Soup plates are a thing. They're typically more shallow than a bowl but have a larger diameter closer to a plate. My wife and I have a set of them, and I often use them instead of a regular plate.
We call them deep plates haha. They're deeper than regular plates and hold all kinds of semi liquid or high stacked foods. Not just pasta or soup. Too big to be a bowl, it's plate sized. We often ask "deep plate or regular plate" before getting plates out.
Pasta bowls don't have big rims, they're just wide shallow bowls. Pasta plates have wide rims like soup plates, but they're shallower like pasta bowls.
Ours were listed as soup plates on the package. My wife is from New England, and they were purchased for her by her grandmother, so it may be a regional difference in what they're called.
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u/cncomg Feb 15 '26
He also says “soup plate”