<![CDATA[Maybe you heard about this in passing like I did? At some point last fall I caught a headline about throwing away all of the black spatulas in your kitchen. I didn't stop the read the story I just noted it and moved on. I even mentioned it to my wife at one point because we have a couple of black pieces of kitchenware along with several other types. She hadn't heard about it at all and I just forgot about it. But for a brief time this was really a thing. Here's how the LA Times reported it in November.]]>