to be particular about forks and stuff?

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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?

I just bought a lovely cutlery set for at work because of this thread, I'm ridiculously excited .

YANBU. I hate stumpy forks, where the prong bits are really shrt and its almost a spork. Gah. I also hate cutlery with massive heavy handles, or round ones. The knife and fork have to match too. Drinks definately taste better out of the right shaped mug, cant stand really thick stumpy mugs, or most of the freebie easter egg style mugs the my dh seems to acquire at a rate of knots that i loath.

Tea in the Orla Kiely Mugs
Coffee in the tall slender cat mugs
Pastry forks with pastries/cakes
Soup spoons with soup with the soup in small white round bowls
Muesli and yoghurt in small glass bowls
Recycled Nutella jars for juice
On Sunday afternoons at about 3.30pm a nice cup of tea in a proper bone china cup and saucer in the posh sitting room.
We have a nice stainless steel set of cutlery in the kitchen and various bits and pieces from people who are now dead old sets that I can't bring myself to throw away but the knife and fork have to match.

I've read through this thread and I can understand and agree with the sentiments/anguish of everybody really.

I drink tea from a Dunoon breakfast cup. They're hugely expensive and difficult to find so I had to stock up on them and have five, still in their boxes, on a shelf.

I will only use my cutlery that has pastel twisty plastic handles - my husband has proper cutlery that I don't like - the tines are not sharp and it all just feels wrong.

I don't like china to match - I take fancies to certain patterns (Burgenland, Thomas the Tank Engine, for example) or completely plain but not white - pale blue, green, yellow, pink, etc. and NOBODY is ever allowed to eat off my own personal plates.

I will only eat deserts with plastic spoons - not any old plastic, they have to be melamine-type in various colours - never white.

I have lots of childrens' plates and will often eat dinners off those tiny plates just because I love them; they're not suitable for adults really and I'd be considered a loon by most.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one with exacting and peculiar stipulations...

married, I'm loving the idea of you glugging down juice from a Nutella jar, then later popping into the sitting room and sipping tea from a bone china cup and saucer .

I feel like this thread has given me cart blanche (sp?) to express my foibles!

Seeing adults eat cereal with a teaspoon makes me cringe. Use a grown up spoon!

We hate the long, thin forks we have and have to use my chunky, stubby ones.
Hot drinks must be served in chunky mugs. Unless its herbal tea then only my glass mugs will do.

RecursiveMoon - so good that MN was able to liberate you!

Amazed at how many MNers eat yogurt with a plastic spoon - which in our house, are strictly only for medicine and babies!

"I eat kiwis with the silver spoon I have had all my life"

You don't say.

Reading this thread has made me feel very normal!

I have two sets of cutley (only very subtle differences in the style) but I have to use a knife and fork from a matching set.

I hate tall mugs, like latte style ones. Similarly I hate normal height mugs that are twice as round, thus resulting in a bigger surface area so the tea cools too quickly.

I am a bit bonkers particular about this sort of thing.

I can only drink tea out of a thin, bone china mug that is white inside, can't stand thick or coloured ones. In addition, it should be tall and thin rather than short and squat.
I have a slightly thicker, tall, thin mug for coffee. I can't drink tea out of this mug.
I have to warm the mug before use, because if my tea isn't scalding hot, I can't drink it.

I can't drink out of a glass that is the "wrong" shape, if it is too squat then I would literally rather go thirsty, though I can get round this by using a straw instead. If a cold drink isn't cold enough then I can't drink it either. I have to use a straw to drink from a can too.

I struggle to eat from a plate with patterns on it, I need the eating surface to be plain white china. I hate paper plates too

I have a particular spoon for eating soup with, and it's the only one I can use (it isn't a soup spoon). If it is for some reason unavailable, then I can only eat the soup by soaking it up with bread. The idea of soup in a mug actually makes me gag.

I can't use plastic cutlery, I'd rather eat with my fingers. I used a metal spoon to wean DD, as I couldn't bear to test the temperature of her food on my lips with a plastic spoon. And as for those wooden forks you get with fish and chips

I have certain cutlery for certain foods and when I lost my spoon from my first set of proper cutlery as a child I didn't eat cereal for months and dragged DH around loads of shops to find a similar one. I never succeeded but got something that did. It's been about 9 years or more and I still miss my spoon. I do have OCD though - that's my excuse and I am sticking to it!

I cannot abide eating things using a teaspoon, eurgh, horrible. I have to use a proper spoon, for small pots of yoghurt it still has to be a real spoon. Also cutlery has to match, I can't eat using a mismatched knife and fork.

On my first trip to New York, I made the mistake of ordering tea in a diner, whilst everyone else had coffee. I was brought a cup of hot water in a brown earthenware mug with a Lipton's teabag on the side to dunk in it. For some reason, when everyone else had free refills of their coffee I ordered another cup of tea, and was just brough a fresh cup of hot water and had to re-use the same teabag.

I spent the rest of the holiday desperate to get home to my usual china mug for tea.

It's not so important what's on the outside of the mug, but it definitely has to be white on the inside.

I have a tiny egg spoon which is only allowed to be used for Creme Eggs.

Once I've bitten the top off the creme egg, the spoon is the PERFECT size to scoop out the innards. Tidy and non-sticky - lovely!

I remember as a care worker for the first time going to a new client, and her not very patiently having to explain exactly which sized teaspoon she liked for her yoghurt. I memorised it and always produced the same teaspoon after that. It's not just you

'I eat kiwis with the silver spoon I have had all my life' - I was not born with it in my mouth, Aribura

I think it was actually a Christening present and its perfect for kiwi!

I have a thing about knives and forks not matching and my dd laughs at me but I prefer things to match. Everything in my kitchen matches anything that does not is put away until I need it.

Forks should have long, thin tines. And four of them. Not 3 stubby ones

Mugs - the short, pink one for coffee, the blue handpainted one for tea and Ikea ones for the builders. I think I need a lighthouse mug.

And yes, never ever put soup in a mug.

YANBU. Totally with you on this.