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Hazarding a guess here, but it may be because dessert plates are smaller, so the tongs of a regular fork would be too big.
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The shapes of the fork tines accommodate particular foods. Forks wrought with long tapered tines, such as a dinner fork, are made to spear thick morsels of food, such as steak. Forks with a wide left tine and an optional notch, such as a salad fork, fish fork, dessert fork, and pastry fork, provide extra leverage when cutting food that normally does not require a knife. Forks with curved tines, such as the oyster fork, are made to follow the shape of the shell. http://tinyurl.com/23mfos
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Maybe because it's trying to subtly suggest moderation.
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