Hi,
Back when Israel was young state and even before soldiers used to eat from metal dish and cutlery. It was called Mesting – that is how we call the mess tin here.
Today it is all plastic disposable products less fun than reusable metal Cutlery.
I guess that there are reasonable reasons for using those plastic forks and knives. First – it far less logistic problem. You don’t have to arrange Mestings or plastic dishes (if one loses his Mesting he cannot eat…) Second – there is lesser danger of hygienic problems from unclean dishes.
For me the ecological costs his higher. More over it isn’t fun eating with those plastic knives that keeps folding when you try stick it in a schnitzel.
I usually pick up some random fork from the dining room, and keep it till the end of the service.
If you wonder how I manage to eat everything with only a spoon, the answer is easy: my military service in the IDF. and specifically – The Engineering corps military school where I spent most of my time of service. For some reason the dinning room in the base never had spoon, knife and fork at the same time. That is how you learn to eat schnitzel with a spoon, soup with a knife and cut anything with a fork.
In the factory I work in a use the same method. We don’t go down the dinning room but sit down and eat food we brought from home. While my co-workers keep taking plastic knives and forks I insisites to stick to my metal fork I brought in advance.
Take care
Gad
My fork in my combat vest – my Mesting
Military reserve launch with plastic dish and fork
Field ration with plastic forks and knifes
Original Mesting in closed form
And spread opened. Come to think about it – I had Mesting for Israel trail and for My South America after the Army trip🤔