There are very few things in this life that will always be there for you. It may be one of your parents or siblings. Maybe for you it’s a cell phone or a best friend.

For me, it’s a spoon. 

Whenever I need to scoop something, I grab a spoon. If I want to eat cereal or soup, I grab a spoon. Even when I want to eat mac n cheese, I grab my spoon. The spoon is always there for me. 

You know who isn’t always there for me when I need them? The fork. 

The fork is easily the most overhyped piece of junk to ever grace this earth. Ever since the fork was invented, it has overshadowed the spoon, and I’m sick of it. 

What is the use of the fork? To stab things? I truly can’t name five things the fork can do for you that the spoon can’t do as well. 

The spoon moves gracefully and effortlessly scoops out any foods or liquids you may want to enjoy. It can even be used for measuring. 

Whenever I bring up my preference for the spoon, I often hear people ask things like “how are you going to eat steak with a spoon?” or “what about spaghetti?”  

To those people, I would like to say I could easily cut the steak with a knife and scoop it up with a spoon. I could also easily put my spoon in the spaghetti and twirl it around to pick it up.  

Second of all, how in the world are you going to eat cereal with a fork? Good luck eating soup with your big stabby fork. 

The fork is merely a role player in our lives. It stabs things, it picks them up, then we simply put it back down. A lot of times, when we use a fork, we have to cut the food we eat with a knife first anyway.  

Think about how that food got onto your plate or into your bowl. A lot of the time, you have to scoop it out with a bigger spoon. 

I hate the fork and everything it stands for. The fork isn’t the superstar everyone claims it is. It gets far more use than it has ever deserved. 

In my everyday life, I now find myself putting the fork down and picking up the spoon, even in the few cases where the fork may make more sense to use. 

The spoon was here first for a reason, and now, it’s time for us to put it first. 

Aaron Coffin can be reached at 581-2812 or at [email protected].