If you forget to wash it, it turns into knife smegma.
Two problems here: First, margarine is inedible and is no substitute for butter. Second, do you wash your silverware in cold water without soap? Is Dawn not available in POHMyland?
Saw a news report on cleaning oil-covered birds down on the Gulf of Mexico. The reporter asked a cleaner what she used to remove crude oil from a bird’s plumage. The cleaner looked at him like he was an idiot and said, “Dawn.” A great product.
Pizza? Fried chicken?
What are you eating those for?
Trick question? Yes, of course pizza and chicken should be eaten with a knife and fork. As with fries, I use my hands in a fast food place, otherwise it’s good table manners to use the silverware.
Y’know, I can understand the wonderment in this thread about the butter knife thing; what I don’t get is the objection to eating one’s food with a fork.
“Well, la-di-da! Aren’t we the fancy-schmancy one! Too good to pick your food up in your hands and shove it into your gaping maw the way God intended us to?”
In my neighbourhood, you can get butter knives (and other cutlery) cheaply at the hardware/houseware store or even the dollar store. IKEA sellsa six-pack of butter knives for $CDN 7.99.
I dunno about God, but the people who created dishes like french fries, pizza, and fried chicken intended for them to be eaten with your hands, just the same as sandwiches. With a few exceptions, like Chicago deep-dish pizza that’s too heavy and unwieldy or those giant burgers that would require unhinging your jaw like a snake. That’s why these items, except for the exceptions, are of a size, shape, consistency and weight that’s convenient to be held in the hand. Insisting on doing otherwise in the interest of “etiquette” when actual etiquette dictates you eat a dish as it was created to be eaten comes across as silly and affected, like sticking your pinky out when you drink tea.
No, no, a thousand times NO! My friend, you need to watch this clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart where Jon gives his take on how not to eat a pizza. Good stuff starts at 3:30.
The creators of “fries” intended them to be eaten with mayonaisse.
I curse you, Sir. I curse thee.
May you eat the meals of the rest of your days with a spork.