It’s the best of both worlds. Only two utensils should exist: knives and sporks.
Willing to hear a case that’s pro chop sticks, but fork and spoons days should be over
I think the main issue with sporks is all we have are terrible plastic cafeteria style sporks. But there should be high end every day sporks on the market
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Hard to eat soup with a spork. Checkmate, sporks.
Sporks are OK spoons but shitty forks
Can’t really twirl spaghetti on a spork…
Completely agree. I love sporks. I hate spoons and the only time I use them is for cereal.
Can you link a spork you would eat spaghetti with?
The ones i find all look wildly unconfy, wouldnt like everything fall off all the time?
Sporks are stupid.
Sporks don’t work great with soups or with steaks.
Foons or get the fuck out
Spork: Tries to be both a spoon and a fork, excels at neither.
Am I trippin or do sporks suck at being forks?
sometimes you just want a fork or the inverse just want a spoon
Why have two good tools when I can have 1 ok’ish multitool.
Also, im team chopsticks and soup spoons anyway.
I knew a guy who made a battle spork….never underestimate a bored bladesmith. It was about 3ft long, sides of the spork were sharped and it had 2 extra long sharp tines
A spork is at once a lousy spoon and a lousy fork.
No way would a shitty spoon/shitty fork hybrid replace spoons and forks.
They definitely put the cookie gun out of business 💀
i own a set of 12 sporks. nice ones. i’ve also gotten sets for folks as a housewarming gift and it’s loved every time.
It’s like saying a Swiss army knife should be able to replace a toolbox when in reality it’s just 10 shitty tools that you can fit in your pocket.
yeah, sure, because cellphones with a flashlight exist nobody should buy one without, or a separate flashlight s
my parents have always had nice metal sporks in their home since i was a kid
Don’t halfass two things, whole ass one thing
They fail at both tasks.
Sporks are terrible spoons and terrible forks.
Try eating soup with one. The bowl doesn’t hold as much liquid as a spoon, and the short fat tines don’t stab through and hold onto noodles like the long thin tines of a fork.
Wait until this guy hears about knorks
Sporks have their place, but they suck for both soup and noodles
They’re really not ideal replacements for either, so I’m not sure where you’re coming from on this. They’re fine for eating Chinese takeout food (if you don’t know how to use chopsticks), but sporks are shit for soup, and they’re not really great at spearing things either, since their tines are so small.
Not even close. A spork is not the best of both worlds because they are pretty lousy at being either utensil they are trying to replace.
I’ve never found a spork that worked well as a fork.
Spoons are great. Forks are great. Spork is great. But none of them live up to each other. They all have their own purpose
Can’t twirl pasta around a spork. Harder to cut meat with a spork. Harder to test brownies with a spork. Who wants to run their teeth across tines when enjoying a cup of soup?
No fucking thank you.
I cut way too much stuff (burritos for example) with a fork. You can’t do that with a fork. Sporks have their place, but cannot be expected to replace either. Utensils need to stay in their own lane imho.
They prefer being called Fopoons, thank you very much.
Good luck eating spaghetti with a spork
Fuck that. Just three Sporknives at each plate.
Sporks are only good at eating KFC, nothing else.
Tines will never be long enough on any spork for me to get the full amount of salad and stuff. I even need extra long forks. When I take a bite of something, I am trying to stuff my face, like choke level stuffing, autoerotic asphixiation even. There is no utensil bug enough. Sporks have tragically short tines, incapable of supporting a gag-inducing quantity of lettuce and other salad accouterments.
Not for me.
What situation would you rather have a spork over a spoon and/or fork?
When do you think a spork really shines, and it’s just not just for people who can’t be bothered to select between the two?
I can’t think of a single meal where I’d rather not have either a fork or a knife and it be a more enjoyable eating experience.
Chopsticks appear foolish to the uninitiated, yet they are far superior for eating non-liquid based meals (like soup).
They make high end everyday sporks, my man. They sell metal sporks for backpackers.
You can even buy them with extra long handles to eat your mountain house meal without getting your fingers covered in chili mac.
Edit: some brands market them as foons and not sporks. GSI markets foons.
Take my upvote.
Jack of all trades master of none
I ain’t using a spork to eat pudding, friend. That’s crazy talk.
Chop sticks, yes. But a spork is worse than an individual spoon or fork. Just use knives for everything if you want to erroneously eliminate cutlery.
Sporks are good, I guess
The problem is they feel demeaning to me. The only times I use a spork, I’m in jail, the psych ward, or at KFC.
I never feel great about myself when I’m forced to use a spork. That causes me to just not want to use one ever.
Sporks are much like the Holy Roman Empire, they are neither spoons, nor forks.
Yup, definitely disagree. I’ve had well designed metal sporks for camping as well as the fork on one end, spoon on the other. Neither were very pleasant to eat with. I now have the snow peak spoon and fork set that nestles together in a little pouch. I use the appropriate one most days for my work lunch. I also have the camping titanium chopsticks which get probably more use than either. Once you’re used to chopsticks I’d rather use them most of the time
“Not a spoon, not a fork, but something in between. A fopoon!”
Key & Peele – Continental Breakfast
Nah cos I need small spoons in my life. Small spoons carry cereal
I think if it was metal instead of plastic you’ve got a fair argument, if it’s plastic absolutely not
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I love sporks! Have a metal one
I think the only reason they didn’t is because they look really stupid
FUCK THE SPORK! It is a piece of shit useless tool. It does neither the job of a fork or a spoon. I have never once tried using one and the tines for the fork didn’t go and break off. As for trying to use it as a spoon how the fuck is that going to work when there are slots in it? Liquid just falls right fucking out. I have held this hatred for these things almost my entire life. It is a hill I will die on without a second thought. Now you want to combine 2 utensils in a way that could work? Spoon on 1 end, knife on the other. You don’t ever have to use them both at the same time and you could eliminate the need to produce 3 separate things and just go to 2.
I don’t want to eat cereal with a spork.
Take the upvote, cause fuck sporks, but also intrigued by the idea that my experience with plastic school lunch sporks may have tainted their reputation.
It’s a worse spoon and a worse fork. What’s the point? Most meals can be eaten with one or the other, a hybrid is seldom necessary, and using a sport is usually more inconvenient than just grabbing one extra piece of silverware.
Have you ever tried eating soup with a spork?
A fork with short prongs that doubles as a spoon that can stab you? pass.
Have you ever actually tried cutting somethign with a spork and knife?
The minivan should have eliminated both Houses and Racecars.
I’m with you, I bought some metal ones and then bought more, I use them for pretty much everything. The only thing a fork is better at is spaghetti
Edit: using one now for salad
I like forks and spoons and have no issue with maintaining both
The spork should just be a utensil with a spoon on one end and a fork on the other.
Hey…. Write that down, write that down!
the roundness of a spoon makes it difficult to fork stuff because of the wider sides.
the slits of the fork make it less effective to spoon liquids.
sporks work well enough for camping or working on a job site, but when you have the option, it’s never the best choice.
it’s rare that a tool that performs multiple functions matches the effectiveness of a tool with a single purpose. this instance is no different
Big Spoon will never let this pass
‘Knives and sporks’ fucking tickled me
It’s functionality isn’t as effective, plus the feel in your mouth is not the same.
As a knife, fork and spoon supporter, I’m happy to wash them all up.
Once you master chopsticks, you’ll realize it’s far superior to utensils. It’s like an extension of your fingers.
Sporks are literally the worst qualities of both the fork and spoon. Nowhere near enough volume for soups and the prongs of the “fork” are completely fucking useless. I fucking hate sporks. I’d do much rather have a spoon on one end and a fork on the other if we’re trying to combine utensils.
Yep, unpopular opinion indeed
At the ren fair I had a friend commission the blacksmith to make a spork. We came back and it was just duel ended. Fork on one side. Spoon on the other.
It works really well.
I counter with the splayd. Fork + spoon + knife.
spoon & fork lobby strong
It’s not the best of both worlds, it’s a shitty version of each.
wrong. theres a reason they didnt catch on.
I got spork with a butterknife handle for camping. It is the next step in eating utensil evolution.
Sporks aren’t the best of both worlds. They are the worst of each.
Well, this is certainly unpopular. Why would you want the worst of both worlds?
Sporks are great when you need to pack light and minimal. Can’t eat a steak with a spork though. Soup with a spork is gonna get painful after a while. Here and there though they’re fine, I keep them in my lunch bag.
This is ridiculous. Sporks make terrible forks.
Why not a fork on on end and a spoon on the other?
Not with the way I eat pasta brah
But what about foons
thank God this is unpopular. sporks make for shitty spoons and shitty forks
The problem is that a spork is both a terrible spoon and a terrible fork, it does nothing well.
All the comments don’t seem to have read OP’s last paragraph. A better spork can (and should) be made. Current sporks suck. They’re not great at being either a spoon or a fork. But they could.
Better yet, get rid of knives too. Just have the spooforknif. (Actually I’m ok with knives. Just make a better spork.)
What I needed was a spife and a fork, not a spork and a knife
Just get some naan. No utensil needed.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Sporks are trash, they don’t really work as forks and they’re spoons that leak and stab you
The runcible spoon.
Definitely an unpopular opinion… Kudos
Try eating a salad with a spork
Every spork I’ve ever seen (including nice ones my college boyfriend bought as a laugh) was too small both as a spoon and a fork (the tines were way too short)
Sporks are literally better than nothing but the same as spoons at being spoons and worse as forks at being forks
Eat soup with a spork. Do it.
Spork: a shitty spoon and a shitty fork.
How often do you really need both a fork and a spoon at the same time? All a spork would do is make you use an inferior version of whichever part of the tool you need.
You can’t even really say you’d have less dishes, either. Because you’re still gonna eat the same amount of meals, so you still have to use the same amount of utensils. So you either have a ton of sporks, or have to wash your dishes more often so you don’t run out
It’s part spoon, part fork, and worse than either at their intended purpose. It doesn’t grip things like a fork or hold liquids like a spoon.
Sporks are like pull out futon couch/beds. They make a shitty couch and an uncomfortable bed.
Try eating noodles with a spork and get back to me
Sporks do not adequately perform the tasks of either spoons or forks. They’re bad spoons and mediocre forks. Their only valid function is to reduce the amount of plastic going I to those napkin/plasticware/salt/pepper packages that come with fast food.
Sounds like you’ve never heard of the Splayd… https://www.splayd.com.au/
If I go to a fancy steakhouse and get a spork I’m fighting someone.
A spork is the worst of both worlds. It’s it has 2 big slits in the front for all my liquid to fall out and the prongs aren’t long enough to get a proper stab on something. Sporks fucking suck actually
Bad fork. Wooden sporks are even badder forks. Try eating poutine with a wood spork and almost made me cry. The cafeteria only had these round tine terror sporks and wooden chop sticks and I’m using the chop sticks every time now. Never again.
Nahhh it doesn’t work the best for cereal.
Sporks are terrible. A friend from when I was a kid always had a metal spork in his lunch everyday and it was a fine spoon, and a terrible fork. It’s the design that just doesn’t work great, not just that most are shitty plastic
I”m not eating soup with a spork.
I’d never eat pasta with one. So the answer is no they shouldn’t have.
Honestly the Asian combo of big spoon and chopsticks kinda trumps everything else for me, I can scoop and grab whatever no problem. Forks and sporks aren’t super practical for a lot of stuff idk
An table manners? Or just shovel it in like an American?
high end every day sporks
I prefer the humble foon myself
Honestly I can’t even remember the last time I encountered a Spork.
I agree, but it seems like most people don’t- take my upvote
I challenge you to twist pasta onto a spork.
More like worst of both worlds
Sporks are what they give inmates, because they’re not good at doing much of anything
Holds up spork
This is the opinion of a manchild who can’t cook for themselves and only eats canned foods and TV dinners.
Imagine trying to eat a nice thick juicy steak or real spaghetti with a fucking spork.
When I was a kid, I used a file to turn an old metal spoon into a spork. I also sharpened one side of the spoon so it could cut stuff like a knife does. I called it a spife.
The only issue was that if you put it into your mouth you ended up cutting your lip open and you looked like one of the Joker’s victims!
Spend are the “fish and ski boat” of cutlery. The compromise of that it does neither thing well.
Youd think the peanut butter jelly combo jar would have ruined both the peanut butter AND jelly businesses too.
Sporks are terrible forks and half-capacity spoons. They suck out loud
Dumb
They’re shitty forks and shitty spoons. Hard to stab stuff because of the tiny prongs, can’t contain nearly as much liquid because of the holes between the prongs.
They never stood a chance.
bladed sporks tho
If you sharpen one edge of a spork, you can get shitty fork, spoon and knife all in one package.
Sporks are lesser than the sum of their parts. They’re a compromise for situations where it makes sense to minimize resource use. Far from ideal.
To be honest, the only food I think sporks are well-suited for are Famous Bowls from KFC
Forks have longer prongs which makes them
Better for cutting into a thick steak than a spork would be.
It could be taken even further by having one section of the spork be sharp, though it’d have to be carefully designed to not accidentally shred you mouth parts…
Me? I like a good soup spoon, which I will often use instead of anything else.
Sporks are useless as forks
You may be onto something OP. This is an untapped market. High end metal sporks with a little longer-narrower prongs than normal plastic sporks would be nice.
Sporks suck. Throw them all in the trash.
Naw, we must also have foons. Sporks are more spoon than fork, foons are more fork than spoon. You can eat soup with a foon, but not really with a spork.
A taco bell mexican pizza does not taste nearly as good nor that there are no sporks.
If they “should” then why haven’t they yet? Evidently cutlery that has worked perfectly well for hundreds of years still has its merits.
The old kfc spork wasn’t so bad I must say
It’s useless as a fork, so at best it’s a spoon you can stab yourself with.
Fork and spoon are complimentary utensils, each works better with the addition of the other. Combining them makes as much sense as combining a fork and a knife.
By meaning a spork fails at both things, you can’t eat a steak with a spork and i don’t wanna eat soup with a thing draining liquid off the end.
iPads are larger than phones but smaller than computers, and have computing power in between the two. Computers and cell phones should be obsolete, can anyone point out 1 reason why they are not?
It’s literally the worst of both worlds lol.
Chopsticks argument:
They aren’t an end all, be all tool, but they do have situations where they shine. I use them to eat snacks when playing cards. You can’t eat chips with a fork and I don’t want dorito dust on my fingers.
Eat cereal or soup with a spork and report back on this brilliant thesis
I’m with you lol, I bought golden sporks for my utensils and haven’t had any problems
Tins are too short. Nothing stays on them. Sporks are useless.
Fight me IRL!
Try to eat spaghetti with a spork 🤣
It’s the worst of both worlds, it’s a spoon with holes at the end and a fork with a wide fat body and short little tines they can’t stab anything