2007-03-04 11:00:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
in the older days- dinner plates were a pottery object - made on a pottery wheel that spun-- round was easy to make- square was impossible -lol-- we got use to it.
2007-03-04 11:10:21 · answer #1 · answered by lonestar 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tradition and Technology.
The round plates were develeped by potters around the start of civilization and have since been our means of eating. Pompeii, Italy has many examples of old roman dishware, which are all round.
If you go to a sushi restaraunt they will most likely give your teriaki platter on some kind of square plate, but these are reletively new ideas, because Plates were made by potters, who made pots, which the most logical way to make something to eat off of would be to spin it on a potters wheel.
Imagine how difficult it would be to make a square dish back in the middle ages. Sure you could make a flat block to eat off of, but you need some kind of concaveness to the surface to keep juices from running off onto your clothes. Hence the semi-concave plate.
2007-03-04 13:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by David N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because square dinner plates are a symbol of fine dining since many fancy restaurants serve on square plates and round plates are more casually oriented.
2007-03-04 12:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's a rectangular shaped like - and don't say a rectangular! Dinner plates are around because of the fact a protracted time in the past, the around monster got here and stepped on something no longer around. as hence the around monster, the international isn't a cube and hence it incredibly is lots much less complicated.
2016-12-14 10:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now that you mention it.... if they were square they would store better - wouldn't they? On the other hand, they would chip easier, and as the others already said, they are easier to make when they are round.
2007-03-04 15:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by luosechi 駱士基 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause they fit in cupboards better? That's my thought but I don't know for sure and I kind of like eating on a square dish.
2007-03-04 11:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are more fancier then any other kind of plate.That is so stupid i think a plate is a stiken plate it will always be one no matter what happens.lol.Dont you think changing the shape of a plate is stupid.
2007-03-04 11:23:51 · answer #7 · answered by bubly_rock_star 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because pottery wheels are round.
2007-03-04 12:56:49 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋