is that really a spork?

[Melissa D. Binde]

Twas brillig, on Wed Nov 05 at 05:13:08 PM, and Snibor Eoj burbled:

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, lindafowens wrote:
> 
> > My kids called them sporks--those spoons with rounded tines at the
> > ends--not as sharp as forks, but safer than bent metal and useful for a
> > variety of offods. Personally, I abhor plasticwear.  Linda PS But I use
> > it at picnics now, after picking the real silver out of the trash.  And
> > probably losing a lot of it.
> 
> I'm not talking about a spoon with tines.  I know what a spork is, and I 
> wasn't trying to describe a spork.  I'm talking about a fork, a perfectly 
> normal fork, with tines and a handle and everything you expect about a 
> fork.  The only difference is that the very tips of the tines, instead of 
> coming to a point, are rounded, as if someone had taken a very little ball 
> and stuck it onto the end of each tine.
> 
> I can't find a picture on the web in thirty seconds, but these things do 
> exist.

I will support you in this -- I know what you mean, and they definitely are
different from sporks.


-M.