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What do you use to eat soup?

188 replies

Stilton1 · 27/12/2021 22:52

Just wondering...

I've grown up with a full(-ish) set of cutlery - table knives, table forks, dessert spoons, soup spoons, dessert knives, dessert forks, teaspoons. And I use them all, because they've always been there.

Many sets of cutlery only contain table knives, table forks, dessert spoons and teaspoons, so I'm assuming this is now the norm and I'm just a bit behind the times. I think that perhaps round soup spoons are a British thing and not used in other European countries?

May I please ask, which items of cutlery do you have in your home? Of those, which do you use? And, finally, what do you use to eat soup when you have company?

OP posts:
DukeofEarlGrey · 27/12/2021 22:54

I grew up with soup spoons and now eat soup with a dessert spoon, or drink it from a mug like a heathen. I am British.

Lightningrain · 27/12/2021 22:54

We’ve always had soup spoons (both as a child and an adult). I’d definitely think it odd if I was served soup without one.

WorraLiberty · 27/12/2021 22:55

I've just got the bog standard table knives, table forks, dessert spoons and teaspoons.

Having company doesn't make me eat soup differently.

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RainbowToes · 27/12/2021 22:57

Always use a soup spoon.

DramaAlpaca · 27/12/2021 22:58

Like OP I have a full set of cutlery, all of which I use appropriately. I always eat soup with a soup spoon and think it's weird to use a dessert spoon for that purpose. I am British and old.

imnottoofussed · 27/12/2021 22:58

I've literally never had a soup spoon, always use a dessert spoon

amusedbush · 27/12/2021 22:58

This is a hot topic in our house. I have my own set of smaller-than-normal dessert spoons with plastic handles because I’m autistic and the thought of using a big spoon makes my teeth feel terrible.

A soup spoon is even more horrifying - it’s so deep and round! It would touch so much of my mouth 😭

KristinAmandaThomas · 27/12/2021 22:58

I eat soup with a dessert spoon. Don't own soup spoons. Don't think I've ever served soup to company, but they'd get given dessert spoons if I did. I do know what a soup spoon looks like, but I don't see the necessity of them and am happy having less clutter in my cutlery drawer

NannyR · 27/12/2021 22:59

Just knives, forks, spoons and teaspoons in my cutlery drawer. I suppose the spoons are officially dessert spoons but I use them for cereal, soup, ice cream, puddings etc. I don't really eat soup that often to justify having a specific set of soup spoons.

JayAlfredPrufrock · 27/12/2021 22:59

Dessert spoons in the drawer.

Soup spoons in the canteen for best.

AppaTheSixLeggedFlyingBison · 27/12/2021 22:59

British-
We have forks, knives, table spoons (though apparantly what I think of as a table spoon might be a dessert spoon, the one that comes in cutlery sets) and tea spoons. With family I eat soup with a teaspoon. With company the table/dessert spoon (whatever it is haha)

PickAChew · 27/12/2021 22:59

The soup spoons we have are part of a set tharlt includes dessert spoons that you simply couldn't eat soup with if you wanted to. They have virtually no bowl to them and don't hood liquid.

I also have some dessert spoons from a set that didn't include soup spoons and they're quite good for eating soup with.

If I had visitors (haha) I'd give them the actual soup spoons, though, as they're just so much nicer quality.

PeaceONoeuf · 27/12/2021 23:00

Soup spoon. Even have cake knives!

PeaceONoeuf · 27/12/2021 23:01

Oops - a cake knife and set of forks

Fizzbo · 27/12/2021 23:01

We have soup spoons as well as desert spoons. Soup doesn’t taste quite right to me unless I eat it from a soup spoon.

RJnomore1 · 27/12/2021 23:01

A soup spoon of course!

Just spent ages trying to find new cutlery that had some abd didn’t bankrupt me.

Way fair if anyone is wondering

MyDcAreMarvel · 27/12/2021 23:01

Soup spoons, I had no idea people didn’t use them. Is this the same people who use their fork as a shovel?

Chunkymenrock · 27/12/2021 23:03

@amusedbush

This is a hot topic in our house. I have my own set of smaller-than-normal dessert spoons with plastic handles because I’m autistic and the thought of using a big spoon makes my teeth feel terrible.

A soup spoon is even more horrifying - it’s so deep and round! It would touch so much of my mouth 😭

A soup spoon isn't meant to go completely in your mouth. It's used to tilt the soup into your mouth from the side.
amusedbush · 27/12/2021 23:03

@MyDcAreMarvel

Soup spoons, I had no idea people didn’t use them. Is this the same people who use their fork as a shovel?
Yes. My mum once told me that watching me use cutlery was like watching monkeys discover tools.

In fact, I’m 100% sure the occupational therapist who observed me using cutlery based my dyspraxia diagnosis heavily on it Grin

WorraLiberty · 27/12/2021 23:03

@MyDcAreMarvel

Soup spoons, I had no idea people didn’t use them. Is this the same people who use their fork as a shovel?
No, generally just people who enjoy their food and don't give a shit if people try to look down on them for it?

Do you have issues or do you just not get out much?

waterlego · 27/12/2021 23:04

My parents had a full canteen of posh cutlery including cake forks etc but they only got it out for ‘best’ (along with the Eternal Beau crockery!) None of that was in day to day use at family meal times. That was all fairly typical of the families I knew when I was growing up.

OH and I don’t have posh cutlery or crockery but we do have soup spoons.

dinahsdishes · 27/12/2021 23:04

Soup spoons here

ButteryNuts · 27/12/2021 23:04

I use a teaspoon!

purpledagger · 27/12/2021 23:05

We have dessert spoons and use them for soup. I like soup, but probably wouldn't serve it to guests (no reason in particular). If I did, they would have to use the dessert spoons.

amusedbush · 27/12/2021 23:05

@Chunkymenrock

That has given me the shivers 🤢

TIP the soup into my mouth? Like emptying a JCB??