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To think that serving food with a "froth" sauce...

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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 27/11/2013 20:53

Just makes it look like someone has gobbed on your dinner! I'm watching Masterchef The Professionals and someone has done this. It looks FOUL!

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FryingNemo · 27/11/2013 21:03

I'm with you on this - it's vile. Almost comparable to when I was served a tangerine chocolate tart as dessert and the chocolate sauce had been smeared across the white porcelain with a brush. It looked just like something the DCs would leave in the toilet as evidence of their passing so to speak. I lost my appetite.

TooTabooToBOOOOO · 27/11/2013 21:04

YANBU

Vile

tinmug · 27/11/2013 21:11

To me it looks like one of those tropical frogs has laid its eggs on the plate.

Holdthepage · 27/11/2013 21:16

YANBU, froth or foam just yuk.

Binkyridesagain · 27/11/2013 21:20

Is the foam supposed to taste of something?

DH had a lovely black pudding tower recently, it was served with a very tasty sauce, the sauce though looked like a dog with gastro had squatted over the plate then dragged its arse through the mess.

YANBU

Snowbility · 27/11/2013 21:21

I've never been bothered by it, if the food tastes great I'll return for more - a bit of froth is fairly irrelevant.

BoJolly · 27/11/2013 21:26

I thought they'd moved on from froths and were now putting what looks like gravel / dirt on every dish or sails of crispy fish skin.

There also seems to be a fashion for olives in almost everything - including dessert. Yuk.

letsgotothebeach · 27/11/2013 21:32

YANBU. Always reminds me of spit! Think its about time this fad in food preparation went for good. It never tastes of what its supposed to anyway.

Fakebook · 27/11/2013 21:36

Yanbu. It looks sick. As do the smears of chocolate (poo) and smears of pea/spinach purée (snot).

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 27/11/2013 21:38

Grin @ Binky!

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gobbynorthernbird · 27/11/2013 21:38

Done properly it is amazing.

TheSydenhamSet · 27/11/2013 21:40

Chuckling at fryingnemo

stretch · 27/11/2013 21:41

Haha! Shit smears and fish skin sails make me GrinGrin!

RiffyWammal · 27/11/2013 22:12

I always think it looks like spit too. It looks revolting and the texture can't be nice to eat, surely?

I had a pudding in a restaurant once that had red fruit coulis dripped onto it in spots. DH remarked that it looked like the chef had suffered a nosebleed when plating up!

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 27/11/2013 22:16

I don't care if its done properly or not. It still looks like the chef flobbed on the starter!

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theoldtrout01876 · 27/11/2013 22:19

Im laughing like a loon here @ gobbed on your dinner :o

I just bought Ds2 a kit that among other things makes "foams". Hes at a very expensive college becoming a chef. He takes it all very seriously :o. I saw said kit and had to get it for his Christmas It does other cool things too like snot pearls to go in your drink

food gob kits

ArtisanLentilWeaver · 27/11/2013 22:21

Crying at 'flobbed'. Grin

Fishandjam · 27/11/2013 22:22

It always reminds me of cuckoo spit.

Or baby posset.

trice · 27/11/2013 22:24

I like my sauce in a little jug please. Not wiped or spat or dripped onto the plate. I also like to eat from a plate; not a roof tile or plank. Also, don't pile my food into little cairns, itlooks silly and just needs knocking over.

I like the thing where you get all the puddings on one plate though. I am greedy.

JuneauWhoIAm · 27/11/2013 22:30

gobby done properly it still looks like phlegm.

Mintyy · 27/11/2013 22:33

Yanbu. Cannot bear the whole idea of froth on a plate. Like it on top of a nice half of Guinness, natch.

workshyfop · 27/11/2013 22:35

YANBU

It really puts me off a place if they serve foam or froth. It looks rank. It doesn't taste good. Prententious wank.

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 27/11/2013 22:38

not a roof tile or plank Absolutely!
AND, stop mixing sweet and savoury up! Bacon flavoured Doughnuts?? Cheese flavoured popcorn????? NO NO NO NO NO!

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paulapantsdown · 27/11/2013 22:41

Those smears are known as skid marks in this house. Soooo repulsive looking, especially when there is gob AND skid mark on same place.

paulapantsdown · 27/11/2013 22:44

DH is a roofer, so there are always roof tiles around the place. He's always saying he's going to start dishing up the dinner on them after we watch masterchef.