What is this called?

What is this called?

  • Foon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Spork

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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It is called a tie trasher. Don't eat soup with it while wearing a tie (or a clean bowling shirt).
 
What food is there which needs a fork and can't be eaten with a spoon?
If you are all civilized you might want to poke a steak so you can cut it better with a knife but if you are so fancy you wouldn't use a SPORK anyways.
Did well in my army time and all camping trips without a fork or spork. Spoons rule, or am I missing something?
 
Jens Schuetz said:
What food is there which needs a fork and can't be eaten with a spoon?
If you are all civilized you might want to poke a steak so you can cut it better with a knife but if you are so fancy you wouldn't use a SPORK anyways.
Did well in my army time and all camping trips without a fork or spork. Spoons rule, or am I missing something?
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The Pope made this argument about 800 years ago.

He lost.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
The Pope made this argument about 800 years ago.

He lost.
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Cool. Didn't know that the pope was into lightening back packs and not carrying less useful or redundant things.

How come he lost? Did the locals only serve him tough meats on plates while he was on a pilgrimage?
 
Ah yes, the noble spork.

I did a little workshop experiment with making one out of an ounce of silver at a hacker camp. Totally failed! (Lack of a proper torch. Silver *really* work hardens.) We tried this because the tutor had run out of bits of titanium and stainless as the course had been so popular.

Next time! (I say that every time, but it never seems to happen due to me fixing and building stuff at the wrong times)
 
Jens Schuetz said:
Cool. Didn't know that the pope was into lightening back packs and not carrying less useful or redundant things.

How come he lost? Did the locals only serve him tough meats on plates while he was on a pilgrimage?
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Nah, he excommunicated people for using forks as the work of the devil. Forks still won.
 
Seeing the sound defeat of Foon by Spork, I guess the back story is needed. I have always called it a Foon ever since my youth, for reasons unknown. I don't remember what my parents called it, and I was never corrected on my use of of the term Foon. For whatever reason, my wife is bothered by my choice of words and wanted me to call it a Spork. I told her that my use of Foon is not completely unheard of and we have better things to argue/debate. (This goes back several years!) It got brought up again while we were going out of town so we agreed that a poll here would be perfect to see if I am completely bonkers, just a little off, or in tune with a larger percent of the population that she thought.
I guess she wins this battle:(
 
Haebbie said:
It is funny. In Germany we call it - translated - foon.
The word is Göffel. --- bon appétit!

Haebbie
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Gabel = fork
Löffel = spoon

Hence, Göffel, a portmanteau word like spork, explained by our beautiful translator Aki:

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I agree with Aki, it is a question of priorities. Give priority to the fork and you have a foon.

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Give priority to the spoon and you have a spork.

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Not to forget Gabelstäbler AKA fopsticks

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It's a spoon with points at the front.

Spork sounds too Star Treky...
 
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