Cutting edge humor
It takes a sharp knife and a sharp wit to cut a tomato. Or, so they would have you believe on the home shopping knife show. Which set me to wondering, why are they called paring knives? After all, there is only one and not two as insinuated by the pair moniker. What if one had two pears? Would one need two pair of paring knives to pare a pair of pears? I think maybe there’s a peck of pickled peppers somewhere in there, but you’d have to ask Peter Piper to be sure. What are the other knives... Sign in to see full entry.