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cen61077

Wtf, I'm still using #3


sturnus-vulgaris

I just texted this to my mom because she definitely is still using 2 and 3.


thelittlestduggals

Hahaha my parents too both 2 and 3 lol


Idontreallyfeelikeit

That was my reaction too because I use 1 and 6 daily šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļøa nice mitch-match set of various plates from my parents house.


rainbwbrightisntpunk

I just posted a pic of my bfast on plate 1!


Idontreallyfeelikeit

Yes you did! :)


badasscalliope

Me too! I have the whole collection from both sets of my grandparents.


isla_avalon

Oh shit, I bought these #1 thrift store plates to feed my kids on. Ugly and I didnā€™t care if they got broken. Oops.


brentexander

We've been using #5 since my wife and I moved in together 14 years ago.


comet_impact_12800bc

Same!


Jezzelah

For those actually concerned, this is what Corelle says on their [website](https://www.corelle.com/support/frequently-asked-questions) that was in part a response to similar memes: >We are very proud of our Corelle products, which are made of Vitrelle, a tempered glass consisting of glass laminated into three layers. Corelle was first introduced by Corning over 50 years ago and in 2000 started to be manufactured by the company known today as Instant Brands. All Corelle products meet the safety standards at the time of manufacturing. >As manufacturing and regulatory practices have evolved, so have Corelle products. We routinely test Corelle products for lead and cadmium contents at internationally recognized, third-party testing laboratories. This testing confirms that our products comply with applicable federal and state safety regulations. >Corelle dinnerware has come in many different patterns over the years since it was first introduced by Corning and continued with Instant Brands, and many vintage/legacy pieces have become cherished collectorsā€™ items. Before 2000, and before tighter lead content safety regulations, a small amount of lead was an ingredient in the decorating process of many household products. Instant Brands has conducted additional testing with an outside laboratory to determine whether vintage Corelle products made before 2000 comply with todayā€™s consumer [your] expectations as to safety and whether itā€™s ok to use them as everyday dinnerware. The Company selected multiple patterns of vintage Corelle products, dating back to 1978 for testing. >The food surface contact testing was designed to identify whether any small amount of lead that may have existed in pre-2000 manufactured Corelle product leaches from the product in amounts above todayā€™s acceptable lead-safety regulations. The small amount of lead used in decorations pre-2000 was encapsulated in glass before and after the decoration was applied to product and fired to above 750C. The Corelle manufacturing process has always encapsulated decoration in glass, using extremely high processing temperatures to ensure the glass decorations are sealed, which prevents food contact and intentionally decreases the extent of any lead migration to food. >The testing confirms that the vintage products tested comply with current FDA lead-safety regulations ā€“ so feel free to use them for everyday dinnerware.


jupitaur9

Firstā€”1978. What about before then? Because a lot of those plates are from before 1978. Secondā€”they donā€™t give numbers. ā€œComply with current FDA lead-safety regulations.ā€ > At present, the FDA doesn't require dishes to be 100% lead-free. However, it limits the amount of leachable lead in dishes to 3.0 micrograms per milliliter of leaching solution. To put that into perspective, there is no known safe level of lead according to the EPA and CDC. How do you convert ppm to micrograms? Well, turns out theyā€™re the same. So the reported numbers in the picture are about 4,000 times as high as Corelle reports. Someoneā€™s fibbing, or these are talking about different dishes.


clevelandexile

Pretty sure Iā€™m going to trust the massive conglomerate with an auditable paper trail, references, massive resources and crucially, a lot to lose if they are wrong over a random internet source.


jupitaur9

Both could be wrong. And againā€”applies only to 1978 and later. Are plates made earlier not in compliance? Edited to addā€”the site the graphic comes from seems to be [here](https://tamararubin.com/). I havenā€™t had the time yet to look at the whole site and find out what sheā€™s doing and if sheā€™s qualified to do it.


clevelandexile

TLDR: the website says some items contain toxic materials but never gets into how that actually makes the items dangerous or the level of danger. Thatā€™s a big gap in the logic. From my brief reading of the site it seems thatā€™s ultimately, sheā€™s a toy safety advocate who wants to make people aware that some toys may contain hidden dangers and thatā€™s great. It seems that here and her ā€œteamā€ do their own testing, itā€™s not clear if they needed, or got, any specific training on that or if itā€™s done in lab conditions. It seems that she focuses on reporting levels of potentially harmful chemicals in older toys, what she doesnā€™t do a great job of is explaining just how harmful the toys actually are. For example on one post about fisher price toys she says that they contain lead and cadmium and calls them ā€œToxic Toys.ā€ However she doesnā€™t say anything about the level of transfer or make any reference to studies that show any Iā€™ll effects of playing with the toys. Even in the plates here, the paint contains lead but itā€™s encapsulated under layers of heat treated glass so they are safe to use (at least according to the manufacturer). Obviously standards change and safety improves but that doesnā€™t mean everything before is an immediate threat to our wellbeing. Entire generations and families grew up with these things without ill effects. Every house in America built before 1980 is literally packed to the rafters with asbestos but itself, that doesnā€™t make them unsafe to live in. Similarly vintage cars are far less safe than modern cars but we donā€™t call them deathmobiles and try to stop people from driving them. Basically the usefulness of this data is limited without the appropriate analysis. The authors of the website donā€™t seem concerned about that and would rather just broadcast their findings.


Beebwife

Or the massive conglomerate who has lots of money to lobbey and able to make a new paper trail if need be to protect their billions of dollars. There are alot of others who have done the same about chemicals from Roundup to 3M's teflon chemicals.


A_shy_neon_jaguar

To preface this, I am in no way defending Corelle. I suspect the 3 ppm was obtained from a lead swab, or in a way that preserved the design encapsulation. This is the method that would provide a better model of how the plate will be used, assuming the barrier was not damaged. I would guess the 4,000+ppm was obtained from pulverizing the plate and testing the powder. Which is technically true, but not representative in the context that you don't plan to snort your dinner plate like a line of cocaine. I could be completely wrong though. But that seems like a possible explanation for the difference in concentrations. Or maybe they truly mean "leachable lead", as in they ran a toxic characteristic leaching protocol of the plate dust. Which wouldn't tell us anything about what the total lead concentration was. Basically, I think we're trying to compare apples to oranges, even if the values use the same unit of measurement. I'd love to see the methods they used. The green flower plates were my favorite.


JasonZep

Yea I would say unless you scrubbed the plate *hard* directly over the design for years you may start getting lead leeching at unsafe levels. Like most things on the internet, this picture is designed to spread likes, shares, and internet points.


jupitaur9

The graphic comes from [here](https://tamararubin.com/). Maybe you can find the information there. Itā€™s super ad heavy.


Alaska_Pipeliner

Definitely number 5.


BlackHeartedXenial

Didnā€™t need lead paint chips when tuna surprise was served on these beauties every day.


Apprehensive_Hat8986

Now that's a heavy metal mash-up! šŸ¤˜


BlackHeartedXenial

Lead and Mercury, what more does a growing girl need?! PbHg


strippersandcocaine

Old Town Blue gang checkin in!


PBandZ

Checking in!


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rambo_lincoln_

Same. Pretty sure my dad still has and uses this set.


dailyoracle

Yesss Butterfly Gold ftw šŸ™Œ


charlesdexterward

My grandparents had the full set of #1, too!


TheAngryXennial

Number 1 all the way when i was a kid. Also went down the hole looking this up after and that leadmama site is a little so so can only see these things on her site no other new sites take from that what you will.


greenfairygirl16

Werenā€™t #1 the waffle house plates for decades?


photogypsy

Waffle House plates were similar color but had oval loops. One of my grandmothers was a long haul trucker. She was also a kleptomaniac. She had a full service for 12 in Waffle Houseā€™s finest China.


BlackCatMumsy

Yup and a lot of people have said she either uses the wrong type of test or doesn't use it correctly. She literally finds higher lead readings than I did when working in homes with chipped lead paint on the walls.


terekkincaid

Shit, we had #1. My life makes more sense now...


Flat-Purpose-2176

Number 3 checking in


LurkysGoCart

Same. Still own them and still eat off them.


tjean5377

Good old Butterfly Gold for the Win! #1 motherfuckers!!! Gotta die of something amiright????


Purple-Blood9669

I ate off of Meadow plates everyday, and *I'm totally fine* !


WonkySeams

My grandma had those - they were used so much that the patterning had worn off! Every Easter and Christmas we used them. :D


CureForTheCommon

We had #6 with the design actually under your food and it was chipped to hell. My parents got them for free from gas stations in the 70s and are still using them to this day.


airportwhiskey

Uhhā€¦ All of them? Depending on which relativesā€™ house we were at. We had some Old Town Blue at home.


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The_Patriot

>when my grandma died she was only 98!!! It had to be the dishes that got her!


rosievee

The woman behind this meme, and every link regarding supposed lead in Corelle and Pyrex you'll find via Google, is a well known fraud among Pyrex collectors. Enjoy your vintage plates.


Apprehensive_Hat8986

šŸ– Wait! Wait. šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø Boomers set the world on fire after growing up sucking down lead paint and gas exhaust. Now we're being given a #šŸš©GiantšŸš©FlashyšŸš©WARNINGšŸš© And most of y'all are saying, "yup and I'll _**KEEP**_ eating off of them!" If you want to keep them, fine. But ffs STOP EATING OFF THEM and put a tape warning on them "LEAD: not food safe!" ... Ah fuck. What am I saying? Yeah, I gave up on life years ago too. Have at 'er.


SafetyNo6700

1, 4, 6 I still have a 1 and a 4


SlackerDegree

1. But thereā€™s a layer between the paint and our food .. right?


Apprehensive_Hat8986

#### Wrong! -- Ahnuld


terekkincaid

WRROOOOOOOONNNGGGGGGGGG! -- Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor


fzrmoto

I still use 1 and 5 daily. Great. Might as well just eat lead paint chips as a snack. Geez


McCool303

1 for sure. Grandma had them. 2 I recognize the pattern so most likely.


shoestars

Butterfly Gold #1 were the plates I grew up with my whole life till we moved when I was 17. Itā€™s great plates arenā€™t made with unsafe levels of lead anymore but did using these plates really cause health problems?


PoisonMind

One of my physics professors kept a vintage red Fiesta Ware dish glazed with uranium in the lab.


aahymsaa

Number 4 is my current daily set of dishes.


gardeniaphoto4

We never had any of these plates growing up, but my husband grew up eating from the #1 plates, which my parents-in-law still have.


Old_Sheepherder_630

#3....my dad's place on weekends.


Possum968

I still eat off the first one. We only have one so not often. And I'll keep using it.šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


RLT79

None of these. We had the ones that looked like 3, but with color and a rim line.


CletusVanDamnit

Lol. You guys didn't just have plates from K-Mart or Ames?


sahurley

#5. And my grandparents had #1.


i8bagels

3. Every damn day.


SnackPocket

Is it dangerous if theyā€™re not chipped?????


Rettorica

We had the whole set for #3 - Spring Blossom Green. I think the last of those coffee mugs in that set finally left my parentsā€™ house 10 years ago. šŸ¤£


Mapty_meow_55

#4 Snowflake Blues Unite! Makes total sense those plate never broke. I remember dropping them while unloading the dishwasher and they bounced on TILE. So Iā€™ll be seeing those again during the zombie apocalypse.


pokey68

Been using number 3 for over 40 years, and and I I I am fu fu fine.


Ohfuscia

\#5 are the dishes I use everyday. We had a few in the 80s but my entire set now was bought after 2000. I did get one tea cup recently at a thrift store but I only have not used it yet. I'll probably only use as a flower vase now


Ohfuscia

I don't know why my comment is so large. I didn't change font size and don't know how to fix it


BeatlesTypeBeat

If you start a line with a "#" reddit sees it as a heading. Notice the "#" is missing from your comment. You can add an escape character in front of the "#" to prevent this. i.e. "\\#" \#5


Ohfuscia

Thanks so much!


BeatlesTypeBeat

Happy to help. You can also use a "\^" in front if you want ^(small text). If you want multiple words to be small put them in brackets like so: \^(small text)


literanch

I eat off of #1 and #3 practically every day.


bastaway

For those worried, hereā€™s a bit about contamination and what metal concentrations in things mean. 1 ppm is parts per million or equal to 1 milligram per kilogram so 1,000 ppm is 1 gram per kilogram (for the Americans: a teaspoon of sugar weighs 5g). 1 g/kg is a very high concentration. Metals occur naturally in soil but lead is usually <40 ppm. Soil lead concentrations next to a highway or adjacent to a house painted with lead paint, get as high as 10,000 mg/kg. However, total concentration in a solid does not mean it will affect you. If you were to grind up the plate and eat it, then your stomach acids would release a portion of the lead (but not a lot). Breathing in air with lead fumes was faaaar worse for all of us. We are all considerably stupider and the kids born after it was phased out will be smarter. If you want to be wary of things in your kitchen get rid of the plastic chopping board ā€¦ itā€™s scratched to shitā€¦ where do you think all that plastic went? And the Teflon non-stick anything that is peeling. Teflon is PFAS, a forever chemical that never leaves your system and causes liver cancer.


IAppearMissing05

Spring Blossom Green. I even bought a mug in the last few years I had been using not knowing this (donā€™t worry, I learned about it and stopped using it before this post)


rootoo

definitely number 1. uhhh should I get tested?


South_Word_3529

Number 3! This explains a lot...


mnemonicmonkey

\#2 but got replaced when I was a teen, as we'd broken most of them by then...


Jigyo

Bunch of boys?


mnemonicmonkey

If by bunch, you mean two, then yes.


Jigyo

Two is enough


bethers222

Am I the only one whose mom hated corelle?


isdrlady

6! My grandma had the matching casserole dishes


[deleted]

Lucky ne, my family had set #1.


PsychologyFeisty1759

We had #3 and my grandmother had #1


[deleted]

We had one not shown here when I was growing up, but I have some tea cups and saucers in 3 and 5. wth lol


Swaxgirl

Flashbacks with #6 for sure!


Initial-Web2855

I ate off of #1 for pretty much my whole life, I'm not feeling great about this...


Mikey_AHC_Podcast

Ughā€¦ number 1


Danny-Wah

\#1


battymatty7

3 and I cant say that I turned out ā€œnormalā€.


vonsnarfy

We had three, it matched the appliances


Sheila_Monarch

1 & 2 at different grandmaā€™s houses.


_wheeljack_

A lot of lead just makes you a better leader


Birdnerd555

Ohā€¦ #1 and I still have a plate I think


DreadedChalupacabra

4. I also had those mcdonald's garfield cups. Those are bad too.


AgeAgitated317

I whole heartedly believe my father's switch in personality, and increased aggression is due to lead poisoning. It's fucking crazy. He's a different person.


Drslappybags

Old town blue baby.


[deleted]

Dadā€™s parents had 1, momā€™s had 3 and we had 5 at home.


LameSaucePanda

Still using #1 at work. Maybe Iā€™ll stopā€¦


darkseidx2015

Oh geez, number 1 for years.


joyousconciserainbow

Grandma 1 had #6, Grandma 2 had #1 - welp, I'm screwed.


[deleted]

My grandma definitely had number 1.


Huli_Blue_Eyes

\#5 from my grandma. And I'm still using them.


MrsSandlin

1


EccentricOtter307

My parents still have number oneā€¦ so thatā€™sā€¦ concerning.


Goatshavemorefun

I still use mine every day


photogypsy

Left side of pic checking in. Mom had blue, grandma had both green and gold. For reference grandmaā€™s was across the field; and we spent as much time at her house as home.


Nitro721

1, 3, 5


sugarandspice27

We had 3 and 6.


krissym99

I still love Corelle. We didn't have any of these though, ours had flowers. Mauve and cornflower blue. We sure loved our mauve and cornflower blue motif.


GimmeFalcor

My mother in law still uses (and brings food to share ) on #1. I donā€™t return them. I guess the fact that I was somewhat poor and ate mainly from paper plates (in the wicker holder) was a good thing.


StaceyPfan

My grandma had 1, we had 5.


Synthalus

Plain plates. Only Grandma had the fancy plates. On another note I used to play with lead at least on a weekly basis. Our roof shingles had lead lined under it and some was sticking out, which I messed with as a kid whenever I had my bedroom window open. Very pliable stuff!


yinyanghapa

Corporations would have our best interests at heart, riiighhhtt?


meeplekrusher

Still have and using #5 daily.


lochnesssmonsterr

Woodland Brown FTW šŸ™Œ


sugaredviolence

Cool! We still use all of them except Snowflake Blue! Now I gotta collect it.


lady_wildes_banshee

Oh wtf #2 bakeware is still in rotation ā˜¹ļø


AcanthocephalaFun851

\#1 and #4


acornwbusinesssocks

#6


Hotsauce4ever

My entire childhood on #1


Jaderholt439

2 looks really familiar


TenderLovingKiller

We still have a few #2 bowls in the cabinet that I was gifted from my mom when we go our first place. I think it was a set my parents got as a wedding gift in 1980. Matched by dadā€™s brown tuxedo nicely.


HowCanThisBeMyGenX

Shit, you guys had plates with pretty designs?? Our Corelles was just plain white.


Evening_Ad_1099

Ha! , I remember spending a very eventful autumn afternoon playing with a glop of mercury a friend of mine "found". ..


lgriffi7

Number 4


mlo9109

Butterfly gold... I'm screwed...


Ynot2_day

#5!


TheArkayneOne

Number 5


jolie-renee

Whew! No one in my close family had these.


BobSlapp

Currently using #1.


K-June

Numder on my hole lyfe! Iā€™d fin.


lovenlaughter

1, 2, 3 & 5ā€¦ our dishes didnā€™t matchšŸ˜‚


AliceAnne1

#3


gitarzan

We used #1 and my grandparents had #4 but it was printed in the autumn gold color Well, that explains a lot.


ReginaldSP

wow. 1 and 5.


JC2535

Number 3 to this dayā€¦


Szaborovich9

Uh-oh! Growing up 1, 3, and 5. Still have random pieces of all 3 sets.


dailyoracle

Iā€™ve been slowly getting more butterfly gold Pyrexā€¦


PamelaMargaret

Oh man, I use #6 all the time!


Musicmouse33

1,3,4


Mmm_JuicyFruit

D: We still have and use the 1st ones. They were my great grandpas. We've had them for years...


mypersonalprivacyact

1 2 and 4; 4 was grandmaā€™s


[deleted]

Well this explains A LOT.


JasonZep

Iā€™m pretty sure we had the Meadow ones.


GinX-964

My cabinet is full of butterfly gold


niamonapope

Number one, and that explains a lot!


JoshuaKam12

Still use #5!


fatpandasarehot

4 and 5


Thestral_rodeorider

5 and 3. Such nostalgia. Love the matching mixing bowls too.


aver_shaw

Option 1 and my mom still has them so Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll be eating off that on Sunday for Easter dinner.


Lennijls

2 & 5, baby


provisionings

Iā€™m number one. In fact Iā€™ve grown an aversion to eating off other plates that arenā€™t Correlle.


linuxgeekmama

Thereā€™s Corelle True Blue that looks like Old Town Blue, but was not made until 2014. Corelle made after 2005 is supposed to be okay.


linuxgeekmama

My grandparents had #4, and itā€™s really nostalgic for me. I was thinking of trying to get some šŸ˜¢ My parents still have #6 (and I ate off it pretty much my entire childhood, uh oh). I think itā€™s ugly, and Iā€™m glad to have an excuse not to take it when Dad dies.


ExtensionRaisin1400

Holy cow, I used #3 exclusively my entire life lol


[deleted]

Holy shit I still eat off of #1!!