If there’s one downside to a summer spent relaxing at garden parties and backyard barbecues, it’s having to dine with disposable plastic cutlery. It’s flimsy and it’s awkward—and thanks to designer ...

Table utensils are, above all, cultural objects, carrying with them a view of what food is and how we should conduct ourselves in relation to it. And then there are sporks. The term “spork” is first ...

Nothing turns a lengthy hike or springtime camp trip into a slog faster than overpacking. The solution to combatting an overstuffed backpack is ultralight camping gear—and I’m not talking about an ...

The sporf is an unsolvable design problem. Think about it: It’s a tool with three jobs—it's a fork, a spoon and a knife—but isn't equipped to do any of them well. The utensil was pretty much born to ...

A final spork will be tossed unceremoniously into the trash in a New York City school cafeteria sometime next year, ending the 30-year reign of the flimsy plastic fork-spoon combo in the nation’s ...

‘Mom,” said my son, poking through our cutlery drawer. “Where are the sporks? ” It was like being stabbed through the heart with a three-tined plastic spoon. Sporks in my home? Where does he think we ...

Turns out more than just humans were engaging in free love during the ’60s; our table utensils were too. In the late ’60s, plastic sporks were born–the love child of a fork and a spoon. A spork is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lastest plastic hero to join the “Toy Story” franchise is Forky, a disposable spork who has some serious qualms about being a ...