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The perfect use for spoons in the "bad spoon" drawer (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/autisticandadhd@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31416567

... eating ice cream directly from the pint.

It always destroys spoons eventually, might as well use ones too sharp, too tinny, too light, the wrong shape, or with just the wrong bend in them already.

Edit: for all the head scratchers out there, it's a trait some of us neurodivergent folks have. Some forks or spoons or whatever are nice to hold, and some are actually upsetting to use.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 day ago

Ugh, I hate eating ice cream with the wrong spoon.

[–] jahtnamas@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

there's a fork in our house, used to be part of a 4 piece set but the other 3 vanished at some point, that's just a fork head mounted on a rounded black plastic handle. over the years this fork's handle has become viscerally upsetting to hold as it deforms and bubbles from having sat too long in dishwater. i hate it. i wish it to be gone from our silverware collection like its ilk. i will literally go to the thrift store and pick up several all-metal pieces to replace it, just let me get rid of this one.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i don't have a bad spoon drawer but now i realize i probably should have one. or get rid of ~~all~~ most of my current ones which are an unmatched Hodge podge of accumulated one-offs.

luckily the arms race between my typical ice cream's defense and spoons' offense has maintained an balance thus far.

[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Other uses: stirring the honey into my mint tea! Measuring cocoa powder! Basically anything where I can reasonably chuck it in the sink instead of using it to carry food to my mouth.