What's it called where different food is served all together (no separate plates)

[LavenderAskew]

I'm sure there's a name for it. Everything is just squished together regardless of what it is.

Someone tell me before I go insane!!

On MN?
A Picky Tea, surely!

I’d call all eating from one big dish eating family style or from a family dish.

Mostly done when camping though to be fair.

Rank!

Grazing Tables remind me of this little story my dad used to tell us kids .
In the good old days everyone had a spoon hanging on the wall by the door. Come dinner time, family members piled into the kitchen, taking their spoon from the wall and sit down to eat from the communal stew pot.
After dinner spoon was licked clean and returned to the hook on the wall!
Gess who tidied the table and washed the dishes in my childhood home?

I couldn't eat from one of these grazing tables... they are just gross! And a very lazy way of serving food. I would also question the cleanliness of said table...

I guess a grazing table is one step up from this!!!

My lord some people have really disgusting friends and family. I never thought to be grateful that I am surrounded by clean people.

A mess?

It's called "blue plate service/special". Entree and main on the same plate.

Those grazing table messes always remind me of the Table of Shame that used to get presented to the hapless overweight punters on the quack Gillian McKeith's TV show. I suppose at least they're not followed by a maungy fake doctor poking at a poo and complaining it smells.

A grazing table. Looks bloody awful to me

It looks like noro waiting to happen.

Just had a look at grazing tables and they look.gross!! Meat touching fruit

A virus waiting to be unleashed.

Whoever said trough I think that is a pretty good description for a grazing table.

@Redhotchllisteppa

Whoever said trough I think that is a pretty good description for a grazing table.

It’s not even good design. White space people of Instagram. Clarity.

@TakemedowntoPotatoCity

Never heard of this. Just googled it and it looks quite disconcerting.....( I think it belongs in Tudor times with a pig's head as the centrepiece).

You had to mention the pig's head, I'm still traumatised

Thali?

Disgusting 🤢

Charcuterie is a type of prepared meat that is usually pork.

My pet peeve is idiot American social media posters who post 'charcuterie' boards filled with almost everything imaginable (strawberries?) except actual charcuterie.

Sélection plate?

TBF they really can look amazing.

Grazing table = how to create a food poisoning outbreak in record time.

A mess.

@Hairyfriend, ‘noro table’ is brilliant