Licking a Plate In a Restaurant

[Venus193]

I hope this article didn't get that many readers:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/01/11/is_it_ok_to_lick_the_pasta_sauce_off_my_plate.html

[msulinski]

Yeah I can't say I agree with the writer on this. Sure, the woman loved the food and cared about that above all else, including the comfort of the other people in the restaurant.

[GoTwins]

 
I don't even let my 4-year-old daughter do that at home! I can't imagine seeing an adult doing it in public.

[cicero]

not really what i want to see when I'm dining...

[Venus193]

True.  I remember dining at a friend's house once and when her sister licked her plate my friend gave her the Look of Doom and yelled her name as though she were their mother.

I don't do that at home; I don't even double-dip at home.

[Zilla]

It's a joke at our table to lick our plates to keep others from mooching from it. But in any other context, heck no.

[onyonryngs]

I don't think this actually happens.  People might sop up sauce with a piece of bread, but I doubt any of us have to worry about witnessing someone lick a plate.

[Thipu1]

We've seen some pretty strange things happen in restaurants but this one takes the cake. 

Or perhaps she should have taken the bread. 

[rose red]

I've seen really really small children do that at family type restaurants, but I don't want to see an adult do that.  And at a fancy restaurant yet!    That's what bread is for.  And if I see her get rewarded, I would never go back to that restaurant.

[Amava]

That's disgusting!! 

Granted, my sister-in-law does this at her parents' place at a family dinner - I don't like to see it, but I always figured she sort of likes to "regress to her childhood years" when she's with her mom and dad. I'm pretty sure she does /not/ do this in other settings, though!

[lady_disdain]

Slate's standards is becoming abysmal.

[half_dollars]

I actually a friend do that in our house. 

Now, we were poor college kids home for a break.  We had dessert (I don't remember what, but it was some sort of cake/pie/something eaten off a plate with a fork).  She ate the dessert, then licked her plate.  Now, she usually displayed such polite manners, so I was shocked to see this.  I blurted out something (rude), like, "if you're still hungry, there's more.  Help yourself!".  She replied that she wanted to savor every bite since she doesn't usually eat dessert.  I was in total shock!

[oceanus]

I don't even let my 4-year-old daughter do that at home! I can't imagine seeing an adult doing it in public.

When my niece and nephew were 5 and 2 they sometimes spent the weekend with me.  I did the plate-licking thing, then they did it, then we all giggled.  Later I was SCOLDED by their parents because they had been doing it at home. 

[Minmom3]

In MY book - not when you're older than about 4 years old, and NEVER in public...  Grab another piece of bread and get it that way.  Flag a waiter and ask for a piece of bread to sop up your yummy sauce.  For the love of all things grown up and polite, don't lick the blankety blank plate...      Put it this way - good food is not an invitation to bad manners, right?!

[Twik]

Is a person who writes professionally actually suggesting that it is acceptable for an adult to lick a plate in a restaurant? Because the sauce is "expensive"?

Sob.