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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 35689, member: 29"]Well, I know what it is, anyhow. Those were and are used for silver service. If you can't learn the trick of using two separate spoons, you use one of those. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the PAT PEND refers to the whole shape of the thing, rather than jsut the mechanism. </p><p><br /></p><p>Spinach server is absurd. ANY cook who sent out spinach so soggy as to need squidging by the waiter would be shot. </p><p><br /></p><p>And Nathaniel Smith, my &(^! . That's from no earlier than the 30s, I suspect. 1930s. More probably post WW2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 35689, member: 29"]Well, I know what it is, anyhow. Those were and are used for silver service. If you can't learn the trick of using two separate spoons, you use one of those. I suspect the PAT PEND refers to the whole shape of the thing, rather than jsut the mechanism. Spinach server is absurd. ANY cook who sent out spinach so soggy as to need squidging by the waiter would be shot. And Nathaniel Smith, my &(^! . That's from no earlier than the 30s, I suspect. 1930s. More probably post WW2.[/QUOTE]
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