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A spoon is a tiny bowl on a stick

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When faced with liquid food, our brilliant solution was to put a tiny, shallow dish on the end of a metal wand. The spoon is a highly inefficient but necessary transport tool, requiring dozens of repetitive trips just to move a single bowl of cereal into your face.

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