Worn plates...the devil...and statistics

"The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great; beyond that, May the devil and statistics take them." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Given the pulpy nature of Christmas chez Hebden we should probably have taken the whole thing to it's ultimate conclusion and bought some paper plates for use with our festive feast. That, however, would have been asking for grease stains whenever anyone laid a plate down and sudden spillages when someone got greedy and overloaded their plate (yes, that would probably have been me)...issues that would be solved with some of these one-of-a-kind, handmade, plates made from "porcelain paperclay" (something that I'd never heard of but which turns out to be a slurry of porcelain and previously used paper plates). I just wish that this form of recycling wasn't so darned expensive...