"cshenk" wrote in message
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Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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> > U.S. Janet B. wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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> >> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:00:39 -0000, "Ophelia"
> >> > wrote:
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> >>> I have noticed that Usians have a lot of dipping pots on the
> table. >>> It's not something I do
> >> >
> > >
> >> I don't understand this comment.
> >> Janet US
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> > It's ok Janet, it's a UK translation to call it a dipping pot.
> > (I've seen it before called that by UK folks in other social
> > media). We don't do it (USA folks or me) with all meals but it can
> > be very ethnically determined.
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> > As far as I know, we'd mostly call them bowls and it's really common
> > where I have lived, to have individual ones where you dipped some
> > out to your own small one or if thick enough to not run, to your
> > plate.
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> > Here's one query, I wonder if the UK uses the term 'bread plate'?
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> > Um maybe. It isn't a term I use but who knows
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> Ok, not sure how universal this one is in the USA but it's a little
> plate for your own bread portion. The bread may be in a bowl at the
> center of the table and you take your piece back to your own bread
> plate (separate from your larger dinner plate).
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> Oh you mean 'side plate'.

Could be same meaning! It's used so various gravys and other things
don't touch the bread unless later, you want to sop those up with the
bread.

I've been told sopping up the juices on the main plate with bread seems
a little disgusting in some cultures but here it's fairly common.

Carol

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Who on earth told you that?

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