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The dishes that exist solely to make food look like someone tried harder.
means Plates, bowls, platters, and utensils designed specifically for presenting and serving food, as opposed to the cookware used to make it.
from A straightforward modern compound: 'serve' (from Latin servire, to serve or attend to) plus the suffix '-ware,' the same one in 'tableware,' 'silverware,' and 'glassware,' which traces back to Old English waru, meaning goods or merchandise. Retailers and marketers get the credit for stitching it together as industry shorthand — a tidy label for the category of objects whose entire job is to stand between the cooking and the eating.
- core function
- Transports food without transporting dignity
- material tells
- Melamine says picnic, marble says trust fund
- secret flex
- Costs more than what you're serving on it
- storage irony
- Owned in abundance, used twice a year