My ex husband is from Wales, and he did that and so did his parents! Well, they didn’t just dunk the dishes–they actually scrubbed them clean–but then dunked them back in the soapy water and then placed them on the drying rack, suds and all. I always assumed it was just a quirk of his family. But, my best friend happened to marry a guy from England, and she told me that her husband and his family do the same! So now we wonder if it’s an “all of Britain” thing, or just a generational thing? I asked my ex once how he could stand, say, drinking tea out of a cup that had dried soap caked on it. And I received the most quintessential British response ever: “Well, sometimes the first cup tastes a bit soapy, but you get on with it.”