On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:54:23 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
> wrote:

>On 6 Feb 2005 15:51:52 -0800, wrote:
>
>>Kind of an odd question -- but how exactly did the spatula get it's
>>name?
>
>Totally irrelevant, but are you talking about the rubber scrapers, or the
>pancake flippers?
>

My sister's MIL used mistakenly to refer to this kitchen item as a
"spatch-OLA." We refer to it that way most of time, too, at family
gatherings. It doesn't take much to crack us up when we all get
together to cook.

Still, your question makes perfect sense to me. One The Hub and I are
cooking together and one asks the other to hand a spatula from the
drawer, the other is likely to say, "You mean the pancake flipper or
the other thingee?"

Boron