• no bananaOP
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      61 year ago

      My largest spoon is just funny. I don’t like eating with it, but I appreciate that it’s not small enough to be a spoon while at the same time not being large enough to be a ladle.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)
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        21 year ago

        Is that an American thing? In Australia, a ladle is the kind of scoop-looking spoon with a handle that goes straight up. What you would use to serve soup. We call spoons that look like big desert spoons ‘Chef’s Spoon’.

        • no bananaOP
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          I used the word that came more naturally to me, but the Swedish word for it would be “slev” and I’d argue the word can both be a traditional scooped ladle or a huge spoon depending on context. Ladle seemed synonymous.

    • no bananaOP
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      21 year ago

      I’ve got some great spoons, but there’s that one spoon that just sucks.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          For the longest time I had a spoon which literally had sharp edges. I don’t know why I didn’t throw it away. No idea where it is now.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        The one that did a few rounds in the garbage disposal. Only then back side was damaged, so it all looks fine until you put in in your mouth.

    • no bananaOP
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      121 year ago

      My favorite spoon is made of really low quality aluminum and weighs nothing!

      • KptnAutismus
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        81 year ago

        we had an aluminum teaspoon once, don’t know where it went but it’s on the top 10 of my favourite objects.

        weighed almost literally nothing and always catched me off guard. i love it.

      • Troy
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        51 year ago

        Trivia. Aluminum was once the most expensive, and thus prestigious metals on the planet. The king of France would dine with aluminum cutlery as a show of opulence.

        • no bananaOP
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          You (everyone) will hate this entire comment, but my aforementioned favorite aluminum spoon comes from a Czech army surplus cutlery set. I hate the other utensils, but just think how fucking amazing it is that this is a set which belongs together:

          Why is the spoon so ornamental and aluminum? Why is the knife steel with a plain plastic handle? Why is the fork so fucking weird with a different ornamentation (aluminum too, btw)? This is a set for soldiers. Fancy is good and all but why is it so mismatched? So many questions.

          This specific picture isn’t mine by the way. I’d never allow a fork that horribly misshapen to live in my house.

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              11 year ago

              Ironically, they’re the least stabby ones I own. I assume specs for these vary greatly however. They’re not the higest quality controlled things on earth by any measure.

  • no bananaOP
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    31 year ago

    It fucking sucks I don’t even know why I just hate it with a passion

    • Troy
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      21 year ago

      When I was in undergrad, living in dorm… We used to throw forks at the bulletin board for fun, trying to make them stick. I recommend this as the ultimate fate for your unruly fork.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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      Obviously the only sane option here is to keep it in your pocket when you visit a friend, and sneak it into their silverware drawer when they go to the toilet

  • @[email protected]
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    331 year ago

    Taking this post as a platform to rally against cutlery that isn’t fashioned from a single piece of metal but has a useless metal or plastic handle. When you take them out of the dishwasher, a pool of warm, stagnant , vaguely soap-smelling water will pour out onto your wrist and wet your sleeve and my week is ruined.

    For the record, I haven’t experienced this in years but I carry the trauma.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Or the very first time you discover you hate those when the tines end pops out into your food and sludge from the handle falls in after it.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Mine is a butter knife. I had a poor quality and overpriced meal at a restaurant and stole it in revenge. When I got home and started using it I realised that every single thing about that restaurant would always be atrocious and nothing would ever make it OK to eat there.

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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      11 year ago

      My wife works in retail and a lot of employees in the service industry have main character syndrome and probably aren’t accommodating of people with autism and unusual needs.

      I used to think it was insane that people were afraid of getting their food spat in for asking for no pickles but I get it now. My dad would always resist making special requests like that when my autistic sister was a boy because she had a consistency thing about pickles or any other changes in the consistency of food and our dad would always make excuses about it taking a long time. She worked in retail for a long time and there are absolutely employees who are petty enough to spit in food over simple requests like that because “it disrupts their system.”

  • Troy
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    61 year ago

    I have a compulsion… At every restaurant I go to, I inspect their fork. Specifically, I check to see if the tines are aligned. If they aren’t, the first thing I do is start bending them so that they are aligned. I do it subconsciously if I’m by myself. But in polite company, often I cover my compulsion by making some sort of joke about being a food blogger or similar.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    11 year ago

    This isn’t me with a specific utensil, but for things like soup/cereal bowls, cups, measuring cups, and pott and pans all go in a specific area for lack of space reasons. I hate a singular pot because we have a set that fits together nicely and then there’s the pot that can’t fit with the others but fits perfectly in the smallest pan we have. It’s not a big deal, but it’s the soul reason I hate it (besides when my dad puts away dishes and puts that pot with the others).

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Yes, one of my most adult-feeling purchases was a full cutlery set for 12, and basically a cabinet full of different types of plates and bowls, all in sets for 8 ppl, from the same design series. I love this stuff way more than I ever imagined.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      I tried to buy another identical set of cutlery because we needed more and the two version while looking identical on the package and being from the same maker are dramatically different in reality and it makes me crazy.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Yes I did the same, bought a whole set of a big brand so I could easily get replacements and additions if needed. Some time later I decided I needed more spoons so I bought another set of 10 spoons of the exact same brand and set name. Turns out the spoons are slightly different in the handle, bugs the hell out of me.

    • Xyre
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      51 year ago

      I also only use rounded handles. For some reason flat ones drive my crazy! 😅

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I’m the exact opposite. Maybe because my rounded ones are god damn heavy. Can’t use them with a plastic bowl because it’ll tip it over.

  • KptnAutismus
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    21 year ago

    my parent’s wedding cutlery in the form of like 10 knives are these, the fancy curved grips piss me off.

    if there are only wedding knives left, i’d rather clean a dirty regular knife. the rectangular grips are way better.