Something called the Daily Meal also wrote about it, which i like because it includes the sentence 'Thankfully, an informal survey of The Daily Meal staff found that 100 percent of our millennial editors know exactly what a butter knife is'https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/millennials-butter-knife-study/040518 …
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But back to Wapo, here's a line that struck me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2018/04/12/do-millennials-really-not-know-how-cook-with-technology-they-dont-really-have-to/?utm_term=.a2eed88476c0 …pic.twitter.com/MLDlmFqJmP
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So, let's look at the survey, shall we?
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First, it does not define what ages it is using for 'millennial,' 'gen x' and 'boomer,' which <eyeroll> whatever. But then, there's this: this is a survey of 375 people they think are millennialspic.twitter.com/bZIsefYUTR
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(here is the whole writeup) https://porch.com/resource/cooking-nightmares …
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and here is the relevant butter knife data, including the photo of the butter knife they showed peoplepic.twitter.com/PxNUytIQB0
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I'm 38 years old. My first thought: wtf kind of butter knife is that?
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When I hear butter knife, I think this. When shown a picture like this, i would say 'butter knife'pic.twitter.com/i1bI9m1IvB
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google image results suggest, ok, there are in fact many butter knives that look similar-ish to the example they've shown:pic.twitter.com/9F2n54aFIL
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It's totally a typical butter knife! My parents have multiple sets of silverware like that (from 1800-1900). Most modern cutlery sets don't understand soup spoons or dessert spoons either (both should be circular, not oval) and it's tragically lost knowledge.
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ok i am going to say that if it is from 120 years ago, no one of any age should be docked for not understanding what it is
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Modern cutlery being crappy is one of my undying beefs I will never be able to make peace with.
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Now I'm wondering where Iain stands on fish cutlery (being Sinister, it's inevitably the wrong way around and of limited use for me, anyhow)
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