Chef Moe's Clean Plate Club Paper Plate

This design is a salute to my canine pal Moe, who lives with our friends H. & K. at Brandywine Farm in western Pennsylvania. One weekend, H. came up to Cleveland to visit her dad, who was recuperating after surgery. She brought along Moe to cheer up her dad. After her visit, she and my husband and I went out for a late dinner (Moe stayed in the van). Afterwards, because my husband and I love Moe and Moe loves us -- my product descriptions of other designs featuring Moe will fill you in on some of the reasons why Moe loves us so much-- we wandered out to Heather's van to get some quality Moe time. We (humans) all stood in the parking lot conversing, until it got too cold to stay out there anymore. H. put Moe back in the van, then carefully concealed her styrofoam box full of the braised beef & asiago tortelloni she hadn't been able to finish under a pile of stuff on the floor beneath the front passenger seat, and shut the door. Then she remembered that she'd wanted to show us a feature of her (relatively new) van, mostly easily viewed via the sliding door on the other side. We walked around the van, H. slid the door open, & all of us promptly began shrieking with laughter. In the approximately 15-30 seconds it had taken us to get to the other side of the van, Moe had smelled the braised beef & tortelloni, rooted out the container from underneath all the stuff, gotten the container to the back of the van, eaten every last bit of braised beef & tortelloni, down to the very last bit of sauce, and gotten back into the front passenger seat in time to arrange his face into an expression of utter innocence. None of us had laughed that hard in a long time. Use these plates at your next gathering to make sure you and your party guests remember Moe's advice: always leave a clean plate. Or container.