Is this a joke?
Please, someone tell me!
The new Diet Fork is apparetly designed to helps people avoid eating--I mean over-indulging--because it has special properties which enable users to pick up a smaller amount of food than normal. How, you ask?
According to the website, the Diet Fork, which costs $8.95 for a 10-pack:
* Has shorter, dulled teeth to prevent you from grasping larger pieces of food at any given time.
* Boasts a smaller triangular-shaped surface area on which you can scoop less food than standard forks.
* Has an "uncomfortable grip" which somehow forces you to put the fork down between bites, slowing the speed at which you eat.
This seems silly, if not cruel. Why not just start dining with utensils stolen from your daughter's dollhouse? Or wire your jaw shut? I understand the implicit theory - portion control - but to actually pay a company to hobble yourself, making eating such a chore? It almost vilifies the eater, like "Bad person! You must eat with a flat, dull fork today!"
Tomorrow, "How to drink a milkshake through a coffee stirrer."
Comments
I can't figure out what weirds me out more - the fork or the way the website is set up. How can you diet with a fork when you eating all of those huge decadent looking meals in all the pictures?? Plus the woman looks really uncomfortable in that bikini with her feet on the scale. What are women the only ones who need to diet? Just use chopsticks if you want to eat slower and/or pick less from your plate!
I can see the argument for reversing the continual increase in sizes of plates, utensils and as a result portions. but I agree that the fork seems weird.
I love how it makes me feel like I'm instantly going to have a hot body like the girl on the main page
I think that any type of gadget that will make me more aware of the portions I eat has some merit. I always thought it would be cool if we could wear some kind of food-ometer that would signal us when we were full so that we wouldn't continue to eat. Think about how that would be, sitting in a restaurant, diving into the nacho platter, and hearing an annoying beep that says - hey - you're full. Step away from the plate.
