Spoon

A spoon is a utensil shaped like a spoon. It knows it is a spoon at all times; it knows this because it knows it is not a fork. By subtracting fork from everything it could be, it arrives at spoon.^[1]

A fork is a spoon with gaps, and a knife is a spoon that has given up on holding things altogether.

Reflections

Looking into a spoon shows your face upside down on one side and the right way up on the other. Nobody has ever needed this, but everybody has checked.^[2]

Use

• Soup: spooned.
• Cereal: spooned.
• Jelly: spooned, enthusiastically.
• Steak: not spooned; this has been tried.

See also

• Empty glass – also lives in the kitchen
• Chair
• Fork – a spoon with gaps

References

1. Ladle, L. (2001). Concave. Kitchen Press. p. 1.
2. Cutlery Council (1987). “Forks: Spoons With Gaps?”. Motion carried.