Spoons and forks

I can't remember exactly which restaurant it was - somewhere in Scotland, I think - but I did find it quite difficult to eat ice cream with only a fork.

I have eaten in a restaurant which did not have dessert spoons, fruit spoons or soup spoons - just large tablespoons such as I would only use for serving food out. Too big for my dainty little mouth!

Come Dine With Me Jack x

Don't pay any attention to Jilly Cooper. She was the one who said that the upper classes don't wash their hands after using the lavatory. If that were true, they would have all died of dysentery by now.

Forgive my ignorance Nonu but what is CDWM?

I always lay spoons and forks on the table for puddings and most people use both, or sometimes just forks - depending on the consistency of the pudding.

Still on the topic of spoons and forks, do you place them horizontally (above the table mat if using) with the prongs of the fork facing the vertical knife and the bowl of the spoon facing the prongs of the vertical fork? Or do you put the spoons and forks in vertical positions on the inside of the knife and fork used for the main course?

I remember reading Jilly Cooper's "Class" years ago, and she said that the upper class thing to do was always to use just the fork, ridiculous though it was. I had only one thought - jelly?

I have noticed with sets of cutlery on sale that there are normally one each of knives, forks, spoons and tea spoons - so no butter knife either.

It is the strange ways in which they hold their knives and forks which intrigue me. I agree about needing both a spoon and fork with many desserts.