To not want you to tongue my plate

[NigellaSeed]

Drinking the milk from the bowl after eating cereal = smart thing to do

Licking all the sauce off an empty plate after eating = totally vile and unacceptable!

Depends who you're with. I know I shouldn't but I have given my plate a quick lick before when I'm with family. A plate that had had cake and cream on.

YANBU but drinking cereal milk from a bowl is equally horrible. That is what spoons are for.

Depends.
Are you alone in your own kitchen or the dining room at The Goring?

It can't be equally horrible. A bowl is a cup without a handle. Lolloping your tongue around on a plate is a whole other ball game.

Mind you, I have never seen anyone (apart from our cats with their bowls) actually lick a plate so it's probably quite unusual but would be disgusting. I can't imagine anyone would actually do it in public or in private. It would never cross my mind, ever.

@NigellaSeed

It can't be equally horrible. A bowl is a cup without a handle. Lolloping your tongue around on a plate is a whole other ball game.

A bowl is not a cup without a handle.

@NigellaSeed

It can't be equally horrible. A bowl is a cup without a handle. Lolloping your tongue around on a plate is a whole other ball game.

It is a plate with sides.

For the purposes of debate I will add

"licking a plate whilst with Kith, kin and all and sundry"

A bowl is a cup without a handle. I've drank coffee from a steep bowl. In France no less, therefore it is a cup.

@NigellaSeed were Tom, Dick or indeed Harry also present? Also was there mopping bread? Because I need context here.

Yes i mean it's unacceptable infront of absolutely everyone and their dog.

Even if no mopping bread has been provided, I'm afraid that sauce is to stay on the plate.

I completely agree, was just wondering if this was a thing that has just happened or a general rule of thumb that you're canvassing on.

I think Debretts has a section on what to do if no mopping bread has been provided. One moment please.

I’m even worse, if it’s just me and DP I run my finger over the plate and then lick it clean. Come at me

Maybe we need a mew piece of cutlery, a little squeegee spatula type thing for those really delicious sauces

Hard agree. Like the Krelmen in the bee movie.

Comparing bowl sipping and plate licking it like comparing leaving make up wipes by a sink to leaving nail clippings by a sink. It ain't the same mother flipping thing

I'm not opposed to a new piece of cutlery actually. It's ripe for a shake up.

I suspect that everyone on this thread is a cat.

@felinelucky And with a name like that I assume you’re one of us too

loving the “bowl = cup” debate

I think licking the plate clean is disgusting. My mum used to do it, her hygiene was substandard, so I guess I just associate licking the plate clean with being gross. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Surely you can use a spoon if the sauce/cream or whatever is too good to be true

Even if no mopping bread has been provided, I'm afraid that sauce is to stay on the plate.

Either be French and have bread or do what DD does, "look away mummy you don't want to see this". It's gravy, you don't throw decent, home-made gravy away.

When my children were young I would serve their cereal and milk in a mug. They could carry it more easily and the spoon did not fall when they took it into the kitchen after eating. Also, perfectly easy to drink the rest of the milk.

I still serve cereal in a mug when I am giving someone breakfast in bed.

@NigellaSeed

Drinking the milk from the bowl after eating cereal = smart thing to do

Licking all the sauce off an empty plate after eating = totally vile and unacceptable!

see also soup and bowls. drinking the broth.. licking plates - really annoying but better than waste I guess.

Sweet Jesus, and his poor old mother!
This is what bread is for, and why a table is bare without it.

I confess I licked my plate the other night after mushroom stroganoff. The sauce is sooo nice and I don't need the extra carbs that come with bread. Soz!

See I very skillfully scoop up any remaining sauce or gravy with my dinner knife blade & eat it off that...and many would argue that that is much worse.