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When it comes to cutlery I do not think semi utilitarian descriptions and labelling such as "industrial strength" and "military grade" has any bearing. Cutlery being a civic notion or custom I think what is important in conjunction with cutlery are practises related to our modern world and it's value system. For example the practise of viewing some metals as more precious than others, even taking out the "metal dream team" through name a few of them "precious metals". Oh yes there is a definition to this in chemistry relating to the number of electrons in the outer shells but most people would not be able to recite that, they just think that gold is better than silver.

So when it come to cutlery I would oblige to the common notion of our value system and say that gold cutlery is more premium than silver, next would be well designed and good looking and feeling cutlery followed by well designed but ugly looking counterparts. There after normal cutlery and further down the list eastern state punched utensils made from metals that bend easily and then plastic handle forks and spoons from Ikea that breaks when you use them in a dish washer. The list could end with those. But then we would have overlooked the number one utensil of the US. The plastic utensil. You find them everywhere. In fast food restaurants, in take away restaurants but also in peoples homes and in their kitchens. This is strange to anyone with the slightest environmental awareness. But then again we are talking about the nation that would not sign the Kyoto-agreement there by blocking any effective appliance of it.

So what is this rant about? Well I found this in my kitchen...

This plastic bag is the source of many questions. The most prominent one being: Can anyone really rank blue plastic spoons as "Premium Cutlery"? How is that possible? Compared to almost any other cutlery made of wood or metal I can't think of a worse material for cutlery actually being used. Another question is what are these spoons doing in the kitchen? I am far from convinced that I will never know the answer to this. I mean the real answer. Not the stupid one: "to eat liquid food with" said in a high pitched dorky voice... Over and out from Premium land.