{"id":15645,"date":"2010-05-20T10:46:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T00:47:25","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950%e2%80%99s-chefs-spoonholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950%e2%80%99s-chefs-spoonholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 1950&#8217;s Chefs Spoonholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15865\" title=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1674.jpg\" alt=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1674\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1674.jpg 375w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1674-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/>\n<p>Brought to you&nbsp; in the early 50&#8217;s by realtor and insurance agent Joe Hodge this big mouth plastic chef spoon holder, or spoonholder as Joe spells it, is one of my favorites from my collection of fifty or so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?s=chef+spoon&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\">chefs in the same genre<\/a>. I especially like this one because of the tongue relief in the mouth\/spoon cavity as well as the clef in his chin as most other plastic chefs are flat in both places.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15867\" title=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1675.jpg\" alt=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1675\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1675.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1675-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>I also like any establishment that might be located on a street named Dairy.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15869\" title=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1676.jpg\" alt=\"chef-spoon-holder-red_1676\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1676.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoon-holder-red_1676-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>As cute as these vintage spoon holders are they&#8217;re incredibly impractical.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15905\" title=\"chef-spoonholder_2452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoonholder_2452.jpg\" alt=\"chef-spoonholder_2452\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoonholder_2452.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chef-spoonholder_2452-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<p>If you&#8217;re cooking anything on the stove the chef needs to be close enough so the spoon won&#8217;t drip all over the place before resting in his mouth. But if he&#8217;s that close he&#8217;s sure to start melting and will end up poisoning you. So ultimately most of these chefs ended up hanging on people&#8217;s walls for decoration as opposed to actually assisting in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15875\" title=\"chefs_2487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chefs_24871.jpg\" alt=\"chefs_2487\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chefs_24871.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chefs_24871-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to you&nbsp; in the early 50&#8217;s by realtor and insurance agent Joe Hodge this big mouth plastic chef spoon holder, or spoonholder as Joe spells it, is one of my favorites from my collection of fifty or so chefs in the same genre. I especially like this one because of the tongue relief in &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-1950%e2%80%99s-chefs-spoonholder\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,181,1367,87,193],"tags":[61,1385,1383,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitchen","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-chef-spoon-holder","tag-chef-spoonholder","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}