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.

  • @[email protected]
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    341 month 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?

      • Altima NEO
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        691 month ago

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

          • dream_weasel
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            101 month ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 month 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month 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.

          • Altima NEO
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            21 month 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.

        • M137
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          51 month 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.

          • Ben Hur Horse Race
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            121 month 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.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          21 month 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.

              • Ben Hur Horse Race
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                51 month ago

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

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 month ago

                  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

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            81 month ago

            Here’s a wild thought: You can choose to pick up only a little bit of sugar. No one’s forcing you to fill up the whole spoon like a digger on a JCB lol.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          11 month ago

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