FarmI wrote:

> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>> This is a screen capture from a film I'm watching -- "The Third Man", a
>> 1949 noir set in Austria right after WWII. A bird is being carved.
>> What is the rod that my arrow is pointing to, that sticks
>> perpendicularly out of the fork. I've not seen this before. But, of
>> course, I do live under the sea (not far from an octopus's garden).
>>
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/fork.jpg
>
> It's a moveable "lever" (for want of a better word) that acts as a knife
> stop. If the knife slips, you don't get cut because that lever folds out
> and stops it before it hits your fingers.

The one in the image doesn't look movable, but the design I found
online once I solved this is indeed foldable into the fork itself so it
goes away when you don't need it.


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