Is space/weight conservation so tight the difference between a spork and an actual spoon and fork is significant? Or is it just the sheer appeal of the clever multi-function tool? Either way, I don’t see the practical advantage.
I’d lay odds it’s neither space nor weight,
but cost. With a spork, you only need one, not two. That’s half price.
Could be wrong.
rocks
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Sometimes I wonder if fighting ignorance is a fruitful endeavor. I’d put a knowledge of foons right up near felching as things I could have lived without learning of.
I suspect it’s more to do with the fact that you need only one utensil hand and don’t have to put the utensil down.
Zero gravity has all sorts of interesting side effects.
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams
Come on, Tom! Don’t tell me that the next time you go to a KFC, you aren’t going to try turning your spork into a foon. It’s like the space program or climbing Mt. Everest. You never know what you might learn until you’ve tried it. Who knows? In twenty years, surgeons may be using foons to extract deadly tumors. Where’s your sense of adventure, Tom?
Now get down to the Colonel and explore your destiny!!!