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you are given those sorts of spoons (on the left) on "chifa" (restaurants that serve chinese/peruvian-chinese food) places over here, and let me tell you they are nice

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@georgia i think theres a place for both
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@georgia they call me the center
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𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄 𐌰𐌺𐌺𐍉𐌼𐍀𐌻𐌹 suomi_stamp

@georgia The fancy kind of soup that you eat with a western spoon is typically homogeneous and more like a liquid, e.g. bisque and bouillabaisse, so the soup spoon is appropriate in that case and you can also eat some of it by dipping in bread. Stews are thicker, on the other hand, but I don't think those are meant to be eaten with a soup spoon.
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@georgia Hard agree (in fact why the heck haven't I bought asian spoons yet)
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@georgia Like western spoons are fine except for soup.
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@georgia Western "spoons" are a multi-tool in disguise. Not only do they allow you to consume soup, the edges are hard and sharp enough to also cut through many things that you would need a knife for. I've eaten a million meals without picking a knife and fork because the spoon could do both things just fine. Of course as any multi-tool it doesn't excel at many of the things it does.
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@Kerosene spoons are good for twirling spaghet too
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@georgia i blame euro nobility etiquette

you werent supposed to actually eat your fancy food, just taste it while looking fashionable
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@georgia bascally the spoon on the left exists because you cant spoon stuff with chopsticks, thus why its a big deep spoon.

but the spoon on the right overall is more useful for a wider set of tasks compared to that of the deeper spoon
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@Kerosene @georgia Meaning sporks are the ultimate western "spoon"?
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@georgia @Kerosene idk i don't like wet food like that
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@georgia @Kerosene no not really but I've smelled some really nice soups
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@lanodan @georgia They truly are. Sporks are like the gladius which Romans used to conquer the world, not the best at cutting or thrusting, but good enough at both. If an alien empire made of creatures resembling different types of dishes invaded earth, the army equipped with sporks would be able to fight many battles under many different conditions due to its versatility.
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@lanodan @Kerosene @georgia true, if the meat and such is soft enough, you can just easily eat it with a normal spoon. For soup you just grab the bigger spoon shrugz
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@creamqueen @Kerosene I dont really have textural preferences with food except for stuff like cottage cheese I can't eat but thats more aesthetic
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@georgia @Kerosene that salmon was so good I can't wait to try the next place
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@creamqueen @Kerosene my soup was weird (I should've known cause I'm not a parsnip fan) but I really liked my salad
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@paula99 @Kerosene @creamqueen I'm gonna have spaghet tonight now its carb time
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@georgia @Kerosene @creamqueen i had gnocchi with alfredo sauce (just the sauce, no chicken) for lunch today
having burga tonight
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@creamqueen @Kerosene @georgia like normal?
idk i just find it weird to say its wet
like is a very juicy steak wet?
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@paula99 @Kerosene @georgia that's different the steak is fatty and natural. I don't like sauce at all it ruins everything
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@paula99 @Kerosene @georgia just be good at cooking and you won't need sauce
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@georgia @Kerosene @paula99 tbh vegetables and noodles need all the help they can get
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@georgia @Kerosene @paula99 I don't really fw that many vegitals I'm trying to think of other ones I eat
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@georgia as an unfortunate westerner, most of us dont care much about soup and it's a shame
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western soups are all about the chunks. the broth is just like dressing
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@miscbrains @lanodan @georgia @Kerosene this was the best Doom mod ever given away as a cereal box prize in the nineties
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@georgia our soup has more stuff in it, which is the main attraction. The spoon is for scooping the chunks out. Asian spoons are for broth, but that's boring and we don't mind leaving some behind.

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@georgia if you want a serious soup spoon use a ladel
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@georgia western soup spoon is just the superior tool



for eating economy rice
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@georgia metal spoons are absolutely terrible for soup consumption, yes put hot liquid on metal great way to burn your lips / mouth. Also the spoon is too shallow to get very much anyway so you end up eating all the chucky bits and then have a bowl full of broth – and get this, drinking directly from the bowl is seen as uncouthed in old time uptight contexts, absurd.

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@georgia

except that you can't get all the stuff that is in the chinese spoon, like rice or meat

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