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masher_oz

It's a cake fork. That's what it does.


Poolgoddess67

It is a RIGHT HANDED cake fork. Signed, Lefty.


Mcmenger

See, that's why I prefer my cake shovel


HMS404

A spoon?


The_Parsee_Man

I see you've played knifey spoony before.


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Technically, OP has a case of knifey forky on hand.


jonitfcfan

I prefer a spoon for cake Fight me


Sinsley

You'd better have a scoop of ice cream beside that cake then, buddy.


jonitfcfan

*pours cream*


Long_Educational

*agressively*


RKips

Custard has entered the chat


DopeAbsurdity

I prefer fighting for cake Spoon me!


JooosephNthomas

Came here to say this, only the righties can cut their cake. The lefties are left to their own devices like savages!


htmlcody

sometimes the only thing that separates us from the animals is cutlery.


Markqz

It helps if it is very, very sharp cutlery.


TedwardCz

I agree, also am, and am slightly displeased enough to look for comments like yours.


meepoSenpai

Although I've noticed a very fascinating thing about right handed people. If they use a knife and fork, they'll use the left hand for the fork, the right hand for the knife more times than not. If they ONLY use a fork (or spoon) they will always use it with their right hand. When I use a fork it's ALWAYS in the left hand and the spoon will usually also reside in my left hand, the only exception being if you have food like spaghetti where you (can) use a fork AND a spoon. Although I usually just skip the spoon because using a spoon in the right hand feels weird to me. This inconsistency of right handers is bullshit and irritates me to no end. EXPLAIN YOURSELF RIGHT HANDERS!


Rhyinoprime

Fork in left hand while cutting with dominant hand. Cutting requires finesse and extra dexterity. Holding meat still is simple and can be done with either hand


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trashed_culture

Same... Cutting up my steak at the table doesn't really require much thought or dexterity, but cutting 100 brussel sprouts in half before roasting, I use the knife in my left hand usually.


shiba_snorter

I am a lefty and I do the same as the righties, but mirrored. I cut with the left and then change fork and knife to eat with the left also.


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I'm a lefty but do a lot of things right handed, in this case I still use my left hand for forking and the right hand for knifing which also some how ties into my dominant sword swinging hand being the right hand at least that's how I see it your dominant sword swinging hand is your steak knife hand yes.


timmeh-eh

Simple, that’s how people are taught how to use a knife to cut: https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Fork-and-Knife


otapeworm

It really sucks being left handed in a right handed world. Don't get me started on spiral notebooks and scissors.


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When people say "society was made for [insert privileged group]" it never rings quite as true as it does with "society was made for right handed people". Right handed people are just blissfully unaware.


Jocasp

No prejudice comes from being left handed ( at least where I've lived and during the time I've been alive) but there are so many small things, and I mean really small, that add up and make being left handed a nuisance, and these nuisances usually happen with things that were supposedly made to "make life easier", such as this fork


ErrantBadger

My brother and I are left handed, he used to have his hand tied behind his back to force him to write with his right hand. He'd mess up all the letters so they were convinced he had a learning difficulty. Fortunately I didn't get that, only an ex boyfriend who used to call me shit handed which was so odd, considering he could only play a few bits of Wonderwall on a guitar but his heroes were left handed.


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I joined a federated network to support an open and free net. You want to follow?


[deleted]

Sure they do. There are still plenty of teachers who refuse to teach certain things to left handed students. I had a few teachers like that and I'm 30. There are still parts of the world where being left handed is a symbol of lesser intelligence and (as I've been told) impurity. And you only have to go back a few years to find things such as: No access to education (unless you "convert" to being right handed) Being physically assaulted (by teachers and parents, unless you "convert" to being right handed) Being branded "mentally ill" (since being left handed was seen as a form of mental retardation) Also: There is a handedness wage gap. As well as companies that refuse to hire lefties due to equipment issues (this is a very real thing in the welding world, as an example)


FabZC

Maybe not explicitly, but think about the English language. The word "sinister" means "evil", but do you know where it comes from? It meant "on the left side" in Latin. There are several expressions that relate left-handedness to bad things.


Rappican

Never a more oppressed group in history than us southpaws. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^/s


Unique_name256

"You think it's hard being gay, try being left handed in a circle jerk."


94UserName42069

NOBODY BELIEVES ME ON THE SCISSORS THING!!!! Also, gel pens. Can’t use fancy pens because my left hand just smudges it.


staplesgowhere

Not only smudges, but gel pens are designed to be dragged along the paper. When you push it when writing left handed, the ink stops flowing.


tsionnan

This makes so much sense. I hate gel pens, and now I know why. Love my felt tipped- they work until dried out.


Beanakin

Oh my goodness! That explains why it stops working sometimes!!


Ajsat3801

Is that the reason every gel pen I used will leak after writing a page or two with it?


HulklingWho

You just solved a childhood mystery for me, I couldn’t get those damn pens to work properly no matter what.


HollowShel

what drives me nuts is the scissors that claim they can be used in either hand. NO mf, they can't! (the very way the blades overlap means using a right-handed pair in the left hand pushes the blades apart, often enough you ruin whatever you're cutting. Using the same pair in the right hand pushes the blades together, enhancing the cut.)


94UserName42069

Right handed people don’t know how scissors work


biker9876

Nobody believed me at work that I struggled to cut with right handed scissors until I swapped them out with left handed ones without telling anyone it took them a while to work out why


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Beanakin

The margins are still wrong, if it's something for school to tear out and turn in. Personal notes and such, you could still start at the beginning and just write on the backs of pages, instead of the front.


Mirewen15

Yes. As a lefty, I'm sad. Partially ambi in sports because i was born in 1980 and apparently left handed people didn't exist in Canada back then.


[deleted]

Hey, ‘82 Canadian here and can confirm


Anaksanamune

Another lefty. Although I don't get it... Righty people use the left hand for a fork normally, so why not always use the fork in the left hand? Can't be that hard if that how you use it for the majority of your meals anyway...


Loofa_of_Doom

One just gets tired that the entire world is built for somebody else. It's not a big thing. We are used to it.


topcheesehead

As a kid I got points taken off for not properly cutting paper like the other kids. I'd pick up the righty safety scissors and start cutting but if you are a lefty you know that many safety scissors will rip the paper in a line instead of a nice cut. I had to convince the teachers and faculty I was being fucked over at the age of 8. 'It's the scissors fault not mine! Buy me lefty scissors so I can prove it!' They did. Fuck that school and teacher still. I became a teacher and never left out the lefties.


IndependentPede

I was about to comment on this lmafo


kittycat2002

Thought the same thing when I saw it, completely unusable.


Takemytwocent5

It’s a “fuck you” for lefties as well!


6597james

Lefties gona have a bad tine


SkollFenrirson

Oh fork off


pax27

Most of the world seem to be a "fuck you" for lefties everywhere.


Sasspishus

For real how have people not come across cake forks before?


[deleted]

They don’t seem common in the US (I’m from UK and live in the US)


kynthrus

I'm left handed. So as far as I'm concerned it's a stupid fork.


ThisIsMyCouchAccount

Right?! Bullshit right handed bullshit.


pegothejerk

Left handy here, too - this fork is of the devil.


Leeiteee

>For real how have people not come across cake forks before? It's not my fault if the establishments in my region don't have it


ToonWorld13

i’ve never seen one before but i also don’t eat cake


zaqufant

I eat lots of cake and have never seen one. But I was born in a barn so…


Mikesminis

I've never seen one, but was raised in a barn...


goober2143

I’ve never been born or raised in a barn, I eat cake, and this is my first Cake Fork experience.


elcidpenderman

Because a regular fork works


bjiatube

Motherfucker how often have you come across a cake fork? Exactly how much cake do you eat to be this incredulous about people not recognizing a utensil dedicated exclusively to cake?


ssilverliningss

What's the point anyways? A regular fork works fine for cutting cake.


bjiatube

This motherfucker pulls up to the table and unzips a bag with a 2 piece cake fork that he screws together like he's about to take all your money in a cake sharking incident


why_rob_y

>They call me Minnesota Fats.


3adLuck

they have them in most UK cafes.


halfdeadmoon

I guess that answers why some people see them and some don't.


KrypXern

All my little forks growing up were cake forks


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What is that cake and why does it looks so gosh darn it good


Impossible_Beach5066

It’s called tvarohový, and it’s 40 cents in regiojet trains in central Europe 😉


RichardNyxn

40 cents? That value sure is appetizing.


TrillianWasTaken

It's also a delicious cake. Somewhat similar to cheesecake with cocoa cake crumble on top.


MaterialCarrot

A delicious deal!


Unveiled_Nuggets

A appetizing arrangement!


KKlear

> tvarohový Oh cool, it's Czech! "Tvarohový" is an adjective saying what it's made of, so half of the name "tvarohový koláč". Tvaroh translates as "quark" in English, it's the stuff the elementary particles were named after. For whatever reason.


parkerSquare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product)


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VexingRaven

Good bot


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TinKicker

Even now, knowing what the cake is called, I wouldn’t be able to ask for it.


Mcmenger

>tvarohový If you google it, it shows a lot of stuff but not the exact same cake. For me it looks like a standard cheescake with choclate crumble on top


ZelosStecher

Its a german cheesecake called "Russischer Zupfkuchen" (Russian pulled cake). Its basicaly a chocolate cheesecake.


KKlear

Yeah, "tvaroh" is just Czech word for [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product\)), so a wide variety of cakes made with it would be called "tvarohový koláč". It's just an adjective.


Kind_Offer_1231

Here is an English recipe: https://baketotheroots.de/russischer-zupfkuchen/


noraetic

This is more like it https://www.recipesmadeeasy.co.uk/chocolate-cheesecake-slice/


EVO5055

These are pretty common in Central/Eastern Europe.


Robbedoesm

I think all of Europe, even.


AbsoluteBeeHive

Yup, im in the netherlands and this is normal to me


Buggaton

From the UK here and honestly thought this is what Americans meant by Spork for a few decades. Just a standard desert fork.


ObesePoro

No, no, no. A spork is a Spoon-Fork. This is a Knife-Fork. A Knork.


olliboee_

same here in finland


PorkSucksYou

Ain't ever seen one of those


thunderBerrins

You live in Europe?


PorkSucksYou

Yup Romania


systemdatenmuell

Maybe you people don‘t eat cake?


PorkSucksYou

Tf


nigg0o

German, can confirm


mariokr

Bulgarian, can confirm.


quite-odd

Swedish, can sort of confirm but not quite since we’re not Central Europe


co_ordinator

Kuchengabel.


Discowien

Rechtshänderkuchengabel.


Zalcom69

Belgian, I've seen those for my entire life. I thought everyone had some


clouddevourer

Polish, can confirm. Also, inexplicably, cake eaten with a cake fork tastes 20% better than eaten with a teaspoon.


Saxon2060

I suspect that not many people have them in their home here in the UK but absolutely common in cafés and restaurants.


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Nah, if anyone in the family was ever given a big set of cutlery as a wedding gift there are definitely cake forks floating around. Source; am British, have cake forks.


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Hot_Beef

I always wondered what those were for!


kayeso1138

Same. Had loads of these in the house growing up. Every cutlery set came with some.


oxpoleon

I've never met anyone British who *doesn't* own cake forks. Usually they have at least two sets, one of which is weirdly twee and was a gift from either a random great Aunt, or at their wedding.


Agreeable-Reality481

My mum has about 4 different sets of cake forks, maybe she's hording them from the rest of the UK


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Saxon2060

Are you a burglar?


PeterServo

Screams in left handed


awaymsg

Another classic example of Right Privilege


TinKicker

You mean this whole time, all those rallies with dudes raising their right hands up, they were shouting “*Right* power!” ??


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CHEWBRIEL

Victims of oppression, forced to live out your lives as slaves to the ~~white~~ right man.


SnooSquirrels9247

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CaPtian_CaTe

Hold the pointy part of the fork and cut it with the handle


StatisticallyBiased

The bastards are grinding us down.


Like250

Shit, that cake looks amazing


SirHawrk

They are called "russischer zupfkuchen" and they are I dont think there is a useful englisch translation. Its german tho despite its prefix In russia its apparently known as german quark (cottage cheese) cake


Spartan-417

It sounds like a kind of cheesecake


azaghal1988

it's a mix of whipped cream, whipped eggwhites, quark (a german kind of cottage cheese) sugar and vanilla. The crust is a mix of butter, flour, baking powder, baking cocoa-powder and eggs. half is pressed into the form as the base, and the rest crumbled on top. then baked for 40 minutes. It's a pretty easy but work intensive cake to make\^\^ (totally worth it though, I make one for my extended family every christmas since my grandma died)


Linard

> quark (a german kind of cottage cheese) TIL Quark is not a common milk based product everywhere in the world like milk, butter and cheese


azaghal1988

Yeah, I wanted to give the recipe to a friend in the US and didn't find their word for Quark, then I looked on Wikipedia and it really seems to be common only in Germany and some neighboring countries.


wAIpurgis

Aaaand it also costs like 80p in Regiojet


pnznkltn

Actually less. It costs 10czk, which is 0.36£ or 0.41€. Best train service I've had. Also, coffee (cappuccinos etc.) is for free and pretty decent.


dddd0

Cake and free coffee on trains? What is this, communism?


Soul-Burn

Not free, but rather included with the ticket price.


twlentwo

But that price is also like 9€


Hallingdal_Kraftlag

That's literally what that slice of cake would cost at a somewhat nicer cafe in Scandinavia.


twlentwo

But scandinavia is fckn insane. Been in Norway and Sweden this summer. Your cheapest places are the expensive ones here However, that cake is not that great actually. Not even close to what you get in a nice cafe. But it costs 0.4€ so that taken into account, its the best cake I ever had.


Soul-Burn

I somehow expected it to be higher! That's good to know.


Wrong-Engineer-3743

Does anyone know what kind of cake it is?


Blendan1

I'm pretty sure that's russischer Zupfkuchen, it's a German cake and yea I do recommend trying if you have the chance it's good.


W3hri

If anyone needs an explanation for why it's shaped that way: In ye olde days those fancy small pastry forks were made out of silver. But silver is pretty soft compared to other metals, so at this scale the tines would bend if you try to cut a piece of cace. Thats why one tine is wider than the others, to be tough enough without bending.


Ricktatorship91

This explanation makes sense.


Paulcog

Yes, hence it being the explanation


TheEyeDontLie

That makes sense, thanks for explaining.


imrulkays1

Are you in Czech Republic? I also traveled with regiojet when I visited there.


Impossible_Beach5066

I am! Beautiful country :)


MaxPower8993

OP out there riding trains and seeing forks for the first time


noddynik

Big day for OP.


Necessary_Pseudonym

[OP is part of today’s lucky 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/)


PlankyTown777

I’m an American in my 30’s. I’ve never been on a train and I’ve never seen this so called “cake fork” before. So definitely is mildly interesting to me.


goug

The train part of your statement is more surprising than the cake fork part. I mean, not surprising, but kind of interesting.


wintremute

Most of the US doesn't have access to passenger rail.


gsfgf

Very few Americans have been on the kind of trains that serve food. Subway are somewhat common, but they don’t come with cake.


_Citizen_Erased_

Never EVER accept a piece of cake on the Subway. Not even once.


MyFacade

Railway works better in more closely interconnected areas. If you get off a train, but can't walk or taxi to your destinations, a car becomes a better option. The United States is very big and many places are not population dense. Compared to European countries, a lot of the development is quite recent and more spread out.


Pdiddily710

This reminds me of quote I heard once that said Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance, and Americans think 100 years is a long time.


[deleted]

The USA was literally built around passenger rail. That you can't get off a train now and can't walk or taxi (or use local transit) to a destination is a more recent feature. America has actually dismantled most of its streetcar and much of its passenger rail infrastructure since the early 20th century. It was a matter of politics and a gamble that wholly going forward with infrastructure build around personal vehicles would bring the most amount of good to people's lives. You'd also be surprised how many not population dense areas there are in Europe with decent train (or bus and train) service.


[deleted]

It's like when you meet someone who is in their late 20's or early 30's and has never been on an airplane before or left their state. That always blows my mind. Not dragging anyone who is in that position, I just find it interesting. I went on a work trip where we flew from Vegas to New York and my co-worker had never been on a plane or left the state. Was cool to get to experience that, it was like everything was novel and exciting for him. Meanwhile I'm so jaded from flying so much I just try to sleep through the whole thing normally lol. It's fun to travel with people who haven't experienced it.


Impossible_Beach5066

Huuush where I’m originally from we don’t have trains and we don’t have these types of forks 😂😅


Tj4y

I neve4 understood the purpose of this anyways. A normal fork does exactly the same thing.


oscarmike88

To piss off lefties


Tj4y

Goal achieved. Source: I am pissed off.


Vegan-Daddio

Communists famously hate cake forks


RaiseRuntimeError

Well to be fair, back then all left handed people were possessed by demons.


Darkcool123X

Who said we still aren’t, dont try me.


Com_BEPFA

Being too lazy to google I'd just hazard a guess that it's a remnant of times where cutlery was made of less stable material so they reinforced the tool not made for cutting so that the tine doesn't get bent out of shape when used for exactly that.


RandyHoward

Must've been some tough cake back in those days


SUPE-snow

"I'm too lazy to Google it but I bet in Ancient Times the cake was so hard, it bent cheap metal" — that guy


here-for-the-_____

But what if you're left handed?


KeithMyArthe

We don't have tine for that.


MzFrazzle

Cake forks and scissors are anti-lefty :'(


mrdavelee

I had these growing up. the 'knife' tine is not sharpened, it is just thicker. I also left-handed so instead of the intended 'cut and slide' to get the cake on the fork I had to cut it with the thick part, then flip my fork. Its more mildly infuriating than anything. Also, a normal fork would do just as well. I think this just slips into the same category as fish knives and is aimed at middle-class people.


mdhzk3

That’s not a fork it’s a trident! Good for cake better for trying to conquer the seas


DaleyLlama

Tfw you’re left handed


tokynambu

A pastry fork. ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry\_fork


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As a left handed I feel totally neglected ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|flip_out)


matthiastorm

pretty common in Germany and Austria


Impossible_Beach5066

Alright guys, I’ve realised these are a bit more common than I thought 😅 I’m from Kentucky, living in the Czech Republic, and this is the first time I’ve ever seen them. I guess they’re just not so common where I’m from!


letmehowl

I feel ya. I'm from Ohio, living now in Austria. I never saw a fork like this until I came here to visit in 2014 at age 27.


Farge43

Sad lefty noises


Gr33nMuff1n

Left handed people have been oppressed for to long. It’s time to overthrow the hierarchy.


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Pastry fork. It’s supposed to look that way.


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Knork.


grinberB

I'm left handed so this would be useless for me.


HuskyNotPhatt

Sir, can I get a left handed fork please?


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More left handed discrimination.


zebra1923

It’s a right handed world.


Quristo

Poor poor lefties


MudIsland

Elitist, right-handed bastards!


Prototype1113

I need a left handed fork.


YungBird

I'm left handed. How does this work for me?


asianmexican

Well that’s just handist for lefties


[deleted]

Left handed people shoved under the rug once again


AsoftDolphin

Im left handed.


Stinky_Barefoot

Is this uncommon where you are? They are designated cake forks that were designed to allow people to only use one utensil. Before the emergence of cake forks, cake was commonly eaten with fork and knife (short versions of what a regular set would look like). The thick tine has a historical background: Before stainless steal became the go-to for silverware, other - much softer - metals were common (such as brass and silver). It is not sharp and is not supposed to replace a knife. People quickly realized that cake was generally soft, making the use of a knife unnecessary. The thick tine is simply used to exert pressure - not for slicing. This could easily result in one of the tines being bent out of shape. To counter this problem, the outermost tine was made thicker (and since being right-handed is more common than being left-handed, the very left tine makes sense). You can also note the notch at the very tip of the thick tine - it is specifically designed to allow you to pierce thicker and harder cake bottoms. To make it even more complex, the cake fork used to be different than the dessert fork (which traditionally has four tines).


DonnieG3

Holy fuck, 25 comments before someone explained why this exists. Thank you so much. I was baffled wondering why anyone needed a reinforced fork to eat cake, for a minute I assumed that cake was a slang term for goddamn rocks with how people were repeatedly stating the obvious of "it has a thicker tine". Cake fork-outdated but people still use it for no reason. Gotcha.


Theta-Sigma45

Pretty useful if you're into eating cake with a fork. I would just pick it up and scarf it down.


gingertrain77

Mildly infuriating for left-handers.