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Is this a spoon or a spatchula?

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.orgD [email protected]

    The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

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    Spoonula

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      In swedish it's a slickepot, "lick-bowl", so neither spoon nor spatula (if I had to, I'd take spatula as they often are spatula shaped).

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      Same in Norway. Slikkepott. It goes in the bakery-stuff-drawer.

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        The metal things beneath it are spatulas. The red doohickey is a rubber scraper.

        If you wouldn't use it to flip a pancake, it's not a spatula.

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        Cooking shows call those thin metal things "turners". I've always called them spatulas.

        Etymology Online says spatula comes from Latin for "long flat blade".

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        • trinsec@piefed.socialT [email protected]

          We call it the 'pannenlikker' in Dutch. The Pan Licker, basically.

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          Awesome.

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          • starlinguk@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

            Absolutely. I mean, look at the swear words.

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            It's all diseases. If we hit our toe on a table, we wish it has cancer. Computer is being slow? Cancer. Colleagues making a mess of things? You guessed it, typhus, tuberculosis, cancer & aids.

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            • dbtng@eviltoast.orgD [email protected]

              The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

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              C'mon dude, that's a spatula.

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                We call it Gummihund in austria, which means rubber dog.

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                Yeah, breaker one-nine
                This here's the Rubber Dog/Duck

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                • khannie@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                  Must be. I'd call them an egg slice or fish slice like yourself. Spatula to me is silicone. Western Europe.

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                  Same, UK here.

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                    It's a spatchula.
                    you can scoop stuff with a spoon, good luck tryg with a dough scraper.

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                    My mom called them fish lifters.

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                      Spoonula

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                      Spatuloon.

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                      • dbtng@eviltoast.orgD [email protected]

                        The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

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                        I love you people.
                        I thought that would be a funny pic, but I don't think I expected so many fun terms from around the world.

                        TLDR ... Spatchula and its variants wins by far.
                        Got some good entries in the Creative category.
                        But, I'm going to go with Pan Licker from now on!

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                        The summary, as best I'm able. (Updated a couple times.)

                        Things I expected ...
                        yes - xx
                        spatchula - xxxxx
                        spoon - x
                        silicone spatula - xx
                        rubber spatchula - x
                        rubber scraper - x
                        dough scraper - x

                        Creative ...
                        spoonula - xxxxx (This is a real thing!?!?!)
                        spatuloon - xx
                        spoontula, cousin of the spork - x
                        microwaved ice cream spoon - x
                        Softspoon - x

                        Around the World ...
                        maryse - x
                        slickepot/lick-bowl - xx
                        Pannenlikker/Pan-Licker - xx
                        Gummihund/rubber-dog - x

                        ==========================

                        And then we got some surprise entries on the actual spatchulas behind the red thing.
                        These terms totally make sense, but they sound weird as hell to me!

                        turners
                        fish slices
                        egg slice or fish slice
                        fish lifters

                        ==========================

                        Weird Al had a thing to say about spatchulas.
                        He says I spell it wrong ...
                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUDwj_mXKE

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                        • dbtng@eviltoast.orgD [email protected]

                          The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

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                          It’s a spoonula!

                          They’re great for all sorts of things in the kitchen. The black ones, however, do not belong in the kitchen.
                          Not because of the black plastic controversy, but because if you’ve ever thwacked someone/something/yourself with a spoonula, you know that you need one in the bedroom, and if you only use black ones for that purpose, then you never ‘cross the streams.’ A … uh. friend introduced me to that rule over a decade ago, and now I bequeath that knowledge to you all.

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                            C'mon dude, that's a spatula.

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                            I thought this was a trick question or something.

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                              I thought this was a trick question or something.

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                              I'm gonna break one of my rules and explain my joke ...
                              Where I live, the things behind it are spatulas. And so is the red rubber thing. And they are clearly not the same.
                              ... So that's funny. Err ... well I think its funny. I'm not very funny.

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                              • dbtng@eviltoast.orgD [email protected]

                                I'm gonna break one of my rules and explain my joke ...
                                Where I live, the things behind it are spatulas. And so is the red rubber thing. And they are clearly not the same.
                                ... So that's funny. Err ... well I think its funny. I'm not very funny.

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                                Hah! Yeah, everything behind it is a spatula.

                                I'm not funny either. Got beat up for this post. Thought these people were nerds!

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