• Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    Exactly, and it’s easier to build a wooden spoon than a wooden fork. It was invented much earlier

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      24 hours ago

      Was it really? I would have just thought a tree branch that split in 2 would be considered the first forks. Like the thing you would use to hold a hotdog over the fire.

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        20 hours ago

        In that case maybe the single chopstick was the first utensil…? I feel like a two-pronged stick would be ridiculed at first, much the way heliocentrism was. Imagine being the Copernicus of stick technology, lol