What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.

McGuirk1 wrote:
>
> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
> wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.

You don't eat from them, so I don't know how they would be scratched.
Of course, they can be made from a lot of different materials I
suppose, so who knows. They are decorative as far as I know.

nancy

On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
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> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
>the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
>wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.


Think of it as a trivet for either a salad plate, or soup
bowl, to catch the drips.

http://www.bluesuitmom.com/food/jorj...etiquette.html

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>From: Andrew H. Carter

>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
>scribbled some thoughts:
>
> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

I have no idea what you are referring to.
I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
Does it look weird to people reading my post?
Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
plates and no soup will be served.
So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

>From: Andrew H. Carter

>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
>scribbled some thoughts:
>
> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

I have no idea what you are referring to.
I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
Does it look weird to people reading my post?
Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
plates and no soup will be served.
So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

>From: Andrew H. Carter

>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
>scribbled some thoughts:
>
> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

I have no idea what you are referring to.
I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
Does it look weird to people reading my post?
Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
plates and no soup will be served.
So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

I use them for formal dinners.

(McGuirk1) wrote in message >...
> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
> wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.

I use them for formal dinners.

(McGuirk1) wrote in message >...
> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
> wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> You don't eat from them, so I don't know how they would be scratched.
> Of course, they can be made from a lot of different materials I
> suppose, so who knows. They are decorative as far as I know.
>
> nancy

They could get scratched by the soup bowl. Would probably take many years
to be really noticeable.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> > You don't eat from them, so I don't know how they would be scratched.
> > Of course, they can be made from a lot of different materials I
> > suppose, so who knows. They are decorative as far as I know.

> They could get scratched by the soup bowl. Would probably take many years
> to be really noticeable.

Oh, the soup bowl would go on top of the salad plate which would go
on top of the dinner plate. It's like arranging the cutlery. No
scraping around. Besides, the whole point is you'd only see the
edges of the chargers. Not the part under the plates.

nancy

On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
wrote:

> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it would add to
> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised lately. I also
> wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks for any input.

I don't use them, but Target has nice ones 4 for $10 and I
was tempted. They are used as a "place holder" on the
table.... taken off when the "real plate" goes down. They
certainly could be used on the table for those people who
HAVE to have their tables set days before the big occasion.

sf
Practice safe eating - always use condiments

previously in rfc, sf > wrote:

> On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
> wrote:
>
>> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it
>> would add to
>> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised
>> lately. I also wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks
>> for any input.
>
> I don't use them, but Target has nice ones 4 for $10 and I
> was tempted. They are used as a "place holder" on the
> table.... taken off when the "real plate" goes down. They
> certainly could be used on the table for those people who
> HAVE to have their tables set days before the big occasion.
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>

My chargers stay under the plate. I love the look of a double plate and if
I'm not serving full capacity at my dining room table I do use them -
otherwise I don't have enough room for them as they are larger than the
plate that goes on top of it and the table gets too crowded.

They're especially nice under big pasta bowls.

I use chargers that are the same color as my plates - this is the set I've
had for years from Fishs Eddy. They call it whiteware but it's really more
of a cream or off-white.

http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/2,51.html

-Claudia

previously in rfc, sf > wrote:

> On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
> wrote:
>
>> What exactly is the functon of a plate charger? I imagine it
>> would add to
>> the beauty of a holiday table. I see alot of them advertised
>> lately. I also wondered if they get scratched up easily. Thanks
>> for any input.
>
> I don't use them, but Target has nice ones 4 for $10 and I
> was tempted. They are used as a "place holder" on the
> table.... taken off when the "real plate" goes down. They
> certainly could be used on the table for those people who
> HAVE to have their tables set days before the big occasion.
>
> sf
> Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>

My chargers stay under the plate. I love the look of a double plate and if
I'm not serving full capacity at my dining room table I do use them -
otherwise I don't have enough room for them as they are larger than the
plate that goes on top of it and the table gets too crowded.

They're especially nice under big pasta bowls.

I use chargers that are the same color as my plates - this is the set I've
had for years from Fishs Eddy. They call it whiteware but it's really more
of a cream or off-white.

http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/2,51.html

-Claudia

In article >, CJB >
wrote:

> My chargers stay under the plate. I love the look of a double plate
> and if I'm not serving full capacity at my dining room table I do use
> them - otherwise I don't have enough room for them as they are larger
> than the plate that goes on top of it and the table gets too crowded.
>
> They're especially nice under big pasta bowls.
>
> I use chargers that are the same color as my plates - this is the set
> I've had for years from Fishs Eddy. They call it whiteware but it's
> really more of a cream or off-white.

> http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/2,51.html
>
> -Claudia

That's been my experience with them, too, Claudia - left on the table.
I love the look, but don't own any myself. Tempting. And another
thing/s to figure out where to put. Becky would go nuts. "MOTHER!"
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-10-04, The Butter Dish.
"There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having
to eat your own words."

In article >, CJB >
wrote:

> My chargers stay under the plate. I love the look of a double plate
> and if I'm not serving full capacity at my dining room table I do use
> them - otherwise I don't have enough room for them as they are larger
> than the plate that goes on top of it and the table gets too crowded.
>
> They're especially nice under big pasta bowls.
>
> I use chargers that are the same color as my plates - this is the set
> I've had for years from Fishs Eddy. They call it whiteware but it's
> really more of a cream or off-white.

> http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/2,51.html
>
> -Claudia

That's been my experience with them, too, Claudia - left on the table.
I love the look, but don't own any myself. Tempting. And another
thing/s to figure out where to put. Becky would go nuts. "MOTHER!"
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-10-04, The Butter Dish.
"There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having
to eat your own words."

previously in rfc, Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> In article >, CJB >
> wrote:
>
>> My chargers stay under the plate. I love the look of a double plate
>> and if I'm not serving full capacity at my dining room table I do use
>> them - otherwise I don't have enough room for them as they are larger
>> than the plate that goes on top of it and the table gets too crowded.
>>
>> They're especially nice under big pasta bowls.
>>
>> I use chargers that are the same color as my plates - this is the set
>> I've had for years from Fishs Eddy. They call it whiteware but it's
>> really more of a cream or off-white.
>
>> http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/2,51.html
>>
>> -Claudia
>
> That's been my experience with them, too, Claudia - left on the table.
> I love the look, but don't own any myself. Tempting. And another
> thing/s to figure out where to put. Becky would go nuts. "MOTHER!"

Very true! They are too big to fit in my regular cabinets on top so I keep
them underneath with platters! They do a great double duty as platters
also, in a pinch.

-Claudia

On 08 Nov 2004 18:10:39 GMT, (McGuirk1)
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>
>
>>From: Andrew H. Carter
>
>>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
>>scribbled some thoughts:
>>
>> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
>
>I have no idea what you are referring to.
>I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
>Does it look weird to people reading my post?
>Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
>plates and no soup will be served.
>So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
>no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

>>Quote>> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

Refers to the ASCII art in my sig, especially the guy
peering over the fence. Also this if viewed in Terminal.fon
will show a "table" around the text:

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In the above if viewed in Times New Roman, you'll see a
couple rows of the A umlaut, and a U Accent, some 3
superscript characters, the inverted ?, and a couple others.

The purpose of of a fixed pitch/mono-spaced font is to allow
for lining up of characters, especially useful to determine
that there is a space between two characters. In Terminal,
or any mono/fixed pitch font, the following two lines will
be appear equal in length (30 characters):

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yet in Times New Roman and in other variable pitch fonts,
the "X" line appears to be at least twice as long.

As to the place setting issue, while it is customary to
remove them after the particular serving, that is custom not
written in stone. There is no law that says you cannot be a
maverick and use it as the "drip catch plate" for the entire
meal.

Also, if your house is big enough where you have a kitchen
dining table and a dining room dining table, that you cannot
keep the dining room table set all the time, dusted mind
you, but set.

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:>From: Andrew H. Carter

:>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
:>scribbled some thoughts:
:>
:> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

: I have no idea what you are referring to.
: I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
: Does it look weird to people reading my post?
: Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
: plates and no soup will be served.
: So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
: no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

They meant a non-proportional font - a font in which every letter consumes
the same amount of space as every other letter.

Back to the original subject...
Where on earth did the name "charger" come from? Sounds like something
a guy does to his car or a gal does to her vibrator.

:>From: Andrew H. Carter

:>On 08 Nov 2004 16:45:34 GMT, (McGuirk1)
:>scribbled some thoughts:
:>
:> NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font

: I have no idea what you are referring to.
: I am typing with a normal font. (meaning I don't even know how to change it)
: Does it look weird to people reading my post?
: Anyway, thanks for the link. My Thanksgiving table only has room for dinner
: plates and no soup will be served.
: So since you are suppossed to remove them after the first course then there is
: no point. Too bad. I thought they added beauty to the place settings.

They meant a non-proportional font - a font in which every letter consumes
the same amount of space as every other letter.

Back to the original subject...
Where on earth did the name "charger" come from? Sounds like something
a guy does to his car or a gal does to her vibrator.