You are sitting down to a business dinner and you glance at the place setting and you are confused - What is that little fork?
"If you have a little bitty fork resting at a diagonal in the bowl of your soup spoon on the right side of your place setting, it is not for your baby carrots or your baby squash. It means the first course will be a seafood course, such as oysters, shrimp or crab.
If the little fork has two prongs instead of three, the seafood course will be escargot (snails)."
Now you know what the fork is for... do you like the foods it is designed to lift? That is a conversation for another day.
From our friends at The Culture and Manners Institute at http://www.cultureandmanners.com/