| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 1/30/2008 8:17:38 PM | | Wow... just reach across the table and start cleaning off her plate as well, then use another piece of bread to wipe your mouth, then eat that too (joke) I don't know if i could stop doing that for someone... its just to delicious... its the barter system in relationships, hopefully shes cool with it enough to not say anything, but then you have to overlook when she does something like eating a snickers bar with a knife and fork... fair trade! I could meet half way though... if its a restaurant of the 5 star nature, sure... Ill do my best, but if its some where like the hard rock or east side marios... its on baby! | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 1/30/2008 8:24:28 PM | hey! tony! are you italian or something? i'm not italian but i know a lot of italians that clean up the rest of the gravy (sauce) with their italian bread. although some other people do it as well there are those that find it offensive. me, personally? there's nothing wrong with cleaning the plate with bread, just don't sit there and lick it like a dog.
oh, btw, i've also been told that unless the plate is cleaned (gravy/sauce) cleaned off that sometimes the cook might take that as an insult......especially at those fancy italian restaurants. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 1/31/2008 4:42:08 AM | it depends on where you are and how you are doing it. if you are eating a chicken dinner in a restaurant and start cleaning your plate with your bread, it would be bad manners. usually bad manners go with other turn offs. here in japanese restaurants people drink soup w/o a spoon. but how about going into another plain old restaurant and drinking soup w/o a spoon? i haven't even seen japanese people do this in this type of restaurant , but i have seen american born men do this and it is a very big turnoff to me.
it's not the same as dipping bread in a sauce and w/o "slobbering" and "grunting". it's not the same as eating at home watching tv. it's basically low class and i figure it embarrasses and says something about the person doing it--unless it is appropriate for the kind of food and type of restaurant.
when it gets to be embarrassing to me "personally" is when i am at a fund raiser or a corporate dinner or the person is so "out of it" that others wonder, what the hell am i doing with him? and how desparate am i?
surely you also have some expectations of how a woman will eat when out with you? want her to pick her teeth? or make noises when she eats? want her to have stains on her shirt? be honest now. ....or just stick with mc donalds or find yourself someone who eats in the same way. my guess is that you will not find her attractive. that this is some sort of "guy" thing. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 2:33:02 PM |
hey! tony! are you italian or something? i'm not italian but i know a lot of italians that clean up the rest of the gravy (sauce) with their italian bread.
Yes, My Dear... I am Italian! LOL! And You called it "Gravy".... You're just a girl after My own heart!
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 2:40:49 PM | There is no problem in my mind with cleaning the plate with bread. Same person must have a problem with chip dip.
If you picked up and licked your plate, well I could see where that might bother some people. But wiping the rest of the spaghetti sauce or whatever with bread should be a compliment that the food taste good and you don't want to waste a drop. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 2:49:45 PM |
Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Absolutely not. It is perfectly acceptable to do this, especially with soup or something in a sauce. You should not lick the plate or your knife however. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 3:36:31 PM | OP I read your first post and never bothered reading anything else you have to be Italian!!!.......Cleaning your whole plate..depends how you do it..but i always like to just dunk.. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 6:03:16 PM | I grew up in Queens so had many Italian friends. Usually this practice was done with Italian food only. We never did it at our house, but not because it was gross, just because we usually didn't eat bread with a food that had a gooey sauce. However, when we ate Italian we did it (and we're jewish). And my Italian friends do it and it's fine. I am assuming you are doing it neatly-not getting your fingers in the sauce and/or slobbering all over the plate of ocurse. ;)
P.S. My brother in law is Italian and now my 2 little nephews know how to do it too and it's great.
P.P.S. This is just a cultural thing that some races do more than others. For example, Indian food traditionally comes with bread so they do it too (I eat Indian food alot). Also, Ethiopian food is traditionally served over a big fluffy bread so they also do it. However, don't see it too much with Jewish food (not bread heavy) or Chinese (not bread heavy). So, it's just cultural-no big deal.
When you eat out again with a girl try to show her how cool it is and yummy to get the sauce with the bread-maybe you'll get a new convert. :). | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 6:19:23 PM |
and it is almost expected that you have a piece of bread, which is often homemade too, and clean up your plate with it at the end of your meal.....
A piece of homemade bread, still warm, with a half inch of butter on it....omg...
My question to You ladies is, how do You feel about it and is it something I should be self-conscious about? Keep it in check? Or should I just say "Hey! I'm a fawkin' Ginny! fahgetabout it"! 
I think there's a time and place for everything, and only you know where the appropriate places are to clean your plate with bread. At home, my son always butters a couple of pieces of bread, and pours gravy over the bread, and eats it like that. Come to think of it, so does my daughter.
We are so laid back at my house. We do eat at the table every night, and I do have certain table rules, but both me and my son have picked up some bad habits. He likes to think he can drink his soup out of his bowl, instead of using a spoon. At home, I let him do this, because dayum, sometimes I do it, too. It's when we go to a restaurant, and he forgets his manners is when it gets embarrasing...
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 6:24:50 PM | | I believe it's in poor taste. So is not using a napkin during a meal and rather cleaning ones fingers by licking them. Another is hearing that sucking sound when someone is sucking through a straw and there is nothing left in the glass. Big turn offs. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 4/27/2008 7:11:05 PM | Will I ever learn? So I took this girl out to eat at an Ethiopian Restaurant in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. We sit down on this little table that is at knee level and they bring the food out... its this huge bowl, lined with some kind of pancake, and all these meats and vegtables, and also a couple of hard boiled eggs, and all of it is covered with some rich kind of gravy... They also served a plate with those same pancakes rolled into tubes. The whole idea was too tear a piece of pancake off and sop up the food, and too add insult to injury, there is no silverware! So here We are sitting at this bowl of food We are supposed to eat with our hands and I'm the only one eating, hah hah!
The good news is, We've gone out a couple of times since then so it wasn't a total disaster...
It is interesting though that there is a dining culture out there that is based on My bad manners! hah hah!
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 5/2/2008 7:54:42 AM | Gez... If you don't clean your plate with your bread in an Italian household or at dinner it's like an insult...
Why do you think Italian bread is so spongy and absorbent? You'd be leaving the best part of the meal behind!
OP: Go for it, dip away, use it as a filter on a date. If they find it gross, simply say: "NEXT!"
The women that find that little "mannerism" attractive are the one's you should be dating anyway. Less complaining about the little stupid things and more enjoying being together and life. Just make sure to use your napkin properly... | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 5/2/2008 8:08:28 AM | I would be grossed out but I'm not Italian, lol.
However if the man in question really turns me on otherwise, he could eat from a dog bowl and I would ignore it. | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 5/2/2008 11:54:52 AM | I'm Sicilian, it's a like, an instinct. everytime I have warm bread and somethign gooey or saucey, I can't help but clean it up with that bread and eat it.
God, I love fresh olives with italian bread, or mixing up some herbs in spices in vinnegar oil and basting up some bread in it... Good lord.
My grandfather never spoke a word of english, and loved to watch the cubs.
Everytime the cubbies' pitcher walked a player, or they were scored on, My grandpa would throw his arms to his side and exasperatedly exclaim "Miiiiiiiii!!!"
Suffice to say, I have Italian Habits, and I eat like an Italian. Ladies, the secret to an Italian man's heart is through his stomach. They say that about a lot of cultures, but there's a reason why a lotta italians are husky. ;p | |
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| Is cleaning my plate with my bread disgusting?
Posted: 5/2/2008 11:56:16 AM | Am I the only person in the world who is not Italian? What did yall do with all the Irish people?
My spaghetti sauce horrifies my Italian friends, I just tell them it's Irish spaghetti. | |
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