Is it permissible by the strict laws of etiquette to dip pieces of bread into your soup?

Answer 1

Etiquette techniques are designed for a formal setting, such as a high-end restaurant and do not apply to all situations of consuming food. Not knowing your unique situation, I offer the following. It is my opinion and is not based in the "strict laws of etiquette.”

French onion soup is served with bread as a topping, other soups are suggested to be served with croutons, and folks are known to crumble crackers into their soup. Should you want bread sop-ed in soup, break off bite sizes of the bread, place them in your soup, and spoon them out.

Following "strict laws of etiquette" is equal to having someone else telling you what to do and how to act. If someone wants to judge you and dismiss you on the account of the way you choose to eat your soup that shows their shallowness. "Strict" adherence to such rules and regulations is an attempt to gain acceptance from someone you deem more important than yourself. Ask is the manner in which I eat soup a concern because I am trying to impress someone else and gain their approval? Is it really all that important to be concerned about what others think of us? Is it not more important what we think of ourselves? In the whole scheme of life is the way we choose to eat our soup all that important?


People are threatened by others who go against the grain so be prepared for the possibility of being ousted, shunned, and/or written-off by your peers. ( Just another way they try to control you for being you own person, and not a conformist)!

Answer 2

You may break off small pieces of bread into your soup (a few at a time) and then collect them with your spoon as you continue to eat your soup. A soupspoon is dipped away from you, and then gently scraped over the far end of the bowl to prevent dripping.

Answer 3

In regards to strict etiquette, you do not dip your bread into your soup. The logic is: If the bread was intended to be in the soup, then the bread would already be in the soup.

Answer 4

No, but after you have had all your soup with a spoon, it is permissible to "wipe the plate clean" with a small peaces of bread on a fork and then eating it.

Answer 5

In a dinner with the Queen I would never eat with my fingers. I would avoid bread all together. But for most standard nice dinners if you do it properly and with out drawing attention to your self it should be fine.
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Answer 6

Absolutely ! In my house it is acceptable. I would probably do it at other peoples homes as well for I am harming no one by dipping my bread!

Act civilized with alittle class and you pretty much get away with anything!!!!

Answer 7

Not permissible . it is called slopping. and pigs are slopped.