Meet the Splayd, the spork's sharper Australian cousin

For 24 years, Suzanne McArthur sold an odd little utensil from Martha Washington's coffee shop in Sydney — a single piece of cutlery that could scoop soup, spear a prawn, and cut a piece of chicken. Her husband William had patented it in 1943 after seeing a magazine photo of women at a Roman buffet dinner, struggling to balance plates, glasses, and full sets of silverware on their knees. — Read the rest

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