Yes. Eating it with a knife is just too dangerous and uncomfortable.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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You're just skipping over the obvious choice of chopsticks, I see.
Regular cake? A fork.
Ice cream cake? Spoon.
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chopsticks.
A fork. The spoon is for kids and neanderthals.
Is there ice cream on it or in it? Spoon. Otherwise, fork.
This.
I don't think I've ever eaten cake with a spoon before, sooo... I'm gonna go fork, myself.
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I'm not above using whatever is available, but the correct answer is fork.
Depends on the cake. For most cake, either will do, but I prefer a fork. For tres leches ice cream cake, or similar cakes, spoon.
fork
Here in Denmark, it's almost unheard of to use anything but a teaspoon, but personally I prefer a fork.
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It depends on cake's texture. Some cakes are way to soft to eat them with fork.
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*holds up spork*
I don't. Preferences set one up for disappointment. I simply use what is offered or whichever has more clean.
Forks for ice cream fresh from the freezer though, they break into it better
A fork works better for most cakes, but it may depend on the exact consistency.
The noble cake fork: "Am I a joke to you?"
Fork for everything that isn't liquid. I actually kinda prefer chopsticks because they keep me from just shoveling shit in my gullet, and I don't eat until I'm super full.
Fork of course, i'm not a barbarian.
I don't normally eat cake, but when I do it is a fork. If it were pie I would do a fork for apple, but a spoon for blackberry and cherry. If someone offered me a pie that wasn't blackberry or cherry I would re-evaluate my friendship with them.
Edit to add: My friends wouldn't serve me cake that isn't moist enough to cling to a fork. There are some assumptions that might be specific to my particular friend group. If your friend group delivers you dry cake you might need better friends.
A dainty little fork, for most cakes. I make easy cakes not fancy cakes though. Ricotta cake, yogurt cake, pineapple upside down cake. Not so fluffy, more springy. Sort of a cornbread recipe, modified to make different cakes. So often it's reasonable to cut a wedge and just eat it without a utensil.
Fork.
I don't have a preference, but the rest of my family has very strong preferences. My mom was convinced for the longest time that I was eating with the "wrong" one (I can't remember what the "right" one is for her), so she'd always get me the "wrong" one, which is also what my sister likes. I just went along because I genuinely don't care. Then my mom got very upset one day when I was using the "right" one, cause she was insistent that I always liked the other one. Nah, I just like cake.
Why not combine both, spork, best of both world.
Blasphemer! The followers of the almighty Foon will erase your heretical nonsense from the earth. Foon commands you to worship no other utensil but it.
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I would eat soup with fork if could.
You can adopt the Chinese method of bringing the bowl up to your mouth and energetically shoveling the soup into it, then drinking the remainder.
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It seems to always be served with a fork but now that you mention it I think a spoon would be better.
This is the opposite of my experience. I find usually, not always, cake comes with a spoon. I prefer a fork.
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This question is why some overly clever and yet still useless fellow invented the spork.
Though, the answer for me is simple. Is Icencream involved? Spoon. No ice cream? Fork.
Neither. What’s wrong your fingers, not bourgeois enough for you?
For starters, we don't know what and whose orifices those have been in.
Well I do, they’re my fingers. And I washed them.
I’m not taking the gamble of using other peoples fingers.
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