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CMV: Bowls are better than plates in most cases.

I should start this by saying that I am from a country where the staple food is mainly rice. Rice here is often mixed with a lot of other food. Fried food, soups, sauce and other condiments for those add-ons, etc. Often times this makes the texture of the food such that it is easy to either make a mess/spill some food on the table/floor.

I believe that bowls are superior than plates because their shape keeps the food in them contained better. Plates are pretty much flat, or nearly flat, and it increases the chance of one accidentally push their food off the plate's edge and create a mess. I recently eat most of my meals with bowls instead of plates, and safe to say that personally I haven't accidentally spill my food at all.

I understand that for some types of food, plates are preferable, like for those big-ass hamburgers, or steak, or anything that does not have a lot of small bits that can easily be pushed off the plate. So, I am unsure why plates are still more common than bowls even for easily-messed-up food. CMV.

Sorry for some weird phrasing. Not sure how to make it better.

EDIT: Let me just add on that while I understand plates give you the choice to separate different types of food that you don't want to mix together, I see it as there is a risk of still mixing them together (your spoon/fork/knife slipped, someone eating beside you accidentally pushed your arm a bit, etc.). I would rather use separate containers for food that I don't want to be mixed.

Also, the argument that cleaning more plates/bowls would be inconvenient is not very convincing, as I'd rather have just a few more plates/bowls that would take an extra minute or two to clean than risking my food mixed *when I don't want them to*.
gpt
Different food types just have different ways to serve them. Anything with liquid, or a bunch of small pieces (soup, rice, peas, etc.) you'll put it in a bowl. Pretty much anything that requires cutting it with a knife, or a food where it's a large thing that you just eat as one piece (steak, sandwiches, etc.) you'll want to use a plate.

It's like saying a fork is better than a spoon. Even if they can have a little bit of overlap in their uses, they're just made for different purposes.