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From the Vault: The Invention of the Spoon, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Puritans Spoons

The trifid spoon is a deep oval bowl spoon with a flat handle, distinctive cleft shape at the end. No british person had ever eaten from such a spoon before. By 16 80, they had spread through the entirety of charles's kingdom and remained the dominant spoon type for forty years. We're going against the puritan concepts of how we should interact with our food.

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