Throwback Tech: The Spoon

Ah yes, where would we be without the spoon? Our hands would be dirtier, our food colder in our mouths, and most of all we would have to drink our soup rather than slurp it. What inspired this great and noble invetnion? What great mind looked at his food and said to themselves a stick with a round end would be a great way to get that to my mouth? Was this invention a necessity? Was there some reason why our fingers were not up to the task of grabbing food? To tell the truth I really don’t know, but I still thank that first spoon user with all my heart. Yes I indeed believe that the spoon is one of our most noble inventions.

Imagine if you would a world without the spoon. Shaking another persons hands would be and excercise in bacterial exchange, you couldn’t ever eat anything but lukewarm food. Why without the spoon you couldn’t even stir cream and sugar into your coffee! Oh the horror! This is the reason we should all look back to those fabled ancestors who thought it wise to find a stick, attach a round end to it and use it to help themselves eat. I shudder to think of life without the spoon.

But not only has the spoon served its use at the dinner table, my grand mother would of often been short of an instrument to punish me for my transgressions. I would of been short of a fabulous digging tool, and what would all those psychics use to amaze us with their skills without the spoon? Well I for one am glad to have grown up in a culture, nay in a world where the spoon is not only used but appreciated for all that it provides us. Long live the spoon I say! Long live this oft overlooked implement found at dinner tables across the western world!