Post #418333 by nuKKe on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 4:59 AM

Ignorance is bliss, they say, and although growing up surrounded by wooden utensils wonders (grandma was - and still is - a huge fan of souvenirs), I cannot describe you the sense of victory I felt upon discovering a chipped wooden spoon with a carved Ku on top one morning, some 3 years ago in Tel Aviv's baragin market. This was my very first tiki find in the wild and in general, save for 2 postcards I had previously bought and two others that had already been in my postcard collection.

I love my fork, just like I like the weird abstract-ish Moai I found in the same market last spring. Later, of course, I've realised that the tiki utensils (please don't mind me calling them tiki) aren't such a big deal and that they can be found all over the place - a western trading post in Oklahoma Route 66 and an isolated ranch in Thompson Falls, Montana, included (and also really, really badly carved ones in the flea market in Jaffa, apparently)- but hey, when in the desert you don't say no to water just because you like coke.