Party Plates With Pop-Off Utensils

by Emily Farris (Subscribe to Emily Farris's posts)
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 4:00PM
Filed under: Parties, New Products

Party plate. Photo: Taylor Gifts.

How many times have you, while trying to balance a plate full of hors d'oeuvres, a cocktail and a fork, lost at least one of those items? Maybe even down the front of your freshly dry-cleaned shirt? Or perhaps your own rug was the victim of such an incident at the last party you hosted.

That may change with the advent of the plastic party plate. These 10-by-10-inch plates with snap-off (and snap back on!) utensils come in red, black and clear, and while some not-so-environmentally-minded hostesses might think of these plates as disposable, we certainly don't. Since they're apparently made of a fairly sturdy plastic (sturdy enough to hold food and drink), and go for $8 for a set of four, we can't imagine anyone not using them again and again.

Of course, this just begets another question: Why use a party plate with snap-off utensils when you can use an old-school lunch tray and put regular utensils and wine glasses in their designated compartments? To each her own!

[Via Taylor Gifts]

Tags: entertaining, hosting, parties, party plate, PartyPlate, snap off utensils, Taylor Gifts, TaylorGifts

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9-03-2009 @ 4:32PM

elizahleigh said...

I'm really surprised that these are marketed as a disposable item -- there should be no such thing as "disposable" anymore. Still, they are a pretty clever design. I recently read an article about disposable-turned-permanent cutlery here -- http://bit.ly/RtY6E Pretty cool concept.

9-03-2009 @ 9:11PM

dirtgirl said...

great, more plastic crap that will get used once and thrown away

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