I just did a deep dive on food utensils today. I didn’t look up knives because that seems silly. But spoons are the longest reigning champion of cutlery. Followed by chopsticks and then forks. I believe the oldest found spoon was from ~17,000-15,000 BCE. While the earliest found chopsticks were from 1,700-1,200 BCE.
I mean at least according to historical accounts and archaeology. But I’d imagine it’s hard for two thin sticks of wood or bone to remain well preserved in a setting that says “food”, y’know?
I just did a deep dive on food utensils today. I didn’t look up knives because that seems silly. But spoons are the longest reigning champion of cutlery. Followed by chopsticks and then forks. I believe the oldest found spoon was from ~17,000-15,000 BCE. While the earliest found chopsticks were from 1,700-1,200 BCE.
Spoon supremacy
the modern spork was invented by Samuel W. Francis and issued US patent 147,119 on February 3, 1874.
The beginning of the modern era
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You’re telling me two god damn sticks pinched together to grasp food is younger invention than a deliberately carved concave spoon?
I call bullshit.
I mean at least according to historical accounts and archaeology. But I’d imagine it’s hard for two thin sticks of wood or bone to remain well preserved in a setting that says “food”, y’know?
So, yeah, spoons it is.
Spoon supremacy
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Praise Munsell