"without spoon"

[Alice Faber]

Drew Danielson wrote:
>"James A. Landau" wrote:
>>
>>  This is a type of spoon, typically tablespoon-sized, with a few
>>holes cut in it so that you can dredge solid objects (e.g. ice
>>cubes, dumplings) out of liquid and let the liquid picked up by the
>>spoon drain out.
>>
>>  The only name I know for this implement is "without spoon".  I
>>heard this name from a woman born about 1945 and raised in the
>>Muskegon Michigan area.  She implied that "without spoon" was a
>>term used in her family, and did not know if it was a widely-used
>>term.
>>
>>       - James A. Landau
>>
>>  P.S.  This is the only usage I know of in which "without" is not a
>>preposition.
>
>
>How about 'slotted spoon'?

That's what came to my mind as well. I don't know whether that's a
term that my mother (and her mother before her) used in the kitchen
or whether I picked it up from cookbooks.



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