What is this item????

[StuM]

Originally Posted by belizesailor

Ive heard of sampling beef for quality purposes, but not on a live animal. Do you hsve a reference for that?

I think it was missing the /sarc tag

[sailing_gal]

To stick pimentos into olives?

[scallowayuk]

a fid for splicing braided rope.you have different size fids for different size ropes

[taxwizz]

A variety of proctoscope.
Hahaha

[Lodesman]

Originally Posted by scallowayuk

a fid for splicing braided rope.you have different size fids for different size ropes

It is clearly not a fid - it has a nut-like base on it, that would prevent it from being threaded as a fid needs to be. It is a "larding needle" as StuM stated.

[Rorzech]

Saw them using that thing on "Wicked Tuna" for taking a core sample to see the fat content in the Tuna meat so the can get a fair price for the tuna .

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Rorzech

Saw them using that thing on "Wicked Tuna" for taking a core sample to see the fat content in the Tuna meat so the can get a fair price for the tuna .

Similar, but a sashibo tuna grader is longer (thinner ?):

[s/v Jedi]

The Borg use this to assimilate you. It is used to inject nanoprobes which build the implants.
While injecting, they will tell you that resistance is futile, you will be assimilated; existence as you know it is over... and that’s the last thing you’ll remember from your pre-Borg life.

Nasty tool that there

[femurphy77]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

The Borg use this to assimilate you. It is used to inject nanoprobes which build the implants.
While injecting, they will tell you that resistance is futile, you will be assimilated; existence as you know it is over... and that’s the last thing you’ll remember from your pre-Borg life.

Nasty tool that there

Sounds like my first wife.

[arcticmonkey]

aw come on.... pass me that thingamajig will ya

[AJA]

If you found it in the galley it must be a gopher rod !
( sorry ‘bout that - just couldn’t help myself)

[StoneCrab]

I am laughing my butt off. What a thread!

[arcticmonkey]

man... the closest I got to "gourmet" stuff while living on board was boiled crab

[Scott Berg]

As several noted, while it does indeed look a bit like a fid it's a "larding needle." The previous owners were serious about their galley!

[Nicholson58]

Originally Posted by StuM

It's a "larding needle" for pushing strips of lard or bacon fat into/through roasts.

Ta Da!