In article >,
Boron Elgar > wrote:

> 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?"

In my family when I was growing up, neither a "pancake turner" (aka
"hamburger turner") nor a "rubber licker" was a "spatula." Those wide
flat knives without a cutting edge were called spatulas.

Priscilla

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"It is very, very dangerous to treat any human, lowest
of the low even, with contempt and arrogant whatever.
The Lord takes this kind of treatment very, very personal."
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