Which movie was it? . . . Stalingrad or Cross of Iron?

A female Russian fighter reaches for her boot, but as the german figher points his rifle at her, she says "my spoon" and pulls out her spoon.

I loved that scene because all the world traveling I've done, you can eat almost everything with a spoon.

And your knife can stab for eating what the spoon can't hold. I can use the spoon to hold something while the knife cuts.

I am a proud Spork user walking in the footsteps of other known Spork giants.

Some famous users (to name just a few):

*Odysseus (in a lost translation of Homer's Odyssey he apparently kills four of the 108 suitors with a bronze spork he was known to carry throughout the Trojan Wars)

*Joan of Arc

*Ernest Hemmingway (killed and ate marlin with one)

*Don Quixote

*Tom Joad (in the author's notes it was revealed Tom ate the rabbit at the beginning of "The Grapes of Wrath" with a tin spork- as was common to carry amongst hobos of the time).

*Titus of Gaul

*Amelia Earhart

*Maurice Herzog (used a spork as a piton during a desperate push on Annapurna)

*Sir Ernest Shackleton

*Bodhidharma

*General George S. Patton (carried a spork throughout North Africa)

*Gilgamesh (perhaps the first known spork devotee)

^^ That is awesome! ^^^^

And the tragic end for many of them?

If they had a spoon & knife, they could have lived a long and happy life!

For many of them, did they use tent, tarp, or hammock?

To the above, may I also add spoonphallic.

Sorry, but my Ti spork is one of my favorite pieces of gear...one utensil to rule them all...it handles mac and cheese with ease, cous-cous pilaf with aplomb, it has the means to shovel beans and can spin the hair of angels (as in pasta).

I love my spork!

I lose sleep over this one.... ;-)

It's either my ti long handled spoon (StS), short handled StS Ti spoon, or the good old McFlurry spoon....

zero sporks.

...and let's not forget the SPLADE!...spoon and blade combined.

Edited by jase on 12/28/2012 04:47:20 MST.

...so we all know of 'spooning' with partners....

...is there such a thing as 'sporking'?

I eat everything with a spoon, and I do mean spaghetti, steak, .... and all those other things that people think they need tines for.

Just takes a little practice/unlearning.

Making chopsticks from sticks is really not too hard of a skill to learn if your spoon ever fails you. I know, I know all you spork users camp above treeline, while us lowly spoon users are at the KOA!

My Light My Fire spork broke off while trying to scoop up thick oatmeal.
You need to be gentle with them!

I also find them hard to pack due to their odd shape.

Given that I use the Freezer Bag Cooking method, anything with a point sucks since it can puncture the bottom of the bag and cause leakage. Thats why, for the past 4 years, I use a long handled Titanium Spoon that weights 0.4oz. Being a long handle, it reaches easily into the bottom of the bag without worries of getting food on my hand. Being metal, I don't worry about it breaking when using it in a jar of peanut butter.

I'm a spooner, not a sporker.

Edited by jshann on 12/28/2012 15:42:44 MST.

Years ago I made the first TI Long Handle Spoon:
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Then BPL came out with a long handle spoon made from the idea (I have two that Ryan gave me). BPL sold them for a couple of years and then they showed up at REI.
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I use one of my BPL versions almost everyday and it still looks like new.

Edited by bfornshell on 12/28/2012 16:01:24 MST.

I favor a long-handled spoon which is good for nearly everything except noodles, but I do like rice noodles when camping. :)

I have one of these: Rare as hen's teeth, they don't make them anymore... (Filzer)
It solves the issue many have of the fork tines reducing the spooniness of the utensil.
Best of both worlds...

http://www.filzer.com/products.php?id=12

Edited by NLslacker on 02/23/2013 09:10:07 MST.

Thoughts:

The Freezer Bag cooking method is so much more plastic-intensive than anything else, you might as well buy stock in landfill liners.

Arguments against the almighty spork are intolerable and heretic.

Sporks first appeared in our middle school(junior high) cafeteria. Not good at either task. But a superior launching mechanism for green peas.

Spoons forever!

You're not supposed to throw away your trash. That's why burn barrels where invented.

@ sporks....

MMMMMeh.