Never say 'spoon & fork' say it 'fork & spoon'.In Singapore you should never say 'spoon and fork' or 'knife and fork'. Singaporeans are very ordered and tidy people and they like to put everything in alphabetical order as much as possible. They like it ryhme when its as good as they hear it.
Thus, spoon and fork becomes 'fork and spoon' and a knife and fork is a 'fork and knife'. That’s one theory. Another explanation is that these colloquialisms are a joke left over from Singapore’s colonial days. In the 1920s some British soldiers and other pompous foreign grits couldn’t or wouldn’t get used to the idea of using chopsticks and a ceramic spoon. So, if offered these utensils at a kopitiam ( Coffeeshop ) they would shout 'bring me a fucking 'knife and fork'. All this is because the etiquette of dining usually have two spoons, two forks and a knife.
Now despite being multilingual, most Singaporeans have little or no knowledge of Anglo Saxon. So they would not know anything about this expletive beginning with the letter ‘F’ ( fucking ) or the use of it. This usually meant that a screaming customer ended up with a knife and two forks. "A fork and knife and a fork" you got wat i mean?.
After a short while, or it may have been years, the puzzled Singaporean waiters and other serving staff got used to the idea that actually only one of these two forks was ever used or required. So they started to bring just a fork and a knife whenever they were asked either for a "knife and fork" or a "fork & knife and fork". Why dont they just say it " Gimme two forks and that fucking knife and please...hurry up!!"
There is no evidence that anyone was ever asked to fetch a fork & spoon and fork. The phrase “fork and spoon” just got adopted by analogy. Out of these two theories, I know the second one to be the most likely explanation. It was told to me by a Bavarian bodybuilder taking a break at a beer bar in Boat Quay. He had heard the story directly from a minor Singaporean mountain climber. And he was sure it was true. Therefore it is.
Anyway...we are just too carried away by the colonised's ideology.
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I tend to list thing alphabetically as well - but that is just me.
Typically we simply repeat things the way we have learned them
Personally, I don't really care about protocol, but I think the English should have had more sense and adapted to the local customs - I know I would (actually, it would be more not insisting on forcing my customs and traditions on you).
I eat with whatever is available (and I am pretty good with chopsticks too. I have to confess I am not crazy about the ceramic - I find it awkward).
The best place to eat is an Ethipian restaurant, there are no utensils. You just use your fingers (although when I went with my mother once, she insisted on getting a fork and knife).
Ethipians serve there food on a large flat bread called Injera. You tear off a piece of bread and then grab the food with it and put it in your mouth. Very good food too.
I knew that Bavarian guy..
His name is Merlee Merlow and he got mental disorder too..
its better if u could stay away from him.
LOL @ Prince Romp!!
I really don't care what way you say it, but I do know the British are very particular about everything... they'll just have to get used to people who weren't born and raised on the same island :)
So what happens when I tell someone to "fork off"?
Richard
I'm so use to eating with my hands that where ever I go, I'll put aside the utensils and go bare handed..its more delish to do that..instead of biting onto metal thingy...
Prince
U sure have a wide circle of frens..envy you..so he's dangerous huh?
hartini
you're right...as the saying goes "roar when u enter a tiger's den and likewise when you enter a sheeps shed"...got it
Steven
Try it and you'll get 'spooned'..harhar
hey hey hey, so that's why I don't get understood here when I say "knife and fork" and true indeed when I ask for "fork and knife " they dont ask me the second time... interesting
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