Nine inches is the plate that takes a sausage roll, something hot out of a foil tray and a side without anything riding the rim. Forty-eight of them is a deep box by the standard of this shelf, where plate packs often stop at twenty-four, and it means a second helping never costs anyone a rinsed plate.
Foxborough home dates run into December, and a cold lot is hard on thin paper: gravy stiffens, hands are gloved, plates get held rather than set down. Navy, red and silver come easily out of the plain color range when forty-eight plates need cups and a cover to go with them.
On the table
- 9" round, forty-eight per pack — the dinner size, not the snack size.
- Deep enough that second helpings never come off a rinsed plate.
- A 7-inch Patriots dessert plate is stocked on this shelf as well.
- Navy, red and silver match straight out of the plain color range.
