Okay, so we are out of clean spoons except this one.

[Jamastiene]

I've been avoiding it. It's shaped funny. It's got like weird ridges close to the end part.

I'm using it now to eat some Cocoa Puffs and it's just so wide. Weird. I hate weird rich people silverware that I don't know the name of. Makes me feel like a rube or a cave woman or something. Pfft!

What kind of spoon is it?

I mean I might quit hating it if I knew the name of it and what it's normally used for.

:P

[MissHoneychurch]

1. How about

cleaning an used spoon?

Just a question :hide:

[Jamastiene]

17. I avoid that like the plague until I have to do it.

If I don't, just as soon as I wash dishes, some other utensil will run out. Then I'll just have to wash dishes again. I could be standing at the sink for the rest of my life. Life's too short for that. :P

[mikeytherat]

2. Probably a melon (or other fruit) spoon.

Does it look something like this?


mikey_the_rat

[Jamastiene]

18. Yup, looks exactly like that.

Right down to those funny looking crinks in the end of the spoon. I guess crinks is the right word. Little pinched looking places?

It felt funny sliding back out of my mouth, but it worked.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It sounds like a grapefruit spoon.

You need to be eating grapefruit if that's your only clean spoon.

Oops, I just reread your post. If it's *wide* with ridges it's not a grapefruit spoon, it's a melon spoon. You need to be eating a melon.

[Blue Diadem]

4. If it's kinda wavy edges, it may be a spoon for sugar. If they're

somewhat sharp edges, it could be a grapefruit spoon.

[Jamastiene]

19. Wavy!

That's the word I was looking for. It's more wavy. It's not a spork. I know what a spork is. :)

[zanne]

5. That's the problem with this generation....

They don't wash their spoons.

[Jamastiene]

20. I bet you had to wash the spoons in lye or twenty mule team Borax

with no gloves to protect your hands back in your day, huh? Did you have to walk uphill both ways from the sink to the dish drainer?

:P

:hide:

[MorningGlow]

6. LOL I did that once or twice when I was younger

We had a dishwasher, but it was just me and my mom in the house, so it took FOREVER to fill the dishwasher up enough to run it without feeling like we were wasting water. Fanned out and wavy: sugar spoon. A refined version of a spork (with little teeth at the very end): grapefruit spoon.

Meh. I say just eat handfuls of Cocoa Puffs out of the box. :shrug:

[Jamastiene]

7. Thank you.

It must be a sugar spoon based on your description. :)

[HopeHoops]

8. If it is round, it is for melon. If it has a more pointed end it is for grapefruit.

If the ridges are more like fork tines, it is a spork.

If you're risking your tongue with ANY of those, next time just dip a steak knife in honey and use it to pick up the Cocoa Puffs.

As for the dishes problem, there are two possible solutions:

1) Do the fucking dishes

2) Throw out all of the dirty dishes and buy paper plates and plastic ware.

[Jamastiene]

15. No, we still have clean forks.

I can cook things that require forks to eat and wait on washing the dishes, as I also have some clean pots and pans.

Tomorrow, I'll be going to the grocery store. I might as well pick up some plastic spoons and forks too. We keep running out of clean ones of each of those at different times. I like to do everything at once and run out of clean everything at once. Otherwise, I'd be washing dishes all my life all day long.

The thought of that sucks almost as bad as the thought of having to cook every day. I should have been a bachelor. I think like one.

[HopeHoops]

16. Ah yes, deciding not to make soup because there are no clean bowls.

And then there is eating over the sink.

[Lars39]

9. That's why I have place settings for 16. :^)

[Jamastiene]

21. 16 sounds nice.

I'd like a 14 to 16 piece set or maybe 21 so I can go three weeks without having my knuckles cracked and bleeding from the drying effects of the dish washing liquid. :P

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Ya know, back in the day ...

our ancestors used to eat their Cocoa Puffs with a knife. If it was good enough for them ...

:rofl:

I mean, anything to avoid the dreaded "spoon washing"!

[Jamastiene]

22. I'm not sure which I hate worse;

washing spoons or washing forks. It's definitely forks. I think that's why I run out of spoons before forks. I use a spoon sometimes instead of a fork because I don't want them poking my hands when I wash them. :P

[Arugula Latte]

11. Maybe it's a runcible spoon. I don't know what that is, but I just like to say runcible spoon.

And type it, too. Runcible spoon.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. According to one source, a runcible spoon is an early version of the modern day spork.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ClI5SJtFwsI/R0xq9WKywHI/AAAAAAAABBE/tV8uXe23HSQ/s400/runcible+spoon.jpg

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon...

Lear probably didn't have a specific idea as to what a runcible spoon really was, but descriptions of the utensil as a spoon with prongs or a curved fork that has a bit of a bowl to it led me to conclude one thing: the runcible spoon is our modern-day spork. However, "spork" is so inelegant. Really, there ought to be a differention. When you partake of fine cuisine (mince, slices of quince, spotted frogs), you use a runcible spoon:

[Arugula Latte]

13. Ahh ... that clears it up. Thank you.

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

14. Inelegant, maybe, but more fun

"Spork" sounds so much like a bodily function...
:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

27. And to think, all these years I thought "spork"

was a made up name for those funky things KFC gives you that always have extra plastic bits on the ends and cut your mouth. I still use 'em though. I honestly didn't know other people (outside my family) called them "sporks" too. :P

[Jamastiene]

25. Mince and Quince...sounds like Hobbit names.

I haven't a clue what those foods are, assuming they are foods of some sort. Are they like taters? :P

[Jamastiene]

24. I like the sound of that too.

Runcible spoon.

[peacefreak]

23. Peacefreak's helpful hint of the day

I solved the spoon problem by going to the thrift store & buying a bunch of teaspoons & put them into an oversize mug by the stove. ;-)

[Jamastiene]

26. That sounds like an excellent solution.

Great idea. :thumbsup: