List of eating utensils

In Western cultures, cutlery items such as knives and forks are the traditional norm, while in much of the East, chopsticks are more common.

In some cultures, such as Ethiopian and Indian, hands alone are used or bread takes the place of non-edible utensils.

In others, such as Japanese and Chinese, where bowls of food are more often raised to the mouth, little modification from the basic pair of chopsticks and a spoon has taken place.

For instance, some single-serve ice cream is sold with a flat wooden spade, often erroneously called a "spoon", to lift the product to one's mouth.

Prepackaged tuna salad or cracker snacks may contain a flat plastic spade for similar purposes.