The 6 month round-up post is coming, but first I need to relay a conversation I had with my grandmother yesterday. She had just watched a video I sent of Fuzzy trying and subsequently hating bananas, and her opinion was that the soft plastic baby spoon was to blame. "I will buy him a silver spoon!" she proclaimed.
Now while its true that I'm feeling quite bourgeoisie these days, what with my live-in nanny and twice monthly house-cleaners, I thought that literally buying the kid a silver spoon might be taking things a bit far...after all, I'm still feeling somewhat guilty for paying a nice Asian lady to paint my toenails two months ago.
Anyway, it turns out that the Russians consider silver spoons the healthiest spoons with which to feed children. I was all set to mock this as yet another old country superstition on my grandmother's part, and then I did a quick Google search - turns out, I shouldn't make fun of old people willy-nilly.*
Quothe Wikipedia: Beyond their value and aesthetics, silver utensils self-sanitize: silver has antimicrobial properties, due to the oligodynamic effect.
* And not just because I used the term willy-nilly in a real sentence.
9 years ago
Indeed. Noam came over for dinner once to Baba Anna's and noticed a spoon in the water jug. After kindly taking it out he was informed no, no - that's where it's supposed to be. You keep the spoon in the water. For reasons.
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