When did it become accepted to tilt your soup bowl?
Upvote:5
Picking up the soup bowl was acceptable in earlier times in England (sources aren't clear when exactly but this must have been true before the eighteenth century because soup spoons didn't exist before then in the West (according to wiki on soup spoons). There is a lot on etiquette in the 1800s in Knife, Fork, and Spoon Etiquette in the 1800s - you mustn't blow on the soup, only use a spoon, don't pick up the bowl, don't slurp, don't ask for two helpings, leave your spoon on the soup plate - but nothing about tilting the bowl.
Then there is a source from 1879 (John H. Young , βOur Deportmentβ, it's quoted in Etiquipedia) which says you should not tilt your bowl to get the last spoonful. Next, an 1897 source says you could tilt the bowl but it should be away from you. This was to make it clear you were eating the soup, not drinking it (this is according to a 1897 source which is mentioned in this book chapter: web.stanford.edu).
Culture and the company and the social setting usually say what we can or can't do, so I don't think it's possible to come up with just one answer. The design of Chinese soup spoons makes it impossible to get even close to emptying the bowel without tilting (sort of in line with one of the comments above).
More post
- π Where did Nguyα» n VΔn Thiα»u (Thieu) learn his English?
- π Is there a correlation between the colonial power and the stability/success of the post colonial state?
- π Korean Traditional Clothes for each Dynasty
- π On the Ezana Stone, who are the black and red people that the Ethiopian king was referring to?
- π Will we ever get anything like the LBJ & Nixon White House recordings for contemporary presidents?
- π What percentage of NAACP in the 1910s was Jewish?
- π Would the USA staying out of WWI have prevented WWII?
- π Where is the tomb of Erwin Rommel located?
- π How was Germany able to hold itself together, while Austria-Hungary could not?
- π What role did the Eastern Roman Empire play in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
- π What were the responses to Copernicus' heliocentric theory?
- π What were the founding fathers' views on Native Americans?
- π Why did the Moors invade the Iberian peninsula?
- π What is the name and meaning of a World War 2 CCC Medal with both the Polish Eagle and British Statant Gardant Lion?
- π What was the role of the Catholic church with regard to the Holocaust?
- π Did the United States taxpayer fund the development of China's backbone fighter plane?
- π Did the Roman Empire have penal colonies?
- π Why did the attempts to keep Africa colonized after World War II fail?
- π How many rapes did the Wehrmacht commit in the Soviet Union during World War II?
- π Which of Hitler's peers had no more education than him?
- π What jobs were available for migrants from the country to Rome?
- π Relation between Afroamerican religions and colonial metropoles?
- π Where can I find documents on the 1992 fight between French soldiers and Somalian fighters?
- π Why was North and South America less developed than other parts of the world?
- π How were the hides of wild beasts cured and tanned back in the 11th century?
- π Why is there is a pan-slavic movement?
- π Did Emperor Gaozu of Han allow people he conquered to keep their cultural identities?
- π Were bookshops 'common' in the late 19th century, and how did they differ from modern ones?
- π Which is the first genocide?
- π How much would 300 pounds (money value) weigh in Medieval England?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- π When did it become accepted to tilt your soup bowl?
- π When did the tilt of the tower of Pisa become seen as a feature instead of a defect?
- π When did druids become widely accepted as 'shapeshifters'?
- π When did the concept of compassion for the handicapped become commonly accepted in the USA?
- π When and how did the USA and the UK become allies?
- π When and why did having long hair become associated with women, and short hair with men?
- π When did Canada become truly independent?
- π When and where did socks become common?
- π When did h*m*sexuality become unacceptable in Europe?
- π When did Americans become safe from highway robbery?
- π When did Kievan Rus' rulers become culturally Slavic?
- π When and how did the Han ethnic group become by far the biggest ethnic group in China?
- π When did it become acceptable to campaign for yourself for US President?
- π Gender Color Association: When did boys become blue and girls pink?
- π When did books first become affordable to the general population?
- π When did the acceptance of diversity become such an important social goal in Western countries?
- π When did Josef Wissarionowitsch become "sexy" Stalin?
- π When did nonporous ceramic become widespread?
- π When did one-way mirrors become widely used by police?
- π When did Aurochs (large wild cattle) become extinct in Britain?
- π When did the British monarch become an emperor?
- π When and why did smiling at strangers and in photos become customary in the United States?
- π When did it become common for optical brighteners to be added to commercial laundry detergent?
- π When did European building interiors partitioned into rooms become commonplace?
- π When did mature redwood trees become possible to harvest?
- π When did the parole of prisoners of war become unacceptable?
- π Historically, when (and why) did Ganga become a holy river? Is it after Sarasvati dried up?
- π Why did Nepal and Bhutan not become a part of India like other princely states when colonial rule ended?
- π When did migration and international travel become legally limited?
- π How did slavery become permissible in the French West Indies when it was forbidden in France?