Chew on this: Spün (pronounced "spoon") is a fork and spoon that connect wirelessly to an app on your phone and measure everything you're eating, then tell you when you've had enough.

Dear George: When you think of it, the knife, fork, and spoon is a rather ratty and illogical collection of table utensils, suggesting a piecemeal process of assembling them.

In the late ’60s, plastic sporks were born–the love child of a fork and a spoon. A spork is rounded like a spoon but with four small tines at the tip so it can function both to scoop and to spear.

Advice Miss Manners: Should pie a la mode be served on a plate with a fork, or in a bowl with a spoon? Published: Jan. 07, 2025, 8:00 a.m.