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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to food Stuff. I'm Annie Reeese and

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Speaker 1: I'm Lauren back Obam and today we're talking about sports. Yep,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a funny story how we came to

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Speaker 1: decide on this as a topic. I was running in

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Speaker 1: the morning, as I often do, and I've had the

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Speaker 1: song Sugar Sugar stuck in my head for weeks because

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Speaker 1: of the related to the Sugar episode Sugar and Honey.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Oh no, I got it. I got

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Speaker 1: it in my head last week when we were talking

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Speaker 1: about Honey and I couldn't get it out on my run.

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Speaker 1: So I was desperately like thinking, what is something something

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Speaker 1: else we could talk about or anything else, and my

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Speaker 1: mind desperately cast upon the sport And then when I

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Speaker 1: brought it up, it's like a potential episode or and

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Speaker 1: I did a quick Google search and we found a

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Speaker 1: Salon article with the headline quote the history of the

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Speaker 1: Humble Spoon Fork includes shocking racism and sexism, and a

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Speaker 1: funny Bill Clinton cameo. So that was it. We were

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Speaker 1: just like, well, then we have to do this now,

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Speaker 1: there's no turning back. No, no, we hope, we hope

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Speaker 1: that you understand and in case you haven't seen one

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Speaker 1: of these crazy looking things. It's an eating utensil purportedly

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Speaker 1: at the combination of a spoon and a fork another portmanteau. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's basically a spoon with tiny little prongs on the end. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I usually think of the plastic kind that comes

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Speaker 1: with fast food, and I'm I don't. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen one, not that um, I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: one like in the wild. But but if you really

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Speaker 1: need to have like a long lasting, sturdy sport, you

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Speaker 1: can definitely get titanium ones. They're apparently popular with campers.

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I can see that. I can only hope

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Speaker 1: it would be slightly more functional fingers crossed. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: apparently foon fo n is also a thing, and if

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Speaker 1: you throw a knife in there too, it becomes a splade,

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Speaker 1: sometimes called a sport. Oh. I wish I had the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to use that word more often. Um, you've also

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Speaker 1: got a spife, which is a spoon knife hybrid designated

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Speaker 1: for eating kiwi in particular, or a nork a knife fork. Um.

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Speaker 1: And these combination of tools are often called joined tools.

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Speaker 1: And as you can probably tell from our tone, if

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Speaker 1: not your own, personal experience. Yes, the spork is a

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Speaker 1: bit of a joke in the culinary world. Um, since

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Speaker 1: the bowls too shallow to hold much liquid and the

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Speaker 1: prongs are too short spear anything and any liquid that

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Speaker 1: you do get in the shallow bowl is just going

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Speaker 1: to dribble out from it between You've got to have delicate, yes,

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Speaker 1: very careful. Um. So it's pretty useless. Yeah, but that,

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Speaker 1: of course didn't stop it from developing a occult following.

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Speaker 1: In fact, according to spork dot org yep um, their

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Speaker 1: uselessness is a metaphor for human nature. All yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: Quote a spork is a perfect metaphor for human existence.

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Speaker 1: It tries to function as both spoon and fork, and

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Speaker 1: because of this dual nature, it fails miserably at both.

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Speaker 1: You cannot have soup with a spork. It is far

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Speaker 1: too shallow. You cannot eat meat with a spork, the

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Speaker 1: prongs are too small. There are a lot of websites

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Speaker 1: that have been dead catered to it over the years,

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Speaker 1: and and haiku written in their honor um. One that

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Speaker 1: was featured in that Salon article goes the sport true beauty,

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Speaker 1: the times the bowl the long stem life is now

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Speaker 1: complete man, you just heard a hik about us. For

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Speaker 1: I think about that for a second. Um, And you

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Speaker 1: can make things out of them like for example, this

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Speaker 1: was another example featured in the Salon article the leaning

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Speaker 1: tower of sport or Batman featured in a house Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works article. By bending down the two middle times, um.

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Speaker 1: For for the sports super fan, you can drop two

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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars on a hand carved wooden spork pendant

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Speaker 1: on Etsy. How many sports super fans do you think

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Speaker 1: than one sport pendant available from more than one seller,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know. Well, all right, more power to you.

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Speaker 1: Today sports are commonly used on airlines, fast food chains, schools,

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Speaker 1: the military, like Lauren said, by campers, and in prisons

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Speaker 1: since it's tricky to make a shift out of a sport,

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Speaker 1: and they are specifically designed sports with shorter times for prisons.

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Speaker 1: But in two thousand and eight, an Alaskan man was

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Speaker 1: parallel scratches. Just pretty impressive. Oh, I'm sorry that I'm

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Speaker 1: laughing about someone getting attacked. It's not funny, that's not

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Speaker 1: that's not good. But the sport is I would have

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Speaker 1: we do. And the history of the spork is longer

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Speaker 1: first time in nineteen o nine in a supplement. I

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to actually track that down, like everyone

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Speaker 1: the things. So so it's a possibility that the word

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Speaker 1: spork was floating around in nineteen nine. Definitely a possibility

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Speaker 1: for sure. The word spork, the name spork was not

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Speaker 1: trademarked in the United States until nineteen seventy. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: history of the sport is kind of backwards. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: goes way back, though, it does, all the way back

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Speaker 1: to the late medieval times. There was a utensil that

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Speaker 1: was a combo of the fork and spoon, But in

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Speaker 1: the early stages of spork evolution, the spoon was at

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Speaker 1: other um, which probably was more useful and also kind

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Speaker 1: of what the sport has become now. Interestingly, Yeah, these

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Speaker 1: these may have been used for eating candied fruits and

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Speaker 1: syrup um, and and they're called suckets. Of course they are.

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Speaker 1: That's almost as ridiculous as sport. People of eighteen hundreds

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Speaker 1: might use a sport like terrapin forks for eating turtles

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Speaker 1: which had longer prongs, or ice cream forks which were

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Speaker 1: very ornate, kind of beautiful spoon fork combinations with three

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Speaker 1: prongs for eating, as you could guess, probably from from

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Speaker 1: the name, yes, probably. Edward Lear's seventy one poem The

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Speaker 1: Owl and the pussy Cat makes a mention of a

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Speaker 1: potentially sport like thing called run stable spoon. However, a

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Speaker 1: later illustration that he provided in in the perhaps lesser

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Speaker 1: known work twenty six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures portrays the

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Speaker 1: rencible spoon is more something like a like a ladle um. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: lots of dictionaries do define the runstable spoon as being

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Speaker 1: something like a sport. To be fair, Leir totally made

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Speaker 1: the title kind of implies there might be some some

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Speaker 1: nonsense in there. Speaking of ridiculous, our next bit of

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Speaker 1: spork history involves a really wacky inventor, dude. Um, But

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Speaker 1: but first, let's take a quick break for a word

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor, and we're back, Thank you sponsor. In

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Speaker 1: February of eighty four, Samuel W. Samuel W. Francis filed

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Speaker 1: a patent for a hybrid spoon and fork and a

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Speaker 1: knife like edge, but not a sharp knife. Were like

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Speaker 1: a better knife, but we don't really know if it

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Speaker 1: was ever produced on a larger scale. Yeah, this thing

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Speaker 1: looks incredibly even more ridiculous than the modern sport. The

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Speaker 1: so I hope it was dull certainly too. You'd have

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Speaker 1: to eat just real carefully with it. I don't maybe,

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Speaker 1: Maybe am I just some kind of terrible monster for

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Speaker 1: Is that a thing that humans don't do? I I

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Speaker 1: don't know. But by the way, though, this dude was great.

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Speaker 1: Um he was. He was this high society guy who

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Speaker 1: probably never moved his UM. I guess it would technically

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Speaker 1: production because he was busy like founding groups in Newport,

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Speaker 1: Rhode Island, including their Natural History Society, their Society for

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Speaker 1: the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and what would eventually

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Speaker 1: become their Board of Health. Oh, also writing a few

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Speaker 1: Anyway back to sports, right, George Alaramie entered the sport

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Speaker 1: ring with his nineteen o seven patent of a table utensil.

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Speaker 1: Quote that kind of looks like a spoon with a

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Speaker 1: fork on the end. It's like a spoon, a complete

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Speaker 1: spoon and then a fork. Oh yeah, uh. And I

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Speaker 1: lot actually like Samuel Francis's patent. Oh I did. I

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Speaker 1: had no idea there'd be so many different words for

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Speaker 1: different versions of sports. It's great. Australian William MacArthur debut

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Speaker 1: can blame a girl for improvising. Back to Dislade, over

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Speaker 1: five million have been sold, and apparently he got the

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Speaker 1: to balance all their utensils and plates that's what made

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Speaker 1: General Douglas MacArthur. So supposedly but not really at all.

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Speaker 1: MacArthur invented the sport during the nineteen forties occupation of Japan,

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Speaker 1: rose up in MacArthur's eyes anyway, and chopsticks quote too barbaric. Um. Yeah,

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