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Tvrhossain Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

The name of plate for waste material

What do you call the plate where you put your waste material when you eat
  

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A bone dish.

  • A bone dish.
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tvrhossain What do you call the plate where you put your waste material when you eat
That is not a usual part of a place setting. A possible general term might be "scrap plate". It might be named according to what is expected to be on it, like the aforementioned bone dish, or a shell plate. I my culture, anything inedible is normally left on the dinner plate a
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doggie dish
doggie plate
dog dish
dog plate
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I've never heard of anyone putting food in the dog's dish while eating. It implies that the dish would be on the dining table, which is vastly unlikely in any English-speaking place I know of. Also, "the waste material when you eat" suggests fruit pits, shells, etc., which I hope no one gives to their dogs.

It is true that people used to ask for a "doggie bag' to take their lefto
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Nobody has actually ANSWERED my question...WHAT IS IT CALLED ?
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Where I live, we do not use this, so we have no specific name for it.

Clive.

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