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I don't know why but I have an uncomfortable feeling when ppl share plates it just seems weird. Like me and my husband if we want to share something we still have our own plates in front of us, esp when we are around other ppl. If he wants something from my plate he will take it, but that is not as noticable as just having one plate in the middle while every one has their own.....
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I have never seen any married couples in my family eat out of one plate. I didn’t even know there were such traditions! 
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Ok just a question. As most people on gs are Pakistani and most carry on their pakistani values it would be nice to hear opinions. If you and your spouse were sitting with your family at a dinner table would you eat out of one plate? Or seperate? What are your views on that?
I wudnt mind that, if it was just appetizers or something small, but hubby wouldn't...
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There's just something about sharing a plate thats hard to explain. grin
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That is gross..!
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Seems you have never been invited to an Arab Family dinner, it is very common, they eat out of the same Large Plate and if you are real friends they will put food in your mouth, it has been an on going tradition in the Middle East.
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SindSagar: that is a different story...that is where everyone is sharing, not just a husband and wife....and the only couple at the table....
I know ppl say that oh your love increases....but there are many other ways for someone's love to increase too.....and u can do those things in ur own room or private setting.
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I refuse to share my plate with anyone 
pyaari you are right…you dont have to share a plate to make your love grow…a couple can find many other ways to do that.
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nah, we don't share plates... bleh. it seems unhygienic and entirely uncalled for, and i'm an adult, for cryin' out loud! i worked hard to get to my age and dammit, i deserve my own plate!
having said that, we do drink out of the same glass sometimes lol :P
but seriously though, if i saw another couple we were having dinner with eating out of one plate, i'd be weirded out.
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We sometimes use to do that but I stopped because then I loose track how much I have eaten. :)
same here:)
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One plate ..no never .....it doesn t look nice I guess...a bit cheap in other words.. I knw tht ...by sharing ...say pyar bhartaa haii BUT ..
better shw tht Pyar muhabbat in ur p room ...haha
Separate plates..... so tht u also eat comfortably and also other ppl too ....
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SindSagar: that is a different story...that is where everyone is sharing, not just a husband and wife....and the only couple at the table....
I know ppl say that oh your love increases....but there are many other ways for someone's love to increase too.....and u can do those things in ur own room or private setting.
You are correct, It was meant to lighten up the trend...............:)
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I wud lyke to say that I'm a grown ass woman if I'm grown enuff to get married, I sure as hell can eat outta my husband's plate. There is nothing intimate or sexual about it. It maybe for us but whoever's looking in wouldn't be able to read anything out of it.
I have a fulll time job, a hubby to take care of and so many other responsibilities, belive me when I'd sit down to eat WITH OR WITHOUT company, I wudn't be thinking about what other people will think or not! I'd just be eating!! My hubby and I wud eat out of the same plate or may get separate plates but believe me we won't spend any time thinking about how we shud act and what everyone around us will think.
I eat outta my hubby's AND my dad's plate all the tyme. I'll have my roti on my plate and i'll dip it in my hubby's plate and then next tme may dip it in my fathers.
Somebody said that sharing a plate with ur husband is UNHYGENIC.......that's truly a first, then I believe kissing him or doing NAYTHING else with him wud definately be outta question....huh?
In this tyme and age, this question is a little surprising for me.....let some poor couples eat outta each others plates if they want to, let them kiss in public if they want to. They have a life too. if ur not COMFORTABLE than don't do it....
Don't force other peopel to think before they do anything as sweet as sharing a plate. In this suffocatingly conservative society, atleast let married people live in peace!!!
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these are just people's opinions...and if they follow culture or not that is completely up to them. If they care for others or not is also completely up to them.....for someone to express their opinion does not necessarily mean that anyone has to follow them or agree with what they say.......
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Ok with my friends, we all eat out of each others plates, whenever we eat out, we order a few dishes and just...eat! lol.. nobody worries abt hygiene either haha, i know it sounds gross but ya knw its just outta habit...with my parents too, my dad will sometimes pick something from my plate its kinda annoying but not really..
however w/ my in laws everybody is strictly their own plate, even w/ the kids, nobody does the "jhuta" (not the shoe, not the liar, but the other thing) thing
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I never knew there were some people who would be totally disgusting by the idea of two people eating from one plate.
I have seen quite a few newly weds sharing their plates. I find it kind of cute plus less dishes to wash =D.
Do leftovers count as eating from the same plate? Like if my sister put too much rice on her plate and she is unable to finish it and If I feel like eating rice, then i'll grab her plate and start eating (I'll use a different spoon though).
In our family we have no problems eating from each other's plates. We usually don't eat like that, it happens only rarely.
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its one thing having 1 plate between two ppl and its another for everyone to have their own plates and just kind of share.....its less noticable when there is a plate in front of everyone....but when u have one plate placed in between 2 ppl and one person spoons out then the next....and u can see them waiting for each other...it kind of looks a little weird...(that is just my opinion)
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As far as possible, eat collectively from one plate. (Ibn Kathir Surah24 Aayat61; Sunan ibn Majah Hadith3287) :)
