Why are plates normally round??

Answer 1

Plates are made from pottery. it is easier to thro pottery into round shapes, and easier to make in mass quantities

Answer 2

Easier to make quickly.
What makes the world go round?

OMAR MARTINEZ
REPORTER


For as far back as anyone can remember, plates have been in a circular shape, and, of course, that makes it easier to eat food and makes eating less messy. Some questions arise however. For example, who invented the first plate and why? Why did that person decide to make them round rather than square, diagonal or octagonal?


Lucas Wagner (10) said, “It’s easier to organize food on a round plate and that’s why they are circular.” That can be true, but it also depends on the size of the plate. On the same subject Andrew Smith (12) said he thinks plates are round because “It’s just the way they were designed.”


Today’s plates are starting to appear in many shapes and sizes. Square plates have made a “comeback” but still aren’t used as much by most families.


“It’d be easier if plates were mainly square because they’d fit in cabinets easier,” said Jacob Clark (10). Wagner has a different idea. “It wouldn’t make life easier. It would just make eating more fun,” he said.

Answer 3

The responders so far have more orless adequately given the logic behind having the plates round. I feel that the geometrical idea of perfect shape(Circle) may have contributed to this.Besides the obviously geometrical reason(equidisant from centre) must have been the deciding factor, the round shape of the stars and planets had perhaps generated a notion that since this shape was adopted in Creation it had a halo of mysticism about it..In Black Magic also the possessed one is protected from the Evil by drawing a circle around him/her..

Answer 4

The round shape offers least resistance just as the celestial bodies. The stones irregularly shaped attain nearly rounded shape on subjected to the action of running waters in rivers. The fabrication of plates is a reflection our familiarity with astronomical bodies of the Universe. It is truely An efficient geometrical system known to the man ages immomorial.

Answer 5

Why the football is round?. It has been shaped once and found very conveniene in having meals. Not all plates are round, some are in squire also but they experienced uneasy.

Answer 6

My instincts tell me that hundreds of years ago plates were round because they were easily to make and the idea stuck out of tradition but honestly, I really don't know for sure.

Answer 7

traditionally plates were made on a wagon wheel running on high speed wid some amount of mud on it which is rotated at high speeds wid the help of dat wheel and den wid da help of hands its been given da shape and the only shape possible wa round derefore all the plates pots etc r round in shape..

Answer 8

Round and deep,everything stays in side the plate and it has place Enif to have your eatables.

Answer 9

when they were handmade, it was easier to get them to be uniform and symmetrical by turning them on a pottery wheel. Also glass plates for similar reasons.

Answer 10

Easier to throw!