Do you ever secretly lick your plate?

[BloodyBollockingHell]

The height of bad manners but I can’t resist bean juice or post-baked-potato buttery lickings.

Shocking I know.

Yesss and my husband and I both do it at the end of our meal 🐷😋

I wonder if the queen does?

Only if I get in there before the cat. Doesn’t matter what I make- the cat will desperately try to lick the plate. Puts me off a bit tbh.

I was taught that the only polite way to "clean your plate" (only to be done at home of course) is to spear a small piece of bread on your fork and use it to sop up the gravy/juices.

My DH and I had this very same conversation on our first date 12 years ago where we both agreed it was fine ‘especially if gravy was involved’. That’s when I knew he was a keeper!

Not in secret...I do it all the time at home. DH does too, especially if there’s gravy on a Sunday roast.
I even do it for dessert bowls too

This has brought a smile to my face...one of the kids at work (school) had licked his ice cream bowl clean the other day .

I'm never fussed about licking/mopping up the sauce from savoury food...sweet stuff is another matter. I tend to swipe a finger round the bowl to get the last bit. Only ever at home though!

I don't make a habit of it but I'm surprised at the people saying it's disgusting and makes them heave. Why is it particularly bad?

Never in my life

No but I do lick yoghurt pot lids and drink the leftover milk after my cereal 😁

And I lick my knife.

No! MIL does and taught the habit to her DC. DH has only done it once in my company and we have been together mire than 30 years.

MIL is a well educated ex deputy head who turns up her nose at people who aren't well educated but I bet most have better table manners than her.

It don't get why lots of posters think it's disgusting (in your own home with your own plate).

My cat and dog get my plate to lick occasionally if I eat on the sofa - the plate goes into the dishwasher which washes hotter than hell, so I'm not worried about germs.

I don't consider myself gross, sorry!

Haha, no but DH does although it’s only on one particular thing which is homemade steak Diane sauce. So delicious 😋 I always laugh at him!

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I'll up the stakes. Has anyone done it in a restaurant? (I haven't, but I will at home if it was something especially nice.)

My mum was once having a meal in a restaurant sat opposite my dad. Over his shoulder she saw a man calmly pick up his plate, lick it and put it down. So, in answer to your question, I haven’t seen it but I know someone that has 😂

No but I do save a bit of yorkshire pud for my gravy or get some bread for other kinds of sauce eg creamy garlic mushrooms or tomato pasta.

Sometimes, but I usually drink the remaining juice etc from the plate. Is that more socially acceptable?! Maybe some of the pearl clutchers would be ok about us heathens using a straw!

Urgh, no way.
To let your pet lick off your plate 🤢 makes me want to vomit thinking of it. I don't care if someone has a dishwasher that's effing gross.
I can't stand people using their finger to scoop stuff up either then shoving their finger in their mouth. Yuck.

No. But I have a huge nose and a short tongue so I don't think I actually could.

we have only in your own house rules.

plate licking is one and then not in front of each other really.

It reminds me too much of childhood- not enough food to go around, human plates being put down for animals to finish. My neighbour would allow her dog to lick plates clean then put them back in the cupboard without washing.

I've done it and been caught afterwards as I had the evidence of cheese sauce stuck in my hair.🧀

@hettie555

It don't get why lots of posters think it's disgusting (in your own home with your own plate).

My cat and dog get my plate to lick occasionally if I eat on the sofa - the plate goes into the dishwasher which washes hotter than hell, so I'm not worried about germs.

I don't consider myself gross, sorry!

I don't think you're gross either, not you or the other posters who do this. I don't do it because I'm fairly certain that it would slide off the plate and straight down my top. I know it would actually.

I think the posters who have rushed in to call the plate-lickers 'grim' or as having made them 'heave' are faintly ridiculous and I see them as Hyacinth Bucketttt types. Although she wasn't so sneery; could have learned much from some of the superiorati on here.

Carry on licking your plates!

I don't actually lick my plates (maybe my cooking isn't that great) but I do lick the serving spoon - eg if I've finished dishing out say shepherds pie and I'm clearing up the kitchen. It's once in a blue moon, but somehow I feel the bar is going to be different for a serving spoon.
I wonder if that's considered gross?

only when alone