Weekend Edition: Eating Ice Cream with a Fork
The Supreme Aglet will continue to combine the Saturday and Sunday editions of The Supreme Aglet into a single weekend edition with a weekend-filling thought to ponder.
The thought for this week:
Is Eating Ice Cream with a Fork So Peculiar?
The Supreme Aglet finds himself perplexed over the behavior of the majority of people he encounters who question his preference for eating ice cream with a fork.
As the textbook out-of-the-box thinker, it should come as no surprise that I have certain habits that may be out of the mainstream, but that are nonetheless examples of a superior approach to accomplishing tasks that are regarded to have established mechanics.
Even so, I must admit to being more than a little annoyed when the lady or gentleman behind the counter at Coldstone or 31 Flavors stares at me in confusion as a result of asking if they happen to have forks, (note the reference to both genders in the foregoing sentence, indicating the sort of progessive individual that The Supreme Aglet truly is). Almost invariably, once the individual manages to utter a response, it is in the form of, "uhhh, no, but we have spoons".
I allow for the fact that the individual in question may rarely get a request for forks at an ice cream establishment, but the implication that I'm some sort of freak, along with the brain-dead response citing the obvious fact that "we have spoons", combine to cause some minor distress.
Every once in awhile, I encounter someone--either behind the ice cream counter or waiting in line--who relates to my desire to eat ice cream with a fork. Those moments are therapeutic, similar to the feelings people encounter in support group meetings dealing with unique shared experiences.
Some who I encounter will query me as to the reasoning behind using a fork to eat ice cream, as if I am obligated to explain this culinary abberation. It is difficult to explain: in short, it is easier for a pair of lips to form around the flat surface of a fork rather than a curved surface of a spoon, and it is therefore more comfortable. In addition, a spoon leaves more ice cream behind, as one's lips cannot scrape the ice cream off of a spoon as cleanly as off of a fork.
It also makes sense when approaching the question from a purely logical standpoint: a spoon is designed to contain liquidic food; a fork is designed to contain and manage more solid foods. Ice cream falls into the solids category until melted, after which I frankly find it gross to eat.
So, next time you encounter someone who prefers to eat ice cream with a fork, your first reaction should not be that this individual is a freak, but that s/he possesses superior intellect, and the world of the Supreme Aglet is once again in perfect balance.
The thought for this week:
Is Eating Ice Cream with a Fork So Peculiar?
The Supreme Aglet finds himself perplexed over the behavior of the majority of people he encounters who question his preference for eating ice cream with a fork.
As the textbook out-of-the-box thinker, it should come as no surprise that I have certain habits that may be out of the mainstream, but that are nonetheless examples of a superior approach to accomplishing tasks that are regarded to have established mechanics.
Even so, I must admit to being more than a little annoyed when the lady or gentleman behind the counter at Coldstone or 31 Flavors stares at me in confusion as a result of asking if they happen to have forks, (note the reference to both genders in the foregoing sentence, indicating the sort of progessive individual that The Supreme Aglet truly is). Almost invariably, once the individual manages to utter a response, it is in the form of, "uhhh, no, but we have spoons".
I allow for the fact that the individual in question may rarely get a request for forks at an ice cream establishment, but the implication that I'm some sort of freak, along with the brain-dead response citing the obvious fact that "we have spoons", combine to cause some minor distress.
Every once in awhile, I encounter someone--either behind the ice cream counter or waiting in line--who relates to my desire to eat ice cream with a fork. Those moments are therapeutic, similar to the feelings people encounter in support group meetings dealing with unique shared experiences.
Some who I encounter will query me as to the reasoning behind using a fork to eat ice cream, as if I am obligated to explain this culinary abberation. It is difficult to explain: in short, it is easier for a pair of lips to form around the flat surface of a fork rather than a curved surface of a spoon, and it is therefore more comfortable. In addition, a spoon leaves more ice cream behind, as one's lips cannot scrape the ice cream off of a spoon as cleanly as off of a fork.
It also makes sense when approaching the question from a purely logical standpoint: a spoon is designed to contain liquidic food; a fork is designed to contain and manage more solid foods. Ice cream falls into the solids category until melted, after which I frankly find it gross to eat.
So, next time you encounter someone who prefers to eat ice cream with a fork, your first reaction should not be that this individual is a freak, but that s/he possesses superior intellect, and the world of the Supreme Aglet is once again in perfect balance.
posted by The Supreme Aglet at 1:14 PM
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