Someone had to ask the questions that matter.
chopsticks.
The noble cake fork: “Am I a joke to you?”
A fork. The spoon is for kids and neanderthals.
I don’t normally eat cake, but when I do it is a fork. If it were pie I would do a fork for apple, but a spoon for blackberry and cherry. If someone offered me a pie that wasn’t blackberry or cherry I would re-evaluate my friendship with them.
Edit to add: My friends wouldn’t serve me cake that isn’t moist enough to cling to a fork. There are some assumptions that might be specific to my particular friend group. If your friend group delivers you dry cake you might need better friends.
I eat most things with a spoon, but not a regular spoon, a teaspoon. But not ass.
Yes. Eating it with a knife is just too dangerous and uncomfortable.
You’re just skipping over the obvious choice of chopsticks, I see.
Fork of course, i’m not a barbarian.
A dainty little fork, for most cakes. I make easy cakes not fancy cakes though. Ricotta cake, yogurt cake, pineapple upside down cake. Not so fluffy, more springy. Sort of a cornbread recipe, modified to make different cakes. So often it’s reasonable to cut a wedge and just eat it without a utensil.
Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.
This.
It seems to always be served with a fork but now that you mention it I think a spoon would be better.
This is the opposite of my experience. I find usually, not always, cake comes with a spoon. I prefer a fork.
On a ddg image search, most images that include cutlery include a fork. Only a few include a spoon.
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=cake+slice+on+a+plate&iar=images&t=ffit
I’ll show this to the staff in the places I frequent next time they give me a spoon with my cake order, thanks
I’m surprised to hear that. Not sure I’ve ever been given a spoon. Why do you prefer a fork? Doesn’t some fall through?
It doesn’t fall any more than with a spoon, unless we are talking about something extremely crumbly such as thousand layer cake. Which to be fair is also a pain to eat with a spoon, or any kind of cutlery. I find the flat profile of the fork is excellent to cut a small portion of the cake away without upsetting the rest of the cake structure. I can’t say the same about the curve of the spoon, which forces a scooping motion that often messes up the cake. I also find that the curved edge of the spoon makes it difficult to lift any crumbs from a flat plate surface. If I can’t lift crumbs with the fork’s edge, I can always press them down flat between the prongs and lift them. The curved shape of the spoon doesn’t allow for this. Finally, I prefer how the fork feels in my mouth as opposed to the spoon.
So, these are my reasons for preferring a fork over a spoon when eating cake. Interesting to see people making a case for the opposite, but hey that’s exactly what I wanted to know.
Edit: clarification on first sentence
fork
I prefer a spoon, but I’ve found that for most cakes a spoon isn’t long enough to take a proper vertical bite
Fork for everything that isn’t liquid. I actually kinda prefer chopsticks because they keep me from just shoveling shit in my gullet, and I don’t eat until I’m super full.
It depends on cake’s texture. Some cakes are way to soft to eat them with fork.
An ice-cream cake is better eaten with a spoon, for example.
I don’t. Preferences set one up for disappointment. I simply use what is offered or whichever has more clean.
Forks for ice cream fresh from the freezer though, they break into it better
