On 2/1/2016 2:53 PM, wrote:
> Interesting!
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> https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine...1qJ/story.html
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> Why do waitstaff feel it is appropriate to bring extra spoons when not everyone at a table orders dessert? Maybe the person ordering dessert doesnt want others sticking spoons in her dessert. Am I the only person who thinks this is wrong? I have never seen anyone get extra forks when ordering a salad.
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> D.A. / Maynard
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> Thats because no restaurant diner has ever said, €œOh em gee, that kale looks amazing. Ive simply got to try a bite.€�
> Lenona.
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I never thought much about it because dessert is not in my common lexicon.

can only recall one time we ordered dessert and since both of us were
each having it (tiramisu at a restaurant of the same name) there was no
need for separate dessert forks.

Jill