Arvind cooked a lamb curry for dinner – yum! The Pujjis have these great heavy dark green stoneware dishes that they had made for them by a potter in town. The dishes have a swirl indentation in the center, and a gold ring near the edge.
The curry sauce was great, and everyone was busy noisily scraping as much as we could off the plates with our spoons when one of the guests said the food was so good she almost wanted to lick the plates. At that, Jane’s eyes lit up. “These are the BEST licking plates! The texture, the swirl in the center – they’re great!” Everyone laughed and went back to scraping. “I’m serious. Let’s lick our plates” Jane enthused. I have no problem eating with my hands, eating straight from the fridge, etc. – in my own house. I’m still trying to figure this place out, so I wasn’t sure what the right reaction was – just smile politely and keep scraping? Laugh? Or….lick the plate?!? Seriously??
Yes, eventually all six of us ‘adults’ licked our plates clean. I’ve never been in a situation where I felt like NOT licking my plate would be kind of rude until now. I…think I like it here.
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