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  1. What an interesting article about ice cream forks. The utensils were too numerous to identify! I was done after the appetizer fork.

  2. The ice cream fork is up above the plate. This disastrous setting really should be removed from the internet. It’s an etiquette teacher’s nightmare. Pushed onto an unsuspecting public as “correct,” the majority of these pieces would not have been used together at one meal. Ever. Rarely should there be more than three forks to the left of the place setting, but looking at this setting, there are five different seafood courses, after a starter of caviar! Not to mention the dessert which somehow requires an ice cream spork, a knife, a fork, and a spoon. I love your site, but that place setting is an absolute disaster!

  3. Good heavens! I never realised a spork wasn’t a fairly recent invention! I see it just above the plate! I have no idea of the official use for the rest, apart from believing that you start on the outside and work in! I tend to eat anything with sauce of some kind with a spoon nowadays rather than end up wearing it!!!!!! ???

  4. Amazing… that just verifies the Bible saying[ from the Book of Ecclesiastes] … there is nothing new under the sun. Yep… even for the spork. Thanks for sharing.

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