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Like a spork, only instead of spoon+fork it's straw+chopstick. "Stropstick"? "Chopstraw"? Surely it's baked somewhere, but I can't find it.
I guess the notion of dipping your dirty chopstick in your drink is a little disgusting, but it's not so bad if you imagine putting the dirty end in your
mouth and the clean end in the drink. (Why?)
If nothing else, you could use it to eat soup with chopsticks; chopstick the solid bits, suck up the liquid bits. It might be good for those wacky drinks with tapioca balls in them, too. Or Orbitz.
Subsequent Patent
http://www.wipo.int...104920&DISPLAY=DESC
Patented in 2005 [csea, Jan 05 2008]
Invalids produced by USA, a USA count.
http://www.ted.com/...hp/talks/view/id/82
<promises to climb off high horse> The talk is good, although a bit self-masturbatory. [4whom, Jan 05 2008]
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quite a wide bore and you could suck up all your food like this. sausages might prove more difficult. |
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I was half way there with that thought, I took the chopstick out of my mouth and dropped a splodge of curry down my dress |
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How about semi-rigid, hollow chopsticks (with a pin hole at the food end) filled with your favorite oriental sauce? Grab a bit of chicken with the chopsticks, give a little squeeze and put a dab of duck sauce on the bite. |
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I'll leave this for you to post as a separate idea [egnor], since the only way I can figure to use your hollow chopsticks is for an after dinner pea-shooter fight. |
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This might work for spaghetti, too. |
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You don't want to eat soup through a straw; it'll
be too hot when it arrives in your mouth, much hotter than soup delivered spoon-to-mouth. |
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I could see a use not as both, but as either; for when you simply don't know in advance whether you'll need drink or food utensils. I have used thin straws as chopsticks, in a pinch. (Next: How to make a whisk out of cable ties.) |
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You could put tiny things like kitchen sink garbage disposals at the bottom of the straw-chopsticks, so they can crush down any food till it's small enough to be sucked up. |
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A combination chopstick/straw/dremel? |
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Had this idea last night in what I thought was a flash of genius. Super noodle bun [+]. Best way to eat noodles and soup. |
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This would be great for picking up those last few grains of rice with chopsticks. |
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The ChopStraws should be made from cast iron or aluminium and have cooling fins, so that the burning hot soup dissipates some of its heat by the time it reaches your mouth. |
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//This would be great for picking up those last few grains of rice with chopsticks// And shooting them at your little sister... |
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Seems someone bothered to patent this in 2005 [link]. Could probably be invalidated in the USA. |
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Skinny knives work as chopsticks, in a pinch. Sadly, I always end up cutting all the noodles. |
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