Meanwhile, in Japan in the 80s, they were putting penguin orgies on their mugs.
(There’s also rabbits, whales, and some other animal IIRC)
How the fuck is Japan able to make shit so horny and wholesome simultaneously?!
For persons disgusted by stacked plates this is perfect.
People who have this fancy plates keep their plates in a rack or on one of those display shelves you see in old movies. Not stacked like a peasant.
Behold, the vast tracts of great room wall whereupon perches my finest China. And yes, that is wallpaper, and the pattern does match up perfectly at the seams, what of it? I’m not some two-bit provincial rube, I’ll have you know!
Or the ones who hate people that like clean plates.
Why are you assuming I’m buying one for everybody?
This is the me plate, screw the rest.
Were they still using lead paint back then, because all I can think about is that this will probably leech lead into all your food
Why on earth did this make me shed a nostalgic tear?
Because it’s the kind of joyful artisanship that may never be part of our society again.
It actually is. Very much so. But it’s increasingly expansive as people demand things like a fair wage for their work.
I would use these though. Bring them back!
I saw cups with little figurines like this in a store two weeks ago, you can still buy this
