "Cream soup spoons are smaller than a gumbo spoon and larger than a bouillon spoon. Generally, these spoons have round shallow bowls." And that's just on the first page.