Shall I post this following rant, or not bother?
That'll be a Merkin website then. It gets so you can spot them straight away. Dodgy rewriting of history with ne'er an opportunity missed to knock the English.
They've taken that one quote and used it to extrapolate beyond the physical evidence.
It disregards the Roman forks here in museums. And the wooden and bone viking ones. A 1523 inventory of Lady Hungerford's possessions includes a fork for ginger and there were other references too.
Although it became popular to eat with a fork during the 1600s, it was already known and in use in England before then. The royal court certainly had forks in its dining sets by the 1100s, even if they were used as often as a modern fondue set or hostess trolley.
Originally posted by NickFitz
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Lookee here: The History of Forks 
An Englishman named Thomas Coryate brought the first forks to England after seeing them in Italy during his travels in 1608. The English ridiculed forks as being effeminate and unnecessary.
They've taken that one quote and used it to extrapolate beyond the physical evidence.
It disregards the Roman forks here in museums. And the wooden and bone viking ones. A 1523 inventory of Lady Hungerford's possessions includes a fork for ginger and there were other references too.
Although it became popular to eat with a fork during the 1600s, it was already known and in use in England before then. The royal court certainly had forks in its dining sets by the 1100s, even if they were used as often as a modern fondue set or hostess trolley.
Mousemats.
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