Cutlery's great for getting food from your plate into your mouth. It seems a basic thing to say, but not everyone uses it. Some cultures use chopsticks or eat with their hands instead.

Different forms of cutlery can have cultural quirks: upmarket dinner parties are notorious for dinner settings with several knives that are meant to be used with specific courses. Some etiquette rules around chopsticks are designed to avoid connotations with funerals. Autistic folks will sometimes share in-jokes about favourite spoons, or spoons they really, really don't like. What are the cutlery rules in your world, if any?