OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:56:53 -0500, "SA"
wrote:

OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

Stick toy using your fingers and don't worry about it.

-- Larry

"SA" wrote in message
...
OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

Life is cruel sometimes
Oh, oh
So cruel
Those damn restauranteurs
Always ****in' with us
No spoons, no sporks
Only knifes, and ****in' forks
How can I eat my peas
Give me a spoon I won't say please
Life is so cruuuuuel

SA wrote:
OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?


Why do you want to scrape the potato out of the skin? Don't like the
skins? Eat the skin and all and there's no problem. Whoever ate potatoes
with a spoon, except infants? Like wise corn - I've NEVER seen anybody
have a problem with eating corn with a fork. If you do, just mix the
corn with the potato and eat them both together. I mean after all,
they're going into the same stomach and coming out the same bung hole,
right?

Two forks - one's for the salad and the other is for eating dinner. You
start from the outside and work inwards with eating utensils when you
eat out (or even if you are still living with your parents at home).

And yes, all restaurants except for BK, Taco Belch, and other fast food
places give one the basic fork/knife/spoon set. What you may not get is
a soup spoon, because not everyone eats soup.

Gads, what a douche bag!
--
Jack

Jack wrote:
SA wrote:
OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many
restaurants don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked
potato or corn with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the
skin with a fork?? Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for?
What ever happened to the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and
knife?

Why do you want to scrape the potato out of the skin? Don't like the
skins? Eat the skin and all and there's no problem. Whoever ate potatoes
with a spoon, except infants? Like wise corn - I've NEVER seen anybody
have a problem with eating corn with a fork. If you do, just mix the
corn with the potato and eat them both together. I mean after all,
they're going into the same stomach and coming out the same bung hole,
right?

Two forks - one's for the salad and the other is for eating dinner. You
start from the outside and work inwards with eating utensils when you
eat out (or even if you are still living with your parents at home).

And yes, all restaurants except for BK, Taco Belch, and other fast food
places give one the basic fork/knife/spoon set. What you may not get is
a soup spoon, because not everyone eats soup.

Gads, what a douche bag!

Well, I agree with the OP. Why a spoon for a baked potato?
Because I prefer to scrape out the potato, put some butter,
S&P in side the skin and eat it that way. If I don't finish
the insides I really don't care but don't mess with my skin
"boats".

Some people don't like mixing different things, i.e. corn
and taters. I'm not one of 'em but my BIL absolutely
refuses to let one thing even *touch* another. A little
weird? To me, yup. To him, nope. And I really don't give a
rats asshole, he's eating it why should I care.

I wouldn't know about BK, TB, etc as I haven't been to or
eaten from a fast food puke joint in about 20 years but we
go to a place which is a pretty nice place that makes a
great clam dish in a saffron broth. The broth is to die
for... but they never give me a freekin' spoon! I always
have to ask.

Yell all you want at me too, but the OP's right.

--
Steve

On Sep 27, 12:39 pm, Don Salad wrote:
"SA" wrote:

OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

Eat the skin!

Thanks,
Don

My sentiments exactly.

On Sep 27, 4:56 am, "SA" wrote:
OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

(with tongue partially in cheek) Unless you are having soup, coffee,
iced tea, soft-boiled eggs, pudding, eating family style, having Tony
Bourdain's 'Last Meal' or making your own pot of tea at the table
there is no proper ecological reason to put one out. While there are
dinner knives and dinner forks, there is no dinner spoon. There are
soup spoons, demitasse spoons, iced tea spoons, egg spoons, dessert
spoons, table spoons, marrow spoons and tea spoons; but, alas, to
repeat myself, no such thing as a dinner spoon (unless you frequent
the base mess or certain take-away joints where the institutional
crossbreed called a spork can sometimes be spotted).

"Don Salad" wrote in message
d.net...
"SA" wrote:

OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a
fork??


Eat the skin!

Then he'd have to buy toilet paper instead.

On Sep 27, 2:39 pm, Don Salad wrote:
"SA" wrote:

OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

Eat the fork. Save your skin!

IF&c.

--
YOP...

One reason for not eating potato skins is they can be toxic: When
you're served a potato in a restaurant you have no idea how old it
was, how green it was, or how hot it got during cooking which, note,
only partially destroys the toxic compound.

Wikipedia:

Potatoes contain glycoalkaloids, toxic compounds, of which the most
prevalent are solanine and chaconine. Cooking at high temperatures
(over 170 °C or 340 °F) partly destroys these. The concentration of
glycoalkaloid in wild potatoes suffices to produce toxic effects in
humans. Glycoalkaloids occur in the greatest concentrations just
underneath the skin of the tuber, and they increase with age and
exposure to light. Glycoalkaloids may cause headaches, diarrhea,
cramps and in severe cases coma and death; however, poisoning from
potatoes occurs very rarely. Light exposure also causes greening, thus
giving a visual clue as to areas of the tuber that may have become
more toxic; however, this does not provide a definitive guide, as
greening and glycoalkaloid accumulation can occur independently of
each other. Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid
concentrations than others; breeders developing new varieties test for
this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:10:45 -0700, jes wrote:

One reason for not eating potato skins is they can be toxic: When
you're served a potato in a restaurant you have no idea how old it
was, how green it was, or how hot it got during cooking ....

Similar concerns apply to everything you eat without preparing it
yourself. Either you trust the chef, or you should eat at home.

-- Larry

In article ,
Steve Calvin wrote:

Yell all you want at me too, but the OP's right.

I can tell you that SOME restaurants DO give you a spoon. Like the one
I used to work at as a second job. A privately owned place in St.
Charles, MO called Trailhead Brewing Company.

But the reason some restaurants don't distribute spoons is that it
reduces silverware cleaning costs to not clean spoons that were never
used. Those restaurants will give you a spoon a request, but then they
will wash a spoon that was actually used.

It may seem silly, thinking that spoons are small, and so washing them
may not seem a big deal. But it is like pennies. One penny isn't much.
A handful of pennies may add up to a small bit. A truckload of pennies
might be enough for a nice vacation, but the volume is noticeable. A
few spoons is not much. But a silverware tray of spoons is significant.
And many cities have health codes that mandate all silverware be double
washed. If the silverware is mixed, it then all has to be separated,
stored, and if the place in question wraps its silverware inside the
napkin, then that is an extra set of motions for each napkin. All those
extra bits add to labor, and thus to labor costs.

Grumble as much as you want, but when the impact is a bottom line jolt
to satisfy that one in 300 customers when anyone can ask for a spoon and
only those who want one will dirty one, and it should be clear why
management has made this decision.

jt

In article . com,
Rachel wrote:

On Sep 27, 12:39 pm, Don Salad wrote:
"SA" wrote:

OK what's with spoons in restaurants? Why is it that so many restaurants
don't put out spoons? Like they expect you to eat a baked potato or corn
with a fork? How much potato can you scrape out of the skin with a fork??
Then give you 2 forks. What the hell is that for? What ever happened to
the good old days when you got a fork, spoon and knife?

Eat the skin!

Thanks,
Don

My sentiments exactly.

For what it's worth, I do like the skin, also. Not only is it tasty,
but that membrane between the skin and the bulk of the potato is also
the most nutritional part of said potato.

But if some like to scrape the insides and then eat the skin separately,
who am I to object. Just give them a spoon on request and be happy with
your own potato.

jt

jt august wrote:


Grumble as much as you want, but when the impact is a bottom line jolt
to satisfy that one in 300 customers when anyone can ask for a spoon and
only those who want one will dirty one, and it should be clear why
management has made this decision.

jt

Then I avoid those cheap a**ed places. I'm going out to
dinner because I don't *want* to cook or do dishes. I cook
most every night. Give me a freekin' spoon or I'll go
somewhere else. Geeze.

--
Steve

In article ,
Steve Calvin wrote:

Then I avoid those cheap a**ed places. I'm going out to
dinner because I don't *want* to cook or do dishes. I cook
most every night. Give me a freekin' spoon or I'll go
somewhere else. Geeze.

That is your prerogative as a consumer. The power of choice!

jt