China rattling
There are giant stacks of new china sitting on the kitchen table, just sitting there and thinking about where in the cupboards each piece may like to sit. We are hoping that the plates and bowls and saucers will sort this out themselves, because frankly we’re not up to the task. We couldn’t figure out where to put the OLD china, and we had that for 15 or 20 years. I’m hoping it was a language barrier thing, and that this new colored china (not china of color, mind you) speaks a tongue we can work with. Even pidgin would help here. Because I, personally, have no idea where to put this stuff.
This isn’t any pansy-ass crinoline bone china stuff, either. This is the real deal, restaurant china, serious Syracuse China made with real Syrolite from the local Syrolite mines. While it is possible to break a piece, it is NOT possible to chip a piece. I have never owned a piece of chipped Syracuse China. Plus, it’s Syracuse China, and we’ve got that whole ‘Cuse thing going on, even after all these years. This is stuff intended for restaurants, not your home. We have a thing where we only buy from the factory seconds, which of course means that all this new colored china is in fact many different colors, because we couldn’t quite line up eight ice cream bowls of the same hue. But that’s cool. I could sense colored china in our future last summer, when we pushed all the old china aside and spent the entire summer eating off colorful plastic plates from the Target. And our silverware sat in a basket on the kitchen table. We revolted against the oppression of silverware drawers and heavy dishware! So, anyone could see that the old china’s days were numbered.
But right now the new stuff is all just sitting on the kitchen table. And this is an old house. And the floors wiggle just a bit when you walk. Or more than just a bit. And when the floors wiggle, the table wiggles, and then the china rattles. And this stuff doesn’t make a little pansy-ass rattle, either . . . this is known as the Syracuse China Din. So we’re hoping the china decides where to live soon….