utensils to use to serve the food(s) . . . if served “family style”.
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In my giant ass family, “family style” was like a game of hungry hungry hippos. If you go looking for any kind of serving utensils the food would be gone by the time you got back to the table.
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Serving. The giant spoon is for serving peas or mashed potatoes. The giant fork is for serving cold cuts or spinach.
Whoever brings the food to the table brings the serving utensils at the same time.
A neighbor of mine has a food truck called Hungry Hippo Eats - been meaning to try it sometime
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Now back on topic, here are a couple of finalists, based on price, availability, and features we like:
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I see this often in Hollywood movies, but do white families actually use these? Even for salad? I have these giant forks and spoons too, never touched them. Maybe if I host a potluck or something (do people still have these)
You don’t use serving spoons?
My family has always had serving utensils in the shared dishes. Honestly, I might just use a soup spoon as the serving utensil for peas, but broccoli, for instance, will always have a large serving utensil. So will spaghetti sauce, or chili, or rice, or spinach, lentils, or chickpeas or…
So, how do you serve the food? Does everyone just reach into the bowl with their own spoon? Does the cook portion it out at the stove with the cooking utensils?
asians just use chopsticks and snatch whatever you want family style.
Yes, but with chopsticks.
I use serving utensils with Chinese food, and then eat my portion with chopsticks. That’s true whether I make it myself or buy takeout. I’m going to say, “yes, white families typically use serving utensils”. Black families, too, in my experience.
Why do you even have flatware, let alone serving flatware, if you never use it?
It came with the set 
Also, I do use forks and spoons. I actually don’t like chopsticks
The set of what? Pots?
Utensils
posted while I was typing.
I actually really like chopsticks, for the sort of food they are designed for. I feel sloppy eating certain dishes with a fork.
I’ve seen families of a wide range of ethnicities and cultures use these . . . including “white people”.
For many serving utensils, especially the giant-sized ones, are likely items that people put on wedding registries because, TRADITION!
But in all the years of being married to my first wife, we never lived in an apartment that was big enough to accommodate many of our fine china and serving utensils, so to this day it’s possible that they continue to sit in the basement of my former in-laws.
The fine china we got when we were married lives in the dining room, and only gets used a couple times a year. But the serving utensils that came with the stainless flatware live in the kitchen and get used every day.
In some parts, you’ll see people using bread to eat with, sopping up sauces or “gravy.”
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I wonder what the correlation of “uses bread to get all the gravy/sauce” with “expectations to have a clean plate when finished” . . .