There is this handy-dandy eating tool, known as a spork, that I believe everyone has encountered. It was possibly an accident like several things that make us happy (Post Its, bubble gum, etc.). However, it is clever. Eating mashed potatoes? No problem! Need to stab your salad with a utensil because a spoon just won’t do it? Did someone say partial tines and partial spoon? Spork! Applesauce? Yep! Got. It. Covered.
The spork is basically the plastic Leatherman of eating utensils and it can be found in many a school cafeteria, I’m surmising. I’m confident in making this statement, since it is certainly in abundance in our silverware drawer because it hitchhikes home in a lunch bag at least two-three times a week. That would be due to Little Red, to whom I’m thinking is subconsciously planning for the Apocalypse and wants to make sure that she and her entire family, can partake in the eating of applesauce, canned corn and the occasional meat or fish, without a problem. Yogurt may be a bit tricky since you can’t get the last bit because the whole tines thing. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Below, is a photo of Little Red, looking rather confident not only about her outfit but also of the multifunction of sporks. I mean, the girl’s a fan. I’m just waiting for her to appear on an infomercial with an Australian accent telling us all about the advantages of the spork and then yelling out the phone number. I keep telling her that we have enough sporks and that we even have plastic forks that are just forks and plastic spoons that are just spoons but nope, she’s a spork fan, much to my chagrin. Some sporks have been sent to spork heaven in the sky because we’re overcrowded but those blasted things keep appearing in the dishwasher. I guess I should at least give thanks that this turkey puts her utensils in the dishwasher. Oy.
In closing, the spork is a rockin’ utensil but there isn’t anymore room at this inn, so the spork better be watching it’s back. Mama’s the leader of the spork mafia. Giddyup!
Daddy says
Sporks are very practical and we know how much I like practical.