Oldest dish you still use?

[democracyindanger]

I have a plastic plate that's basically the 70's smiley face--you know, yellow circle, black eyes and mouth. I remember my mom buying it when I was a kid, and putting it in my off-to-college-box. I still use it. It's got to be around 30 years old...

[SarahB]

1. I have a few old dishes that were my dad's in college

He was in college in the mid-60's. :shrug:

[Langis]

2. I have 4 from '62

My dad said he got them for filling up a full tank of gas :shrug:

[ForrestGump]

3. My wife

*rimshot*

Thank you..I'll be here all week.



Actually, that's not true -- I'm just practising my act.

[democracyindanger]

5. lol

[Dookus]

4. I still use a steel collander

that my mother had when I was a kid. She probably got it in the 50's.

[Rick Myers]

6. I have a soup bowl from my grandmother...

..that goes back to the 'old' country, now Slovakia... It's been my 'herbal' bowl for at least 20 years!!!

:smoke:

[Archae]

7. How's this for an old dish?

My Mom bought a set of these platic bowls for us kids almost 50 years ago.
I have the last one, here, next to a garlic salt shaker.
(The rest got used until they simply wore out.)

[democracyindanger]

8. They really knew plastic back then :)

[starroute]

12. That's for sure -- I have some 50 year old Tupperware

When I was a little girl and Tupperware was new, someone in our apartment building held a Tupperware party and my mother took me along. I don't think she was very impressed, because all she bought was a half dozen little refrigerator containers in assorted pastel colors. I've got them now, and though some of them are developing small cracks around the rims, they're still good enough for leftovers.

I also have an old wooden bowl that my grandmother would use when I was little to chop up cabbage for cole slaw. I don't know how far back it goes, but it certainly wasn't new at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if she'd had it since she got married, and that was 1911. I put candy out in it at Halloween.

[murielm99]

9. I collect vintage restaurant ware.

Lots of my stuff goes back to the twenties and thirties. It is heavy old stuff. You have to drop it on concrete to break it.

[shanti]

10. i have some tupperware from the 70's

damn, that stuff is almost
indestructable.

[Syrinx]

11. there's some two week old pizza in the fridge

But I'm afraid to use it anymore.

[bratcatinok]

13. Popcorn bowl with

matching individual popcorn serving bowls. It may have been a wedding present to my parents when they were married in 1949. They look like pottery pieces with green leaves around the bottom of the bowls and the rest is fashioned after a cob of corn. The bowls aren't smooth since the leaves and niblets are raised. I still use them when we have popcorn.

[vajraroshana]

14. I have a pewter serving platter

that was my huzband's grandma's. It's really pretty. It has an engraved circular pattern of roses. It probably dates to the 1920s or so. Really lovely.