A plastic fork, but a fork nonetheless. The most disturbing part is that I am just not sure. I was digging into the chicken and rice, happily eating away. 5+ bites into it, I look at the fork and realize a tine has broken off. I dug through the food to no avail. Glanced at the table and floor…nothing. Pretty much the only other option is that it broke off in my mouth, I somehow managed to avoid biting it, and then swallowed it cleanly.
I have to think that if I did manage to swallow it, sharp and pointy plastic bits are probably not the ideal item to be traveling through my system.
It only adds to your mystique, oh studly one.
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Man, I did the same thing last week, eating spaghetti with meat sauce I made out of ground turkey. My roommate and I always run out of forks before we run the dishwasher, so I bought a package of plastic forks and occasionally eat with those. All of a sudden, half a tine was gone and I never found it! Oh well, anything that doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.
The only way to be sure is to examine your poop for the next several days. Speaking from experience, I would suggest collecting it in a large coffee can and picking it apart with some sort of stick.
If, after several days, you find no part of a plastic fork, then your worry may have been in vain. Won’t that be a relief!
Now you have to eat part of a knife and spoon, too.
Maybe even part of a plastic or paper plate. 
Are you sure the fork had all its tines when you started? I buy these 100-for-a-buck forks at the dollar store, and they don’t always pour the plastic so that the fork gets all its tines. Wouldn’t you feel something as long as a plastic fork tine making the alley-oop over the back of your tongue and down your throat? I think you’re okay, one way or the other.
I ate three or four bites of wax paper yesterday. It was stuck to the brownie so tightly I couldn’t see it.
I have a friend who does piercing for a living. She often has people swallow balls from their tongue piercings. She offers to sell them a new one, or they can “retrieve” their old one when it passes. Amazing how many people opt to save some bucks with the retrieval option.
In the fullness of time, all things must pass.
So they’re retrieving it…and putting it back in their mouth? Um, eew.
Don’t worry, you’ll be just tine.
Mullinator, if you really did just swallow a tine …
Man, you are so forked.
I’m sure it will come out OK in the end.
Such piercing wit on this thread.
Maybe I’m crazy but I have to think that if he shits out a sizeable piece of pointy plastic he’ll know about it at the time without any requirement of pawing through his sphinctral stew.
I’d say its tine to get a new fork.
I’m trying to think up a response involving “if you’d only been using a spork, . . .” but, I . . . got . . . nothin’.
I accidently swallowed a bridge that had been loose for a while.
It, too, did pass.
I washed it in clorox, soaked it in alcohol for a week, rinsed it with Listerine, repeated and had it reattached.
Been there.
At Captain D’s.
Didn’t notice when it “passed”, so maybe I have the start of my own silverware set!