Meyer had actually never visited the town, but she wanted an suitably gloomy setting for her novels and found out that the Olympic Peninsula is the most rainy location in America. The only town of any size on that coastline? Forks.

The ordinance was passed in 1961 and there’s even a statue in the middle of the town with a chicken watching over passers-by. If they could experience a Forker fork, of course, they might change their minds.

Later, they were treated with such suspicion in England that in 1633 Charles I felt the need to insist that “It is decent to use a fork.” (Obviously, if Forker's perfect fork had been an option then, everyone would have seen the light much earlier.)