I have a kitchen drawer full of forks and spoons made of stainless steel. Are you telling me that because they're all just the same stainless steel, then the spoons are also forks and the forks are also spoons?
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@McBell said. I would call them utensils (in this case utensils for eating, but there are other utensils as well). Other eating utensils include chop sticks, fingers, skewers, tongs, toothpicks, cocktail sticks, drinking straws. Your forks and spoons can also be made of silver, gold, plastic or wood. Are they still utensils?
And if you were sophisticated enough, you'd never imagine your forks and spoons to be nearly enough! You'd need varieties of them to eat properly:
- Butter knife
- Cake fork
- Soup spoon
- Crab cracker
- Crab fork
- Fish knife
- Fondue fork
- Grapefruit knife
- Grapefruit spoon
- Lobster pick
- Snail tongs and forks
- Nutcracker
- Ice cream scoop
- Tongs for:
- Honey dipper
- Meat claws (used to shred barbecue meats such as brisket)
And just as there are all sorts of varieties of utensils, as I've shown, so there are varieties of animals, like clams and fish and squirrels and bears and marmosets and porpoises and humans.