Ladle (spoon) (bottle gourd) or even sea-shells. Ladle (spoon) A ladle (dipper) is a type of spoon used for soup, stew, or other foods. Although designs vary, a typical ladle has a long handle terminating in a deep bowl, frequently with the bowl oriented at an angle to the handle to facilitate lifting liquid out of a pot or other vessel and conveying it to a bowl. Some ladles involve a point on the side of the basin to allow for finer stream when pouring the liquid; however, this can create difficulty for left handed users, as it is easier to pour
From the Ladle to the Grave of traditional folk and world-music songs, though the band often arranged the songs in nontraditional, harder-rocking ways. "Ladle" contained Boiled in Lead's first original compositions, "The Microorganism" and "Pig Dog Daddy." Both were written by lead singer Todd Menton, who cited the influence of Billy Bragg and Richard Thompson as songwriters who had successfully fused folk and rock/pop. Menton began writing "The Microorganism," a mournful ballad about the devastation of AIDS, six years before its appearance on "Ladle". The song "My Son John" is a variant of the traditional Irish antiwar ballad "Mrs. McGrath." In an article on the history