I have the plastic Light My Fire spork with a spoon on one end and a spork - its actually a slightly spoonish fork - on the other. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a spoon on one end and a REAL fork on the other?

I took it on our first backpacking trip with my son's Boy Scout troop, and was very proud of the ingenuity and weight savings.

First meal ... spaghetti ... sigh. The only way to eat spaghetti with a spork is to chop up all the noodles with the spoon side and then eat it like soup. So much for the spork. They should have molded the fork end with longer - more separated - tines, like a regular fork.

These days, considering how really low-weight the Lexan spoons and forks are ... I just take one of each.

Ken K.