When did people start using utensils?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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People around the world eat with a variety of utensils like forks, chopsticks, and sporks. But what did people do before silverware was invented? We asked human evolution expert Briana Pobiner from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:09.6	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Joy Dolo.
0:15.3	Um.
0:17.2	You might know me as the host of the Forever Go History podcast, but I'm also a world champion macaroni and cheese eater.
0:25.5	I was just about to dig into a big bowl of it, but I can't find my favorite fork.
0:31.0	It's exactly the right size and weight.
0:33.5	It has a cheerful yellow handle, and I swear it makes food taste better.
0:38.5	Oh, where is it?
0:42.4	I really should organize my utensil drawer.
0:45.7	It's all jumbled up and also full of ketchup packets and chopsticks.
0:49.9	And what is this?
0:51.8	A rubber ducky?
0:55.5	What's the best way to organize silverware? What is this? A rubber duckie? Hmm.
0:58.5	What's the best way to organize silverware?
0:59.7	Alphabetically?
1:00.8	No.
1:04.8	Then forks would be between chopsticks and knives and not next to the spoons.
1:06.3	That feels weird.
1:13.0	And I can't go by size because then the little sugar spoons would get lonely way on the end by themselves.
1:14.0	Hmm.
1:16.4	Oh, I know.
1:17.9	Chronologically.
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