I cut up an apple almost every day at my office, along with cheese or whatever I happen to bring. I use whatever my current edc is. I generally wait till no one is looking at me though because the last few have included a Cuda Maxx, AFCK, and the Skirmish...
I got "caught" with my Spyderco Military while I was carrying that. I took a minute to show how the blade shape was just identical to the front end of a chef's knive, telling the questioner that it was a portable food preparation knife. Suddenly, everything was ok.
By the way, when you cut up apples, I think, the smooth surfaces give you more flavor. And you get to play with your knives!
Also, by the way, the Military was the best food knife I've had, because it actually does mimic the front end of a chef's knife.
But seriously, I think the whole problem is the very dangerous confusion in the eyes of mis-informed peaceniks that somehow the tool or weapon is the problem. That if the ability is removed, then people will be rendered "safe." Its an attitude that distrusts people in general and also wants to mandate a general helplessness as some kind of solution for fear.
Knives don't cut people - people cut people. But try and tell one of the sheeple that - in their minds, guns and knives whisper to you in the night "kill someone... don't you want to kill someone..." So they think that if we can just emasculate the world, there will be no men to challenge them. So laws are passed to do just that. Look at England and what the weapon laws have done there.
Criminals just love this attitude.
