I started to reply to a recent comment, but it turned into a post. So here it is.
My whole life I’ve shunned forks and embraced spoons, much to my Mom’s chagrin. I’ve made somewhat of a name for myself in that department, hence my sister and the baritone flipping out at my mention of a fork.
Indeed, my good buddy Coby still loves to bring up the subject. Coby gave me my first opportunity to sing barbershop, we ended up singing in several barbershop quartets together (he’s on the right in the Razorburn pics here and here). One time we were at district convention and we went to a restaurant to have supper. I ordered a monster salad of some kind and ate the whole thing with a spoon. Evidently he had never seen anything like that before, he loves to keep bringing it up! “Hey, do you know Tom eats salad with a spoon?!!!”
Forks are just so unhandy and awkward. Sure, they work good for stabbing things, but most things don’t need to be stabbed.
Spoons are friendly, versatile, easy to use, intuitive, and much better suited than forks for transportation of most foods. Spoons fit the mouth better, they’re much more natural. They even cut stuff better than forks. Don’t get me wrong, forks have their place, it’s just a very small one.
11 Responses
June 15th, 2005 at 4:37 am
How ever can you eat salad with a spoon? I can never get the salad to stay on the spoon.
June 15th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
Now thats something I want to see!!! Eating salad with a spoon.
June 15th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
i think we should all eat with a knife just so we can better appreciate the spoon
June 16th, 2005 at 6:59 am
YOU EAT SALAD WITH A SPOON? Oh no! I am horrified! Your post made me weep. Could you maybe TRY to wean yourself off of the spoon? You’re not to old to learn.
Ag
June 16th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Ag, I with you, my mother would have allowed me to starve until I learned to use a spoon for soup and certain desserts. I have a daughter that has picked up this aweful habit of eating with only a spoon, O Where Have I Failed! It is so embarrassing!
I think that it is some move to being less worldly by some conservative Mennonites, but manners transcend the dangers of worldliness.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:46 am
This generation as a whole has lost a huge dose of etiquette! So, your daughter is only one of the masses. (I’m not sure if that is comforting or not….)
Americans eat with either their fingers or a spoon. Oh sigh!
Please tell me you are not serious about the whole eating with a spoon and being less wordly thing. That is too much for me to handle. I’ll pretend you weren’t serious. Otherwise I will feel obligated to start a Mennonite Etiquette Revival.
Ag
June 17th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
Ag, I was only semi-serious about the trend being a strike against worldliness. There does seem to be more spoon use among the younger Mennonites in my area. Your school may be a good idea.
June 17th, 2005 at 11:36 pm
Well I will stand up and fight for the misunderstood spoon until the day I die. There is nothing wrong with using a spoon, this anti-spoon sentiment is just a social stigma with no basis in reason or logic!
June 18th, 2005 at 6:34 am
TOM! Okay, this is really more than I can take! You say “social stigma with no basis in reason or logic”. That’s just ignorant!
It is not even LOGICAL to eat salad with a spoon. It makes no sense. First of all, in order to do it DECENTLY, you will have to spend a reasonable amount of time CUTTING it so it fits on the spoon and in order to do that DECENTLY you need to use a knife and a fork. So if you are using a knife and a fork anyhow to make it “spoon presentable”, why don’t you just skip the extra step of laying down the fork, and picking up the spoon?
Ice cream, cereal and soup Tom! There is not much more in life that you need a spoon for!! But a fork, a fork is your friend!
You might come from Oregon, but the way you talk I would have thought you came out of the hills of West Virginia! (Not a compliment)
You need a wife!
Ag
June 21st, 2005 at 12:10 am
I agree with you Tom. I am a spoon user too. I will almost always take a spoon over a fork. I even eat salad with a spoon, if it’s in my hand.
June 21st, 2005 at 3:47 am
Oh you dear people. How I grieve.
I don’t even understand how it is POSSIBLE to eat salad with a spoon. It goes against every sense of logic.
Please tell me you all don’t eat meat with a spoon? Oh my.
Ag