…. the adventure of the two-pronged fork from yesterday's post continues! A comment on that post (and thanks for the information!) led to googling "sporks". Wow! There is an entire site devoted to sporks. There are hundreds of images of sporks. That they are also called runcible spoons led to Edward Lear and his delightful The Owl and the Pussycat poem. I learned all about patents for sporks. And – to my amazement – I discovered that the spoon/fork I bought in a nifty Queen Street West store in Toronto on a visit a few years ago is a spork: lots of images of it.
But – is what I now have a spork?
I did use it at dinner last night. It is certainly a different experience from the usual fork. The two tines narrow the area considerably and this does cause more of a focus, physically and mentally; there is much less of a scoop capacity and I think trying to eat soup with it would last for one or two spoonsful and that would be that. (Spell check is tsk-tsking over spoonsful and would likely prefer spoonfuls – yep – but somewhere I read that the former is more correct and I have been using that since).
It does pierce food nicely but then holds it on the end which is a bit unusual, if you see what I mean. Something to do with the degree of the angle from the point.
Here they are together.
And a comparison of the tips.
I am in a runcible mind about them.