Thread: Spoon Wars

Originally Posted by Headworx

Why? Can't imagine doing that, it'd be ridiculous taking tiny little spoon fulls when there's proper sized spoons in the house.

I guess we never had soup spoons in my household and I always thought a tablespoon was too big. Anyway I personally prefer Chinese or Korean soup spoons anyway...

Originally Posted by Headworx

Meanwhile on planet Earth.

L to R: Teaspoon, Dessert spoon, Tablespoon, Soupspoon, 2 spoons that wouldn't exist at home if I was single.
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And you maintain that everyone has a good few of that one third from the left?

Despite the replies on this thread?

I have never owned one, nor rented a place long term or on air bnb that had one, and that must be 20+ places.

Originally Posted by Headworx

my soup spoons are in the cutlery draw in a divider tray alongside the knives, forks, and tea spoons. Just like in everyone else's cutlery draw.

Originally Posted by cyrille

And you maintain that everyone has a good few of that one third from the left?

It's a fucking table spoon, not a double ended dildo, so anyone with a table probably has them! What sort of a spoon would you set on the table if a meal that needed a spoon was going to be needed? Let's say Lasagna as a simple example.

Originally Posted by Headworx

It's a fucking table spoon, not a double ended dildo

Both you and I have never been to a tomcat dinner party.

Do table spoons come with the table?!

^They should anywhere that things like Lasagna or Curry or Stew or any sides like Coleslaw will be served!

Originally Posted by Headworx

Lasagna

What kind of slop lasagna are you eating that requires a spoon? A good lasagna should require nothing more than a fork and some nice garlic bread.

Originally Posted by Headworx

The type served in every Italian restaurant where a fork and spoon are standard cutlery for Pasta dishes.

Never had a lasagna that required a spoon to eat. Bolognese yes, linguine yes, lasagna no. At any rate this thread has veered off on a tangent.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

back on track....

Very nice.

^No, soup spoons are round and table spoons more oblong shaped. Try ordering a 3 course meal in a decent Western restaurant just once that includes soup, a main, and dessert, and see what 3 spoons are tabled for each dish. There'll be several different knives tabled as well, but let's just stick to baby steps for now.

Originally Posted by Headworx

^No, soup spoons are round and table spoons more oblong shaped. Try ordering a 3 course meal in a decent Western restaurant just once that includes soup, a main, and dessert, and see what 3 spoons are tabled for each dish. There'll be several different knives tabled as well, but let's just stick to baby steps for now.

First you said a soup spoon is a table spoon, now you've changed your mind.

And you've moved the goalposts.

All afternoon we were disagreeing about cutlery at home. You were claiming these items, virtually extinct in the western home, are in every kitchen in the world.

Now you've switched to talking about restaurants...when you order soup.


Pretty much a giveaway that you concede you're wrong.

Just add one more smart arsed comment will ya, and then we're done.

^Show me where I said a soup spoon is a table spoon.

At home, I usually omit #9, the place card. Of course the port glasses are not part of the table setting, they only come out after the ladies have withdrawn.

^Yeah this is fun! Heaven forbid people who eat soup at home or at restaurants should have soup spoons, they're obsolete apparently

Originally Posted by Mendip

The mint jelly was served using a vintage business class Thai Airways teaspoon which is a lot smaller than a standard sized teaspoon. It may even be egg spoon size?

Coffee spoon it is then, I just learned today that they are smaller than a tee spoon.
Nice lamb dinner!

Never knew about using a soup spoon as measure, learn something new everyday. I've always used heaped and level teaspoon or tablespoon for measuring.

I prefer the British style rounded soup spoons but we tend to use the Chinese style ones nowadays.

I was under the impression that a tablespoon was the same as a serving spoon. It is oval, like a dessert spoon, but slightly larger.

Long handled teaspoons are not dessert spoons.

Originally Posted by Headworx

cutlery draw.

Get teflin' Syb.

Originally Posted by Headworx

^Yeah this is fun! Heaven forbid people who eat soup at home or at restaurants should have soup spoons, they're obsolete apparently

only amongst heathens and pikeys

Originally Posted by cyrille

Just think - JPPR has to make do with nachos with his tequila.

I was thinking about Nachos the other day, appreciate the reminder. I just got my Chips, Jalapeños, cheese delivered the other day. I will use my hands to eat but use a soup spoon to scoop up the last bits.

I have a few different styles of soup spoons. Depends on the bowl I use.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Yeah, but JPPR ain't in Isaan.

True that Mendy. I did for a few years for work but honestly I never felt like the Korat area was hard-core Isaan. However I took quite a few moto rides on weekends and saw some interesting little villages. It would take a very special type of person to live in some of those areas.

I can see the confusion here . . . as usual it's boys arguing about size while missing the vital part: shape. Round-ish vs Oval-ish

Of course size is important but if you can't handle either it's a moot point


I rest my case, m'lud

Originally Posted by panama hat

I can see the confusion here . . . as usual it's boys arguing about size while missing the vital part: shape. Round-ish vs Oval-ish

Of course size is important but if you can't handle either it's a moot point


I rest my case, m'lud

Originally Posted by Edmond

Get teflin' Syb.

Wot? It's a cutlery draw.

Our spoon drawer before culling for Thailand. The round spoon I always call a bullion or cream soup spoon, I describe tablespoons and oval soup spoons as differing in length but not style. There are also grapefruit spoons (pointy), demitasse spoons, a sugar shell and a salt or mustard spoon (if salt should be gold washed) and a few serving spoons.
Pattern is Durgin Louis XV from the early 1890s.