Word: forking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronza notes, "you can get big arguments around any family dining table about the shapes of pasta that should go with different sauces." Large flowerets of broccoli, for example, do not work with long strands of linguine or spaghetti because it should be possible to pick up with a fork the solids in the sauce as well as the pasta. Big chunks of vegetables and meat are far better with the little ears (orecchiette) or penne. Finer ingredients, such as peas and minced prosciutto in a creamy sauce, are more suitable to delicate pastas that are twirled. That twirling...
EVER HAVE TOO MUCH spaghetti at an Italian restaurant? Spaghetti isn't the most glamorous of meals, but it's good solid food. But eat too much of it, and the pasta expands in the stomach till the fork-twister feels like a lead zeppelin...
...Northern California, and soon after, our parents separated. They hung in there to protect us until we were old enough. But I don't think they were aware of how acutely we were aware of their unhappiness -- not violence, just a pervading unhappiness you could cut with a fork or a spoon at dinner every night. For years I thought the word "divorce" was the ugliest in the English language. Sound traveled from bedroom to bedroom, and the word came seeping through the heating ducts. My sisters and I would stay up at night, listening to our parents argue, hiding...
...waitress looks too tired and too jaded to be offended. The jaws of the truckers move mechanically as they fork up their eggs-over-easy. They stare at the slides, glassy eyed, as intent on chrome as on flesh...
Chippies are not a topic of conversation that Charlie and Coors wish to pursue. Coors breaks a doughnut in two, and Charlie uses his fork to make a spillway for the gravy on the double order of mashed potatoes that accompanies his scrambled eggs...