Knife fork and spoon

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

In the nineteenth century there was comment on Americans eating food off of their knives. This is no longer done -- and it seems those instances when somebody commented on doing it that the spoon would have been the better instrument anyway. All that's left is this quatrain:

I eat my peas with honey;
I've done so all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.

And how do you get peace, Homer? That's right: with a knife.

[HungLikeJesus]

I've found that the only efficient way to eat Tater Tots(tm) is with chopsticks. I suppose a spoon might work, but that would be rude, wouldn't it.

Another very useful implement that hasn't been mentioned is the straw. A straw is nice because you don't have to stop eating to drink. If I don't have a straw, I usually just curl up my tongue into a straw shape, but it doesn't reach all the way to the bottom of the bigger beer mugs.

The problem I see with the three implements discussed (of which the fork was, by far, the last introduced, particularly to the US), is that most of us only have two hands, so unless you're a good juggler, you're always having to put one down, pick one up, put one down, pick one up...