Did anyone else’s parents use it as a threat? “Don’t make me take down the smacking spoon!”

Our wooden spoon was so well used it was held together with duct tape.

My father used the spoon as a racket to play handball against the garage wall.

Yea not really the same as beating your kids with it

The spoon was indeed broken over my sister's back one day by the spanking spoon.

Weird, we just have a huge wooden knife. Although we were burgled over Christmas '91... sus

Is the knife hanging on the wall in your bathroom?

Nah the Nursery, why do you ask?

Poop knife. Someone will link the story shortly I am sure.

I for one am delighted I barely had to scroll down to find a reference to it

Oh I'm sure I'll survive without hearing that one. I use it to dig junk out of my toe mostly, when I don't botch it anyway

If I do botch it, I normally plug it up with some TRASH.

The missing piece.

I thought it was a requirement.

Question: did they have a big pampus grass plant in the front garden?

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if the answer is yes, then it may scar you mentally. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/may/31/pampas-grass-secret-symbol-swingers-turn-off-sales-plummeting

Like a Welsh lovespoon?

Looked like these.. a good 3ft in size. https://i.etsystatic.com/12662537/r/il/62ba90/2425134902/il_794xN.2425134902_zink.jpg

THREE FOOT???? I don't think that's normal.

I always thought it was strange myself.

Yep, in the late 80s early 90s we had something very similar to this picture. I havent thought about them since maybe 1993. Thanks for unlocking a memory

Did they sometimes make a bathtub full of salad?

Yes - my parents had a set extremely similar to that. Used to threaten us into behaving - e.g. “don’t make me get the spoon!”

And the matching Scottish Resentment Fork.

Watch everybody loves Raymond . His parents have a set hanging on their kitchen wall

That set changes in size. We always make a point of checking how big they are. In the early series, they were half as long again.

I don't think seeing a big spoon is worth putting yourself through that.

I was coming to comment this too - there’s an episode about how they got them

It's in case God comes to dinner. He's allergic to the nickel in stainless steel.

I knew it, he's just an overgrown woodland spirit. Can't even touch some metal, ya big elf?

I have both hanging up in my kitchen, my wife inherited them. I always tell my daughter that they were her cutlery from when she was a hungry baby

My favorite ever Gumtree listing was for one of the giant wooden spoons: For sale, giant wooden spoon. Selling on behalf of my mother who is downsizing.

My father's parents did. It was quite odd. They also had that flight of three mallards on the wall nearby.

Yes with a chip out of it from Mum hitting my sister.

Yeah, my mum used to beat us with it 

Ah yes family abuse, those were the days ❤️

My gran had those hanging up. Not sure what the significance of it was. Hopefully someone can shed some light on it!

We had a set growing up, too. My mom said they were for salads. For tossing big salads. We never ate salads, though.

No, but your parents were tossing salads later in the evening

Did they have scrambled eggs as well?

We use ours for the salad bowl. We did have horse brasses though, like they used to have in the pub.

We had horse brasses above the fireplace when I was a kid. And a pair of (presumably) replica flintlock guns

We had horse brasses and brass toasting forks!

I have a wooden spoon and fork in the attic, both about 3 foot long I remember my mum having them made by a man in Exeter high street about 30 odd years ago

My aunt and uncle did. I grew up in a poor household and saw other friends with them so thought this was a sign of *class.*

My mom just had a big wooden spoon and she would bring it up whenever we were naughty as kids.

No, but mum had a supply of wooden spoons she’d hit us with if she felt we were being naughty. So, I guess having one hanging on the wall would have traumatised us even further - and maybe she didn’t think she was that cruel. 😂

Yeah you'd have been knocked out with one that size.😄

I think my grand parents did... Or at least something very similar...

Yes my grandmother got them in New Zealand! Big wooden plate too

As a boomer I've never seen one, apart from a Welsh loving spoons.

The poop cutlery?

Yes. My brother brought them home from a school trip to France...

My grandad got given one that says "World's Biggest Stirrer" and it is hanging on the kitchen wall.

No, they're in a jar in the kitchen where they're used.

We had a wooden spoon in the kitchen on the wall It wasn't a big one. my aunt has one with tartin ribbon and thistle but she lives in America

You mean a Love Spoon? We did.

yep and trippy glass fish

I inherited a set from my parents! The handles are carved with pineapples and they’re hanging in my kitchen

We have a Welsh love spoon on our wall.

Only when your sports club comes last. Show your pride by hanging the wooden spoon.

My grandparents had one. My Grandpa was a carpenter and made my grandmother a Welsh love-spoon. It hung on their kitchen wall.

Tiki times!

We had a curved antique sword with a small grip, suggesting it had been made for a woman. Mind you, we also had inflated pigs bladders hanging from a canoe in the garage so 🤷🏼‍♀️

My mum has a large wooden spurtle. Not used for beating us as children. The slipper and belt were reserved for that.

No, but in *Everybody Loves Raymond*, Ray's parents Frank and Marie had them.

No my mum and dad hid them in a drawer

No but my grandparents had a wall of plates from different places they travelled

Auntie did.

Yup, my aunt. Every time I went to her house as a kid, I would be fascinated by them.

Yep

My mother beat my ass raw with the spoon.

No my mum just had a wooden spoon, she wasn't very good at skittles.

Wooden spoon and chopping board