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I don't know where you shop, but the "traditional flatware" of my people is whatever was cheap enough at the department store. Our rich native customs dictate that we spend $15 on a set, and then use it until there are not enough non-bent spoons, and then to spend another $15.

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Thus resulting in an endless stream of quick-decaying stuff from china to your home.

And a hundred round-trips to the department store, if you apply that to everything in your life.

I hate to tell you this, but expensive spoons bend just as easily as inexpensive ones, and cost more to replace.

Some things really are consumable items. There's no t-shirt on earth that is going to last beyond about 200 wash cycles.

1. Best doesn't always mean more expensive

2. That's not entirely true. Depending on the material and design some are very, very hard to bend

3. I have a t-shirt I bought in 2006 that is still going strong :)

You obviously haven't bought many different spoons, and price is irrelevant. I can buy a well-made spoon from the Salvation Army store for less than a spoon made from pressed sheet metal available at a retail store.

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