Snerk!
Scroll down to the bottom “beef fork”.
Funny, I eat at Katz’s fairly often, and must have missed it.
FTR, a cousin had a deli for decades at Grand and Essex, right next to Kussar’s Biyalis
Back at Cornell I was part of a team doing a multi-week scavenger hunt with one clue given each day. I can’t remember the full clue but part of it was “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Tine.”
Knowing the original was “… Thyme” we assumed this was a clever way of directing us to the dining hall at Sage Hall. We spent most of lunch and part of dinner scouring the rooms there including removing a painting of Rosemary to search behind it, much to the chagrin of the staff.
Eventually we approached the clue a different way and found that day’s object in a location that had nothing to do with Sage or Tines. With proof of our success in hand so he would know he wasn’t giving anything away we approached the clue writer to ask what the heck Tines had to do with the clue as we could make no connection between Tines and the solution.
He admitted the entire line was simply for color, he simply misheard the line from the song when he used it, and he was unaware of the meaning of either Tine or Thyme. We resisted the urge to strangle him.
So, if you’re keeping score, for us it was 80%. Four team members well aware of what a tine was, and one clue writer who was blissfully ignorant.
Undressing my dog, this thread came to mind with these end-attachment thingies that squeeze together and expand within a receptacle to lock.
It occurred to me that an important feature of the etymology and current usage of prong and tine is incorrect with those things, and I stumbled momentarily on the name of those little bits, one of which (prong, I’ll go with) broke a bit off and doesn’t catch.
And there was a mysterious affair at one of those places;)…
Coffee ones, for one.
Those are known as side release buckles, in case you want to google them. Not sure what they call the three projections.
- We watch a lot of TV from NYC
2)Aus was a significant trade destination (wool), and had significant contact with the American West Coast. A lot of Australians went to California for the gold rush. A lot of Californians came to Aus for the gold rush.
Is that the link to the fact (a stunning one to me when I learned it) that the consummate sheep herding dog, the Aussie (Australian Shepherd), is an American breed but named by (for?) its main owners?
Now this is a hijack…
As another data point: I’m from the same area as the OP (actually the Philly 'burbs) and I’ve always known those parts of a fork as tines. It’s not a word that comes up in conversation much, but it’s hardly obscure.