Dinner sets should be white and white only. AIBU?

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I’ll give you a pass for off white.

Please someone tell me they also remember when the woman posted her roast dinner on a clear see through plate? #wistful

Are we using the Spode or the Royal Worcester?

70isaLimitNotaTarget I used to love browsing in The Pier, but hardly ever bought anything in there.

I have a mix of white round and square Denby plates www.denbypottery.com/white/plate/128010005 They have a rounded corner, and I like them because they are big! I have loads of their serving dishes and other bits and pieces that I have bought in TK Maxx.

o0 i love them!

I think white looks a bit hospital/soup kitchen personally.
Especially when it’s only really because it’s easier to replace broken ones.Nothing worse than a cracking glaze on white either.

Alsohuman, I got them from Joules a few years ago. They don't have them now but you might find them on ebay!

dark green denby here love them white plates are like having school dinners at home

Talk to Sèvres.

I was a lodger in a house once where the ladylady favoured octagonal black dinnerware.

I still grind my teeth when I think about it.

Until the kids are older I'll stick with plan white, because it doesn't really date and it's easy to replace broken plates etc.

This thread has reminded me that we have a set of willow pattern crockery which has never been used- since 1918! For reasons nobody remembers, it has been stored in our attic (and previously in the old house which was demolished when this one was built) but never, ever used. It's in beautiful condition and all the gilding is intact, but it seems really sad that it has never been used. It isn't massively valuable (I checked!) but MrCarpet would have a fit if any was broken, hence wanting to wait until the boys have flown the nest.

I think they can be whatever people want so long as they match! White, blue, brown, etc. I do think see-through is a bridge too far, however!

I love a Mish mash of crockery, I've currently got 4 styles of dinner plate 2 types of side plates and 3 types of bowls, I just buy pieces as I need them and whichever one takes my fancy, which is usually in the sale!

God no! I have a hugely eclectic mix of crockery because some things look far better on colour than they do white.

Go into any Michelin restaurant and they use a plate that complements the dish, not just plain white throughout.

White dinner service, sure.

White towels? Not a chance. Even with a good washing regime they go grey far too easily.

*I was a lodger in a house once where the ladylady favoured octagonal black dinnerware.

I still grind my teeth when I think about it.*
My sister bought a set like that when she got her first job, and insisted that we all used it. The mugs were especially uncomfortable to use.

Ahh, I see C8H10N4O2 got there first. Caffeine clearly makes you sharper.

I have such a small kitchen that if I have round dinner plates I cant actually shut the cupboard door so have to use square ones... to make things worse everything else is round o.O

I agree, and if you're going to deviate from white then it should be white with a dark blue accent.

nauticant I used to have those, thought they were the height of sophistication. When my daughter left home she took them with her.

70isaLimitNotaTarget I loved going in The Pier in the Trafford Centre, it was like Aladdin's Cave.

YANBU.
The following should also all be white: towels, bedding, walls.
Makes replacement/repainting easy.

I have a few sets - most are white / cream....

My wedding China has a pattern on the rim

I have black plates / bowls for sushi & buddy bowls

I have glass dessert plates

I have square plates (but rarely use them - got them years ago)

I also have a set of those silly bowls with huge rims (again bought years ago)

I am also useless at throwing things out 😂

I've just ate cheesecake off my Granddaughter's paw patrol plate, it didn't change how it tasted. So can't understand the fuss.

I often eat off my Inherited glass/Pyrex plates, when I'm on a diet, they are the ideal size.

Argh those octagonal black bowls would be like eating from an ashtray!

the black octagonal set was by Arcoroc and was all the rage in the 80s I had that for my dining room when we owned a guest house it looked posh for the guests but it couldn't go in the microwave as I found out when a plate complete with my roast chicken dinner exploded, I also like coloured towels, patterned bedding don't do cushions

Being black it was easy to overlook dirty parts, the seams were a food trap, and the mugs were an absolute pain to clean DontDribbleOnTheCarpet. Even though that trauma is long in the past, my dinnerwear has been plain and white for decades now.

You’d have to fight me for my Denby Imperial Blue - already had to fight off one ex SIL CF who told xh that she’d buy it off him after I’d paid for every damn bit of it out of my own works bonus scheme (oh the days of a bonus scheme!!!!!).