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From: baynes@ukpsshp1.serigate.philips.nl (Stephen Baynes)
Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
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Geoff McCaughan (geoff@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: Cissy . Thorpe (cthorpe@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu) wrote:
: > > 
: > I have long labored under the impresstion that a tablespoon was one that 
: > was actually laid on the table with the other silver service, i.e. salad 
: > fork, dinner knife, etc. A teaspoon is usually brought to the table with 
: > the cup and saucer - or more likely to the "drawing" room with the tea 
: > service. Teaspoons are not laid on the table (except possibly at 
: > breakfast, when they become coffee spoons). 
: > 
: > Serving spoons are much bigger than tablespoons. 

: In this part of the world, a tablespoon [as used in cooking] is a serving
: spoon, and is much larger than the spoons you eat with. These are called
: dessert spoons.

Ditto on the opposite side of the world (UK). 
Note that round (rather than oval) dessert size spoons we call soup spoons.

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