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.
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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.
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'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
I prefer a spoon, but I've found that for most cakes a spoon isn't long enough to take a proper vertical bite
Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.
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.
fork
It depends on 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
Depends on the cake. For most cake, either will do, but I prefer a fork. For tres leches ice cream cake, or similar cakes, spoon.
Neither. What’s wrong your fingers, not bourgeois enough for you?
For starters, we don't know what and whose orifices those have been in.
Well I do, they’re my fingers. And I washed them.
I’m not taking the gamble of using other peoples fingers.
I recommend adding dandruff from your hair as seasoning.
Sigh. Another kick in the teeth for us bald folks.
Why not combine both, spork, best of both world.
Blasphemer! The followers of the almighty Foon will erase your heretical nonsense from the earth. Foon commandss you to worship no other utensil but it.
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Who the fuck eats cake with a spoon??
Why the fuck would you use fork for a cake? Do you also use a knife??
For serving, yeah. A cake knife. Do you cut the cake with a spoon?
Hey fuck you buddy
With a spoon or with a fork?
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I don’t eat cake.
wow way to shit on everything Marie Antoinette died for.
I love this comment so much. 🍰
I don't think I've ever eaten cake with a spoon before, sooo... I'm gonna go fork, myself.
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I'm not above using whatever is available, but the correct answer is fork.
A fork works better for most cakes, but it may depend on the exact consistency.
I don't have a preference, but the rest of my family has very strong preferences. My mom was convinced for the longest time that I was eating with the "wrong" one (I can't remember what the "right" one is for her), so she'd always get me the "wrong" one, which is also what my sister likes. I just went along because I genuinely don't care. Then my mom got very upset one day when I was using the "right" one, cause she was insistent that I always liked the other one. Nah, I just like cake.
Fork.
A little spoon ("tea spoon")
Here in Denmark, it's almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.
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