Every time I hear the word “spatula,” from a deeply strange nook of my psyche comes “Spatula City,” a jingle and ad from the 1989 “Weird Al” Yankovic movie “UHF,” touting a faux big-box store that ...

There are few things done in the kitchen quite as anxiety-inducing as the moment when you have to turn a delicate piece of fish. One wrong move and that tender flesh crumbles into an unsightly mess.

Let's start a campaign to re-brand the fish spatula. Not only is the name "fish spatula" decidedly unsexy—so are its other monikers, fish turner and slotted spatula—but the term doesn't reflect all of ...