People who prefer to eat at a table in the restaurant also receive their food in cardboard or plastic containers, and the knives, forks and spoons are plastic, too.

True, the glasses, silver and finger bowls bore the Astor initials or the Astor crest, but it was not half as obvious as the “H” on Leona's plastic soap-compacts.

I have to teach kids how to eat with a knife and fork and sit at a table instead of using a fork in a plastic container in front of the television.