Does anyone else have a favourite teaspoon?

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...

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.

I stole a teaspoon from work

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!!!

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.

Why the reference to Private Eye, greatnan?

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

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.

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).

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??

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 ?

I am going out of the kitchen and into the bedroom [blush} with this topic don't worry not a lot goes on there . I have to have my own pillows I can not sleep if" him in doors" has my pillows and I have his. I have been known in the middle of the night to swap pillows over !!
Sorry I have strayed away from spoons

Oh, I love my bone-handled butter knives!

I am not much of a ' favourite thing 'person . When we cleared the family home my younger brother could not throw anything away that he thought mum & dad especially liked! Mum collected some hideous china & was a tupperware queen and he stored loads it for ages in his garage..might still be there for all I know! My youngest brother and I are different. We chose a few items that we liked and held a memory for us! At last a cutlery link...I took the little bone handled bread & butter knives and use them every day..forgot about those..feeling i belong again

I think it might be an inheritable thing, ej. DD1 once sent me an email a propos of nothing saying that two of her favourite things in the world were a wooden Noerwegian cup I had given her and a china mug that was also a gift from me. Then she said I was never to throw out my old kitchen knife which I'd had when she was little. It was just an old table knife that I'd sharpened and sharpened. I still have it so I won't be in trouble. Phew. It's the best thing for slicing mushrooms.

She's also told me never to get rid of the scarf/shawl I used to wear when she was still in her pram. It has a silver thread running through it.

I think she must have inherited the dominant teaspoon genes from both her dad and me !

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I'm feeling a bit odd..I do not have a favourite piece of cutlery or mug

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I've got a mug that says Supergran on it! Only half of that is true - I am a gran!

I feel left out. All my teaspoons are the same. I do have a favourite coffee mug, though. It's got my name on it.

Gaga my mum had one of those too! She had no truck with special knives for this and that. She had one knife that doubled as a bread knife and a carving knife and one old table knife which was for peeling, chopping et al. It had been sharpened so many times the blade was about three quarters of its original width, but it did the job for her!
My friend once left a teaspoon that she used to feed her baby with at our house after a visit. She got very wound up about not having it and kept reminding me to please make sure it didn't go astray before we saw them again (we only saw each other about four times a year!). In the end, I posted it to her!

Yes - I have a long handled favourite teaspoon that reaches the bottom of the coffee jar!!

Mum used to have a veggie knife she called her 'jimpy-edged knife. It was much easier to use than any other knife.

My Mum had a "little sharp knife" - always referred to by its full name and one which perfectly described it. It was the very sharp broken half blade (+its full handle) of an old tea knife and used for peeling everything. We were all lost when it went missing never to be found again and I have never found a knife as good since!

No hope at all Bags.... I do a lot of counting: peeling pots, slicing carrots etc etc!

Good Lord! I too have a fav; it was silver (I think) and came in a set when I was christened about 100 years ago. Now, it looks very ancient probably because I used it to stir vinaigrette and left it in it - now used to hook out teabags (yes, I now use tea bags instead of the proper stuff )