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I was asked at work today about the word 'foodware'. I had never heard of it and nor had onelook, but it does get a respectable number of google hits. As far as I can make out it seems to cover cooking utensils and crockery. Has anyone else come across it or can anyone confirm that this is what it means?
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Trendy, trendy, trendy.
The hip food magazines use this term to refer to all containers (cooking, serving, eating off of, and storing) which come in contact with food.
One hopes that, like a rash or a pimple, if one waits long enough it will go away.
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Ah, I see. My reading matter does not extend to hip food magazines. I assume they take a rosy view.
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Trendy, trendy, trendy
Heaven forfend that we should have a generic term for all those items.
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Interesting. And fitting for the times in that many people (too many) use their kitchens for serving pre-prepared foods. I know many a teacher at my school who confesses to avoiding cooking always...and I do mean always. They say they only buy prepackaged foods and go out to dinner a lot. They take cartons of food home so that they'll have enough to serve for meals quickly heated in their microwaves. They confess never to using their stoves and ovens.
Somehow the term 'foodware' sounds right on the money to describe this growing lifestyle: heatin' it and storin' it. I realize the term, from what's been discussed above, means more than this, but I'm just saying that I think the term is particularly fitting for the lifestyles I hear about.
Can't say I like thinking about a kitchen filled with refrigerated pre-pared ready-to-eat food in foodware to be microwaved as a place that evokes a sense of home sweet home, but that appears to be the case in many lives I hear about. "Edwards makes the best homemade pies." That's what I hear.
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Well, I had never seen the term before (Father Steve, I reckon we all now have a hint of what you read in all your spare time  ), but it makes sense: there is cookware, flatware (why called so, anyway?), and tableware, and though if there's "storageware" I haven't heard of that either, but it makes sense in our hurried world that an umbrella term would have been created. Or perhaps it was just someone's marketing ploy. Gee--if you accidentally get something in your mouth that is unpalatable and you (hopefully discreetly) get rid of it into your napkin, does your napkin become foodware?  I think there are rather a lot of people these days who don't actually cook, or not very much. The people we bought our house from must have been like that. We found textured Berber carpet...in the kitchen. What on earth would you do if you spilled oil, milk, or dropped an egg?
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Take it to the berber shop?
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There is a section at the local Crate and Barrel where the containers offered for sale are termed "bakeware."
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for the latest line in pinnies?
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cookware, flatware, and tableware
Also, at Crate and Barrel, a section of wine glasses called "stemware."
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