Vilco wrote:

> Very afro: many african dishes are made to be consumed that way, everybody
> eating from the same "big dish", be it the table or a bowl.

In July, some of us from here on RFC met up in D.C. for an Ethiopian
dinner and this is how we ate. The various dishes are all placed on the
spongy Ethiopian bread on the platter. Each diner also had a serving of
the bread to use to grab/pick up the food with off the communal plate.