SC - butter and garlic

[Stefan li Rous]

I said, that I received for Christmas, new
><< place settings, and one of my  daughters bought teaspoons.  It's a
>   European
>   style set- >>
with very small teaspoons.

>
>Are you sure these are not dessert spoons? Dessert spoons are a little
>smaller than regular teaspoons but larger than demitasse spoons. Sounds 
>like
>it to me.
>
>Ras

Sorry to be so slow to respond.  I went to Ikea to read the packaging.  The 
spoons I have are teaspoons according to the package.  They are about 5 and 
a half inches long.  The miscellaneous other teaspoons I used to use ranged 
from 6 and a quarter to 6 and three-quarter inches.    They also sell soup 
spoons for this set, which are as long as the old teaspoons, but with a 
round bowl.  They also sell 'dessert sets' with a small knife, fork and 
spoon.  But they were out so I could not compare to see the size of that 
spoon.

At any rate, Ikea is a Swedish company, so the odd size didn't surprise me.  
  My husband, though he's been using American eating utensils for almost a 
decade, didn't even notice that they were smaller.    They are about the 
size of the teaspoons his mum has back in Alresford, Essex.

>  Don't Europeans use teaspoons?  Why >would they be so small?
(oops, snipped the poster's name)

They use them, but if my husband and his family are any indication, they 
pretty much use them for stirring tea or coffee, and, now that Ras mentions 
it, eating dessert!  At his home, if a spoon was needed with the meal, the 
tablespoon was used.   I thought dessert was eaten with the smaller spoons 
just because the larger spoons were already dirty, but I guess I was 
mistaken.   Perhaps it is an American habit or maybe it's just my family 
that prefers eating with the smaller spoon, and using the larger tablespoons 
as serving utensils.

Bonne
_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com