"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
> FarmI wrote:
>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>> This is a screen capture from a film I'm watching -- "The Third Man", a
>>> 1949 noir set in Austria right after WWII. A bird is being carved.
>>> What is the rod that my arrow is pointing to, that sticks
>>> perpendicularly out of the fork. I've not seen this before. But, of
>>> course, I do live under the sea (not far from an octopus's garden).
>>>
>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/fork.jpg
>>
>> It's a moveable "lever" (for want of a better word) that acts as a knife
>> stop. If the knife slips, you don't get cut because that lever folds out
>> and stops it before it hits your fingers.
>
> The one in the image doesn't look movable,

Trust me, it's moveable.

but the design I found
> online once I solved this is indeed foldable into the fork itself so it
> goes away when you don't need it.

It doesn't really 'go away' as such - it remains very visible. It just
folds down and lies along the back of the fork with the head of the moveable
handle down towards the prongs of the fork