According to family lore, my great-grandfather was a picky eater...and dissatisfaction with dinner meant that the plate of food was thrown against the wall. Which probably means that great-grandma had an interesting collection of dinner plates that didn't match...and a severe nervous condition.

Of course, if she'd been crafty she could have created the forerunners of these ceramic badges...hand-cut from vintage porcelain plates...and made enough money to get away from the crazy plate-chucker.