The General Chat Thread (2025)

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?
 
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.
 
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