Big knives and forks like mummy and daddy

[hirez]

When we were small there was a different and smaller set (or is it canteen? The Internet is filled with American assumptions and is therefore unhelpful) of cutlery for the children. Come to think of it, there was another complete set that featured forks with only three tines. Antique and alien cutlery for eating things from other planets. I don't know what happened to the various sets. Worn out, sold off and/or used as tyre-levers on various pushbikes, no doubt. I was somewhat disturbed to find myself having to buy cutlery for the first time aged thirtysummat.

Anyway. An Poll:

[Poll #1806356]

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Actually supper is consumed in bed, on my lap tray, in front of the laptop, becaue I own neither a telly nor a dining table.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I own a dining table, and two or three times a year we even use it. Supper is consumed on my lap in front of the telly, because I'm a grown up and I *can*, and more importantly, otherwise I'd have no time to watch TV.

[miss_squiddy]

My table is covered in things that neeed making. And anyway, the entire point of a cushion is that it provides something to balance a plate on. :)
Plus, inulro is right - it's the only time I actually stop and do nothing...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have vague memories of mysterious infant cutlery called a spoon-and-pusher. Which was a spoon (obv.) and a small bulldozer-like implement. I'm fairly sure my parents did not approve [*], but I think I used these weird implements when I visited my godmother. I think hers might even have been the sort of silver-plated affair that lives in a fuzzy velvet box.

[*] "The sooner you learn to use proper yaffling irons, the better" says the mother.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah. One or other of us was in receipt of squitty-sized implements from one set of godparents or the other, also in a flocked box.

Now I think about it some more, the smaller-set-for-the-smaller-handed were only slightly smaller than the set I use now that came from Ikea some oh-god years ago. The grown-up cutlery items are huge Waldo-like things designed for hacking bits off the giant cattle and ambulatory cheeses that wander the radioactive uplands of the North Cotswolds.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Robert Welch does (or at least did) a spoon and pusher in RW No.1 (http://www.robertwelch.com/Products/Default.aspx?id=1092864&tid=133)/Alveston.

They might still do one in RW No.2 (http://www.robertwelch.com/Products/Default.aspx?id=1092846&tid=120), but we don't have any truck with that (it's chunky and unwieldy compared to the elegance of RW No.1, it didn't win the Design Council award, and it's no longer made in Sheffield).

Alas, there doesn't appear to have been a spoon and pusher as part of Arne Jacobsen's cutlery for the SAS Royal Hotel.

Yes, I'm a cutlery geek. A man needs a hobby.

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Dinner (or depending on timing and what is eaten, tea) is consumed from a properly set place at a table.
RE: Supper I agree with Stuart Maconaroni. It is consumed in your dressing gown and slippers on the sofa and consists mainly of cream crackers and cheese.

[stilettowhore.livejournal.com]

+1
Regarding child's cutlery, back in the dark ages when airlines were actually helpful and not complete money-grabbing whores, BA did a slightly-smaller plastic-handled knife & fork pair which looks like it should be the right size for smaller hands.
Give it a few years for the bump to produce into something with motor skills and I'll let you know how they work!

[the_axel]

Airlines have always been money grabbing whores.
What's changed is that given the choice between little niceties & paying a tenner less for a flight, 9 out of 10 customers will choose the lower ticket prices so airlines have to race to the bottom as far as amenities go if they want to sell enough tickets to stay in business.

[the_axel]

Dinner (the evening meal) is consumed by hand, while frantically trying to keep crumbs and/or salad dressing out of the keyboard.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

*Like*

[capt-prickle.livejournal.com]

We have breakfast at the kitchen table, and supper at the dining room table. Thats dead posh, init?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You could be having breakfast at the Golden Nugget Pancake House. You lucky bugger.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

"Supper" was invented by hobbits.
Same as "second breakfast".

DINNER is what you have in the evening- at a table with two to three courses.
SUPPER is a light snack (hot chocolate and cheese and biscuits for example) that you have as a light snack before bed, consumed whilst wearing pyjamas with a book in your free hand.

[the_axel]

*like*

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[x] It's 'dinner' you effete western ponce. Isn't it. Standard.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

I lied on all of them.

Breakfast and lunch are most often eaten from the table-that-is-my-desk reading LJ/FB/&c. (while ramtops does the same across the room); supperdinner mostly happens on laps, but sitting next to each other and mostly watching my netbook, not the telly. We do sit down at the table to eat occasionally, for any of the meals of the day, but it's a rare thing.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I have a drop-leaf table, but it's folded up against the wall, and then barricaded in by assorted camera bags, crates of CDs, and other impendimenta.

Breakfast is usually either a couple of pieces of toast eaten standing up at the kitchen work surface, or something picked up en route to work, eaten at my desk.
Lunch is a sandwich or similar, almost always eaten at my desk, though when at home it'll either be eaten off a lap tray or folding table, or from the desk in my study.
For dinner/supper, see lunch (at home).