If not the knife and fork, what would be the alternative eating utensil in Western civilization? The Spork?
Id say spoon as it is more useful then other eating devises. How about a assasination of a relativly unknown politician (to avoid butterflies) with knife and forks during a formal dinner thus making spoons the eating devise of choise in upper parts of society?
As late as the 17th century, northern Europeans of the upper classes complained that no civilised man could contemplate eating salad with a *fork*!![]()
How about my favourite Gladiatorial combination - The Trident and Net
(In this case the 'net' is refined down to a small held-held mesh thing, rather like a tea-strainer. It's good for sieveing through soup, picking up small vegetables and shellfish. The trident also has blade edges on it's left and right prongs).
what if they decide to just continue eating everything with their hands? that would be strange.
but it would be hard to do this with a post-1900 POD.