jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 11/12/2017 3:36 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> > "cshenk"Â* wrote in message
> > > Ok, not sure how universal this one is in the USA but it's a
> > > little plate for your own bread portion.Â* 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).
> > >
> > > ==
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Â*Carol
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Who on earth told you that?
> >
> Yes, who told her that? The side plate for bread is so you can
> gracefully take a piece of bread or a roll and have a place to put
> it. That's more a formal setting, I suppose. It has nothing to do
> with not letting things on the plate touch.
>
> Eventually the bread will wind up on the plate. How about garlic
> bread sopping up red gravy with spaghetti? How about eggs and
> soldiers (toast) for breakfast? I've had Ethopian lamb stew
> served with injera bread for sopping up gravy. Different cultures.
>
> Jill

It would be very interesting if you visited outside western european/
North America. Thats not going to happen so those other parts of the
world 'do not exist' in your lexicon. Yes, In Africa, they use sopping
bread.

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