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Calamete fork made for spaghetti twirling

Written by: Michael Keferl on October 21, 2008 at 1:16 pm | In Fashion & Lifestyle Trends |

Normally we don’t get so excited about cutlery (having long ceded authority to chopsticks), but there’s just something about the Calamete that has grabbed at us since we saw it at the Tokyo Gift Show this year. Sure, we can’t keep a different fork for every type of food, but why not for the popular ones?

calamete spaghetti fork 1

The design of Calamete is based on the human hand, with a “thumb” that sticks out to make perfect twirling without needing the spoon. While it’s difficult to fill a drawer with forks only for pasta night, this is an innovation that would work perfectly in plastic form as well, especially in Japan’s convenience store RTE meals.

calamete spaghetti fork 2

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Category: Fashion & Lifestyle Trends
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Pingback by Calamete Spaghetti Gabel | Totalblogal — October 21, 2008 #
Genius!

Comment by Bogie — October 21, 2008 #
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Uh, wouldn’t this easily poke the user in the lip? It looks potentially painful — but innovative & cute. It’d take a MAJOR low-cost promo to get me to try one — but I would.

Comment by sarah santitoro — October 23, 2008 #
You see, Italians do not use a spoon to twirl their pasta– that is an American (or Italian-American) invention. The way to eat your pasta in Italian “etiquette” and custom is with your fork well in hand and used in the agile way they taught you since you were a child. About this new gadget, Italians would certainly say “vai a fa’n..c…..!!”

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Another idiotic idea from japan. It’s not difficult to eat spaghetti with a regular fork, and never a spoon! Truly retarded.

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[...] Calamete fork made for spaghetti twirling CScout Japan Blog wrote “Normally we don’t get so excited about cutlery (having long ceded authority to chopsticks), but there’s just something about the Calamete that has grabbed at us since we saw it at the Tokyo Gift Show this year. Sure, we can’t keep a different fork for every type of food…” [...]

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Pingback by Calédosphère » Blog Archive » Nouveau: La fourchette à Spaghetti — October 27, 2008 #
very cool, I will be picking up a set of those for sure!

I am sure I could find them on Amazon lol

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Comment by Brian — October 28, 2008 #