What came first? the spoon or the shovel?

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Which idea came first? For someone carve a stick into something to scoop soup/broth into your mouth. Or to build a tool to shovel dirt/ debris out from the ground.

Spoon 2
Shovel 7
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  • [Old Memory]
    3 years ago

    I bet the shovel, since digging probably would have been needed before fine dining

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    • LloydAsher
      3 years ago

      How long would it take to make a spoon vs a shovel? Spoons just seem so easy to make vs a shovel.

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      • [Old Memory]
        3 years ago

        I mean what do you think a caveman is gonna need first, something to move dirt around or something to eat out of a bowl with? Even a stick in the ground would constitute a shovel if we define shovel as something that's stuck in the ground to remove dirt

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      • Wryladradofft
        3 years ago

        Yeah but a spoon is less necessary than a shovel. When people wanted to eat soup they would just drink it directly from the bowl.

        If anything, spoons needlessly complicate the task of eating

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    3 years ago

    I'm pretty sure it was the shovel.

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  • Mammal-lover
    3 years ago

    Shovel. People ate with hands before modern eating etiquette became a thing

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  • Somenormie
    3 years ago

    Well duh its the spoon, no wait I lied it is the shovel.

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