Tableware!

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant opened by a fellow cannibal.

Feeling somewhat hungry he sat down and looked over the menu...

Broiled Missionary: $10.00

Fried Explorer: $15.00

Baked Politician: $100.00.

The cannibal called the waiter over and asked, "Why such a price difference for the politician?"

The cook replied "Have you ever tried to clean one of them?"

Tableware

A place setting including tablewareTableware is the general term for the dishes used in serving, and eating food, including plates and bowls. Dinnerware is a synonym, especially meaning a set of dishes, including serving pieces.

The broader term Tableware includes dishes, cutlery, and drinking vessels. Flatware refers to plates and cutlery. Hollowware refers to containers like bowls and pitchers, especially if made of metal.

Modern dishes may be made of earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, glass, and durable plastics, such as melamine resin. Disposable dishes made of paper or lightweight plastics may be used for casual eating. Historically, dishes have also been made of wood, metals such as pewter, and even animal skulls.

In British English the term crockery is used.

In Hiberno-English the term delph is used.

Look up tableware, dishes, crockery, delph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Tableware Types of dishes

Plates, such as dinner plates, salad plates, or bread plates

Bowls, including soup bowls, cereal bowls, or dessert bowls

Teacups, saucers and mugs

Sugar bowl (tableware) and creamer

Serving dishes, including platters, salvers, and trays

Tableware Fine China Dinnerware Manufacturers

Aynsley

Baccarat

Bernardaud

Buccellati

Christofle

Churchill China

Couzon

Dansk

Gibson

Gien (tableware)

Hutschenreuther

International

Kosta Boda

Lenox

Lladro

Meissen porcelain

Noritake

Queen's

Rosenthal

Royal Copenhagen

Royal Crown Derby

Royal Doulton

Royal Worcester

Spode

Villeroy & Boch

Waterford Crystal

Wedgwood