The General Chat Thread (2025)

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

My 1990’s full-o-lead Corelle dishes are frequently displayed here. Here’s a platter, which still looks fairly new because we don’t use it very often:

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Here’s a plate that’s in regular rotation:
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Needless to say, that’s got a little fading going on!

Corelle, to the best of my knowledge, have always maintained that while their dishes before a certain time contained lead, they weren’t a danger as long as the dishes weren’t chipped through the paint or otherwise damaged, but from what I can find now, they’ve since come out and said to use dinnerware from this era for presentation only, no eating.

I’ve been itching to get new dinnerware for quite a long time, now I can get MrsT to agree.

Also, a quick search shows our wedding-present Noritake stoneware (which appears here occasionally), received in 1990, also has lead in the paint - she won’t be talked so easily out of those.

Glad to be of assistance
I thought America banned the use of lead a very long time before the UK?

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

TastyReuben have you got anything picked out?

 

[TastyReuben]

I thought America banned the use of lead a very long time before the UK?

Loopholes, loopholes…

 

[TastyReuben]

TastyReuben have you got anything picked out?

Not yet. I went out to Corelle’s website and saw a couple of patterns I could live with, but MrsT will want to put in her opinion, and this isn’t a high priority of hers by any stretch.

 

[JAS_OH1]

I am usually used to wake up early but not that early like this morning. I have to thank my neighbours for chatting at 5am as if it was 5pm. I am a patience person except for one sacred thing: sleep.
Silence is a must during night and in the morning at least until 8am. I have a light sleep and the slightest noise can wake me up... and when I'm woken up by noise caused by others, I become really unsympathetic. I can even go downstairs in my pyjamas and knock on the neighbours' door telling them to shut up just like Jack Nicholson in Shining would do.

Amen.

 

[JAS_OH1]

Tomorrow is National Make A Dogs Day. I'll have to take Pippi to Morelo's Market and get her one of those pieces of beef jerky the size of an envelope...

Isn't every day Queen Pippi day?

 

[PAcanis]

I had to pick up new computer and am installing it now.
It's in the updating phase...
Then there's getting the printers and all the hardware installed and up and running.

It's not the exact one I wanted. The store was supposed to have two and they had none, but it should work and I saved 50 bucks.

 

[Barriehie]

I like your new avi

Thank you!