Does anyone else have a favourite teaspoon?

Yes, my favourite has a rather long handle and is good for tall mugs, strangely it has British Airways stamped on the reverse of the handle Where the heck did that come from ?

OMG - I have two favourite knives that only get used on a Saturday afternoon when my husband & I have toast - that is the only day we have toast, and the only day those two knives get used!!! Obsessive - who, me??

Glad to see I am not the only Private Eye reader!
When I was a child, we were too poor to have matched sets of crockery or pans and all our utensils had their own names , such as Little Pan, railway mug (filched from a train in the sidings near our house), holy mug (lent to our religious fanatic neighbhour with sugar in it, and bent fork (self explanatory).

I have to measure the tea out with the special tea spoon kept in the tea caddy but one of our sons-in-law always uses it to stir the tea after pouring! I spend ages everytime they go home tracking the blessed thing down. I wonder what he thinks it is doing in the tea caddy?

I have two of my mother-in-law's table spoons which are really disreputable but just the job for using in the kitchen for all sorts of things.

No, but I have a favourite all purpose little knife.

Why the reference to Private Eye, greatnan?

My DS & DD children now 35 and 33ish used to argue like mad about an odd teaspoon with a lined pattern on the handle. It was called "The Spoon With The Stripes On" and the source of much sibling rivalry and argument over who ate with it. I haven't seen it for years. I often wonder if one or other has hoarded it away somewhere as a trophy of sibling battles.

I have just remembered that at boarding school we would all hope to get the forks that had a particular design on the back below the tines! You could be very smug if you got one! No idea why!!!

I stole a teaspoon from work

Private Eye does a spoof interview every issue where they pretend to ask famous people 'Have you ever had an interesting experience with a spoon?' or something similar. The replies are couched in the typical style of the interviewee.

Haha great had forgotten those articles. We have a shed full of PE dating back years. Tried to get OH to throw them away sell them before we moved...

My wife uses any knife for anything - can be facinating to watch - but I've only got one egg spoon - it has the perfect end with which to peel soft boiled eggs for brekky!!! Sad eh?

Oh, yes - thanks Greatnan, I'd forgotten those interviews as well! We stopped buying PE soon after Gordon Brown was dispatched - wasn't as funny when the Coalition got in!

I was so excited to find I am not alone in having a favourite teaspoon!

ameliaanne

I had a favourite long handled long bladed kitchen knife which I would use for everything and even took it with me if we rented a cottage till the day I left it in the drawer up in GlenLivet, tempted to re-book and see if is still there.

My favourite spoon for yoghourt is the one bought for my first baby son 31 years ago. It has a dolphin on it. I always look for it first in the drawer before making do with another one.

I don't have to stir my tea as I don't have milk and sugar, but I do have a caddy spoon I am attached to as my DS1 made it at school in a metalwork class. I have wooden one with an elephant on top that I use for ordinary tea - the other one is for Earl Grey. I also have a bread knife and bread board bought 47 years ago in Nairobi when I acquired - and had to equip - my own bungalow on our school compound. But I'm not obsessive - not me.

I do have a favourite pair of nail scissors which I nicked borrowed from my mother over 50 years ago and never gave back- I don;t think I could use a different pair of nail scissors (wonder what Mum did?)

I have different mugs for different drinks at different times of day. And different racing mugs for racing days. And I've realised I have to get a union jack mug for Sunday for the first cup of tea of the day. Have just remembered the spoon that we had in the tea caddy when I was a child which had sort of ridges on the end. I haven't got it now, but I do have the caddy. And I have someones prep school knife; he was a university friend of my ex husband..not sure how I ended up with his knife.

P.S. Not only do I have a favourite teaspoon, but I also have an exact replica as a spare to cover all contingencies..............

Thank goodness crimson I also have mugs for different times! Big one for first cuppa of the day, dainty one for coffee, modern ones and old fashioned ones depending on my mood ..

ameliaanne, are you a gemini like me? I have 2 of everything!!!

I have
1large mug to take to bed (skeleton)
2 one large mug for morning coffee (sea areas for weather)
3 mugs that fit under my coffee machine (assorted birds and flowers)
4 large blue mug for dd (that cleaner uses as well)
5 nuclear electric mug for gardner
6 numerous assorted mugs with ships etc

Oh and I forgot my Sagittarius one!

I'm just as bad as the rest of you

Anyone else got their Coronation teaspoon still? !! We were all given one at school. Mine went to school with GS on Monday and he had to take it to show everty class!