What do you call a pie server?

[micky]

What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
to serve a piece of pie? TIA

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[Jack]

On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>to serve a piece of pie? TIA

A search on 'pie spatula' gets:

" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...

https://tinyurl.com/ycxkxgns

--
John

[micky]

In alt.usage.english, on Fri, 11 May 2018 20:50:38 -0500, Jack

<quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
>wrote:
>
>>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>>to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>
>A search on 'pie spatula' gets:
>
>" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
>spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...

Thanks. I don't know any of these words. No wonder I couldn't remember
the word.

I guess no one I knew ever called it by name.

I do know "spatula" but I think of that as something else.

>
>https://tinyurl.com/ycxkxgns

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Fri, 11 May 2018 20:50:38 -0500, Jack <quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I, in the UK, learnt of such a thing as a "cake slice" or "pie slice".
It is a utensil for lifting a triangular slice of cake or pie.
They are also called "cake servers" or "pie srvers".

Here are two cake slices:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003KKNL4O

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YM5D9E

This is a set of "cake/pie servers":
https://www.amazon.co.uk/RayPard-Stainless-Server-Finished-Serrated/dp/B01N18H2PA

One edge of the triangle is serrated so that it can be used as a knife
to cut a slice of cake/pie before using it to lift the slice.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Sat, 12 May 2018 11:27:02 +0100, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 May 2018 20:50:38 -0500, Jack <quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>>>to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>>
>>A search on 'pie spatula' gets:
>>
>>" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
>>spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...
>>
>>https://tinyurl.com/ycxkxgns
>
>I, in the UK, learnt of such a thing as a "cake slice" or "pie slice".
>It is a utensil for lifting a triangular slice of cake or pie.
>They are also called "cake servers" or "pie srvers".
>
>Here are two cake slices:
>https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003KKNL4O
>
>https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YM5D9E

I have a "cake slice with a "slider". The slider pushes the cake off the
implement.
The one shown here is plastic, mine is all metal:
https://media.madeindesign.com/nuxeo/divers/8/a/8af53200-87f3-4c05-9033-3e044aa3f0db-large.jpg
Lifting a cut slice of cake, or whatever, from a plate with the full
cake/whatever on it:
https://media.madeindesign.com/nuxeo/divers/6/9/69eeb9d7-9dad-405d-94f6-5e7ce6ff3d78-large.jpg
Putting it an another plate by pushing it off the implement using the
slider:
https://media.madeindesign.com/nuxeo/divers/3/c/3cd7408a-7e3f-4e67-8b0a-4d6cde3016e4-large.jpg

[Paul Carmichael]

On 12/05/18 03:27, micky wrote:
> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
> to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>

A trowel.

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[Peter Young]

On 12 May 2018 "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2018 11:27:02 +0100, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
> <ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 20:50:38 -0500, Jack <quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>>>>to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>>>
>>>A search on 'pie spatula' gets:
>>>
>>>" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
>>>spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...
>>>
>>>https://tinyurl.com/ycxkxgns
>>
>>I, in the UK, learnt of such a thing as a "cake slice" or "pie slice".
>>It is a utensil for lifting a triangular slice of cake or pie.
>>They are also called "cake servers" or "pie srvers".

ISTR that in Swedish that's a tortspade. I can't get my head round ASCII
IPA, but maybe one of our Scandinavian-speaking friends can indicate the
pronunciation?

Peter.

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Cheltenham and Gloucester, UK. Now happily retired.
http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk

[musika]

On 12/05/2018 18:33, Peter Young wrote:
> On 12 May 2018 "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <ma...@peterduncanson.net>
> wrote:
>>> I, in the UK, learnt of such a thing as a "cake slice" or "pie
>>> slice". It is a utensil for lifting a triangular slice of cake or
>>> pie. They are also called "cake servers" or "pie srvers".
>
> ISTR that in Swedish that's a tortspade. I can't get my head round
> ASCII IPA, but maybe one of our Scandinavian-speaking friends can
> indicate the pronunciation?
>

Spelt tårtspade

<https://forvo.com/search/t%c3%a5rtspade/>

--
Ray
UK

[occam]

On 12/05/2018 03:27, micky wrote:
> --
> Please say where you live, or what
> area's English you are asking about.
> So your question or answer makes sense.
> . .
> I have lived all my life in the USA,
> Western Pa. Indianapolis, Chicago,
> Brooklyn, Baltimore.

Er... how does that add to understanding your question?

P.S. The answer to your question is 'a waitress'.

[Garrett Wollman]

In article <70icfd5nl28iv5l8o...@4ax.com>,

Jack <quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
>wrote:
>
>>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>>to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>
>A search on 'pie spatula' gets:
>
>" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
>spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...

"Pie taker" is another collocation that I would recognize, but I don't
think I would use myself.

-GAWollman

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[Whiskers]

micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> Wrote in message:

> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
> to serve a piece of pie? TIA

The generic term in my BrE is 'cake slice', which could be
hyphenated. The utensils are more widely useful than their
nomenclature might suggest.

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[Peter Moylan]

On 13/05/18 02:17, Paul Carmichael wrote:
> On 12/05/18 03:27, micky wrote:
>> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body
>> used to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>
> A trowel.

That is indeed what I would use when gardening, but I suspect that my
friends would be offended by cake served with a trowel.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

[charles]

In article <6mgcfd5e9uki9qk1p...@4ax.com>,

micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
> to serve a piece of pie? TIA

Hre it's a "cake slice"

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"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Sat, 12 May 2018 17:07:44 +0100, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"

<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 May 2018 11:27:02 +0100, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
><ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 20:50:38 -0500, Jack <quia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 21:27:19 -0400, micky <NONONO...@bigfoot.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>>>>to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>>>
>>>A search on 'pie spatula' gets:
>>>
>>>" A cake and pie server, also called a cake shovel, pie knife, crépe
>>>spade, pie-getter or pie lifter,"...
>>>
>>>https://tinyurl.com/ycxkxgns
>>
>>I, in the UK, learnt of such a thing as a "cake slice" or "pie slice".
>>It is a utensil for lifting a triangular slice of cake or pie.
>>They are also called "cake servers" or "pie srvers".
>>
>>Here are two cake slices:
>>https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003KKNL4O
>>
>>https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YM5D9E
>
>I have a "cake slice with a "slider". The slider pushes the cake off the
>implement.

This is it:
http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Cake%20slice%20with%20pusher.jpg

[Madrigal Gurneyhalt]

Ooh! There's posh!

[Kerr-Mudd,John]

On Sat, 12 May 2018 16:17:51 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 12/05/18 03:27, micky wrote:
>> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body used
>> to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>>
>
> A trowel.
>

Remove plaster before use?

--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

I don't know where it came from. I think I inherited it from my late
wife. She might have got it from her mother.

Similarly of uncertain origin is this two-tine fork for impaling a lump
of something to move it and a "pusher" to push it off the tines into the
required place.
http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Fork%20with%20pusher.jpg

[Paul Carmichael]

On 13/05/18 16:59, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 13/05/18 02:17, Paul Carmichael wrote:
>> On 12/05/18 03:27, micky wrote:
>>> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body
>>> used to serve a piece of pie?  TIA
>>
>> A trowel.
>
> That is indeed what I would use when gardening

No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.

[Richard Tobin]

In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,

Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> A trowel.

>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening

>No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.

No, there are trowels for gardening too. See for example

https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002

I think a dibber is something different.

-- Richard

[musika]

On 15/05/2018 15:07, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> Similarly of uncertain origin is this two-tine fork for impaling a lump
> of something to move it and a "pusher" to push it off the tines into the
> required place.
> http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Fork%20with%20pusher.jpg
>

That's a pickled-onion fork.


--
Ray
UK

[Janet]

In article <ebolfdl8uuotckm35...@4ax.com>,
ma...@peterduncanson.net says...

That's a pickle fork, used to impale a gherkin or a pickled onion to
get it out of the jar, then release it.

Janet.

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[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

Thank you! I assumed there was a name for such a thing, but I don't
recall ever meeting it.

[the Omrud]

A dibber is a tapered stick which you use to make a hole for planting
into. This is the one somebody bought me a few years ago:

https://shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/wooden-dibber/p8850

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[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

Yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibber

A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick[1] for
making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs
can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the
straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped
dibber.
....
Trowel dibber
This dibber combines the features of a dibber and a trowel[2]. It is
usually forged from aluminum or other lightweight material. One end
is for dibbing, and the other end is shaped like a trowel.

[1] Where "wooden" can also be metal or plastic.

[2] That is a gardener's trowel, not a builder's trowel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trowel

[Quinn C]

* Peter Moylan:

> On 13/05/18 02:17, Paul Carmichael wrote:
>> On 12/05/18 03:27, micky wrote:
>>> What do you call the thing with a handle and a flat triangular body
>>> used to serve a piece of pie? TIA
>>
>> A trowel.
>
> That is indeed what I would use when gardening, but I suspect that my
> friends would be offended by cake served with a trowel.

I was about to suggest that your masonic friends might be offended by
your use of their iconic implement in the garden, but I see that the
word is indeed used for a gardening implement as well. I've always
called it a shovel, but that doesn't seem universal in German either.
It seems that part of the issue is that they used to look more like
trowels in the past, but have evolved to be much more shovel-shaped
these days.

--
Democracy means government by the uneducated,
while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
-- G. K. Chesterton

[Paul Carmichael]

On 15/05/18 18:59, the Omrud wrote:
> On 15/05/2018 16:58, Richard Tobin wrote:
>> In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Paul Carmichael  <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> A trowel.
>>
>>>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening
>>
>>> No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.
>>
>> No, there are trowels for gardening too.  See for example
>>
>> https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002
>>
>> I think a dibber is something different.
>
> A dibber is a tapered stick which you use to make a hole for planting into.  This is the
> one somebody bought me a few years ago:

Ah well, you see, I've always dibbed with a "garden trowel", so have always called it a
dibber. Just like my dad and his dad before him.

[David Kleinecke]

Archeologists also use trowels. But maybe archeology is a
branch of gardening.

[Peter T. Daniels]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 12:59:29 PM UTC-4, the Omrud wrote:
> On 15/05/2018 16:58, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,
> > Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>> A trowel.
> >>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening
> >> No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.
> > No, there are trowels for gardening too. See for example
> > https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002
> > I think a dibber is something different.
>
> A dibber is a tapered stick which you use to make a hole for planting
> into. This is the one somebody bought me a few years ago:
>
> https://shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/wooden-dibber/p8850

I think anthropologists call it a "dibble stick." It's used in one of the
earliest forms of proto-agriculture, apparently attested among some
peoples when they were first encountered.

[Peter T. Daniels]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 2:59:58 PM UTC-4, David Kleinecke wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 9:00:03 AM UTC-7, Richard Tobin wrote:
> > In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,
> > Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > >>> A trowel.
> > >> That is indeed what I would use when gardening
> > >No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.
> > No, there are trowels for gardening too. See for example
> > https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002
> > I think a dibber is something different.
>

> Archeologists also use trowels. But maybe archeology is a
> branch of gardening.

The ones who grow their own relics aren't archeologists.

[Ross]

And since. See "planting stick", e.g. among the Tzeltal of Chiapas,
Mexico, as described by Berlin et al. (1974).

[Paul Wolff]

On Tue, 15 May 2018, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]" <ma...@peterduncanson.net>

>On Tue, 15 May 2018 17:18:09 +0100, Janet <nob...@home.com> wrote:
>>ma...@peterduncanson.net says...
>>> On Tue, 15 May 2018 04:03:43 -0700 (PDT), Madrigal Gurneyhalt

>>> >On Tuesday, 15 May 2018 11:47:31 UTC+1, PeterWD wrote:
>>> >> On Sat, 12 May 2018 17:07:44 +0100, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
>>> >> >

>>> >> >I have a "cake slice with a "slider". The slider pushes the cake off the
>>> >> >implement.
>>> >>
>>> >> This is it:
>>> >> http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Cake%20slice%20with%20pusher.jpg
>>> >
>>> >Ooh! There's posh!
>>>
>>> I don't know where it came from. I think I inherited it from my late
>>> wife. She might have got it from her mother.
>>>
>>> Similarly of uncertain origin is this two-tine fork for impaling a lump
>>> of something to move it and a "pusher" to push it off the tines into the
>>> required place.
>>> http://www.peterduncanson.net/temp/Fork%20with%20pusher.jpg
>>
>> That's a pickle fork, used to impale a gherkin or a pickled onion to
>>get it out of the jar, then release it.
>

>Thank you! I assumed there was a name for such a thing, but I don't
>recall ever meeting it.
>

Useful for spearing olives in jars too.
--
Paul

[Peter Moylan]

On 16/05/18 03:09, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2018 15:58:55 +0000 (UTC), ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
> (Richard Tobin) wrote:
>
>> In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> A trowel.
>>
>>>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening
>>
>>> No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.
>>
>> No, there are trowels for gardening too. See for example
>>
>> https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002
>>
>> I think a dibber is something different.
>>
>> -- Richard
>
> Yes.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibber
>
> A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick[1] for
> making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs
> can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the
> straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped
> dibber.

I'd never known there was a tool for doing that. I use a spade for
serious turning of the soil, a garden fork for loosening up a small
area, but I just use a finger for making the planting hole.

That's for seeds. If a bigger hole is needed, as when transplanting from
a pot, I still use my hands for most of the work.

[Madhu]

* Quinn C <1jhx2w5t...@mid.crommatograph.info> :
Wrote on Tue, 15 May 2018 13:28:49 -0400:

> * Peter Moylan:

>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening, but I suspect that my
>> friends would be offended by cake served with a trowel.

> I was about to suggest that your masonic friends might be offended by
> your use of their iconic implement in the garden, but I see that the
> word is indeed used for a gardening implement as well. I've always
> called it a shovel, but that doesn't seem universal in German either.
> It seems that part of the issue is that they used to look more like
> trowels in the past, but have evolved to be much more shovel-shaped
> these days.

I think this [masonic implement] was also the "paddle upon they weapon"
(as the KJV translates it) referred to in Deuteronomy 23:12-13.

[Janet]

In article <pdg066$dsk$1...@dont-email.me>, pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid
says...

>
> On 16/05/18 03:09, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 May 2018 15:58:55 +0000 (UTC), ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
> > (Richard Tobin) wrote:
> >
> >> In article <fm0e71...@mid.individual.net>,
> >> Paul Carmichael <wibble...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> A trowel.
> >>
> >>>> That is indeed what I would use when gardening
> >>
> >>> No, that's a dibber. A trowel is for laying bricks.
> >>
> >> No, there are trowels for gardening too. See for example
> >>
> >> https://www.screwfix.com/c/outdoor-gardening/garden-trowels/cat2630002
> >>
> >> I think a dibber is something different.
> >>
> >> -- Richard
> >
> > Yes.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibber
> >
> > A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick[1] for
> > making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs
> > can be planted. Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the
> > straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped
> > dibber.
>
> I'd never known there was a tool for doing that. I use a spade for
> serious turning of the soil, a garden fork for loosening up a small
> area, but I just use a finger for making the planting hole.

Only Gollum has a finger long enough to make a planting hole for leeks.

Janet

>
> That's for seeds. If a bigger hole is needed, as when transplanting from
> a pot, I still use my hands for most of the work.

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[Richard Tobin]

In article <MPG.3566354ff...@news.individual.net>,

Janet <nob...@home.com> wrote:

>> I'd never known there was a tool for doing that. I use a spade for
>> serious turning of the soil, a garden fork for loosening up a small
>> area, but I just use a finger for making the planting hole.

> Only Gollum has a finger long enough to make a planting hole for leeks.

Also ET.

-- Richard

[Colonel Edmund J. Burke]

A waitress?

[RH Draney]

And Nosferatu....r

[Quinn C]

* Janet:

Or asparagus. But I think what you usually do is raise the soil after
planting them.

--
... English-speaking people have managed to get along a good many
centuries with the present supply of pronouns; ... It is so old and
venerable an argument ... it's equivalent was used when gas, railways
and steamboats were proposed. -- Findlay (OH) Jeffersonian (1875)

[Sam Plusnet]

Yes.

Just as Peter inherited his elegant cake slice mit pusher, we inherited
our pickled-onion fork.

--
Sam Plusnet

[Sam Plusnet]

<This space reserved for a Trump remark>

--
Sam Plusnet

[Sam Plusnet]

I think they use a brick-layer's trowel - or possibly a pointing trowel.

--
Sam Plusnet

[Sam Plusnet]

Piltdown Man?

--
Sam Plusnet

[Quinn C]

* Madhu:

Checking, I was first presented with the New International Version,
which specifies (if that word applies) "something to dig with". Other
newer versions have a "stick". All the German versions I checked said
"shovel". That suggests to me that we really don't know.

--
Who would know aught of art must learn and then take his ease.

[David Kleinecke]

When I was doing archeology I made good use of a brick-
layer's hammer. It makes a good small pick for hard earth.
Other archeologist's tools include ear syringes and dental
picks.

Doing archeology on California Indian sites has no glamor
whatsoever - it's an exercise in pure technique. I once
spent half a day digging up a duck skeleton together with
net that was used to take it and the stone weights on the
net.

[Peter T. Daniels]

That was rather a while ago!

Though I suppose you might have mentioled Mr Mellaart, though apparently everyone
in the field knew that what he was coming up with didn't need to be looked at.