to wonder what the fuck is wrong with PLATES.

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Just been out for a meal.

Food arrived from the kitchen on either a slate or a giant block of wood.

What the fuck is wrong with plates???

Why do they feel the need to stick my food on something I stick on my roof or a bloody breadboard?

Is it just me? I WEEP for the poor neglected china.

Yay or nay?

Fuck no.

We had food served in a frisbee in America

I thought this thread said "to wonder what the fuck is wrong with PILATES"

Was hoping to be enlightened, as Pilates is a complete mystery to me.

As is the penchant for serving food on slates and in buckets.

quite like the idea of the frizzbee. At least your sauce wouldn't run off like it would on a slate.

I've not had food served on an iPad, but did go to a poncey restaurant last year where we were handed iPads in place of menus.

The steak on a board thing is really stupid because the food goes cold so quickly, especially if it's a rare steak.

Frizbee is a new one on me. I think I've heard everything now!

I went to a place in California that served children's meals on a frisbee.

I went to a Jamie restaurant the other day with work. 4 starters and 4 main courses and only 1 plate in all of that. He is a plank so no surprise everything is served on one.

There's a cafe in the town nearest to my parents which serves cocktails in teapots I like a bit of twee crockery but that did explode my twee-o-meter a bit.

The twee-est of twee crockery is still far better than slate and wooden boards though. Also I like square plates in the house as they are easier to store.

Ladies - I give you the Splate!
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I love this thread, thanks for bringing it back up again.

It should be in Classics.

What's with the super deep bowls as well? What happened to normal bowls, ones that don't make your breakfast portions look like they are at the bottom of a sink hole?

Yanbu-i went to jamies and my food was sliding off my chopping board. Soooo annoying, and not acrually very nice :(

I feel duty bound to pilfer any minature buckets or colanders that are put in front of me. It makes me feel less annoyed about the ponceyness, and price charged for shitey food.

Have just read this whole thread whilst my lunch is cooking. I am crying with laughter - and will be serving my hunters chicken, chips and salad on normal plates

This thread needs to be in classics too - far to many funny stories and links to be lost to inter web for ever.

Cakes and/or bread baked and served in mini plant pots !!!
This is not a world I wish to live in

Are we all hankering for a nice plate with a flower pattern on and some kind of fancy border?

Is cocktails in teacups pretending to be Prohibition party time?

Sunday roast dinner last arrived on a wooden board, all the gravy got caught in the groove around the outside. Lovely food but next time wil
ask for a plate, preferably round and white.

Oh god YANBU. They are so bloody poncy. I always send them back and ask for a plate.
I never believe the wooded boards will have been cleaned properly.

Jamie's diner. Hotdog on a metal tray with a piece of gingham grease proof. Chips in a bucket.

It is, as said up thread, all Jamie's fault.

Chips in a bucket. . For that extra touch of class.

Shrunkenhead - we've been to that place in Ripponden. They have the stupid bowls Mynameiskenadams described. There was no room for the gravy to fit round the hare pudding I had. Which was too dry as a result. And they do lots of the other poncey stuff too. Must be murder for the washer upper.

Remember back in the 80s when places thought they were posh putting individual servings of veg in crescent shaped dishes alongside your dinner instead of on the sodding plate? I can't stand all that separate little containers crap - if it isn't skin searingly hot, the first thing I do is tip it all on the plate. Extra sauce in a mini jug is fine, providing there was already some on the plate.

We do fancy dan starters but normal bowls for mains.

We get complaints that the mains aren't special enough, that they are served in bowls.

Damned if you do...!