When did dipping bread become uncool?

I don’t think it’s uncool. I do it. When I was younger, I dipped bread into everything like tomato juice, as well. In fact, I’d take tomato juice and bread as lunch to school (my friends tell me so) and had no issue with just eating that. But I don’t think anything is uncool (except you know, racism or rape or whatever.)

We dip bread. I wonder where it’s uncool?

Did you move to a different region of the country? That might have something to do with it, maybe?

I serve bread with dinner.
I suspect that what you’re observing has to do with the anti-carb mania. For a while there people treated bread like it was the devil.

Yet another reason to dethrone Harper! ;-p

Unless I’m eating a sandwich, I don’t even see the use for bread if you can’t dip it in shit. (ProTip; not actual shit) Spaghetti sauce when the noodles are gone and as you say, with eggs in the morn, (love that, try picking that shit up with the fork; bread rocks) or with Chef Boyardee stuff that I really love, which has plenty of sauce that goes great with buttered bread.

I guess the whole poverty thing could have a say in it, but it isn’t something I’ve observed as uncool. Mixing bread with stuff I mean. But was this something that people commonly did before? For what reason did it drop out of school, I denno. Never had any problems in my area though. I see people do it often, and I do it. I guess if you’re making a mess all over, it might be kinda nasty. Not saying you are, the you is general.

You’re reaching here. Someone looked at you crosseyed because they were crosseyed. You’re just trying to find something to justify some kind of generalized rage, I think. Chillax.

I dip bread. I have always dipped bread. I was raised in a fairly privileged strata of society and we were bread dippers, all. I think you may have a confusion of motives going on. If anything, with the upsurge in popularity of hearty breads, I see more bread dipping going on.

I always use to do this :(

and then I was reading an article and it said no dipping bread! I couldn’t believe it… I don’t think it’s rude or bad etiquette.

I grew up using bread in the same manner, @SmashTheState. Toast in the morning with eggs or even if it was our weekly oatmeal. My husband still has to have buttered bread with a meal. He dips bread in olive oil with Italian seasoning; even in public. You are hanging out with the wrong crowd. ; )

I say carry on with this tradition if it makes you happy.

What’s next?

No dunkin donuts in coffee?

Make as well be dead.

Well, there has been a movement away from bread in general, you know evil carbs. Honestly, I have never heard it is uncool to dip bread, although, I cannot really imagine doing it in a very expensive restaurant at dinner. I mean, technically in that sort of setting you are supposed to eat bread by breaking off a piece, not biting into it. Expensive restaurants you are not supposed to be obsessed with getting every last bit of what is on the plate, and I guess one is supposed to eat with utensils, not other pieces of food. Depends how fancy and what you are eating.

I associate dipping bread or wiping the plate with Italian food, and as you said with sunny side up eggs. Also, the classic French dip sandwich.

For me personally, I think it is disgusting, because I hate mushy bread. I even order French onion soup without the croutons in the bottom. I am not disgusted if someone does it, I just mean I hate to eat bread that is soaked in anything.

Toast soldiers and egg? They were made for each other.

Olive oil/balsamic vinegar/dukkah and bread… delicious.

I wouldn’t wipe up my leftover sauce in a fancy restaurant, but that is a cultural thing. I was taught it isn’t good manners. If I am at home and that sauce is delicious and there is bread handy, bring it on! If I was eating out, it would depend on the setting.

Did this disapproving look thing happen just once? If so, I would go with @CWOTUS or @ANef_is_Enuf‘s responses. Someone with punter’s eyes or a hatred of carbs. If it happens often, perhaps find different restaurants. Life is too short to worry too much about whether dipping your bread is uncultured or not.

Yeah, I say fuck it. Dunk away.

I don’t think dipping bread in oil is the same as wiping a plate clean with bread. The oil dip just should be done by breaking off a piece, dip, whole piece in the mouth. But, then again, as I said above, generally I think Italian food is ok with the whole idea in general anyway. Meanwhile, who cares about a sideways look from another table.

It’s not uncool in my household. Heck, I’d see it as an outright crime to not sop up the remaining sauce with a hunk of good bread.

Uncool? No way. I do it, so it must be cool. Lol.

I like to sop up the egg yolk from my sunny-side up eggs with my toast.

I like to dip peanut-butter toast sprinkled with a bit of sugar, in a cup of hot coffee and eat the soggy treat.

And I like to dip toasted bread, flavored with pieces of cut garlic, in a dish of olive oil. Yum.

I do it and so does my husband. I didn’t know it was uncool. I just laugh when he is still wiping his bowl with the bread and there isn’t a wet spot on it. Then it just looks desperate, so maybe a little uncool. . ;)

I always dip the bread, and I’ve never gotten the impression it was bad… Though, I guess with eggs, it’s now more common to get a side of potatoes, but then I always use them for the same thing, to soak up the yoke. But all the other meals, I use the bread that they bring you with your drinks.

It’s the second dip in a common sauce that people get grossed out by.

Hmmm double dipping in shared food…. yes, that is not cool.

I was taught (as a child) not to use bread as a utensil. Dipping it was fine, but no so much using it as a scoop or sopping up the left-overs. Of course, I do it anyway. I wouldn’t in a nice restaurant or at a fancy dinner party, but anywhere else is fair game. Maybe the folks giving you dirty looks are just very enamored of old-school etiquette?

My oldest grandson just gave me the most wonderful dipping sauce from GarlicGold.com and some Panera bread from the new store nearby. Ummmmmmm

Bread is the dinner sponge. If folks don’t want to see me lick my plate, then they had better give me some bread. Cool or uncool, I don’t give a f*ck.
Good balsamic and oil…MmmmMmmMMm.

I don’t know since I still dip bread. I’m not sure if people are avoiding dipping due to what you’ve said.

Back to the original question, what does pita or tortillas have to do with sopping up the last bits of juice left on a plate? Pita and tortillas are used like bread for sandwiches.

You could always just pick up the empty plate, put it to your face and lick it clean. Then if anyone else gives you a dirty look, you can’t even see it! Problem solved.

Bacon, eggs, and toast for breakfast it is.

You can dip your crispy bacon in the egg yolk. Mmmm

@bkcunningham I did! Kind of a comparative dipping. Toast absorbs more, but obviously bacon is more delicious.

I hope you made the logical next step, then, and dipped toast folded over bacon into the egg yolk.

I’ll be the uncool one here – I think sopping up the juices on your plate is gross. I am fine with dipping bread in something like oil & vinegar or even pasta sauce, maybe gravy, but egg yolks and food juices makes me gag. Dipping = okay. Sopping = yuck.

Just gotta wonder why anyone would look at how the other diners at other tables handle their bread, anyway?

Sucks that people’s high opinion of themselves keeps them from truly enjoying food.

I love dipping corn tortillas in that gooey egg yolk. Nom.

All you people dipping into the egg yolks, are you using pasteurized eggs, or just hoping for the best? I know it is rare to get salmonella poisoning, but when you do, it really sucks.

@JLeslie : I’m a maverick. I also drive a car.

My approach to fine dining is: if another person’s food doesn’t stink, spray, or attack me, then all culinary activity is cool with me. ;-)

@Brian1946 , What about disgusting sounds?

@JLeslie : I put raw eggs in my milkshakes. ಠ_ಠ

@Judi

“What about disgusting sounds?”

No problem- since my ears are usually covered with food, I can’t hear anything anyway. ;-p

However, I do agree that double dipping in a common sauce is gross.

sslurrppp mmmm borborygmus chomp chomp glug glug burp aaahhhhh

Borborygmus? Is that some kind of demon?

Excuse me. It was my stomach rumbling.