So earlier today I on my way to pick up some e-waste I had ordered online. I could've had it delivered to my door but it was 1 whole euro cheaper to just have it delivered to pseudo post office thing they hide in some stores and you know how it is with 1 whole euros. That's beside the point anyway. While I was on my bike I noticed a spork lying on the road, but thinking about it more I was a little bit doubtful in whether the utensil in question even technically counts as a spork.

The spork in question had the following shape:


Now the thing is, sure this has a fork and a spoon as part of the same utensil, but is this a spork? It's just a spoon and a fork taped together. A total scam!

This type of device is much more true to the meaning of the name "spork" I'd say:


Here the fork and spoon have truly come together in an inconvenient matrimony of both not being able to use its total capacity to hold a liquid nor are the prongs long enough to properly serve as a meat stabbing device. A totally useless piece of garbage. True to the spirit of the spork.

Anyway, I wish to see what the spork community has to say on this matter. Please feel free to have your say in the replies below!

i see what you mean and i would definitely prefer a sort of disambiguation in nomenclature because both instruments follow totally different theories of operation. i think the one-side-spoon-one-side-fork creature should be called a foon

First of all, IF the spork is made out of plastic it is usable and i do not mind using her. However, if she is made out of the very thin bamboo or cardboard, I break them in half and use them as chopsticks.

The "spork" you saw, I think it is no spork. I think that utensil doesn't even deserve to exist. Lets say you use the spoon end to have some soup or whatever and then you want a bite of something else. Leftover liquid flows down it and onto your hands. Day ruined.

So in conclusion i think a spork must have the spoon and fork part combined on one side. And that other thing should be binned

that half spoon half fork thing looks unweildy.... you'd have to clean it or be careful when switching sides....

A new development has just come to light, at least I've become aware of this development for this first time. This may be a cognitohazard, you have been warned, turn back while you still can.

While it has nothing to do with spoonkind, it does have to do with forkkind, in other words it is at least 50% relevant to the topic of sporks. This item is probably one of the worst things I've seen in my life, and yet I am mesmerized by it.

I present to you, dear reader, the FORKCHOP:



It is a fork, it is a pair of chopsticks, it is an absolute abomination. Who came up with this? Why did they come up with this? Were they sufficiently institutionalized afterwards? I could probably find out with a single web search, but I cannot be bothered to do that and so we will never know.

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Important: These are called chorks and I even found an article about them!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-the-heck-is-a-chork-11193573/