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Edited by The Donut Pirate at 08/17/09 8:47 PM
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anyone that eats a lot of korean food will tell you.. metal chopsticks are harder to use than wood/plastic chopsticks as they slip out of your hand more. Just a little warning to you sweaty handed people out there that are dieing to get one of these rings ;)
As a user of chopsticks on a daily basis I deem Fail on design and concept. I mean it seems like a great idea BUT I don't think it's practical. @switchblade made some very good points on passing food along and the fact they have less grip.
I don't see how it can hold a perfect seal for a straw and the fact that while I'm eating what is stopping it from rolling up and smacking me in the face with my food.
I think someone should design the switchblade utensil. Knife, Fork, Spoon, Chopstick, straw All in one easy to carry unit.
You won't need anything in the record when I finish telling you this. Until this moment, Mr. Wilson, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. The spork is a combination of a spoon and a fork which has been used by grade schoolers nationwide and is starting what looks to be a brilliant point in Americana. When I decided to comment for this site, I asked Kaiser-Machead, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant. I said to Kaiser, "What would be best to eat either macaroni and cheese or succotash." He chose a spork, and a full case of them was shipped on an afternoon plane. That night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to see what else we could do with sporks, Kaiser and Buick and I went to dinner together.
I then said to these two young men, "Boys, I don't know anything about you, except I've always liked you, but if there's anything funny in the life of either one of you that leads you to think of other ways to use a spork, you speak up quick."
And Kaiser said, "Ponies, when I was in grade school, and for a period of months after, I thwacked people in the ear with the back of a spork," as you have suggested, Mr. Wilson. He went on to say, "I am Secretary of the Young Commenter's League in Newton with the son of [the] Massachusetts governor, and I have the respect and admiration of my community, and I'm sure I have the respect and admiration of the twenty-five star commenters or so at Gawker."
And I said, "Kaiser, I just don't think I'm going to ask you to comment excessively. If I do, one of these days that will come out, and go over national television, and it will just hurt like the dickens." And so, Mr. Wilson, I asked him to go back to Boston.
Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to the slander you have done to the spork.
It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear the proud name of the spork shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so.
I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
I weep for the sporks of my youth and for the sporks of our nation's children.
@OMG! Ponies!: and speaking of our nation's youth. did you know they make a pre-packaged PB&J sandwich with the crust already cut off? it's amazingly brilliant and may drive the spork to obsolescence.
@does the aero shake_Nick: "If I fastidiously avoided offending people at all times, I do not think that I would ever have opportunity for intercourse."
Oscar Wilde on lovemaking or possibly selecting the best produce
The fact that you can roll it implies that it is flexible/soft. However, using it as chopsticks requires it to be rigid. What mechanism does it use to alternate between soft and hard?
@Hello Mister Walrus: c'mon now walrus. i am sure you have rolled enough things in your day to know they get rigid when in said form. stop playin' coy.
@Hello Mister Walrus: Well, of course you will be required to keep a few full-time fluffers on staff, but I don't think most people would have a problem getting used to the service...
That's all fine and good, but how good would they be in a game of hand-to-hand sushi bar mini-Samurai? I have trouble believing that these will stand up to the tried and true wooden or plastic chopsticks.
@does the aero shake_Nick: I agree, they're too slippery most of the time. Plain unvarnished bamboo has waaay better grip. Yet I do appreciate my metal extendable chopsticks when the only alternative are those short and splintery take-out disposables.
Ditto. However, my comment on plastic chopsticks pertained mainly to play fighting with them at the table. Strictly on the eating part, bamboo is superior.
@does the aero shake_Nick: Yeah well that's why you save those sorts of shenanigans for when you're paying for your own lunch and hang around siblings that like to engage in silly shenanigans during outings.
@J. Nadeau: And these would probably be just about as stable during use. Imagine having a big helping of noodles fly all over because your chopsticks just accidentally snapped shut.
Same here, and the concept pic shows them uncoated, so I can only imagine trying to pick up a heavy piece of food, only to have razor-sharp slap bracelets coil around your fingers, haha...
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@TailsNZ: Here it is.
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Edit: Please click on picture for maximum sexiness. Thank you.
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I actually liked the cropped version...allows more for the imagination. gave me a good laugh nonetheless. Thanks
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I don't see how it can hold a perfect seal for a straw and the fact that while I'm eating what is stopping it from rolling up and smacking me in the face with my food.
I think someone should design the switchblade utensil. Knife, Fork, Spoon, Chopstick, straw All in one easy to carry unit.
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I've used sporks. A spork was a good friend of mine. These, Mr. Wilson, are no spork.
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These chopsticks however are CRAP!
That's a nice render, but until I SEE these being used, I call vaporware...
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Mr. Wilson,
You won't need anything in the record when I finish telling you this. Until this moment, Mr. Wilson, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. The spork is a combination of a spoon and a fork which has been used by grade schoolers nationwide and is starting what looks to be a brilliant point in Americana. When I decided to comment for this site, I asked Kaiser-Machead, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant. I said to Kaiser, "What would be best to eat either macaroni and cheese or succotash." He chose a spork, and a full case of them was shipped on an afternoon plane. That night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to see what else we could do with sporks, Kaiser and Buick and I went to dinner together.
I then said to these two young men, "Boys, I don't know anything about you, except I've always liked you, but if there's anything funny in the life of either one of you that leads you to think of other ways to use a spork, you speak up quick."
And Kaiser said, "Ponies, when I was in grade school, and for a period of months after, I thwacked people in the ear with the back of a spork," as you have suggested, Mr. Wilson. He went on to say, "I am Secretary of the Young Commenter's League in Newton with the son of [the] Massachusetts governor, and I have the respect and admiration of my community, and I'm sure I have the respect and admiration of the twenty-five star commenters or so at Gawker."
And I said, "Kaiser, I just don't think I'm going to ask you to comment excessively. If I do, one of these days that will come out, and go over national television, and it will just hurt like the dickens." And so, Mr. Wilson, I asked him to go back to Boston.
Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to the slander you have done to the spork.
It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear the proud name of the spork shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so.
I like to think I'm a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
I weep for the sporks of my youth and for the sporks of our nation's children.
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just sayin'
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"It's tremendously useful and feels good going in but I fear it may harm the lining of my colon."
- Oscar Wilde, On Packaged Convenience Foods
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Ditto. However, my comment on plastic chopsticks pertained mainly to play fighting with them at the table. Strictly on the eating part, bamboo is superior.
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i appreciate your effort Mark, but it's actually Rrow un' Rrow
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Same here, and the concept pic shows them uncoated, so I can only imagine trying to pick up a heavy piece of food, only to have razor-sharp slap bracelets coil around your fingers, haha...