Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road

[venta]

Can anyone tell me what they consider to be the defining characteristic (if any) of a fish fork ?

Incidentally, I too can use google. I want to know what you, yourself, with your own mind think constitutes a fish fork.

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Nope.

In my parents house, there are some strange brown, translucent plastic spoons which I believe were actually Mothercare's best baby-feeding equipment at a time when I merited such things. They now, on account of their tolerance for EPNS-rotting vinegar, get used for pickles.

For as long as I can remember I have been firmly convinced that that is what was meant by a runcible spoon.

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Feel free to be as convince - and wrong - as you like.

While in defiance of its origins, a runcible spoon does in fact have three broad tines, one of which (an outside one, one presumes) has a slightly sharpened edge.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

We had a similar tradition: only it was a fluted silver spoon with an almost-circular bowl, whose origins were lost in the midst of time, that to us defined runcibility.

On which subject, what makes a runcible hat, as allegedly worn by Lear himself?