If you're looking for a conversation topic to excite people at the pub, maybe you could talk about spoons.

The spoon is such a mundane invention; it's easy to overlook that they are an essential part of daily life. No matter who or where you are, it's near certain you will use a spoon several times today.

The fun starts with the definition of "spoon". When does a flat stick become a spoon?

Without knowing what we mean by the word ... there is no spoon.

If we add a tines, is that a spoon or a fork? The "spork", of course, is a hybrid, with the earliest known examples dating back to 1874. The portmanteau reflects the joining of the two concepts, which later became a registered trademark.

There are dozens of variations of the spoon. We have ice-cream scoops, teaspoons, caddy spoons, slot

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