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What 🍽️ means
A grey metallic-coated fork and a knife of the same material kept side by side to a white plate which seems to be made of breakable material like glass or ceramic.
The 🍽️ Fork and Knife With Plate emoji signifies a meal, food cutlery, or rather waiting to dine, as the plate is empty. Also, this emoji suggests the European and American way of eating, thus most relevant to the west.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting someone that you're out for dinner or that you're having a fancy meal at a fancy place, anything, you can use 🍽️. For example, "Yooo. I'm waiting for my steak 🍽️. Where you at?".
- 🍽️ signifies a western way of eating. So, if you're posting or reposting anything related to western food, western restaurants, etc.
- Since 🍽️ signifies a full-course or main-course meal, this emoji would be more apt to use it for such food in reality as well (it would sit awfully in the caption for dessert-based posts).
- Although 🍽️ does convey a western style of eating, it can be used in a generic sense as well - if you eat almost every meal with a fork and a knife or that's just the Eurocentric way of eating you're used to, etc.
Other Names
- 🍽️ Food Cutlery
- 🍽️ Silverware
- 🍽️ Flatware
- 🍽️ Western Food Cutlery
- 🍽️ Bon Appetit!
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › dishware
- Codepoints
U+1F37D U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:plate_with_cutlery:GitHub- Keywords
- cooking, dinner, eat, fork, knife, plate
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍽️ Fork and Knife with Plate or 🏊♀️ Woman Swimming?