Anonymous ID: 648779 April 10, 2022, 5:38 p.m. No.16051584   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1591

Forks were used as cutlery in the Byzantine Empire and made their way west during the eleventh century when a Byzantine princess married thedoge of Venice. She brought a two-tined gold fork with her to eat fruits preserved in syrup and sugar, known as suckets. Although this may simply seem like a logical way to eat a stickysweetmeat, the church considered it scandalous.

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/ain-t-nobody-got-tine-for-that-the-invention-and-evolution-of-the-fork/