These are the short forks that you use for eating salad.
2006-12-02 08:24:36 · 9 answers · asked by Gen•X•er (I love zombies!) 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Oneida has one it's a salad/relish/desert fork, the notch is for cutting, (so the fork won't bend), also spearing relish out of jar,(it won't fall off), eating desert, (will hold your cherry,apple,ect on won't fall off), also to cut desert. ( never know depends on who cooked it)LOL Hope this helped
2006-12-02 10:00:50 · answer #1 · answered by cory t 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A pastry fork has a notch cut out in the top of the middle tine and a salad fork often has a decorative design or notch cut out of the bottom of the middle tine.
2006-12-02 08:46:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Forks with a wide left tine and an optional notch, such as a salad fork, fish fork, dessert fork, and pastry fork, provide extra leverage when cutting food that normally does not require a knife."
2006-12-02 08:29:48 · answer #3 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All Hail Marilynn of the land of Colorado, for she has the notched fork.
2006-12-02 08:28:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I should ask the person who did the original design
2015-03-08 01:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Paul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably to show you which side to use as the "cutting edge"
2016-05-18 08:30:59 · answer #6 · answered by J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dunno officially, but I use it to clean my teeth at the dinner table.
2006-12-02 08:33:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋