Another antiquated idea that has no merit in this day and age. If you want to eat all your food, go ahead.
In regular restaurants it is etiquette if the customer chooses to put their knife and fork side by side and move their plate to the right in order for the waiter or waitress to see it and pick it up. In higher end restaurants it is not etiquette to move your own plate, but place the knife and fork across the plate so the waiter or waitress can see that you are finished eating and should quickly take your plate away.
It is intended to distract the opposing teams pitcher as it rounds home plate, but usually it is done because the fans are bored and looking to have some fun.
In formal dining etiquette, the fork is typically placed on the left side of the plate.
There is no fork to the right of your plate. Proper etiquette is two knives on the right ... one for buttering a bun served with a meal and the second one for cutting. On the left side is your salad fork (generally salads are eaten first, but each individual is different) and then the fork to eat with the main meal.
No, home plate is a common noun, a word for any home plate anywhere.A common noun becomes a proper noun when it is the name of a person, place, thing, or a title. For example:The Home Plate Sports Tavern in Schuylerville, NYHome Plate Novelties in Erie, COHome Plate, a well known San Francisco Restaurant
never, ever!!! it is very dangerous to leave a hot plate or even a cooking stove unattended !!
Vegetables. :)
Diamond will not leave a streak on a porcelain streak plate because diamond is harder than the streak plate. It will leave a scratch on the streak plate for the same reason.
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Some minerals are harder than a streak plate and will therefore leave no streak or the powder of the ceramic streak plate.
Although there was plenty of food on the table, each plate seemed meager
A plate with his name on it