First, the survey is a year old (unless the same company repeated the same survey again this year and I'm just bad at Googling?)
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When I hear butter knife, I think this. When shown a picture like this, i would say 'butter knife'pic.twitter.com/i1bI9m1IvB
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google image results suggest, ok, there are in fact many butter knives that look similar-ish to the example they've shown:pic.twitter.com/9F2n54aFIL
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I am willing to accept that there are many kinds of butter knives in the world.
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But I am not willing to accept the
@nowthisnews premise that an inability of approximately 230 people my age to define whatever the hell this apparently-not-a-cheese-knife is on sight is an indication of my generation's cooking skills.pic.twitter.com/Cs24UQs30c
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also why does it have a hook on the bottom??
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This thread has summoned Cutlery Twitter to my mentions, which I'm actually quite happy to know exists.
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Some more detail from Cutlery Twitter:https://twitter.com/AllenMcDuffee/status/1131638245710880775 …
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and from
@iaincollins, who calls it a "totally a typical butter knife" ... FOR THE YEAR 1900.https://twitter.com/iaincollins/status/1131637326671679491 …Show this thread -
also from
@iaincollins, a knowledgable representative of Cutlery Twitter, another fact I am delighted to know.https://twitter.com/iaincollins/status/1131637955536273409 …Show this thread -
Most of the people in my replies, learning that's a "butter knife" instead of some sort of cheese delivery devicepic.twitter.com/MsMXg18B3Y
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While you're all here, can you help Jen out?https://twitter.com/byJenAMiller/status/1131636226434453504 …
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This is such an important point! a butter knife has next to nothing to do with cooking! Dumb survey is so dumb.https://twitter.com/flashboy/status/1131641331640602624 …
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Megan i am sorry to tell you that you are, according to the results of this survey, generationless.https://twitter.com/megancarpentier/status/1131642175186452480 …
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Thank you all for playing along. Tomorrow, we will discuss the salad spinner and Gen X's apparent affinity for it.pic.twitter.com/s3aJsAvCUc
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