I use different size paper, plastic and styrofoam… sometimes red plastic.
My wife and in laws, every holiday.
This is how the Obama’s keep 15 dishwashers employed at the White House, making $15.00 per hour each with full Union Benefits.
I have been using some nice English china for the past couple weeks. I got a big box of it for a dollar at an auction. I can’t even buy paper plates that cheap, so I’ve just been using the china and throwing it away when I’m done.
My grandmother would set the table almost exactly
like this, with only the meat course setting, and minus the wine glass. I had the task when I went over to her house for Sunday dinner.
Very formal setting these days. Doubt most people still set a table this way anymore.
I used my set of Royal Daulton Ravenswood China exactly once since I bought it in the early ’80s. I wish I could sell it for paper plates.
Some of us must maintain standards of propriety, otherwise the liberal heathens will take over and good manners and dignity will lead to the utter chaos of political correctness – what they say is right, rather than what we choose to be right.
….Still do this??
Never did.
My wife has a full service of silver and china that she bought mostly on ebay. You can get it cheap if you are savvy. We use it on holidays and on Friday nights when we want to have friends over. Women like to play house. I don’t mind because I figure silver is the thing to have if the Democrats were ever to take over (and I am still sore about the War of Northern Aggression – you can never have too much silver as a substitute for worthless paper currency)
And my daughter recently got married. That was how my wife got into the ebay thing. Her friends do byt that stuff too. Women are like that. I personally don’t understand it. I don’t see much need for anything more than a decent gun safe and a respectable gun collection… But you have to give and take in a marriage.
That’s just in case FUR gets invited to the white house for dinner 🙂
I’d just as soon have a beer and sammich!
What knife do I use to cut my tater tots?
Melmac & a spork.
Yes, as much as possible (minus the fish forks). I am in agreement with @Ocean Sailor. The rest of the time it’s a fork and some container in the refrigerator.
I’m damn glad I’m not Jewish.
Ms. Pinko does it
I’ve only seen this on cruise ships.
I use A spoon…a lot
White plastic is standard. Clear plastic on special occasions.
Yes. And we have Emily Post’s ‘Book of Etiquette’ on hand as well.
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” ~~ John Adams
Ruth’s Crist does this. Fanciest meal I ever ate. Oh, and most expensive as well. But that was one tender piece of beef. I’ll never forget when the waiter scraped the bread crumbs off the table with a special knife just for that purpose. While I think American’s have a reflexive bias against elitism, I do believe there’s a place for manners and high culture. It use to be called being civilized and our country seemed to be a lot more cohesive when we had more, not less, of it. But no, we don’t set our table like this. I’ve never lived in a home which even owned a “fish fork”.
I do a variation on it, but these last few years, I’m considering turning the seafood fork for into one for soylent green when the time comes.
The John Adams quote is perfect.
Well, there’s just Boobie and me. She has twin bowls on her elevated stand and I have a stock of Chinets and SAM’s plasticware.
When I was young my parents would set a dinner table. My mother grew up with the Kennedy family so she knew how.
The culture has devolved to a point where eating out of a trough is now de rigueur.
While I certainly don’t cook meals of this scope–and don’t even have fish forks–I do know how to set a proper table. I also know proper table manners, and one of the reasons I am single is that when I was dating, a man who did not exhibit good table manners on the first date didn”t get a second date. Auntie Yonkers is not, nor was she ever, in the social rehabilitation business.
Mannerliness is critical. And fie on lib types who deem etiquette “elitist.” Etiquette is free and available to all. What could be more democratic?
Look at it this way: the rules for table setting are a codification of orderliness in the same way that rules of grammar and punctuation are. You wouldn’t write a paragraph filled with run-on sentences, misspellings, and punctuation gone awry, would you?
Yes, minus the fish settings, for every holiday meal. It makes the meal more special, I think, and makes a change from the easy casualness of every day. The every day setting is usually knife, fork, spoon.
Oh… you mean my breakfast table setting. Yes, Lovey and I still do.
Thurston Howell, III
Our table has a big trough through the center. I throw the food in and we just use our hands. Hose it down later.
Hell no. In Texas, most meals involve a roll of paper towels on the table.
Bought 12 real high-end china plates at a flea market for 1$/each. Each one a different pattern. Hauled out grandmutha’s silver when we had cornbread and beans. It was fun and the kiddos loved it. Its the everyday, folks, not the holidays.
being retired and raisng our grandchildren, facing and paying higher local,state and national taxes, higher food prices, clothing, fuel prices, water, sewer, electrical prices and all other goods and services, we now use paper plates.
We are much less concerned about decorum and more and more concerned about survival.
We have been fundementally transformed by obama and his socialist policies.
Someday we’re gonna move up to red plastic …
right now we just eat the Popeye’s outta the box.
At Sams Club they sell plastic cutlery that really looks like silverware. But I would advice away from the neat plastic plates that look like designer plates, they are flimsy and you can only put cold foods on them.
And yes, I do set a fancy table for special occasions. Oh, not with seafood forks, or three knives, but respectable and with decent china. It’s my grown boys who really insist. If I don’t drag the cheap gold-plated flatware out and the cheap (but pretty) crystal, linens, etc. they stand and give me mopey looks until I cave.
They insist it’s just not a HOLIDAY without that.
I have a friend who lamented the fact that he could not find egg cups in the United States, so I imagine that he dines in this fashion fairly regularly.
ROTFLMBO at these comments! You all are a trip!
I have 3 sets of dishes. Everyday, Christmas/Thanksgiving ones and then other holidays. No not all that silver. 2 forks, one knife & 2 spoons. If you’re good and I remember, you’ll get a different fork for dessert!
Butt if I can get away with it I’ll use paper!
I miss the good old days.
Eating off bone china makes any food taste better.
No need for wine, water taste terrific in crystal glasses.
Yes, and the plate should be one inch from the edge of the table. Twenty-nine years in Uncles Army didn’t erase that from my mind.
I’ll bet the Obamas do this with all of their fancy entertaining with elaborate and expensive menu items.
Who the hell can afford food, let alone meat and fish with their own separate cutlery?
In 1953, Swanson’s changed the home dining experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSF0JpZFbQ
Newton Minow summed it up in his Vast Wasteland speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dGRgLfaGwo
Um… no.
And wash that many dishes?
I use different size paper, plastic and styrofoam… sometimes red plastic.
My wife and in laws, every holiday.
This is how the Obama’s keep 15 dishwashers employed at the White House, making $15.00 per hour each with full Union Benefits.
I have been using some nice English china for the past couple weeks. I got a big box of it for a dollar at an auction. I can’t even buy paper plates that cheap, so I’ve just been using the china and throwing it away when I’m done.
My grandmother would set the table almost exactly
like this, with only the meat course setting, and minus the wine glass. I had the task when I went over to her house for Sunday dinner.
Very formal setting these days. Doubt most people still set a table this way anymore.
I used my set of Royal Daulton Ravenswood China exactly once since I bought it in the early ’80s. I wish I could sell it for paper plates.
Some of us must maintain standards of propriety, otherwise the liberal heathens will take over and good manners and dignity will lead to the utter chaos of political correctness – what they say is right, rather than what we choose to be right.
….Still do this??
Never did.
My wife has a full service of silver and china that she bought mostly on ebay. You can get it cheap if you are savvy. We use it on holidays and on Friday nights when we want to have friends over. Women like to play house. I don’t mind because I figure silver is the thing to have if the Democrats were ever to take over (and I am still sore about the War of Northern Aggression – you can never have too much silver as a substitute for worthless paper currency)
And my daughter recently got married. That was how my wife got into the ebay thing. Her friends do byt that stuff too. Women are like that. I personally don’t understand it. I don’t see much need for anything more than a decent gun safe and a respectable gun collection… But you have to give and take in a marriage.
That’s just in case FUR gets invited to the white house for dinner 🙂
I’d just as soon have a beer and sammich!
What knife do I use to cut my tater tots?
Melmac & a spork.
Yes, as much as possible (minus the fish forks). I am in agreement with @Ocean Sailor. The rest of the time it’s a fork and some container in the refrigerator.
I’m damn glad I’m not Jewish.
Ms. Pinko does it
I’ve only seen this on cruise ships.
I use A spoon…a lot
White plastic is standard. Clear plastic on special occasions.
Yes. And we have Emily Post’s ‘Book of Etiquette’ on hand as well.
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” ~~ John Adams
Ruth’s Crist does this. Fanciest meal I ever ate. Oh, and most expensive as well. But that was one tender piece of beef. I’ll never forget when the waiter scraped the bread crumbs off the table with a special knife just for that purpose. While I think American’s have a reflexive bias against elitism, I do believe there’s a place for manners and high culture. It use to be called being civilized and our country seemed to be a lot more cohesive when we had more, not less, of it. But no, we don’t set our table like this. I’ve never lived in a home which even owned a “fish fork”.
I do a variation on it, but these last few years, I’m considering turning the seafood fork for into one for soylent green when the time comes.
The John Adams quote is perfect.
Well, there’s just Boobie and me. She has twin bowls on her elevated stand and I have a stock of Chinets and SAM’s plasticware.
When I was young my parents would set a dinner table. My mother grew up with the Kennedy family so she knew how.
The culture has devolved to a point where eating out of a trough is now de rigueur.
While I certainly don’t cook meals of this scope–and don’t even have fish forks–I do know how to set a proper table. I also know proper table manners, and one of the reasons I am single is that when I was dating, a man who did not exhibit good table manners on the first date didn”t get a second date. Auntie Yonkers is not, nor was she ever, in the social rehabilitation business.
Mannerliness is critical. And fie on lib types who deem etiquette “elitist.” Etiquette is free and available to all. What could be more democratic?
Look at it this way: the rules for table setting are a codification of orderliness in the same way that rules of grammar and punctuation are. You wouldn’t write a paragraph filled with run-on sentences, misspellings, and punctuation gone awry, would you?
Common Core adherents need not answer.
Only people with stock in Dawn detergent.
I think Mrs Galt has this setting in Chinet.
http://www.mychinet.com/products/family/1
Yes, minus the fish settings, for every holiday meal. It makes the meal more special, I think, and makes a change from the easy casualness of every day. The every day setting is usually knife, fork, spoon.
Oh… you mean my breakfast table setting. Yes, Lovey and I still do.
Thurston Howell, III
Our table has a big trough through the center. I throw the food in and we just use our hands. Hose it down later.
Hell no. In Texas, most meals involve a roll of paper towels on the table.
Bought 12 real high-end china plates at a flea market for 1$/each. Each one a different pattern. Hauled out grandmutha’s silver when we had cornbread and beans. It was fun and the kiddos loved it. Its the everyday, folks, not the holidays.
being retired and raisng our grandchildren, facing and paying higher local,state and national taxes, higher food prices, clothing, fuel prices, water, sewer, electrical prices and all other goods and services, we now use paper plates.
We are much less concerned about decorum and more and more concerned about survival.
We have been fundementally transformed by obama and his socialist policies.
Someday we’re gonna move up to red plastic …
right now we just eat the Popeye’s outta the box.
At Sams Club they sell plastic cutlery that really looks like silverware. But I would advice away from the neat plastic plates that look like designer plates, they are flimsy and you can only put cold foods on them.
And yes, I do set a fancy table for special occasions. Oh, not with seafood forks, or three knives, but respectable and with decent china. It’s my grown boys who really insist. If I don’t drag the cheap gold-plated flatware out and the cheap (but pretty) crystal, linens, etc. they stand and give me mopey looks until I cave.
They insist it’s just not a HOLIDAY without that.
I have a friend who lamented the fact that he could not find egg cups in the United States, so I imagine that he dines in this fashion fairly regularly.
ROTFLMBO at these comments! You all are a trip!
I have 3 sets of dishes. Everyday, Christmas/Thanksgiving ones and then other holidays. No not all that silver. 2 forks, one knife & 2 spoons. If you’re good and I remember, you’ll get a different fork for dessert!
Butt if I can get away with it I’ll use paper!
I miss the good old days.
Eating off bone china makes any food taste better.
No need for wine, water taste terrific in crystal glasses.
Yes, and the plate should be one inch from the edge of the table. Twenty-nine years in Uncles Army didn’t erase that from my mind.