I tried eating a salad today with a spoon. It wasn’t a very satisfying experience. I suspect for some asian food eaters using a fork may bring about the same feeling. I also suspect that there is a very long german word that perfectly encapsulates this incongruity.
The salad was yummy. I picked it up from Corner Bakery Cafe** I ordered the chopped salad which is really chopped up well which got me thinking why bother with the fork, let’s just put it in a bowl and spoon it today. So that’s what I did. I ate my salad with a spoon.
I missed the hunt and peck and crunch exhilaration I typically get from a salad eating experience. I missed the sound of God’s succulent vegetable bounty being pierced with a sharp metal object. I missed the feel of the gentle resistance chicken will give before being impaled with the four prongs of my fork.
Instead, I found myself scooping and shoveling. I will not do this again for it was an errant path.
** sorry for lame flash link
Rob lives and works in the town of Jackson, MS where he leads the interactive department at an awesome advertising and branding agency. Life is slower than most places in Mississippi, and Rob tends to like it that way. Some of his favorite life experiences include sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a 44ft sloop, learning to speak Swahili while living along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and zipping along the curviest of Mississippi country roads in his VW Rabbit.