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Post by ATF on May 7, 2015 23:47:29 GMT 7
Well, being a posh person (and having inherited lossa spoons including some silver ones). I have lots. About 24 soup ones, 24 dessert ones, 24 etc etc. And what the hell am i going to do with them!! All in storage. The ones i use are - two spoons and two tea spoons and a couple of knives and forks. And have some wooden ones as well. But being Irish Scottish i can live with that. I hope the Rugby joke made you giggle. Oh and those black plastic things that flip eggs. And a sieve. My mum is moving in the next month or so . she has cupboards full of "silver" stuff. All going to charity. When i was a child slave, she would pay me to polish the "silver" - seems it wasn't silver at all!! Kept me quiet. And who the hell uses Fish Knives anymore? Fish knives and butter knives are absolutely essential. I can't eat soup without a proper soup spoon it's so uncivilized. |
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Post by patsycat on May 7, 2015 23:49:15 GMT 7
Butter knives!! I'd forgotten about them!!
And those funny forky spoony things to eat your cake with. Well, they are being thrown out of my mum's. Sad that it is - they gotta go.
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Post by ATF on May 7, 2015 23:53:00 GMT 7
Butter knives!! I'd forgotten about them!! And those funny forky spoony things to eat your cake with. I believe they're called sporks. Half spoon half fork. |
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Post by thaddeus on May 7, 2015 23:55:49 GMT 7
And those funny forky spoony things to eat your cake with. Thems called hands Pats  |
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Post by smokie36 on May 8, 2015 0:07:43 GMT 7
And those funny forky spoony things to eat your cake with. Thems called hands Pats You are wrong!....they are paws....that's what my mum always told me to keep off the cake anyway. |
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Post by thaddeus on May 8, 2015 12:18:13 GMT 7
I hope your mum was like my mum, and let you lick the spoon.
(that wasn't a euphemism)
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Post by smokie36 on May 8, 2015 23:51:55 GMT 7
I hope your mum was like my mum, and let you lick the spoon. (that wasn't a euphemism) The bowl too sometimes...then a mug of Cremoala Foam and I would bounce off the walls for an hour. Those were the days. |
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Post by patsycat on May 9, 2015 6:35:56 GMT 7
Sporks? Yup, licked the spoon, the bowl and the cream off the mixer thingys.
But at the table it was sit up straight, keep your elbows in. My mum knew exactly the bit on my back to ram her finger into to make me sit up straight. And she still does it!!
But after all that, i do hate to see children not having any table manners. Even the basics of how to use a knife and fork.
So maybe she wasn't too bad instilling that into us at a young age. Also respect for our elders and all the rest. And my sister did the same with her son. My brother not so much, but my mum put the fear of God into one of his sons once when he started eating with his hands at the age of six. At her table. There was silence. And the plate was removed and put on the floor, along with the child.
Conversation continued normally. "Yes, i noticed a bit of rain coming in over Fife" sort of thing.
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Post by smokie36 on May 9, 2015 11:52:09 GMT 7
Sporks? Yup, licked the spoon, the bowl and the cream off the mixer thingys. But at the table it was sit up straight, keep your elbows in. My mum knew exactly the bit on my back to ram her finger into to make me sit up straight. And she still does it!! But after all that, i do hate to see children not having any table manners. Even the basics of how to use a knife and fork. So maybe she wasn't too bad instilling that into us at a young age. Also respect for our elders and all the rest. And my sister did the same with her son. My brother not so much, but my mum put the fear of God into one of his sons once when he started eating with his hands at the age of six. At her table. There was silence. And the plate was removed and put on the floor, along with the child. Conversation continued normally. "Yes, i noticed a bit of rain coming in over Fife" sort of thing. I got told to sit up straight in a cafe in Bermondsey just two or three years ago. What a great little place....huge fry up for a fiver and everything top notch quality....but yes...like having breakfast at my mum's house....did make me laugh and the owner's auntie wasn't joking. "You're making the place look untidy!" she scolded. |
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Post by ATF on May 9, 2015 15:52:41 GMT 7
Bermondsey that brings back memories. What were you doing down there? I suppose it's all gentrified now?
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Post by paddyjenkins on May 11, 2015 20:47:42 GMT 7
Spoons are very much like socks...they disappear. I have 3 spoons left now, I think. That's what I thought, but when I was in the kitchen I could only find one...and that one was the worst of the three of course. Bent and discoloured. I mean, its like if you are agonising and raging over who has stolen your socks and why its the worst of the lot that are left and then of course someone sees you in them and you have to come up with an excuse. Same with spoons.
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Post by smokie36 on May 11, 2015 23:24:15 GMT 7
Bermondsey that brings back memories. What were you doing down there? I suppose it's all gentrified now? I lived in the Borough for years....when I first moved there we used to get pilled up at a wee boozer round the corner from the Elephant and head to the Ministry.....Sundays at the Swan in Stockwell and its sticky floor.... Mondays on the couch having a smoke or drinkin cider in front of the fire in the Trinity. Weren't no gentrification in those days...it was rough as <duck> but great fun! |
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