3. Fish knives
3. Fish knives (Image 3 of 7)
Fish knives seem posh because they don’t come in a £5 Ikea cutlery bundle. But you're unlikely to see them cluttering up the kitchen drawers at Buckingham Palace either.
According to The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser, fish knives were introduced by the emerging Victorian middle class to show they understood it was frightfully common to cut fish with a knife. But this well intentioned snobbery did nothing to endear the nouveau riche to old money who carried on their time-honoured tradition of hacking at their fish with a pair of forks.
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