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All Hail the Mighty Spork!!

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  • 10-05-2019 12:13am
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,620 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Not quite a spoon, but not quite a fork either.

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    This plastic eating utensil was invented circa 1972 and has since transformed the lives of countless millions who consume TV dinners and take away salads.

    One of the greatest inventions of all time?

    What are your personal experiences with the spork?

    Thoughts?


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    #2
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Tesco had then on special offer a while back afaik ...

    Question - has anyone ever been threatened or killed with a spork?


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    #3
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,615 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    No good for soup.


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    #4
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    You call that a spork?! This is a spork.

    That's not a spork, that's a fife.

    I see you've played Fifey, Sporky before!


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    #5
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Chopsticks über alles


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    #6
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,248 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    I am Sporkticus


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    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,326 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    RIP Leonard Nimoy.


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    #8
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Omackeral wrote: »
    You call that a spork?! This is a spork.

    That's not a spork, that's a fife.

    I see you've played Fifey, Sporky before!

    I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. One, where's the fife. And two, gimme the fife.


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    #9
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Is this a cult i can join ? If so, I'M IN!


    :)


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    #10
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Not plastic, no way jose. Have a lightweight, everlasting glorious Titanium spork.
    Other folks mass produce them using (sustanablely grown) bamboo an so on.

    Just not a plastic spork - Haven't you heard? Ireland today just declared a climate emergency!
    (just the 2nd country to do so).

    Yes, the wee country with the lowest broad leaf (carbon absorbing) tree coverage in Europe,
    bodies on trolleys, and planned 1,300pm co-shares (42:1 kitchen access) has gone like all polar-bear-defcom.


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    #11
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    Did it ever occur to anyone to make a spork that was sharpened along
    one side. Nice and sharp, even serrated perhaps. One could then cut food
    with the spork thus dispensing with the necessity of a separate, independent knife implement.

    A Snieffrrk.


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    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,720 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Did it ever occur to anyone to make a spork that was sharpened along
    one side. Nice and sharp, even serrated perhaps. One could then cut food
    with the spork thus dispensing with the necessity of a separate, independent knife implement.

    A Snieffrrk.


    You must have seen The Morsel Spork which it's makers, with becoming modesty describe as "..the world's most badass single outdoor eating/cooking contraption." LINK :D


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    #13
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Alas, poor Sporkic, I knew him, Horatio.


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Nixonbot wrote: »
    I'd like to ask you a couple of questions. One, where's the fife. And two, gimme the fife.

    That does it, you are banned from this spork/fife society. You, and your children, and your children's children!...For three months.


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    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,615 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    donegal_man wrote: »
    You must have seen The Morsel Spork which it's makers, with becoming modesty describe as "..the world's most badass single outdoor eating/cooking contraption." LINK :D

    That MorselSpork does look useful.

    A Mork, obviously: invented by some bright Spork.

    The Mork is Bendy.


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    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,685 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    There's a few things that make life a little bit more tolerable while working, a Jetboil, fresh socks and jocks, foot powder and top of the list is the humble spork.

    I've used them for eating ration packs in flooded trenches and forests of the Wicklow mountains, on 10 day patrols through the rainforest and rubber plantations of Liberia, straight from the back of a MOWAG on long range patrols in Chad or while hanging around in bunkers in Lebanon or Syria.

    Hell, I've even used it at home eating dinner.

    All hail the mighty spork, without it, my fingers would have been messy while munching my bacon and beans.


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    Purgative
    Registered Users Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭Purgative


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Did it ever occur to anyone to make a spork that was sharpened along
    one side. Nice and sharp, even serrated perhaps. One could then cut food
    with the spork thus dispensing with the necessity of a separate, independent knife implement.

    A Snieffrrk.




    Not with a spork but with an ordinary dessert spoon, sharpened on one side.



    We called it a Racing spoon


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Is this a cult i can join ? If so, I'M IN!


    :)

    You're not allowed eat on Tuesday's between 12.23 and 13.22 ..


    apart from that it's open season on everything else!


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    #19
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Knife-Wrench!

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    Alun
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    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Did it ever occur to anyone to make a spork that was sharpened along
    one side.
    Already been done. I have one from a company called Light My Fire that has a serrated edge on one side.


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    #21
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    Am I alone in that I'm fairly sure I've never used one in my life?


    Excommunicated from this thread in. . . .


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    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Alun wrote: »
    Already been done. I have one from a company called Light My Fire that has a serrated edge on one side.

    Dont you cut your mouth then when using the spoon feature of the spork.


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    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,685 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Dont you cut your mouth then when using the spoon feature of the spork.

    The serated edge is on the fork end....there is a spoon end and a fork/knife end.


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    #24
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,211 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I got giving one in Krispy Kreme when getting an ice cream...bizarre...down with sports!!!


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    #25
    greenspurs
    Registered Users Posts: 10,286 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    Some 'threads' should really be burned...……..
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    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



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    #26
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    And soon starring in a new Toy Story movie!

    🤪



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    #27
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,849 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Dale Doback wrote: »
    There's a few things that make life a little bit more tolerable while working, a Jetboil, fresh socks and jocks, foot powder and top of the list is the humble spork.

    I've used them for eating ration packs in flooded trenches and forests of the Wicklow mountains, on 10 day patrols through the rainforest and rubber plantations of Liberia, straight from the back of a MOWAG on long range patrols in Chad or while hanging around in bunkers in Lebanon or Syria.

    Hell, I've even used it at home eating dinner.

    All hail the mighty spork, without it, my fingers would have been messy while munching my bacon and beans.

    The Aussies had the combination spoon, can opener and (unsurprisingly) bottle opener called FRED, Field Ration Eating Device aka Fcuking Ridiculous Eating Device.


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    #28
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,326 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    I've been called an eating device before.


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    #29
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,685 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    kowloon wrote: »
    I've been called an eating device before.

    All hail the national sausage eating King!!


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    #30
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Alun wrote: »
    Already been done. I have one from a company called Light My Fire that has a serrated edge on one side.

    and they do a titanium version.

    First they came for the socialists...



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