Licking dinner plates

Have to say I have never licked a plate, or seen anyone do it.
Hope I never do.
Ugh.

I judge those who judge.

I used to do this, as did my Dad. Only in the privacy of the family home. No way do I want the delicious sauce or stew gravy adulterated with bread. Now I use a spoon but I wouldn't be too harsh with a DC did this. I'd just reiterate not to do it anywhere else but the home.

just curious

Same. A friend of mines DH does it at every fucking meal and it makes me gip and not want to eat off their plates.

Why, does it suddenly become more acceptable if it’s a truffle jus rather than Asda gravy granules?

Am I the only one who wants to know what she is licking

Sorry but those two things are not at all comparable! 🙄
One is acceptable and the other is totally anti-social and quite disgusting! 🙁
I will let you work out for yourself which is which! 😊

Oh, no, you definitely teach her early that this isn't on. Dogs lick plates, and she's not a dog - ergo, the plate gets rinsed under the tap, not by her tongue.

As long as she doesn’t do it at her friends house or at school or when you go to a restaurant….. Otherwise fair play!

I think it's OK to use a piece of bread to get rid of the gravy or soup or whatever, but saying 'mopping it up' sounds grim! As I said, it's right up there with 'have a drink to wash your food down with!' shudder 😖

I think it's fine now and again so long as she knows not to do it when she is out or if you have guests.

My now adult son sometimes does it and I take it as a compliment. He somehow knows not to do it outside our own homes! Same with cutlary, it's fine to just use a fork at home if you want (or if eating a bowl of pasta that isn't spaghetti). Otherwise it's a knife and fork.

I think people learn different manners for different environments. It's a bit like swearing. I would never say fuck in front of my mum/children/older relatives/in polite company but I do otherwise!

Well I’m really going to set the cat amongst the pigeons.
I find the whole ‘mopping up’ thing awful too.
i was brought up to break off a bit if bread and use a fork to absorb any left over sauce.

What a disgusting new habit. She’s not an animal. Tell her to mop up any remaining sauce with a piece of bread.

You’re absolutely right in telling her to stop this. Your husband seems to have lost his sense of basic manners.

It is a bit grim. Can you give her a soup spoon. We always had one with gravy, best part of the roast dinner.

So you just have a slurp of soup then eat a dry bun? How odd.

Absolutely! Or let her know thats a really dirty habit. Get you plate in the sink now!

It isn't even a matter of manners for me it would just make me gag. The same way people gag at the smell of certain food or people chewing with their mouth open.
I am not a quezy person, that it is just my personal ick factor. So we don't do it the same as I wouldn't cook something that smells revolting to others.

On my own though I lick, fart and pick my nose.

But you don't actually know they are doing it.
Schrodinger's bread roll 😂

No.

It doesn’t but I’m still allowed to judge them.

YANBU

It's weird that people think basic manners don't apply in your own home.
They're normally second nature so you don't even think about them for a start. Don't you say please and thank you in the privacy of your own home?

Why would you even make efforts for strangers but not your own relatives? You don't lick plates in public, you don't do it at home.

Kids never learn manners if they are taught they don't actually matter. And they have a point, if you teach them they don't need them, why bother out of the house?

I like the phrase Phil Rosenthal uses on Someone Feed Phil. He calls it zobbling. Sounds nicer than ‘mopping up’

At first, I thought there's nothing wrong in doing this in your own home, we did it as kids back in the 70s and mine did it in the 90s, but reading some of these replies, it seems I'm firmly in the minority.
Back then (certainly in the circles we were in), this was a show of appreciation for a good meal, much like some countries believe you need to burp to show it.
The plates were clean before the food was added, so we weren't locking anything nasty, and it makes doing the washing up a little easier (not adding gravy or blobs of ketchup to the washing up water, yuk).
There was never a time when anyone was embarrassed about it because it was instilled into us that we weren't to do it in public, but we did talk to our friends who also did it and parents agreed that if at each other's homes for tea, then it would be acceptable.
These days, I am also in the camp of providing bread to 'mop up' with.
I will add that I've not done it since I was a teenager but I do like to lick the yoghurt off the lid of the pot.😊

It’s a no from me.

Though dipping a cheese toastie in tomato soup is a human right.