to loathe the current fad for serving meals on wooden boards?

[DustBunnyFarmer]

The worst was a fancy local bistro serving my steak and chips with pepper sauce on a board. There was no way I could pour the pepper sauce over the steak without serious risk of run-off. I ended up dipping each mouthful in the jug of pepper sauce before eating it. Same restaurant served veggie meals on the same boards (there didn't seem to be any differentiation). Totally unsatisfactory. I also think chopping boards are not particularly hygienic. Bleurgh. Also, at the kind of prices swanky bistros charge, you would think they could afford proper crockery. The sooner this fad wanes, the better IMO.

Just tell them when you order, Mrs, 'I would like my food served on a plate, please, including the chips.'

Jam jars haven't reached brewers fayre places we eat yet give it a few years

Stupid fad. Very unhygienic, they cannot be cleaned properly. Juices all soaking in the wood, I would definitely demand a plate.

Oooo mini fryer id like a mini fryer

'What would you like it drink?' 'I would like a Coke, please, in a glass not a jam jar.' I do this if I clock that it's a wanky jam jar place.

Stupid idea really. Bit fed up with all my food being 'pulled' these days .... always sounds a bit rude to me! Pulled pork nah!

Went to a very on trend restaurant as a treat recently and the dessert was served in a jam jar with a very large spoon to eat with. The starter was on a wooden board too. I was [hmmm] especially about the jam jar. Why do they use them??? I don't eat out much these days so wasn't aware this was a trend.

Oh well, by the time I eat out again it will probably be over! Luckily the drinks came in glasses though they were so enormous they made my glass of wine look like nothing. And the veg was a pile of kale (is that a trend too???) and not that good at all but someone else was paying so I smiled and enjoyed!

Pail place sells pulled chicken wraps wtf is pulled chicken a few years back it would just be chicken

the shovel pic, I can only imagine my DH reaction if he was served his mix grill on a shovel.

I was served steak on a wooden board recently and my peppercorn sauce dribbled off the sides onto the fancy white table cloth. Whoops! Maybe give me a plate next time, save your linen.

Also, as for coffees being served in glasses, I ordered a fancy coffee after our dinner in Rome back in April and it was served in a glass. Like, a proper glass. A tumbler. With no handle. It was most disconcerting, drinking a hot coffee from a tumbler

I had my jam jar starter at a cheapy two for one place. It even had a lid on that I had to remove before eating.

It doesn't look good, it looks pretentious and wanky.

I've honestly never seen this and I eat out a lot. I did order a jacket potato in a cafe once expecting it to be on a plate but it arrived in a small square dish instead. That was quite awkward to eat out of.

Jamie's Italian is the worst for pretentious poseury.

We had lunch there a couple of weeks ago and our lamentably small table was soon groaning under the weight of planks, tins, jam jars, enamel cups, and wanky little kilner jars.

I am a very old gimmer but I'm really not precious about this stuff in general so intolerance isn't necessarily age-related. My own grandmother would have got very cat's arsehole about planks as plates but I'm from the generation that originally launched this poseury on the world. Except that it was baskets in my yoof. Like chicken in baskets. Which was always the green light for any boring fucker you had the misfortune to go out to eat with to order "Soup in a Basket".

For all that, nobody was stupid enough to serve roast dinners in baskets, let alone on random stuff that's better on a building site than in a restaurant.

So it is my current bugbear to get served anything at all on a slate or a plank and for sure, I do not want my chips to appear in some sort of "distressed" enamel bucket.

Worse, what is it with these fucking towering Jenga-type constructions that are invariably served on boards and slates? I ordered, in a decent pub that's still just the sensible side of "gastro" a quarter pound burger. It was about 2 foot tall and simply seemed to be a competition for all the weird stuff you could build on a plate and then stick a sodding great stick through. Oh, and it was impossible to eat. So I mainly tinkered with it and then scoffed the tiny little bucketload of "artisan" chips.

I want to go to a JO restaurant now just to have a look! What's best at the Manchester one for utmost wankery?

I'm surprised they're allowed to use wood as plates. Unless EHO rules have drastically changed in the last couple of years you are not allowed to use wooden chopping boards in commercial kitchens, so I would have thought the same objections would apply to using wooden plates.

I'm so pleased to have a meal cooked for me they could serve it on David Cameron's naked back and I'd be happy.

As mum used to say: "it all goes down the same way".

lilymaid the jam jar thing is particularly hateful. I went to a stupid bar in Leeds or manchester I think it was, and they served me a drink in a tin can. With loads of ice. So the tin got really, really cold and I couldn't hold it. They had another cocktail drink they served in a teapot. Wanky.

wankery

I've seen the breadboard and slate plates but no jam jars yet. They drank out of jam jars in Angela's Ashes, I think. I still don't understand the food served in a cloth cap. How could that possibly work? Also (I don't eat pork) I have no idea what pulled pork is. It makes me think of pulling the wishing bone. What is pulled chicken? I like the chips in miniature fryers but haven't yet stolen one. Dh likes square plates. I don't. I'm right and he's wrong, yes?

Pulled pork/chicken is slow cooked for aaaaaaages, until it pulls apart really easily. If you've ever had crispy duck & pancakes in a Chinese restaurant you get the idea. It's a way of making cheaper cuts of much yummier.

Apart from the jam jar "glasses" I've also been served a portion of pavlova in a Kilner jar ...
And, at a posh dinner I was served deconstructed fruit crumble and custard - so wrong (even though it was served on something resembling a plate).

I have had Earl Grey creme brulee in a tea cup with shortbread on the saucer, but that was fine because it was appropriate to the theme and - you know - proper crockery.

the 'Get Lost - Reserved' sign is a tad rude too!

There's a cafe near me that advertises their hot chocolate as being served in some kind of jam jar - wtf? I don't know anyone who's been so I may have to go and investigate myself. Do they put some kind of wire handle round the jam jar, or do I just burn my fingers/drink it through a straw? Have they peeled the labels off? What catastrophe destroyed all the cups but left the recycling bin intact? I must know.