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When eating soup, should the soup spoon be placed on the saucer between sips - or can it be left in the bowl?

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angie
angie
August 28, 2009 09:54 PM
According to the career services office at Virginia Tech University, the spoon should be placed on the saucer or service plate, behind the bowl, periodically. If a saucer is not given, place the spoon in the bowl, rather than on the table itself.
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http://www.career.vt.edu/diningetiquette/QandA.htm
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annek
annek
August 28, 2009 10:24 PM
So, according to "Miss Manners":

"Soup may be served in bowls or cups with small plates under them, in which case the spoon is always parked on the underlying plate.

"At more or less formal dinners, soup is served in a so-called soup plate, which doesn't look like a plate because it is a rimmed wide, shallow bowl... When a soup plate is used, the spoon is parked in plate.

"With two-handled soup cups... it is... permissible to drink from the lifted cup."
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http://www.soupsong.com/bametiqu.html
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