The Weird History of Forks and More

History of Everything

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Eating utensils have been used since the Stone Age of mankind. During this time, eating utensils consisted of simple sharp stones intended for cutting meat and fruit. The Neolithic times brought the rise of technology that improved tools that were needed for production, preparation and eating of food. Some eating utensils were created and first used by our Paleolithic ancestors over 500,000 years ago, while others were introduced only short 1000 years ago during European Middle Ages. Travel to Turkey and Mongolia with me here Check out our sister podcast the Mystery of Everything Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge COFFEE Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Picture a hash brown.
0:07.4	Yep.
0:08.4	There it is.
0:10.2	Right there.
0:11.6	Would you look at that?
0:13.3	A golden oval of crispy deliciousness.
0:16.4	From where?
0:17.5	Well, you already know.
0:20.3	Breakfast, done properly. Serve them till 11am. The Hello, my friends, Takui here, and welcome back to the History of Everything podcast.
1:07.5	Hello, my friends. If you hear anything that is going on here in the background, I apologize.
1:11.4	There are several things. Any little coughs that you hear are actually, this time, not coming from
1:16.4	me. They're coming from my six-year-old daughter, who is currently sick upstairs. And then on top
1:21.8	of that, my wife, who is in the back, the reason that she is not actually here with this episode,
1:26.2	is that she herself has a
1:27.9	persistent cough that has not gone away. And it is something that, unfortunately, we cannot do here
1:32.4	for recording. So even though I wrote this entire thing, specifically in order to be able to talk about
1:37.0	the different eating utensils and whatnot with her, I mean, it's basically going to be me telling
1:41.9	you all this story of something that I find absolutely fascinating. Which, yeah, I know from the very beginning, it's basically going to be me telling you all this story of something that I find absolutely fascinating.
1:46.7	Which, yeah, I know from the very beginning, it's going to sound like an odd way to begin an episode,
1:51.1	but essentially there are many basic, everyday objects that are super important.
1:56.9	But unfortunately, the reality is that the majority of people don't really care about the origin of them.
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