Historically I have always used a bowl. I’d put one saltine at a time in the bowl, carefully break it into quarters with my spoon, then take four bites of soup, each with ¼th of a cracker on the spoon. If I put more than one cracker in they’d get soggy.
Oh, me and my pickyness! When I eat pancakes I tip the plate away so the syrup collects at the back of the plate so they syrup doesn’t soak into the pancakes and make them all soggy and mushy.