To want my dinner served on a plate

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instead of a bit of slate/wood/chopping board

Had a lovely lunch today - the food was really good, just a sandwich but posh sarnie. It was marred somewhat by being served on an oblong serving board that wasn't really big enough. It was an open sarnie and was a knife and fork jobbie. So as a consequence, half of it ended up on the table and how do they get those things clean??

Yes, it looks really impressive but whatever is wrong with a nice, clean, smooth plate with a little lip on it so that the food stays on it when you push it around?

It wasn't even a particularly expensive restaurant, naice but not dead posh. This happens everywhere now - I am now considering ASKING for my food to be served on a plate and risking being thought of as an old fuddy duddy - my 77 year old mother was totally discombobulated by the board thing!

I get what you are saying. But if it had been a real issue I'm sure they would have provided a plate for you mother had you asked.

I sent a meal back that came on a slate to be put on a plate. It was only a posh pub food type place as well. I just couldn't bear to scrape the cutlery on the slate.

not a real issue though - just posting my angst at this new cullinary fashion - i think its odd, especially as the bits of wood are never quite big enough.

And they wobble around too much if you try to cut anything up, surprisingly as chopping boards are actually for that purpose.

I luff you for saying the much underated word 'disbombobulated'

even 'discombobulated'

am pissed please excuse my lady

Tell them at the time of ordering you want a plate. I blame that cunt Jamie Oliver for those chopping board and slate shit.

I got some of those boards (Jamie Oliver one's for antipasti and bruschetta) from DPs mum at Christmas.

I've used them twice as serving boards. They're now chopping boards.

YANBU.

Me, DH and DS ate out earlier this week and all 3 meals arrived on slabs of slate, which wouldn't fit properly on the small table they'd seated us at.

After several minutes of watching the waitress and DH farting around trying to get them all to fit on the table I asked her to take them all away and put our food on proper plates.

Hmm I am not very keen on food on a bit of plank. At home I really scrub my chopping boards in very hot soapy water. I doubt they get such thorough treatment in a commercial kitchen.

I sent a steak dinner back recently that was served on a board and asked for a plate.

The waitress. Looked at me like I was a loon.

I intend to do it from now on.

Oh and chips in a bucket - that can fuck off too!

mind you after a heavy night I find my chips end up in a bucket

I wouldn't eat from a wooden board in a restaurant. It's seriously unhygienic.

I've never experienced this, but then I only eat out at the harvester. I never heard of it would until I saw Jamie Oliver doing it. Just sums him up really - pretentious. Just put it on a plate, wanker.
I would definitely ask for a plate.

Alice, i think i like you too!!

I feel even more strongly about it now i know its a jamie oliver thing - that fucker has got so much money he can afford a new board every time he eats - i dread to think what additional "nutrition" comes on those things. Enough already!

My mum had this the other day in a haven holiday caravan site pub. It was scampi & chips. There was a little chopping board containing scampi (on the wood), chips (in a silly chrome basket thing) and peas (in a ramekin) with the silly basket and ramekin served on the wood. The basket thing made it almost impossible to apply salt n vinegar correctly and the ramekin was the wrong shape to allow effective use of any eating implement other than a teaspoon.

my mum was not impressed, not impressed at all, especially when my gammon, chips & peas came out on a conventional plate. Many a jealous glance was passed at my proper plate.

Snap where did you go

I'm not a huge fan of them but I really wouldn't worry about them not being clean, I used to work in a pub kitchen as a student and everything goes through industrial dishwashers which are hotter than the sun, no way any germs are surviving that!

I stopped going to a tearoom I adored because they changed from plates to wooden boards,which had a damp smell,that made the food taste odd.

YANBU.

There's a veh naice foodie pub near DS1's new school. Not cheap, but the food is plainly not from Makro or Iceland, like it is in so many pubs (the scampi is battered rather than some frozen stuff and it's wonderful!) and they get bonus points from me for actually serving the food on plates. Not plates so small that a child size portion is falling off the edges. Not plates the size of dustbin lids (though they're big enough for a sizeable side salad not to swamp the plate, rather than the typical 3 baby leaves and gob of coleslaw). Just ordinary plates, adequate for the job in hand and which allow a good serving of sauce with my assiette of fish.

There would be a lot of seepage in the boards.

There's seepage in them there boards!!