(i LOVE these fun dishes… even the box is adorable!)
i am just beside myself today because my rainbow heller plates and cups and bowls arrived. i grew up in the 70’s with these guys - we had large yellow plates, small orange plates and both yellow and orange cups and bowls. i was a pretty simple eater (i still have the palette of a five year old) so my mom would cut up veggies and fruit and cheese and meat and i would make “faces” out of everything on the orange plates before i ate it. (i STILL cut up fruit and veggies most days, but my kids don’t make faces - and they eat all kinds of crazy things that i would never touch like oysters, bone marrow, herring…) i have big memories of cheerios or mint chip ice cream in the bowls. and i loved laying my fingers against the curved cup handles when drinking my milk. at some point after we got older, my mom replaced the plastic set with ceramic plates (still yellow!) but i always thought the heller ones were more fun. and now i have my own collection just in time for outdoor dinners on the deck. how many of you grew up with these too? x0x
(this is the only photo i could find of our original heller plates … or plate - one of the yellow ones is being used as a serving platter for i am not sure what - you can tell by the perfectly horizontal edge - and we are all eating off of paper plates at my birthday party. i am looking pretty concerned at the end of the table… maybe someone snuck some raisins in?)