Delicious Lamb Stuffed Paratha for lunch

Though I had to beg for a knife to cut the dash thing.
They originally gave me a bamboo fork and spoon!
How will those things cut the paratha without it going everywhere?
She eventually found a plastic knife with a serrated edge.
Rules here are ridiculous, no metal cutlery for customers.
Is it the same where you are?
Knifes can be used as a deadly weapon.
This is called progress.
From what I am seeing of the modern world, there is a whole lot of regression taking place.

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meggie · F

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845992/BBC-staff-forced-eat-hands-cutlery-runs-canteen.html?ito=email_share_article-top

Gusman · 61-69, M

@meggie How mad that is. Might be a real case for plastic or bamboo cutlery there.
Or a metal detector at the canteen door.

meggie · F

@Gusman apparently 8000 cutlery items disappeared in a few days. They could only of ended up at the metal scrap dealers.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@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.

meggie · F

@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.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@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/