Reading Food.

At my son and daughter-in-laws at the week-end I ate my food off the written word.

They have the funky plates that have food related words on them. Now the food I was given was great and I didn’t need to have it identified but it did get me wondering if that was the designers purpose.

Had the designer had such a bad experience of pasta that s/he needed to label the bowl in order to know what was being eaten?

Or, more frighteningly, are we all losing the plot so much that we don’t know what kind of crockery we should eat particular foods from?

·         Please place your pasta in the bowl with the word pasta written round the edge and eat with a spoon and fork!!!

Whilst eating habits have changed considerably and the cultural norms around our food rituals are now less proscriptive and allow people more freedom to partake of a wide range of experiences, which I generally think is a very good thing, but, but, but it is very scary how many people do not know what a fish fork is for!!!!!

So cynicism aside I have succumbed and bought a tray with writing on it telling me what I can I can use it for

Carry, Serve, Tea &Coffee, Afternoon Tea, Coffee & Cream

All of which makes good sense, I do carry stuff on it like tea and coffee and serve stuff from it like cake.

However, still trying to work out how to execute the final word STIR, it’s just not working out for me!