I love my Corelle. I’m still managing to chip and break it, but it’s really slowed down my natural process.
I was enjoying seeing things from the husband side of the equation - us wimminfolk go out shopping and get nice things for the house, and our husbands dutifully ooh an ah over them, but THIS IS WHAT THEY’RE REALLY THINKING! Hah, you’ve blown your cover now, flano1. Also, we don’t know their domestic arrangement. At this point, I just assume that each couple has an arrangement that’s working for them.
Not to go the OP one better, but we have hexagonal plates. And bowls. And serving pieces. A whole set that belonged to the wife’s mother. I don’t mind them.
I recently got a set of corelle plates to use for casual eating and for the kids - they are lighter and easier for them to set and clear the table. I thought they were supposed to also be shatter-proof…but my 5 year old dropped one on the tile floor the other day and it shattered like a regular plate. I was like WTF?
They’re shatter-resistant (as I have also found out). You can bounce them off the floor once or twice, but sooner or later they’ll break, too. My laminate floor isn’t too bad, but your tile floor - pretty much everything will break on that.
Huh. I don’t think you laid on the snark too heavily at all. Your post is exactly what I was thinking while I was reading the OP! I was thinking, geez, if I came in from outside, washed my hands and sat down at the table to a nicely prepared, complete meal, the last thing I’d do is complain about what kind of dishes it was in/on!
As for “modern” trends I don’t like: all of them! The problem with “modern trends” is that in ten years, they look dated! Doesn’t matter if you spent several thousands of dollars on that concrete counter-top, in five years, it’ll look like you put in your counter-top somewhere between 2008-2011!
I’ll stick with the classics, thanks!
And yes, we have Correlle dishes. My only complaint about them is that when you stack the plates in the sink and soak them (hey, my dishwasher is old and lame!), they tend to ‘suction’ together using the water! Otherwise, I like 'em a lot!
God yes. With badly-painted roosters or anthropomorphized sunshine in the center. They belong in the Dollar Store or a model condo. Give me plain dishes, please.
Square ones seem very '90s to me. Don’t hate them though they seem a bit harder to clean.
I like square dishes, but it turns out the larger ones I equipped myself with some time ago are actually service plates – they’re too big to serve dinner on, and not just from a fussy etiquette perspective (although that would be sufficient) but because they’re so vast that any amount of food short of an entire suckling pig appears minuscule.
I should get myself some actual (square) dinner plates one of these days. At least the square bread and butter plates are nice.
I am so jealous. The only way they could possibly be better is if they were octagonal. I’m sort of obsessed with the number 8, and octagons. However, it drives me crazy that octagonal tiles need square tiles in order to come out even.
Are you sure that that’s not sunflowers? Because sunflowers were on every home decor item for a while. I like sunflowers, but not THAT much.
My parents have a big set of ironstone dishes from the 60s or 70s that have several sizes of blue and white octagonal plates. I think even the cups are octagonal. They keep trying to give it to me, but I’ve been resisting. They’re really heavy, yet chip easily.
Seriously lieu, anything that makes you cranky on a daily basis should just be gotten rid of. There’s really no point in owning stuff that just makes you mad.
New dishes are cheaper than arguing with your spouse.
For about five years now, our everyday use set is square – plates, bowls, glasses. I like them. Easy to grip, nice lip on the side, fit in the cabinets well. I don’t see ever going back to round.
Well, if you gave my father a plate that said “CHICKEN FRIED STEAK CHICKEN FRIED STEAK” or “LASAGNA LASAGNA LASAGNA”, and the plate contained the food mentioned, yes, he would. He LOVES chicken fried steak. And lasagna.
I don’t necessarily mind the look – but they are not very functional as sinks. (Friends recently bought a house with a couple of them.) Hard to keep clean and the high-concept faucets tend to spatter. Kids have trouble with the height.
Also water collects between the counter and the bottom of the bowl, where it’s impossible to scrub or dry, and collects grossness. Also they’re fucking ugly. Goddamn roundish protuberances of suck.
Our friends clean that bit on theirs by sort of flossing them with a microfiber towel, which removes the gross grossness but leaves some spots. Which, since the bowl is made of clear, bluish glass, are highly visible.
About the fucking ugliness: I don’t find them as aesthetically donkey-humping as the mid-70s fake-wood fake-colonial fake-whitewashed louvered vanity surround and matching towel cabinet that were in our bathroom when we moved in, so my standards should probably be considered damaged.