Word: spork
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...taco trucks (the name is Korean for meat), and you'll see him yelling in Spanglish, baseball hat askew, arms tatted up, hands flying like a rapper's. This is performance art, and people often wait in hour-long lines for the privilege of snarfing it down with a spork...
...question that has defied a straight answer since the Folgate Silver Plate Company of England manufactured this strange creature in the late 1800s: Is the spork a spoon...
Some approached the matter very simply: "No. If a spork were a spoon, we would just call sporks spoons and the word spork would be entirely foreign...
...others were less convinced. In a far more complex, teleological approach, some argued, "There is nothing a spoon can do that a spork cannot. Thus, a spork is a spoon." Indeed, "The spork is the love child of the spoon and the fork. It's like asking if a mule is a donkey." In fact, some stated, the spork is but a "damaged" spoon that has been "purposefully altered"—but still retains its inherent spoon-ness...
Frankly, we at FlyBy don't really care whether a spork is a spoon or not. As long as a utensil holds our food up and successfully carries it into our mouths, we won't really create a huge hoopla. But we do have one question: why aren't we discussing whether or not a spork is a fork...