1.   Well I licked the spoon.

2.   And, absentmindedly, as I am wont to do when I cook, I lick the spoon before I set it in the sink.

3.   But then taste depends on who is licking the spoon.

4.   Lick the spoons.

5.   Spoons were licked, sugar was spilled and ingredients were surreptitiously eaten.