Let’s face it, sometimes there is a need to launch your lunch or defend your dinner, and this is the perfect utensil to do it with. It’s easy to use; simply load up a particularly mushy pea or corn niblet, aim, pull back the spring-loaded handle and watch your food take flight.
http://www.spoonsisters.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=42832&Category_Code=1023000&Product_Count=37 -via Everlasting Blort
These are probably made in SE Asia.
Spoken like an american.
I can't imagine what people in developing nations must think when they see Westerners wasting food like this. It would make me want to cry... especially if I'd just scraped the last bits of half-spoiled grain together for my children's one daily meal.
here's my stink..
1: can it actually be used as a normal utensil or does the neck wibble-wobble back and forth with no support in which to actually EAT food?
2: did someone have so much trouble flinging food from a NORMAL spoon that they needed to put a spring on it?
3: so, you give your child a spring loaded spoon after telling him/her not to fling food in the first place? i mean, assuming you're doing your job as a parent and are enforcing certain rules (table manners, for instance), I find this to be a complete contradiction.
4: what a waste of materials.. and stop playing with your food for f*ck sakes.