Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
1. Yesterday grans house
2. To day I received a litter anual gas useige
3 god must have been 16-17 not shour
4 don’t think I ever been give a cake fork and forks a fork to me |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
omg not for years any of them i suppose the last thing i did was write a letter dont recall when though  |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong.
1. Yesterday grans house
2. To day I received a litter anual gas useige
3 god must have been 16-17 not shour
4 don’t think I ever been give a cake fork and forks a fork to me "
Missed out suger blow yesterday grans house |
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Cup of tea in a cup and saucer years ago when my Nan only had cups and saucers I think.
Last letter I wrote February 2021
Don’t think I’ve used a fountain pen since school.
I quite often get given a fork with cake though.
As for sugar in a bowl, don’t think I ever have at someone’s house, they always put the sugar in as making it |
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"Hot drink in a cup with a saucer- boxing day.
Cake with a cake fork- last April...a friend's birthday cake and she insists on a cake fork.
The others- no idea "
I'm probably that friend 
I also have a friend that gives you a cake fork, napkin and cup and saucer with teaspoon...whether you take sugar or not. |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong.
1872
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 I honestly didn't think you were that old |
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erm..
probably around 2010 for tea in saucers and cake cutlery..
fountain pen - never im a lefty and then ink gets smudged when i write with one by my sleeve. constant king charles moment. probably the only thing i have in common... |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong.
1872
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I honestly didn't think you were that old"
Shhhhh. People will think I fib about my age on here to get round filters. 
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"Costa for coffee with a saucer and spoon but dont use sugar so give spoon back 
That's not someone's house though. I'm wondering how common it is for ordinary people to do these things nowadays  very rare I'd say "
You're probably right. Most of them aren't really necessary any longer. |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
* Never (Costa doesn't count)
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
* 30 years
The last time you used a fountain pen?
* 35 years
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
* only on tv
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
* never
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
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over a year ago
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
Tea in a cup and saucer probably back in the 90s.
The letter was when I was about 14 and my friend went to stay in Italy for 3 months.
Fountain pen probably 1974/75 at school.
Sugar bowl I can't recall ever using one.
Same with a cake fork. It's always been an ordinary fork.
I had some posh rellies on my dad's side so they probably used sugar bowls and cake forks but I would have been too young to remember, or just forgot.
Some of them probably still use proper tea sets with a sugar bowl, milk jug and tea cosy.
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A year ago for a cup and saucer at a relatives house, she's pretty posh. About six years ago for a personal letter. I can't remember the last time I used a fountain pen. We have a sugar pot daily. And usually eat cake with fork if we do use cutlery. |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
My parents still use a cup and saucer, I made a cuppa at their house last weekend.
I haven’t written a letter or used a fountain pen for a few years 
The rest…. We have a sugar bowl AND cake forks so this would have been over Christmas it’s a bit like Betty’s Tea Room at Chez JAE |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong.
1872
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A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough. |
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Don't think I've been served cup of tea with a saucer in another person's house before
Letters written and received for and at Christmas
Haven't used a fountain pen for many years.
Know at least four people who have a sugar bowl.
Don't any recollection of being given a cake for before. |
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" A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough. "
I was hoping to avoid the posh word.
I don't think you need to be posh (whatever that means) to use these things or not posh if you don't |
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" A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough.
I was hoping to avoid the posh word.
I don't think you need to be posh (whatever that means) to use these things or not posh if you don't"
I suppose so, but they do seem to be associated with special occasions or those 'keeping up appearances' ? Just like we use the term 'builders tea'?
My grandmother definitely wasn't posh per say, but saved such items for special occasions, and all the bone China is still owned by the family dating back to the turn of the previous century. I'd be too frightened to use it. |
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" A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough.
I was hoping to avoid the posh word.
I don't think you need to be posh (whatever that means) to use these things or not posh if you don't
I suppose so, but they do seem to be associated with special occasions or those 'keeping up appearances' ? Just like we use the term 'builders tea'?
My grandmother definitely wasn't posh per say, but saved such items for special occasions, and all the bone China is still owned by the family dating back to the turn of the previous century. I'd be too frightened to use it."
A friend of mine sometimes invites me for afternoon tea and we have cups, saucers, cake forks, napkins etc. Neither of us are posh but it's definitely a special occasion. |
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" A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough.
I was hoping to avoid the posh word.
I don't think you need to be posh (whatever that means) to use these things or not posh if you don't
I suppose so, but they do seem to be associated with special occasions or those 'keeping up appearances' ? Just like we use the term 'builders tea'?
My grandmother definitely wasn't posh per say, but saved such items for special occasions, and all the bone China is still owned by the family dating back to the turn of the previous century. I'd be too frightened to use it.
A friend of mine sometimes invites me for afternoon tea and we have cups, saucers, cake forks, napkins etc. Neither of us are posh but it's definitely a special occasion. "
Unfortunately I think the word posh has been hijacked by many, and associated with class?
As an adjective its 'elegant or stylish', but I'm going to use fancy from now on when describing any of the above incidentally, I always found brown sugar cubes did very little to sweeten a hot drink unless I dropped several in!
Did your friend cut the crusts off any sandwich ,and were they in triangle or quarter cuts? |
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" A sugar bowl, I'm seeing quite often, but as for the other delicacies, they really were a thing only provided by my elderly aunts and relatives on family visits!
Saucers were great, but I invariably spill tea into them and swamp the sugar cubes placed there. Maybe I'm not posh enough.
I was hoping to avoid the posh word.
I don't think you need to be posh (whatever that means) to use these things or not posh if you don't
I suppose so, but they do seem to be associated with special occasions or those 'keeping up appearances' ? Just like we use the term 'builders tea'?
My grandmother definitely wasn't posh per say, but saved such items for special occasions, and all the bone China is still owned by the family dating back to the turn of the previous century. I'd be too frightened to use it.
A friend of mine sometimes invites me for afternoon tea and we have cups, saucers, cake forks, napkins etc. Neither of us are posh but it's definitely a special occasion.
Unfortunately I think the word posh has been hijacked by many, and associated with class?
As an adjective its 'elegant or stylish', but I'm going to use fancy from now on when describing any of the above incidentally, I always found brown sugar cubes did very little to sweeten a hot drink unless I dropped several in!
Did your friend cut the crusts off any sandwich ,and were they in triangle or quarter cuts?"
The word 'posh' is often used in a derogatory way in my experience.
I'm assuming you're not taking the mick so I will say that my friend served triangle cut, crust off sandwiches.
If you are taking the mick, have pity on a poor old lady who enjoys a cake fork and a sugar bowl  |
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"Was the last time someone served you a hot drink in a cup with a saucer in their home?
The last time you wrote or received a letter?
The last time you used a fountain pen?
The last time you saw someone with sugar in a sugar bowl?
And finally, the last time you were given a cake fork with a slice of cake in someone's house?
I'm just interested to know if these things are still fairly common or not. It doesn't matter either way and if they're not so common any more it's not wrong. "
Home - can't remember how long ago
Received letter - over Christmas
Sent letter - over Christmas
Used fountain pen - last year
Sugar in a sugar bowl - it's in a ceramic pot at our house; silver sugar bowl at my Dad's
Cake fork at someone's house - Dad's birthday party in June 2022 |
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I have no idea to any of these. Probably when my great aunt was alive. My mum has mugs for coffee and cups and saucers fir tea. She makes a pot of tea with all the accessories at three every afternoon. She's the only person I know that keeps milk in the fridge in a milk jug |
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