Carol wrote: Have you ever heard of an ice-cream fork? It has a bowl, but little short prongs at the end of it Couldn't live without one....in the garden and in the dining room, as well. Catharine, who sometimes forgets that everyone wasn't reared in the South where we are born knowing about salt, mustard, jelly, chocolate, iced tea, gumbo, and ice cream spoons....to say nothing of strawberry, oyster, and pickle forks, butter picks and a thousand other table implements.