Forks: One Utensil’s Battle for Respect

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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While spoons, knives, and chopsticks have been commonplace for centuries, forks didn’t make it to most silverware drawers until the mid-1800s. What took so long? ELT investigates. Guest: Darra Goldstein, food historian, cookbook writer, and founding editor of Gastronomica, Thanks to caller Nicole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Nicole.
0:05.0	Hey Nicole, this is Flora from every little thing.
0:07.0	Hi Flora, how are you?
0:09.0	I'm well.
0:10.0	So you called the helpline with a question about a common household item.
0:14.7	Do you have a specimen handy?
0:16.8	Yes, I do.
0:21.2	All right, I got one.
0:22.4	All right, describe got one. All right.
0:23.0	Describe to me what you have in your hand.
0:26.0	Okay, I have a cold metal voluptuously curved.
0:32.0	Did you say voluptuously curved. Did you say voluptuously? Yes. I'm intrigued. I am
0:38.0	very perplexed by it. It's this very specific kind of stick that has four little stick sticking off of the top of it.
0:46.8	I have never heard the fork described this way, except maybe once.
0:51.7	What is it?
0:53.0	It's a dingle hopper.
0:55.0	Humans use these little babies
0:58.0	to straighten their hair out.
1:00.0	I mean, I've seen the movie so many times.
1:03.2	How many times have you seen the Little Mermaid?
1:05.2	I would say it's at least over 200 times.
1:08.0	Over 200 times?
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