it occurs to me that spoons and pans have very similar shapes, despite
their nominally separate functions.
people using a spoon when using heroin, however, use it to hold a quantity
of liquid that is to be heated, in effect using the spoon as a very small pan.
this blurs the boundary in one direction.
however, i'm not aware of any case of anyone using a pan as a particularly
large spoon. please write if you have any insight.