All Girls Sharehouse A Time Capsule Of Kmart Crockery That Was Once Trending

KEITH T. DENNETT | New South | CONTACT

In science news, an archaeologist from the University of Betoota has uncovered a fascinating find after stumbling upon a large collection of crockery that was once, very briefly, fashionable.

Professor Maxwell Williams, Ceramic Typologist and Head of the Department of Ancient Domestic Ephemera at Betoota Uni, is reported to have uncovered one of the largest collections of Kmart dinnerware in Australian history, inside a sharehouse down in the French Quarter.

Attending an open home at 86 Villeroy Street last Saturday, Maxwell says he was hoping to get a foot in the property market when he inspected the kitchen cupboards, and discovered an assorted collection of plates, cups and bowls that could get their own display at the Queensland Museum Kurilpa.

“It was amazing, mate. They had every single bit of crockery that’s trended in the last decade, and not a single thing matched,” said Maxwell.

“They had those pastel pink plates with the tiny lip edge, blue ‘golf ball’ bowls in speckled duck egg, even a bone-white rectangular platter, the kind Thai restaurants use to serve Prawn Twizzlers.”

After rummaging through the drawers, Maxwell says the sharehouse was clearly one that had seen at least nine different students on the bond.”

“The whole kitchen was a time capsule from the last ten years.”

“There were teapots from T2, stolen chip baskets from Grill’d, and one of those bamboo husk KeepCups, you know the ones that taste like you’re drinking out of a wheelie bin.”

“The cupboards were a true archaeological marvel, it was like every geological period of girl dinners was accounted for.”