• I want one! :D ...but I just taught myself to eat pasta with chopsticks! Oh, the dilemma.

• O.o wow another useless thing my country invented. I'm swear we are running out of ideas if we modify a fork. =.=|| its a damn fork its fine as it is...

• I agree! I see a lot of bloody lips from this stupid thing! It will never clear customs.

• Problem is, this thing leaves us lefties in the dark. That's clearly a right-handed pasta fork.

• A little insight: When Japanese folks - and most other Asians, actually - eat noodles, they slurp. To us, it's like the only way to eat. So when they hear that Westerners consider slurping rude and that they eat pasta with the twirling-fork-and-spoon technique, the Japanese feel that this is a thing. This pfork appears to be a response to that. "Fine, we'll do it your way - but we'll also make it OUR WAY!"

• I like it. I find it unnecessary, but I like it.

• Whatever. When they figure out how to do that with chopsticks, come talk to me.

• The key word is CHINDOGU. They are inventions that are good for shit. Look it up.

• The Japanese are just pissed that I invented a chopstick with tines.

• I'm pretty sure I've seen dedicated, special pasta forks before.... And on the subject of new and pointless utensils, the Knork, a knife/fork hybrid. Currently being given away with microwave pizza, it takes a supreme act of willpower not to just descend into bad jokes, so we haven't been able to decide if there's any use for it yet.

• I wouldn't say that the spork is a completely new utensil so much as it's the evolved form of the grapefruit spoon.

• It's actually...kinda neat. I'd buy one just for the novelty if nothing else.

• Where has this fork been all my life? Now they must make a version with super-wide prongs for udon noodles!

• Blasphemy! This is absolute blasphemy! I'm not really sure why but it just is! Besides I have worked with japanese folk who use forks to eat ramen and instead of being troubled with twirling they just slurp em up. therefore making this device obsolete.

• Not cool man, not cool. besides I'm digging my theory on forks.

• Next from Japan; the Gundam themed Beam Knife

• For all we know, this is their first foray into fork making. Just be careful, I hear it automatically accelerates.

• And have you noticed the instructions on the side? It seems really complicated!!! Whenever has a fork needed instructions! I vote to keep the simpler "fork twirling around a spoon" method! I feel dumb watching that picture... >.<

• Also, I'm not sure if there's one in Japan (probably) but in Taiwan there's a shit themed restaurant where you eat things that look like turds out of little novelty toilet bowls. That would be a great 'Super "Terrific" (I use that in the loosest of terms) Asian Thing' anyway. If it hasn't already been featured.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork Oh Wikipedia...how I love you.

• ahaha agreed. This is coming from the same country to invent a helmet with a roll of toilet paper on top of it in case you need to blow your nose whilst out and about town. What can I say, inventing useless redundant shit is a hobby I guess.

• so I'm not the only one

• I'm not 100% sure why....but the idea of a Spock/fork seems fantastic. and well logical..

• on how earth would a fork, spoon for knife just kind of exist? okay this will be my thoughts on utensils... Out in the woods people [myself] have stabbed a hotdog/marshmellow with a stick to cook then eat of it...people figure "hey we can use two to hold the food, therefore limit the vicious food stabbing. but not everyone has such an easy time with these things, multi-pronged food stabbers [fork exists], spoons, tiny bowls with handles, maybe because bowls with with hot shit keep spilling, so if a spill a tiny spoonful of something hot. It wouldn't burn nearly as much, plus wouldn't have wasted an entire bowl of food. I thought about that way to much... Personally, I stab myself in the mouth with forks far to often. I also do the fork+spoon combo for pasta.

• It looks like a cursed monkey paw. I totally want one. I'd eat pasta AND doom myself with backfiring wishes. Neat!

• This was my thought exactly. Why are we taking fork advice from people that use 2 sticks to eat their food? I mean that in the nicest possible way... Perhaps the next generation of Japanese are so assimilated into Western culture that they've lost their ability to use chopsticks... so they're looking for ways to "improve" the new utensils they found on our dinner tables...

• This is awesome! P.S. Happy birthday, Rob!

• pfork ... 'puh-fork' hell, call it a pork

• Yes. If the Spork is god, this utensil is worthy of our adoration as well. They already make spork chopsticks and sporks with knifes. If they could combine all those utensil into one, with this new utensil, it would be the Voltron of utensils and would rule the universe unchallenged.

• Umm... I didn't think anyone actually created the fork, spoon or knife. I figured they were always 'just there'. So, how do you the thought process of the first fork users? I am intrigued. Seriously, I have actually wondered 'when was the fork and spoon created? who created these indispensable instruments?' And it appears someone may finally have my answer.

• Yes. If the Spork is god, this utensil is worthy of our adoration as well. They already make spork chopsticks and sporks with knifes. If they could combine all those utensil into one, with this new utensil, it would be the Voltron of utensils and would rule the universe unchallenged.

• I thought the issue of the Spork was settled. There is even a church of the Spork. Sporks are not only accepted, but deified. I, for one, welcome our new spoon/fork overlords...

• i have to have one. i dont know why, but i do.

• I'd actually be curious to try it out. The comment about 'wouldn't people stab themselves?' is particularly hilarious, in that this is exactly what people thought when the fork itself first began to be implemented as a direct-to-mouth utensil. Clearly it hasn't been much of an issue.

• And just imagine the other things it can do. Reaches high ceilings. Wipes away dirt and grime instantly. Leaves you 10 lbs. lighter in only 7 days. Balances your taxes.

• LMAO!! Yes! with the voice-over "does this happen to you when you eat spaghetti? Tired of all that waste and the mess?"... ad naseum...

• I can't wait to see the infomercial for these, all those gray-world people getting frustrated by their spaghetti, throwing whole plates away in despair.

• "Pasta fork" sounds kinda unwieldy. How bout "ffork"? Same way we can tell the diff between Luke and Luuke.

• I like how the spaghetti in the illustration is wound tightly around the tongs, like the "thumb" will make it wind tighter.

• I'm scared because I can totally see a need for this. >.<

• and when you're not eating pasta it doubles as a bottle cap opener...

• it looks like you could hurt yourself with this if your not carful

• Er, this seems pointless. Who has such trouble eating pasta with a fork, v1.0, that they need a special utensil?

• I swear that thing is modeled after a demon's hand in some manga or other...

• Sporks rule. There, that's settled!

• This from a country that uses Chop-sticks!

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