Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Original Spork?

The spork is a useful eating utensil. 

You can have two utensils close at hand:  a spoon and a fork.  How cumbersome.

Or, better yet, you can have one spork--examples pictured below.


The spork seems to be a modern invention.  Right?  Well, perhaps not.

On a recent museum visit in Florence, we spotted a 500 year old spork.  In the photo below is a fork and a bowl of a spoon.  The spoon part has slots where the fork fits.  Slide in the fork and you have a working spoon.  Or, in modern parlance, a spork. 


Who knew?


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