Why the fork-ing question?

[figmo]

When Warren and I go to Mel's in San Francisco, we have always found it peculiar that they serve us pie with an iced tea spoon. We have gotten into the habit of hoarding forks so we don't have to ask for them. We've also noticed most of the table servers and even one of the managers are all foreign-born.

The other day we were at a Denny's where the waitress was also clearly foreign-born. She gave Warren his apple pie (which was not a la mode) with an iced tea spoon as a utensil.

Neither of us grew up eating pie with a spoon -- even if topped with ice cream. Both of us were trained to eat our pies with a fork and find it just wrong to try to use a spoon, especially a long, tiny iced tea spoon. I was asking the question as a sanity-check for both of us.

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[tiggerypum.livejournal.com]

And I like to eat most of my desserts with a _tea_ spoon. I like to have my soup that way too, actually... I use tablespoons in my house for serving stuff. A long handled iced tea spoon, that's weird except for ice cream in one of those tall glass thingies ;)

I honestly don't know if my German mother tended to use teaspoons as dessert implements most of the time or not. Don't know if this was practical (not enough forks, or maybe handing kids spoons made sense) or cultural.