Please help stop this disgraceful practice.

Greenery on things where it doesnt belong

Ordered baked beans on toast (we'll come back to that) today.

Came with a clump of greenery on top. Salad garni.

What person in their right mind does this?

And OF COURSE it was bloody sourdough. Because NO other bread exists these days. And it was not toasted. It was barely within sight of the toaster I reckon

So it turns up with its green clump and then, to make matters much worse, it came with some butter pats but THE BEANS WERE ALREADY ON THE UNTOASTED TOAST.

So I scraped off my beans to try to spread the butter but of course this was a wasted effort because the butter wouldnt adhere to the untoasted toast due to the bean juice so I ended up just smearing it around while it stuck to my knife.

Anyway back to the greenery. I cant tell you how many bits of rocket have gone flying down the road before when served atop something, because of course a bit of wind will pick up salad and send it flying into the face of an unsuspecting pedestrian.

And dont get me started on bloody pea shoots.

#endgreeneryoverload

YANBU - Garnishing perfectly adequate meals with frilly extras is a performative nonsense to make something out of nothing

YABU - I really like bits of salad on top of a full English and you're only posting this because your OH has the football on anyway and you're bored.

And bloody natural yoghurt. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of yoghurt. But it doesn't need to be included in EVERYTHING.

On the subject of chefs and greenery- my first XH was a chef in a Top London Restaurant. I had to restrict his home-kitchen actions after he used nearly an entire meal's worth of greenery as a garnish on something. We couldn't afford such fripperies at that time.

He did introduce me to soda bread though. Which you can no longer buy in the shops because SOURDOUGH.

You are not being unreasonable. As someone who hates the majority of fresh/raw herbs (coriander being the main culprit) there are an alarming amount of eateries who sprinkle herbs all over everything, too. Most unnecessary (especially when it isn’t mentioned on the menu).

This genuinely has to be my thread of the year and sourdough needs to go in room 101

Im reporting back

Ive let you all down and I know you've been waiting to hear about my second foray into beans on toast this week at caffs

We didnt go to the planned caff so I will never know what format they come in

We went somewhere else

I had a cheese scone, with cream cheese (in a pot), chilli jam (in a pot) and the cheese scone ON SLATE, FUCKING SLATE, with bits of parsley.

I say no more.

I don't suppose they make much of a difference tbh. I prefer herbs to be cooked as part of the dish, than random ones sprinkled on top that doesn't help the flavour.

YANBU op. Baked beans are an abomination with or without unnecessary greenery - disgusting revolting balls of mush but I agree with you on mumsnetting due to football boredom.

Greenery on things where it doesnt belong

Ordered baked beans on toast (we'll come back to that) today.

Came with a clump of greenery on top. Salad garni.

What person in their right mind does this?

And OF COURSE it was bloody sourdough. Because NO other bread exists these days. And it was not toasted. It was barely within sight of the toaster I reckon

So it turns up with its green clump and then, to make matters much worse, it came with some butter pats but THE BEANS WERE ALREADY ON THE UNTOASTED TOAST.

So I scraped off my beans to try to spread the butter but of course this was a wasted effort because the butter wouldnt adhere to the untoasted toast due to the bean juice so I ended up just smearing it around while it stuck to my knife.

Anyway back to the greenery. I cant tell you how many bits of rocket have gone flying down the road before when served atop something, because of course a bit of wind will pick up salad and send it flying into the face of an unsuspecting pedestrian.

And dont get me started on bloody pea shoots.

#endgreeneryoverload

YANBU - Garnishing perfectly adequate meals with frilly extras is a performative nonsense to make something out of nothing

YABU - I really like bits of salad on top of a full English and you're only posting this because your OH has the football on anyway and you're bored.

I swear there was someone else on here complaining about the baked beans in a community cafe last week. Too spicy or not from a tin or something. Maybe you could start a club? Picket offending establishments?

This genuinely has to be my thread of the year and sourdough needs to go in room 101

It’s wanky sliced onion on everything especially salads that boils my piss. I don’t want to breathe onion over everyone all day.

I thought it was just me with the Brioche buns. It's everywhere now. What happened to the good old white bap?