My personal experience with CDG security is that they seem to despise the TSA edicts.

Did you really challenge them over a fork?

A fork?!

Most people would just let that go and move on. No matter how "polite" you asked the question for the regulations, my guess is that you came over to them as if you were a jerk.

Honestly, this kind of feels like some liberties were taken in describing what actually happened. Then again, I'm still trying to wrap my head around all this being over a salad fork.