Unpopular Opinions - General Thread

[TexRex]

Why would you ever eat anything with a tablespoon? They should only be used for serving food and measuring ingredients.

Tablespoons are cooking utensils, but they're also eating utensils that likely don't have tablespoon capacity. The latter is just a large spoon.

I've seen people eating with what seems to be the biggest spoon that fits in their mouth and it's ridiculous. I definitely prefer a smaller spoon.

 

[TheCracker]

On the whole, eating with a teaspoon is nicer than eating with a tablespoon. Or little spoon and big spoon, if you prefer.

If it's ice cream, yes. If it's cereal, no. I ain't eating no corn flakes one at a time.

 

[Jezza819]

If it's ice cream, yes. If it's cereal, no. I ain't eating no corn flakes one at a time.

I've got a spoon that's between a table spoon and a tea spoon that I use for cereal and soup. I have no idea where it came from as I'm sure my mother found it somewhere either when I was very small or even before I was born so it had to be during the 1960's or earlier. But it's the perfect cereal and soup spoon for me.

 

[PeterJB]

I just ate my cereal with a table spoon. I don’t think I even have a tea spoon in the house.

Tablespoons are cooking utensils, but they're also eating utensils that likely don't have tablespoon capacity. The latter is just a large spoon.

I've seen people eating with what seems to be the biggest spoon that fits in their mouth and it's ridiculous. I definitely prefer a smaller spoon.

If it's ice cream, yes. If it's cereal, no. I ain't eating no corn flakes one at a time.

I've got a spoon that's between a table spoon and a tea spoon that I use for cereal and soup. I have no idea where it came from as I'm sure my mother found it somewhere either when I was very small or even before I was born so it had to be during the 1960's or earlier. But it's the perfect cereal and soup spoon for me.

In my household, the first spoon is used for the stirring of hot drinks and the dispensing of condiments, the second spoon is used for ice cream, the third spoon is used for soup and cereal, and the fourth is used for serving food and the dispensing of ingredients. The thought of putting a tablespoon in my mouth makes me wretch.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Honestly, it really depends on how hard you want the egg and spoon race to be.

 

[Jezza819]

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In my household, the first spoon is used for the stirring of hot drinks and the dispensing of condiments, the second spoon is used for ice cream, the third spoon is used for soup and cereal, and the fourth is used for serving food and the dispensing of ingredients. The thought of putting a tablespoon in my mouth makes me wretch.

My spoon is like your second spoon.

 

[TexRex]

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In my household, the first spoon is used for the stirring of hot drinks and the dispensing of condiments, the second spoon is used for ice cream, the third spoon is used for soup and cereal, and the fourth is used for serving food and the dispensing of ingredients. The thought of putting a tablespoon in my mouth makes me wretch.

I don't have a sense of scale, but I'd probably call the second spoon a tablespoon. A teaspoon is what I'd normally use to stir hot drinks, like tea (go figure), but it's also what I tend to eat with. I might use a tablespoon to taste for seasoning when I'm cooking, because it'd allow me a diverse bite to better judge what's needed, but they're cumbersome for general consumption. I don't have a small mouth either...literally or figuratively.

 

[Famine]

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In my household, the first spoon is used for the stirring of hot drinks and the dispensing of condiments, the second spoon is used for ice cream, the third spoon is used for soup and cereal, and the fourth is used for serving food and the dispensing of ingredients. The thought of putting a tablespoon in my mouth makes me wretch.

I went to a private school where they taught us these things (also I'm from Sheffield, where we do cutlery as a religion), and that's a teaspoon, dessert spoon, soup spoon, and tablespoon. If you had a tablespoon-sized soup spoon, that'd be a serving spoon.

 

[Liquid]

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In my household, the first spoon is used for the stirring of hot drinks and the dispensing of condiments, the second spoon is used for ice cream, the third spoon is used for soup and cereal, and the fourth is used for serving food and the dispensing of ingredients. The thought of putting a tablespoon in my mouth makes me wretch.

I went to a private school where they taught us these things (also I'm from Sheffield, where we do cutlery as a religion), and that's a teaspoon, dessert spoon, soup spoon, and tablespoon. If you had a tablespoon-sized soup spoon, that'd be a serving spoon.

Me:

 

[Shaun]

I went to a private school where they taught us these things (also I'm from Sheffield, where we do cutlery as a religion), and that's a teaspoon, dessert spoon, soup spoon, and tablespoon. If you had a tablespoon-sized soup spoon, that'd be a serving spoon.

That's exactly how I see it also though I do use a dessert spoon for my cereal.

 

[Famine]

That's exactly how I see it also though I do use a dessert spoon for my cereal.

And that was reason enough for transportation.

 

[PilotV7Pen]

Ohhh, this sounds like my kind of thread

Since the BLM protests last year I've had people call me some unfortunate names because I said that black lives do absolutely matter, and that kneeling for the national anthem is a valid way of protesting so... I guess that's one. I'll lump in defund the police/we need a move towards socialism/the Labour party is a disgrace right now etc.

And not political? I think Kanye West is one of the greatest artists of all times and people will only appreciate that when he's gone

 

[Shaun]

And that was reason enough for transportation.

Well played. 👍

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I use a teaspoon for stirring drinks and maybe a smaller portions of dessert like ice cream. That's about it. Otherwise I prefer a tablespoon or a fork. Though sometimes I do use one of the in betweener spoons.

 

[kolio]

Forks are entirely overrated.

I eat so many things with a spoon where others would use a fork.

 

[MatskiMonk]

All hail the Titanium Spork...

Vital 24hours race camping accessory!

 

[W3H5]

I definitely mixed up a table spoon with a desert spoon.

 

[Pupik]

Ice cream with the tea spoon to savor it longer, but pretty much everything else with the bigger one since I was an adult. That was because when I moved out, I asked to take the unused cutlery set, which was a rag tag 1980s bunch of mismatched stuff, which contained two teaspoons which hadn't taken a few unexpected laps around a live garbage disposal. So I graduated to the tablespoon...or whatever it is. Today, the kids use up all of the small spoons, so I'm forced to use the ones they don't use, so the big ones are my domain, unless we have company.

On the other hand, my mother-in-law has a variety of old kitchen trinkets that's baffling. There's a measuring spoon that literally says "tad" on it, and other that says "pinch" and thought those were just made up. There's an tiny egg beater that's perfect for whisking powdered drinks perfectly (finally!) and far too many other things that I misplace for the one day a week I put away dishes.

 

[TexRex]

There's a measuring spoon that literally says "tad" on it, and other that says "pinch" and thought those were just made up.

I have a set of Norpro spoons that has those as well as dash, smidgen and drop. I got them as a joke accompaniment to more typical measures but I end up using them far more than I'd ever imagined.

 

[kikie]

Forks are entirely overrated.

I eat so many things with a spoon where others would use a fork.

Indeed. A neighbour used to eat his soup with a fork.
It was probably a kind of OCD thing because when I asked him why, his answer was not really logical. Also when he ate these sausages (pic below) they had to be removed and put on a (soup) plate.

I eat spaghetti with a fork and knife. It is much easier than eating spaghetti with a spoon. <<< unpopular opinion?

 

[TheCracker]

I eat spaghetti with a fork and knife. It is much easier than eating spaghetti with a spoon. <<< unpopular opinion?

Fork and a spoon is the authentic spaghetti-eating method. But whatever gets the job done i guess.

 

[kikie]

Fork and a spoon is the authentic spaghetti-eating method. But whatever gets the job done i guess.

Oh, I thought that eating spaghetti with a spoon is the correct way.

I eat spaghetti with a fork and knife. not with a spoon and fork or with a fork only. I cut my spaghetti is smaller pieces and scoop up the spaghetti with my fork. And that is not the "authentic" way.

 

[TheCracker]

Oh, I thought that eating spaghetti with a spoon is the correct way.

I eat spaghetti with a fork and knife. not with a spoon and fork or with a fork only. I cut my spaghetti is smaller pieces and scoop up the spaghetti with my fork. And that is not the "authentic" way.

Spaghetti is scooped up loosely with a fork then held prong-facing against the open end of a spoon and twirled around so it wraps the spaghetti around the fork making it an easier and cleanlier way of putting it in your mouth. Supposedly. I personally just use a fork.

 

[kikie]

Spaghetti is scooped up loosely with a fork then held prong-facing against the open end of a spoon and twirled around so it wraps the spaghetti around the fork making it an easier and cleanlier way of putting it in your mouth. Supposedly. I personally just use a fork.

Indeed and that is not my way. I eat it without the twirling.


My way of eating spaghetti has a

sign so it must be wrong.

https://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Spaghetti

 

[W3H5]

I eat noodles with chopsticks. I would treat spaghetti the same.

 

[Ze Elephant]

Knife, fork, or spoon is all wrong. There's only one utensil you really need.

If I can't eat it with my trusty titanium spork, then I don't need to eat it.






Also I lie.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Spaghetti is scooped up loosely with a fork then held prong-facing against the open end of a spoon and twirled around so it wraps the spaghetti around the fork making it an easier and cleanlier way of putting it in your mouth. Supposedly. I personally just use a fork.

I can't do Fork and Spoon. I'm right-handed, but use my cutlery the "wrong" way around (fork in right, knife in left), and use my right hand for spoons too. As such, I can't use a spoon in my left-hand very well, so fork and spoon is just a disaster.

I have no idea why a fork is supposed to go in your off-hand, rather than the dominant one. That's the implement that needs the dexterity to scoop up food and transport it to your mouth, why put that in the weaker hand? A knife hand just needs strength to cut things, so why sacrifice the extra dexterity of the dominant hand for strength that both arms have?

 

[MatskiMonk]

I have no idea why a fork is supposed to go in your off-hand, rather than the dominant one. That's the implement that needs the dexterity to scoop up food and transport it to your mouth, why put that in the weaker hand? A knife hand just needs strength to cut things, so why sacrifice the extra dexterity of the dominant hand for strength that both arms have?

Amen.

 

[Scaff]

Forrest Gump is an overrated, conservatives wet dream of a film (conform and don't argue and you will succeed - non-conform and you will die a terrible death) and I can't stand a second of its sickly nonsense.

Anyone who champions Forrest Gump should be made to watch Ken Loach's entire back catalogue to understand the level of bull that exists in Forrest Gumps' cloying noise.

 

[polysmut]

Forrest Gump is an overrated, conservatives wet dream of a film (conform and don't argue and you will succeed - non-conform and you will die a terrible death) and I can't stand a second of its sickly nonsense.

Anyone who champions Forrest Gump should be made to watch Ken Loach's entire back catalogue to understand the level of bull that exists in Forrest Gumps' cloying noise.

I've never watched Forrest Gump but that prompts me to remember how much I hate most fairy tale princess type stories. The ones I'm familiar with have an air of
"All a girl needs is a handsome prince and she'll live happily ever after. By the way, she must be beautiful".
Cinderella being one example.