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Which came first... the fork or the spoon?

BeeHappy 9 Apr 27
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Level 7

The dish ran away with the spoon...so the spoon came first.
Someone got forked.

Good one!
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Level 9

Normally I would say a spoon. But with too much thinking, I vote a one tine fork - a stick to hold food in the fire. Yes, fingers still came prior to this, but I'm just looking at those two.

That makes a lot of sense.

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Level 7

the female one!

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Level 9

The spork makes so much sense.

🤣🤣🤣
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Level 8

Fingers

Bingo! We got a winner! LOL

True
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Level 9

The spork of course.... Actually the knife came first and it was often used as a universal eating tool but later on they invented the spoon for liquids first for religious purposes and later for eating or cooking.

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Level 8

Expert opinions say spoons preceded forks.

Carin Level 8 Apr 27, 2019
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Level 10

Spoon for soup knife was for solid food

bobwjr Level 10 Apr 27, 2019
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Level 9

LOL!!

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Level 7

I think archeology has shown the spoon was first, but I'm not 100% certain.

I just can't believe no one has mentioned the spork. Lol

@MrLizard You are correct and I shouldn't make light of such atrocities! 😉

@BeeHappy I believe Mr. Spork was going to be Mr. Spock's replacement, his long-lost cousin or something, in a Star Trek revival series back in the '70s. Rumor had it Nimoy was holding out for a better contract package. (Shatner had a personal chef, hairdresser, and masseuse; the rest of the cast were super-jealous.) The whole thing collapsed anyway, and then they decided to do the movies instead....

@Paul4747 LOL... I never heard that... funny! Thanks!

@BeeHappy You wouldn't have heard it because I made it up on the spot... I'm sorry, I didn't mean for you to think it was actual Hollywood history.

Although there was a studio memo (reproduced in the book "The Making of Star Trek" ) in which producer Robert Justman did in fact suggest, tongue in cheek, that all Vulcan names should start with the letter SP and end with K. He then produced a long list of examples, including Spork, if I remember correctly.

@Paul4747 You got me!!! 😀

@MrLizard, @BeeHappy, @Paul4747
Saying "get forked!" to someone rather than "get sporked" doesn't imo have the same tone to it and sporked certainly cannot be mistaken for that other 4 letter word frequently used to indicate where an irritant should go.
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Level 8

I believe it was more like a kn-oon. A flatish stick with a pointy end.

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