Margaret Eby recounts her experience with the Man Fork, a six-tined utensil that sparked both amusement and unease. She explores the strange appeal of the Man Fork, its ambiguous market, and the unsettling feeling it evokes.
Margaret Eby is currently the Deputy Food Director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has previously held a position as Senior Editor at MyRecipes, Food & Wine and Food52. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and The New York Review of Books, and she has written two books.It was my own fault that the Man Fork landed on my doorstep. I was talking too big a game at the soft opening of my friend’s Italian restaurant Scampi.
"Anything with three prongs is a trident," I told the table. They did not concur. A discussion ensued: How many tines should a fork have? Is there a limit? "The limit does not exist,” I said confidently. Unfortunately for me, my friends love to do a bit. Not two weeks later, one of them arrived at a party with aI should have remembered that the internet exists and it is full of horrors. One of those horrors is the Man Fork. At first glance it looks like an ordinary fork — stainless steel, about seven inches long. You know, a fork. But when you look closer, you will notice that it is a fork with six tines, which is an unholy number.
“Why?” is the central question when it comes to the Man Fork, and to be honest, the copy on the website doesn’t do much to answer it. You might think that utensils are gender-neutral, but the Man Fork insists: No. “EAT LIKE A MAN,” the site proclaims. “Take bigger bites … like a man at the top of the food chain should! Once you use this unique stainless steel 6 prong fork you will never go back to eating with a normal wimpy 4 prong fork again.”Furthermore: “Activities such as shredding meat and serving spaghetti are now much easier with the Man Fork.
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