Necessarium used to be the word for it - but these days so few people have any Latin.

It isn't a word you can use in Scrabble either.

I can't think how I have managed to go through life with never a thought about which cutlery to use - it has always seemed obvious, at least so far.

Another dish which is usually eaten with the fingers is crab, which is always fun if it is available whole and in its shell. Sometimes it is served with a wooden board and small hammer, other times it is brought already cracked. I have heard of places which serve it with patented shell cracking pliers, but not yet found one.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: