Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm just going to get this part out of the way. If you grew up a certain...way, Corelle dishes have a class connotation. If you want to convince your social betters they're not your betters, you better choose different plates. Ok. I said it. I, however, am able to rise above such pettiness and bring home the plates of the people. Here's why. Have you ever had children? Tile floors? Concrete countertops? Or most destructive of all, a lummox of a husband? Then you, like me, may have lost 9 of your 10 cereal bowls, and 8 of your 10 coffee mugs to breakage. Perhaps you, like me, don't always enjoy lifting a big, heavy stack of ceramic plates high up on a shelf. I thought, there has to be something sturdier, and lighter, but that won't get scratched up by cutlery, and that when present in Chinese-made dog food won't be a lethal poison. Answer? Corelle. And the price? I paid more per setting for my old dishes than I paid for the 4-set of these. The Mandarin Flower Square dishes look just like the picture, only prettier. The design is made with a very dark and a light shade of grey, and red. Poppy red. Coral red. Chinese laquer red. A warm red. To my eye, grey and poppy red are a strikingly lovely combination. As another reviewer stated, the design has a fabric-like appearance, not that pixelated sticker effect that is so cheap looking. They fit sooooooo much better in the dishwasher than our old set. My husband says the food even looks more appetizing on them. (Thanks, I think.)