to be particular about forks and stuff?

[Lightshines]

its just that I only like certain forks - ones with long tines, I hate stubby forks.

I also like my morning coffee in my Cath Kidston flowery mug, herbal tea in my other Cath K mug and all mugs have to be thin, don't like fat mugs. Hot chocolate is best in the short mug with the lighthouse on the side and I just can't bear soup in a cup at all.

I eat kiwis with the silver spoon I have had all my life, yogurt with a long-handled one and stir my tea with one of the old spoons.

So, is it just me?

Yep, just you :)

You're really sat in a 14th floor council flat surrounded by 17 cats and a gerbil aren't you?

YABU about Cath Ki... Flowery shit lady whatever she is called

I am really not, Worra - but I honestly thought that other people might have similar preferences for their forks, mugs etc

(slinks away and hides)

Ahh right well yes.

I like my forks clean and not plastic (can't stab properly with plastic)

And my mug only chipped on one side so I can turn it round.

It's not just you! We've got some really horrible plain stainless steel cutlery that I wish I'd charity shopped before DP moved in - he insists on using it, and doesn't like Grandma's bone-handled knives, which he says are only for butter, despite their being the wrong shape.

Mugs have to be the right shape and size. What that is depends on the drink, the time of day and the company.

I have a special fork and bowl for eating Chinese takeaway on my own when DP goes out.

your not alone lightshines, my dh is the same, tea in his tea mug, coffee in his coffee mug both must be bone china, different spoons for tea and coffee even takes them to his mums house as he dont like her mugs, only eats his dinner off a white plates with certain knife and fork....drives me completely nutts

I have to have my tea out of a mug that's white inside cos I like to be able to see the contents
Plus I can only use a certain type of cutlery at home DH gets any old thing. Plus I do like proper cake forks, as they're so pretty!!

I can't use a fork if one of the prongs are sprained.

That is the kind of wrong that makes the baby Jesus cry.

Nope, me too
Although you ABU to drink your hot choc from a lighthouse mug; it is best from a small rounded cream one!
I am particular about spoons - I can't bear them with a stumpy rounded bowl or an ungainly 'wrist' between the bowl and handle. Yogurt is best eaten with a teaspoon, custard with a deep bowled teaspoon, and icecream with an even teenier spoon. In restaurants I ask for a small spoon to eat my pudding. Soup can only be eaten from a (non round) dessert spoon. New discovery is a creme egg eaten like a boiled egg, using a mustard spoon

Have just realised I too sound unhinged.

Oh and I can't eat/drink soup from a dessert spoon- a soup spoon or nothing well maybe straight from the mug

I'm not an animal!

GirlWithALlamaTattoo - I am intrigued about the company! What kind of company dictates what kind of mug?!

I'm with you on soup in a cup. Ick. I also cannot bear drinking through the lids of takeaway coffee cups, I have to take the lid off.

Cutlery - we have a proper set, and I wouldn't eat with anything else. But I will only spread butter with the knives from what remains of DH's set of cutlery - our proper knives are too pointy.

I'm not too fussed about mugs, but the one I do like the best is Bucket O'Tea, aka a big Cath Kidston one - it's the size, not the flowery shite. My previous favourite was a Creme Egg one that came with an Easter egg, but that came a cropper when my teapot fell on top of it (the teapot died in the accident too).

I'm really finicky about actual cooking kit though - I hate it when something breaks or wears out because I find things hard to replace. Things just feel right, and sometimes their replacements never do.

yanbu.

My weird rule is porridge with a wooden spoon, ice cream with a metal spoon and yoghurt with a plastic spoon . I cannot do it any other way.

I have been laughed at for this many times .

YANBU! I can't BEAR it when cafes serve me a latte in a glas. A molten hot GLASS for fricks sake. Get me a mug now my man!

I have two mugs also. BUt I like my tea from one of those hand thrown brown earthenware mugs....and my coffee from a large one I got from Paperchase with a picture of a winging eye on it.

Forks? Meh. I'll eat with a paddle if that's all there is.

winking eye...not winging!

Porridge with a wooden spoon? Are you Goldilocks?

oh no, TheHouseOnTheCorner, I can't be doing with anything hand thrown, brown and lumpy looking!!

I was just thinking today that the cutlery at my work is crap and random, and that I'd like to have a secret set in my drawer to use at lunch time. I'm going to do it .

Meglet - porridge is good with a bone spoon, actually, but I don't have one any more (off to search on EBay)

Me too me too. DH thinks I'm bonkers. Forks must have long slender tines. Fat forks are the work of the devil.
Yogurt with a plastic spoon.
Cold drinks in a dainty slim Jim not big bucket glasses.
Normal tea in my normal mugs. Peppermint tea in a white cup and saucer.

I'm sure there is more.

RecursiveMoon - I have my own cutlery to eat my lunch...I wash it up and keep it on top of the filing cabinet for the next day!

You are not alone my friend I am very specific about the cutlery I use - it took me an age to find something suitable. I also have specific ones at places I go often (family, friends) some of them know, some of them don't But when out will eat with whatever I am given but hate overly large cutlery which are more like garden tools

TheHouse - right there with you too!! MUG MUG I do not want scalding liquid in a bloody glass!

Oh yes, mugs need to be a certain size too. Most mugs are too large. I have a nice small one at work, and a nice small bone china one at home.

I think a bone spoon would freak me out. It's a bit gothic.