Fairview city in Oregon has installed a 37-foot tall fork for the Guinness World Record for the tallest fork. The biggest cutlery in the world? That’s one big fork!
The current record-holder for the “World’s Largest Fork” stands 35 feet tall in Springfield, Missouri. The massive fork is made of polished stainless steel and marks the headquarters of The Food Channel, an explanatory plaque says.
Fingers crossed they don’t fork up!
“When they were rehearsing, Florence was like, ‘I’ll need to get some implements. So, we’ll go over here.’ She picked it up and just went, ‘There’s one fork! There’s only one fork!’ So, that’s where that dialogue came from,” Bertie explained. “The props people were searching around for other forks, but they only had plastic ones, so it became the one proper cutlery fork and one plastic fork. It was perfect and it all went into the script and we came out with this hilarious Yelena and Kate scene. Florence and Hailee are just so relaxed with each other that Hailee could come out with the, ‘I’m one person,’ line as response to Florence running with the cutlery joke. It was funny, but also very Kate.”
What we learn from this is that having a decent set of cutlery is grade level for quality of life. Even in Russia.
Who doesn’t love a Fiesta? Good food and drink and friends and family. Dam, I’d kill for a fiesta right now. Well, maybe we can create a mini Fiesta indoors with a small group of friends? And beer, we’d need beer. And sunshine, lots of sunshine.
Made of 18/0 Stainless Steel and epoxy this service for four includes Salad Forks, Dinner Forks, Dinner Knives, Dinner Spoon and Teaspoons.
Love those colours! Which have an interesting back story:
“In January, 1936. FIESTA was the creation of Frederick Hurten Rhead, a second generation Stoke-on-Trent potter who had become Homer Laughlin’s design director in 1927. FIESTA was an immediate hit with the public and, by it’s second year of production, more than one million pieces were produced. The original five colors were Red, Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Green and Ivory. Turquoise was added early in 1937. The shapes of FIESTA were created in an Art Deco style with concentric circles highlighting the bright colors. The first six colors were produced through the 1930’s and 40’s until a change in fashion direction dictated a change to a softer palette of pastel colors at the beginning of the 1950’s. Color trends moved back to brighter colors in the early 1960’s and FIESTA moved with the trend. At the end of 1972, FIESTA was retired after 37 years of production. The retired dinnerware line soon became popular with collectors, especially those who had childhood memories of this brightly colored dinnerware. As years passed, the value of the original FIESTA colors and pieces grew as more people became avid collectors. Over the next twenty years, new colors have been introduced and FIESTA has become a trendsetter of color for the housewares industry. In the seventy years since FIESTA was first produced, there have been a total of 38 colors in the line. Today, Homer Laughlin introduces one new color each year and FIESTA has become the leading dinnerware brand in casual tabletop, as well as a consistent leader in bridal registries across America. All the while, collectors have continued to add to the dinnerware to which they were first introduced by their mothers and grandmothers. Today, FIESTA dinnerware is the most collected dinnerware in the history of the tabletop industry with well over one half billion pieces produced.”
Christmas is just around the corner and it’s time to start planning the big family meal. If you were looking for nice festive red cutlery in the past you could have gone plastic. But that’s not really the smart choice anymore. How about a relatively inexpensive set of stainless steel cutlery that you could use each Christmas (and maybe Halloween)?
The Red Silverware Set by Bysta is 20-piece stainless steel flatware set which is service for 4. It consists of 4 dessert forks, 4 dinner forks, 4 dessert spoons, 4 dinner spoons, and 4 dinner knives. It is made of high quality stainless steel but for goodness sake if you want the red finish to last then hand wash it! No dishwasher and no citrus based high acid cleaners.
