Monday, January 10, 2011

Questions about Alien Flatware

When the aliens invade and destroy our cities and enslave and/or eat our people, the first question on my mind will be, what kind of flatware do they use?

We are so used to our own cultural norm of eating tools that we may forget, when we sit down to dinner, that not everyone uses chopsticks. Some folks use odd implements like forks and spoons instead. And the things aliens use would be even weirder.

What kind of tools do YOUR favorite aliens eat with? Tongs, forceps, basket-rakes, needles, chainsaws? Or maybe they just use their fingers/tentacles.....




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3 comments:

Tracy Krauss said...

This is hilarious!it is a question I have honestly never pondered ... until now ...

Amanda Borenstadt said...

Super cool question!

I think they use very long wide swords. That's why their noses are so stubby and they have so many scars on their faces.

Nissa Annakindt said...

Amanda, you crack me up.....

I've been busy working on creating a language for a sci-fi novel and after coming up with a word that means 'eating utensil' and applies to chopsticks and forks equally, I wondered what my alien races eat with.

I decided the Bakoun eat with forceps and the Grappu eat with a miniature version of my favorite manure fork (which I call a basket-rake, though the Grappu term is alisc....)

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