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

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[valkyriekaren]

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]

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.

[venta]

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]

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]

Robert Welch does (or at least did) a spoon and pusher in RW No.1/Alveston.

They might still do one in RW No.2, 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]

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]

+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]

*Like*

[capt_prickle]

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

[hirez]

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