Tonka-esque truck-cutlery

Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 9, 2007 5:42 AM | permalink

~~Tonka~~ Constructive Eating makes a set of toddler cutlery for your little steam-shovel obsessive -- really, who wouldn't want to eat with these? Link (Thanks, Alice!)

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#1 posted by Flying Squid

, October 9, 2007 5:51 AM

I get the two on the right, but is the Bulldozer just there to piss parents off by giving the kids an easy way to push food they don't like off their plates?

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#2 posted by Mitch , October 9, 2007 5:59 AM

I like the bulldozer. There should be an adult
version for holding a pile of peas still to
help get them onto a spoon or fork.

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#3 posted by Flying Squid

, October 9, 2007 6:25 AM

That's what the knife is for, Mitch.

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#4 posted by Matt Deckard , October 9, 2007 6:29 AM

Looking at the site, it doesn't look like these are actually made by Tonka.

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#5 posted by Steve Zembek

, October 9, 2007 6:29 AM

I just wish they still made the metal tonka trucks. They're all plastic now! I'll have to scour eBay when it's time to get my kids toys like that.

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#6 posted by codepope , October 9, 2007 6:36 AM

Matt, no, they aren't made by Tonka. They appear to be from ... gasp.... the company who's name is on the box.... who wouldathoughtit....

Link to the company - https://www.shop.constructiveeating.com/displayProductDocument.hg?productId=1&categoryId=1

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#7 posted by cognoMom

, October 9, 2007 7:14 AM

My boys 6.5 and 18 months would love these... I wonder what the actual size of the of the fork... they kinda look big... i can see my son bulldozing threw his mash potatoes now... and adding the peas...

Laura
www.cogno.com/blog

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#8 posted by Cpt. Tim , October 9, 2007 8:27 AM

pssh. the spoon should obviously be a cargo plane.

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#9 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, October 9, 2007 9:43 AM

Right, Tim. Encourage kids to drop food from heights.

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#10 posted by Cpt. Tim , October 9, 2007 10:01 AM

its just a numbers game. the younger the kid, the probability the food is going to end up on the floor anyways approaches 1.

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#11 posted by paul

, October 9, 2007 12:00 PM

i'm not meaning to put you guys down, as boing boing is an awesome blog, and you don't often see many mistakes on here, but that's just bad journalism to just guess that they're made by tonka, when they are so clearly not.

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#12 posted by Tony Indindoli , October 9, 2007 2:14 PM

My son was suspicious of the Bulldozer too, and asked me what that was for. He wasn't ready to imagine playing with his food. Funny, that never bothered him before.

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#13 posted by Joel , October 9, 2007 10:20 PM

There should be a Ditch Witch-shaped knife.

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#14 posted by Anonymous , October 10, 2007 5:36 AM

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