Smaken är som baken, as we say in Sweden

My husband has very few, if any, opinions on choice of things like cushions, bedsheets, crockery and other home beautifying items. He has let me know I have way too many tea cups, but that's more because their numbers prevent him from properly closing the  cupboard door than any style issues.

However, suddenly the other day, he held up a fairly ordinary but elegant blue bowl and asked: 

"When did we get this?"

I replied, a bit curious:

"A while ago, it goes with one of the tea cups. Why do you ask?"

And to this he replied, stoically:

"Oh no reason. It's ugly, that's all."

He normally doesn't opinionate, but when he does, his opinions are extraorinarily random.