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.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    10 days ago

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

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        9 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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      10 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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      10 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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      7 days ago

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

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        7 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.