I flew LHR-HKG in Y last week and they already had the new tableware out in force. Looked nothing the picture posted earlier in this thread (sorry I didn't take a photo).

A matter of great concern was that CX has once again managed to re-invent the wheel by brandishing its customers with something that's a cross between a spoon and a knife (let's call it a "spife") which worked even less well than a "spork". Basically it's a knife with a blade that had a convex/concave surface, partly resembling the surface of a spoon. Or viewed another way, a spoon on its side with teeth along one edge. There is no way on this planet anyone would be able to cut anything with it. Scoop some food up with it, maybe, and proceed to scoring your tongue in the process.

Perhaps the person behind the clam-shell Y seat is back at CX? This "spife" actually made far less sense than the clam-shell seat, for that did kind of solve the problem of the person in front reclining into you (although with the drawback of breaking your own back in the process). Coupled with the fact that they do actually give you a fork and a spoon to go along that "spife", it seemed all reasons are lost.

In fact it was so drastically useless as a knife, everyone around me simply gave up and resorted to using the spoon and fork for their main courses. Which presented a follow-on problem when the Haagen Dazs arrived. The Haagen Dazs now comes without the white plastic covering (not the ruby lid, but the one you had to peel off) nor a spoon under the lid. People started to realise at this point that they've already used their spoon for their main courses and they're now covered in sauce and muck. So the only thing to do was to resort to using the dreaded "spife" for the ice cream. At least it was nearly the right shape for the job. It was quite a sight seeing the whole Y cabin digging into their Haagen Dazs with their knifes, elbows out, and the FAs seemed equally bemused by it all.

The only reason I can think of why CX would possible have done this was to save weight. The new cutlery set seemed to be made of mightily flimsy and bendy plastic, in the mold of the "New Economy" exit-row flip-out tray tables (anyone who's been in those seats will know exactly what I mean), and the curvature was deliberately designed in to stop the knife blade snapping under normal use.

Plus I was in the first row of Y, and I noticed that PE passengers got exactly the same meals (also in tin foils) as we in Y did.