Michael Kuettner wrote:

>
> "javawizard" > schrieb
>
> > It's hard to imagine that until about four hundred years ago,
> > European people ate everything with their fingers. When a few
> > people started using forks in England, everyone else thought the
> > idea of using tools to eat was totally ridiculous. - from the Food
> > History section of www.odd-info.com
> >
> Strange. The quarrel about the usage of the fork started in the 11th.
> century. In Venezia ...
> Then there were spoon and knife ...

Yeah, the knife used to be the primary eating utensil. In fact, as I
recall the first forks weren't even for eating, they were like minature
carving forks, with two sharp prongs. People used them to hold meat
while they cut it, then ate with the knife. Or something like that.




Brian

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