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.

  • S4GU4R0@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    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?

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          14 days ago

          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.

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            14 days ago

            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.

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          14 days ago

          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.

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                  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

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        14 days ago

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

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          14 days ago

          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.

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            14 days ago

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

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              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.

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          14 days ago

          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.

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          12 days ago

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

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            11 days ago

            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.