On 4/27/2014 10:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

> I'm with ya there! Although I got rid of all of my old metal ones. I
> had two pairs only because one got misplaced. I am so glad we aren't
> making moves any more. Those movers that move the military always
> manage to put things in boxes where they don't belong and that was the
> case with the tongs!
>
> They were similar to these:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Ekco-1057838-A...ds=metal+tongs
>
>
> I don't know why but my mom had this kind and she used them to serve
> spaghetti. As you can imagine, they are highly ineffective. And bad
> for serving hot food because the handles got hot! Actually mine had
> only plain metal handles. I don't think I needed the things at all but
> they are what I grew up with so assumed that I needed them

My mom had the same kind of tongs for spaghetti when I was a kid. Not
sure, but maybe the kind we use today wasn't available back then.

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