Jun 29 2007
effeminate fork
Apparantly British people took to using a fork as flatware in the 18th century, later than the southern European mainland. Wikipedia describes the British as viewing the fork as an “unmanly Italian affectation” and quotes a Roman Catholic position “God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks — his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating“
effeminate fork
So that is why I like eating with my fingers and not with forks!