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Civilization's way of letting you eat a burning hot steak without using the hands evolution gave you.
means The knives, forks, and spoons you eat with — collectively, the gear that stands between your fingers and your food.
from Traces back to the Latin 'culter,' meaning plowshare or knife — the same root that gives us 'cutlass.' It passed through Old French 'coutelier,' meaning a maker of knives, before settling into English as 'cutlery,' originally the knife-maker's trade itself before it widened to mean the tools of the table.
- fork's late debut
- Forks were considered sinful and effeminate in medieval Europe.
- knife point
- Dinner knives got rounded tips thanks to Cardinal Richelieu, allegedly.
- US vs UK
- Americans say silverware, Brits say cutlery, neither requires actual silver.
- word cousin
- Cutlass and cutlery share the stabby Latin root culter.