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the only utensil that hugs your food instead of stabbing it
means A utensil with a small shallow bowl on a handle, used for eating, stirring, or serving liquids and soft foods.
from From Old English 'spōn,' which meant a chip or splinter of wood — because the earliest spoons were just that, slivers of wood scooped into shape. It's a cousin of words across the Germanic family (German 'Span,' a chip or shaving), all tracing back to a root for a flat piece of wood. The romantic sense of 'spooning' — two bodies nestled like stacked spoons — is a much later affectionate borrowing of that snug, curved fit.
- older than forks
- Used millennia before forks were socially acceptable
- royal spoon
- A coronation spoon survived England's monarchy purge
- silver myth
- Born wealthy literally meant born with one
- musical
- Spoons are a legitimate percussion instrument
- brain trick
- Cold spoons depuff eyes by constricting vessels
spode spoon — english porcelain company founded 1770, famous for decorative serving spoons
apostle spoons — medieval silver spoons with apostle figures, typically 13-piece sets from 15th-17th centuries
plastic spoon — disposable utensil, ubiquitous since 1960s fast food era