Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Grapefruit spoon with built-in cocktail umbrella from 1933
In 1933, Modern Mechanics magazine proposed to end the "grapefruit wars" with a spoon that had a cocktail-umbrella-like shield to protect one's eyes from errant squirts:
LinkAT LAST the grapefruit has heen conquered. The weapon employed in the conquest is an "umbrella spoon" shown at left, which automatically opens into a large shield when you gouge down into the meat of the fruit. When you raise the spoon to your mouth the shield closes.
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