Spoon

A spoon is a common eating utensil, or item of cutlery, like a small spade, that occurs in a number of sizes and forms and is also suitable for liquid food and for stirring, and can have a number of other uses, including: courtship, combat and musical entertainment, strangely enough.

Spoon types

• Dessert spoon - between tablespoon and teaspoon in size
• Egg spoon - used for hens' eggs; smaller than a teaspoon
• Ladle - spoon with a long handle attached vertically; for liquids
• Love spoon - a carved wooden spoon given as a token of betrothal
• Musical spoons - because they are played in pairs
• Runcible spoon - invented by Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat, but later given a real meaning
• Serving spoon
• Silver spoon - a small spoon given to a newborn child to ensure good fortune; used as a metaphor for someone born to riches
• Slotted spoon
• Soup spoon - different types:
  • metal soup spoon similar in shape to a teaspoon
  • Chinese soup spoon - usually made from ceramic and of a distinct Chinese soup spoon shape
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon
• Wooden spoon - sometimes given symbolically as a compensation for losing a competition

Spoon Quotes

• "Spoon!!!" - Battle cry of The Tick, The Tick
• From the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
  • "I'll cut out his heart with a spoon..." -Sherriff of Nottingham
  • "Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?" -Guy of Gisbourne
  • "Because it will hurt more, you idiot!" -Sherriff
• "We found this spoon sir." -Sergeant, The Life of Brian
• "And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon" - "Cats in the Cradle", performed by Harry Chapin and Ugly Kid Joe
• "There is no spoon." -Bald Kid, The Matrix
• "There is no spoon?" -Neo, The Matrix
• "A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon" -Motorhead, Stone Dead Forever
• "Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?" -Algy Longworth, Bulldog Drummond
• "That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass." -Red, The Shawshank Redemption
• "They'll east their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon." -The Beach Boys, "Catch A Wave"
• "They came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon" The Beatles
• Spoon = Sporadic Purveyor of Obscure kNowledge
• "And the dish ran away with the spoon." - from a nursery rhyme

See also food, knife, fork, tablespoon, spork, Spoonerism, Spoon (band)