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.

  • Flying SquidOP
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    -181 month ago

    These are normal soup spoons where I come from.

    • Altima NEO
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      681 month ago

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

      • @tamal3
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        261 month ago

        What in holy hell is a salad spoon

        • 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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        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.

      • Tony N
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        1 month ago

        I love drinking my MTN Dew with a soda 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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        01 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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          101 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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        -151 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.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            -51 month ago

            The point is that these are their only sort of spoons.

            • Ben Hur Horse Race
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              41 month ago

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

              • @idiomaddict
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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

              • Flying SquidOP
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                01 month ago

                I have always done the same, actually.

            • @Madison420
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              11 month ago

              Then eat soup or eat somewhere else?

        • 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.

        • LucasWaffyWaf
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          Or if you were Bob “17 sugars with me tea” Mortimer.

    • @Madison420
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      41 month ago

      That’s a tablespoon boss.

    • @Dkarma
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      21 month ago

      Those are tea spoons. R u caveman?

      • Flying SquidOP
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        -61 month ago

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