# Runcible Spoon's

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 5, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811 "2001-09-05T04:38:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811/1 "2001-09-05T04:38:08Z")

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I hope I get this link right- http:/www.straightdope.com/classics/a961108a.html -well that’s as good as I can do! Have’nt got a clue how to make it go blue so you can click on it.  
On to the spoon! My parents owned a spoon with a serrated edge, which I was always told was, in fact, a runcible spoon. Said spoon was about the size of a common teaspoon and had a round green handle of something like fake jade. It survived my childhood but sadly ran afoul of my own kids last year. We used it chiefly for eating grapefruit. I think I still have the pieces!

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811/2 "2001-09-05T15:16:36Z")

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Close. You left out a slash mark.

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a961108a.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a961108a.html)

Give it 2 slashes before the www and it automatically makes a link.

Welcome.

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**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811/3 "2001-09-08T16:37:59Z")

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When I was a kid we had a “runcible” spoon too, **zoogirl** , although your sounds nicer. Ours had the tines Cecil told us about but no serrated edge, and a regular steel handle. It was good for getting pickles out of the jar though.

As for the bong tree, I have one in my garden. The dried roots can be made into pipes using a method like [this](http://www.audiobro.u-net.com/blakemar/pipemake.htm) (although my lawyer told me to I say I have no connection with that company). The leaves of the bong tree produce an interesting herbal smoke too :).

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**Author:** ![coop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@coop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coop)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811/4 "2002-04-22T11:31:32Z")

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I have only just recently stumbled across the straight dope website and I feel compelled to comment on the runcible spoon. It sounds suspiciously like a “SPLAYD”, the great Australian invention. [http://www.splayds.com](http://www.splayds.com) has more information.

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**Author:** ![jontymeyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@jontymeyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jontymeyer)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runcible-spoons/79811/5 "2003-12-06T23:26:38Z")

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I have recently purchased a book that refers pictoraly to the runcible spoon as a double ender kind of affair. Cherries I can deal with, but doubling up on a spoon I find difficult. I laughed loads and I’m sure Lear would have approved.