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To: janet who wrote (6173)	1/14/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

When I shacked up with Loving Spouse lo these twelve years back, we bought a Japanese stoneware service for four at one of those mall kitchen stores. Real nice pastel earth-tone designs, the color of the bit of milk at the bottom of a bowl of Lucky Charms. These dishes turned out to be remarkably fragile despite their thickness. And we wask everything by hand. I suspect that the glaze was the real source of structural strength. When it got nicked, water would soak into the soft silt core of the dish and, like an imaginary Chia Pet, swell and pop the plate from within. We have one bowl left out of twenty dishes. It's at the bottom of the stack, and the crack has run four-fifths of the way through it. We eat off of Corelle now. Taht stuff will bounce off of rough granite flooring. We've broken one bowl in eight years.

To: janet who wrote (6173)	1/14/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

None of my WalMart dishes ever breaks. I think they're made out of concrete; they leave little dents in the floor. Only the good stuff shatters. And only one from each set. So I have 7 water goblets, and 7 wine glasses, and 7 dessert plates. And a lot of ones and twos of things. Sometimes I serve all different stuff and pretend that I saw it done at an elegant dinner in Paris. But what I really, really hate are my husband's plastic red and white Budweiser mugs from college. They will not die. And believe me, I've tried everything.