c/mildlyinfuriating · by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1y

This spoon.

I'm staying with some friends and all of their spoons are this ridiculous shape that is clearly designed for the mouth of someone like Steven Tyler. I may have to reconsider our friendship.

There's a reason spoons are narrow on the sides.

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 1y (12 replies)

It's a soup spoon. It doesn't seem that unusual. You aren't supposed to stick the entire spoon in your mouth.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y

mouth ladle?

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y

You aren't supposed to, but you definitely should. Stare everyone deeply in their eyeballs and stick the whole bowl of the spoon in your mouth. Then add everyone else's spoons to your mouth one at a time. Keep eye-contact.

MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y (5 replies)

This is correct. I'm old, and when I was a girl every home had soup spoons - along with teaspoons, dessert spoons and tablespoons. They appear to have died out, who knows why*. Some of my friends have heritage sets, I don't. I eat my soup with a dessert spoon, like an ignorant youth.

** On reflection, maybe it's a measuring thing? Baking recipes use teaspoons and tablespoons, but never soup spoons.

Sylvartas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Never seen a soup spoon like that in Europe. Everyone has a variant of these though

13esq@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I've lived in the UK since birth and have always had soup spoons.

I thought, "maybe it's a middle class thing", but it's not like they're expensive and they last forever.

https://www.thebigkitchen.co.uk/product/budget-cutlery-soup-spoon/

berryjam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Restaurants still have soup spoons

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Fancy or old fashioned places.

MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Phew.

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y

Idk, I never had problems getting the business part of the spoon into my mouth.

Never could get the whole handle too though...

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Exactly that.

pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

You don't stick the whole thing in your mouth?

big spoon currently in my mouth

caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y

It's a low mug.

ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com · 49 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Pretty sure that's the type you're supposed to be able to shape and bend with your mind

HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The one Kadabra and Alakazam has lol

ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com · 25 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Don't know about them, I had The Matrix come to mind though.

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

What do you mean? There is no spoon.

altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

S4GU4R0@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 1y (32 replies)

i’m confused. it looks like a normal soup spoon. is it unusually large for a soup spoon or is this your first soup spoon?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 1y (31 replies)

These are normal soup spoons where I come from.

altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 68 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Probably because they aren't aware or just don't care about the difference

tamal3@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (2 replies)

What in holy hell is a salad spoon

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's for directly consuming the mug o' ranch we traditionally serve with a small plate of garnish weeds in the US.

meowMix2525@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

No joke, I once sat down at a restaurant with an Austrian exchange student who; when a somewhat-larger-than-usual ramekin of ranch was placed in front of him, before the rest of his meal came out; proceeded to unwrap a straw, stick it in the ranch, and take a drink.

All I could do is watch as this unfolded before me.

SatyrSack@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y

Some soup spoons are indeed oblong like a tablespoon. But because there isn't anything in that etsy photo above to provide context, you might miss that the heads of those spoons are most likely much larger than that of a tablespoon. Sure, they're just as oval-shaped as what OP expects, but they're also just as wide as the round spoon in the OP. Meaning they require just as Steven Tyler of a mouth to successfully misuse as a round soup spoon.

tonyn@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

I love drinking my MTN Dew with a soda spoon

tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I suppose that this is the basic spoon set that excludes things like the grapefruit spoon.

dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Also ear spoons.

S4GU4R0@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

That would be why I asked if it's their first one. They look different in different places and not everyone knows they even exist.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Now that I realize I've never seen an ice cream spoon before, I'm kind of sad

altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

I used to have one and never knew what it was. I thought it was weird it had a flat edge, figured it was broken.

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (13 replies)

thats a teaspoon, dude

M137@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How did you get it that wrong? Firstly, it's not "a", there's several. Secondly, they're tablespoons.

You somehow managed to be more wrong than OP, which is unbelievable.

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

you really got me there man! I mean I've met some pretty smart and cool people in my travels but holy fuck you made me look like a complete idiot and I am absolutely in awe of you.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 1y (10 replies)

You put a spoon that big in a sugar bowl and drop it in your tea and you'll have the kind of crazily sweet iced tea they have in the American South except hot.

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y (7 replies)

if theyre quite large then its a tablespoon

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y (6 replies)

The point is that these are their only sort of spoons.

JudahBenHur@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (4 replies)

i feel you. its wack. ive never liked soup spoons. i eat cereal and soup with a teaspoon

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I bought cutlery a few years ago and decided to get exactly what I wanted, not what was standard, and I not only ended up with golden-colored, wood handled cutlery that everyone else thought was hideous, I only got fully round spoons, in both teaspoon size and standard soup spoon size.

I loved that cutlery. My old roommate… gratefully tolerates it. I just have a giant mouth and never realized it could be an issue, but even the small ones were surprisingly unpopular

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

I have always done the same, actually.

Madison420@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Then eat soup or eat somewhere else?

TheBat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

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LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Or if you were Bob "17 sugars with me tea" Mortimer.

S4GU4R0@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Those are regular spoons, not soup spoons. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=soup+spoons&iax=images&ia=images

Madison420@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

That's a tablespoon boss.

Dkarma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Those are tea spoons. R u caveman?

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1y

They're teaspoons for Jeff Goldblum when he's turning into The Fly.

baggins@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 1y

You might want to tell the person selling them:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1128290220/lustreware-stainless-soups-spoon-set-of

And all the other sites that show the same thing when you search "lustreware soup spoon" for that matter.

4am@lemm.ee · 30 pts · 1y

Squid! How could you! Lol these are soup spoons (or as we call them in New England: Chowder Spoons)

Now, why they only have soup spoons as opposed to having some of a few different kinds…ok well THAT your friends are weird for!

JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y

One of the 10,000 club today, buddy. Enjoy your soup.

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That's a soup spoon!

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You're a soup spoon.

Slovene@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

dumbass@leminal.space · 20 pts · 1y

Look at this uncultured peasent, can't tell it's soup spoon from its dessert spoon! *Billionaire laugh*

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 20 pts · 1y

I've always known these to be called soup spoons. You use em with soup.

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y

Those are bouillon spoons. I prefer to eat with them all the time, but I have teaspoons and Tablespoons as well. You could look on this as a gifting opportunity rather than bitching.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That is shaped like the spoon I consider my best spoon, heathen.

tamal3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

We need a post for everyone's favorite spoon. There are clear winners in my drawer, too. One mystery spoon that I'd love someone to ID.

Participation forbidden if your utensils are a set.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y

You are entitled to your incorrect spoon opinion.

iamjackflack@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y

Some would say there is no spoon

Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Steven Tyler mouth LOL

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1y