Delicious Lamb Stuffed Paratha for lunch

@Gusman but let's move beyond the cutlery, how is the food???!!!! Is it good 😌?

@being Very edible. Lovely and spicy, with cucumber raita. Went down a treat. 😋

@Gusman mmmm 🤤

@DeWayfarer Plastic cutlery has been banned. Now bamboo cutlery is all that is available.

@Gusman They tried doing that with straws and it didn't work out too well.

It was a starch based straw, which of course got soggy.

Thinking about that, bamboo just might work out on straws, if it was thin enough.

@Coralmist An Indian flatbread.
Stuffed Paratha is topped with filling then folded over.

@Gusman you can still cut the pieces with your hands!

@being All the filling would fall out. Gusman no use hands in such a troglodyte manner. 😄

@Gusman ihh I see now!
I have got squirrel hands haha, can thread the needle at any time 😅

@Gusman That seems a bit extreme.

@ninalanyon It is the law here.
Because at sometime, someone stabbed a person with metal cutlery knife in a food hall.

@Gusman Still seems like an over-reaction seen from Norway where even though there is a general prohibition against carrying knives in public places we have this clarification:
https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2005-05-20-28/KAPITTEL_2-5#%C2%A7189

Google Translate renders it so:

A respectable purpose includes wearing a knife as part of your national costume in the parade on 17 May (Constitution Day) but also as an eight year old primary school child in a nature class that takes place in the woods.

@meggie @Gusman The usual Daily Fail exaggeration. No one is forced to eat with their hands. I'm sure they are all perfectly capable of taking their own cutlery into their workplace.

@ninalanyon my friend works there and told me about the stolen cutlery and said they were given plastic cutlery at the time. I did laugh at the idea of them eating with their hands though.

@meggie I've just weighed a stainless steel knife and fork (IKEA Data, don't know if they still sell it). Together they weighed 130 g. So that means 8 000 items weighs 520 kg! That's some pretty serious thievery. But as 'hot' scrap it's not exactly worth a lot of money to the thieves.

The legal price is 0.45 to 0.67 GBP/kg for scrap 18/8 stainless [1]. So even if they got the full legal price it's only 350 GBP. As stolen goods they are surely worth less than half that. And it must take quite a few man hours to do it putting the profit per person hour at pretty close to the UK minimum wage.

Are people really so poor and so criminal in the UK that such a trifling profit would be worthwhile? Or is it simply that every desk drawer in every office in the building now has a set or two of the cutlery?

[1] https://www.scrapmetalpricer.co.uk/