Why is this spoon bent sideways

Question

Can anyone ID this spoon? I took over a small kitchen and they have this thing. You can ignore the meat sticker, it’s a kosher thing.

Answer 1

If it is normal table spoon or dessert spoon sized, it is a spoon adjusted for people with limited mobility.

When adjusting for an individual, you would usually adjust the plastic as that is easier, but this is likely been factory adjusted, being a common enough adjustment that it is made in decent numbers.

I have considered training in the field but did not. Such a spoon was an example the school did show in the introduction material.

Answer 2

The same kind of spoon is also sold as “learning spoon” for small children that start feeding themselves.

The key is that these angled spoons can be held by grabbing the handle with the fist, which needs fewer fine motor skills than the three-finger grip more customarily used by adults.

Answer 3

It looks like a spoon for the elderly. I have seen them in nursing homes. If that logo was always there, it's probably a promotional item.

Answer 4

Such spoons have been around for a long time. Initially, most of them were tea-spoon size and bent this way primarily to make it easier for mothers to feed their babies and toddlers. In the olden times (when high chairs were even more expensive and considered a luxury and just for the privileged), mothers, nannies or baby sitters used to feed infants by sitting at the table and holding infants in their lap. Therefore, a bent spoon came in handy. Later on, as society progressed, they started manufacturing everyday utensils and products specifically designed for the disabled, for the left handed and so on.