To want my food on a plate?

[TheBossness]

Just had an all day cooked breakfast in a greasy spoon type place to have it served on what looked like a roof tile with my cup of tea in a frigging jam jar with a handle. The grease from the fry up mixed with the egg yolks ran straight off the tile and onto the table cloth.

I then posted about it on facebook and a friend pointed me to Twitter @WeWantPlates. Apparently this is a thing and plates have become obsolete.

AIBU to want a plate and a mug?

I hate food on planks.
Jose Andrés restaurants serve potato croquettes in trainers ffs.

I would settle the bill with dollars.

Slate tiles?
no thanks to horrible screeching noise when knife touches it.

Wooden bread board?
Just how are they planning to wash the blood from my steak out of it ready to serve some poor unsuspecting vegetarian their tofu burger later off the same "plate"

Chips in a dinky wee basket?
Do they really think we don't notice that the basket only holds 6 chips?

My other pet hate is being kind untrendy enough to give you a real bit of ceramic but it's wrong for the meal.
I hate being given a meal thay needs to be cut up, but served in a deep bowl so you end up with your elbows in your neighbour's ear, trying to cut your chicken

Some ridiculous good examples here.

The flat caps one made our local BBC news in Yorkshire. Bleugh, there's something quite offputting about serving food in items of attire that are worn on parts of the body that are often quite unhygienic. What next, chips nestled in some tatty underpants?

Cheesecake in a kilner jar.....the latest offering from our local

Jay55 Are you kidding about trainers with potatoes in them? Has someone started a campaign to stop this lunacy? I know it's a 1st world thing but FFS.

What about a slate and a little wire basket for chips? This was my dinner from a local grill restaurant at the weekend.

I remember a food critic was it Jay Rayner? Saying he doesn't want to eat his dinner off things that should be on top of houses.

I'm a chef and utterly hate wooden boards and slates!! I use different coloured plates, eg a lovely sea blue for a salmon dish and black for the summer fruit pudding.

I've had bread in hats and slippers before now and will and have sent it back to be put on some plain white porcelain!!

The sound of a knife on a piece of slate makes me want to scream/cry/vomit. Proper plate please.

Yanbu at all. I hate this inexplicable trend! Proper fucking plate please, no not a square one either

Have just found @wewantplates on Twitter on the back of this thread.

WTF is this madness?? A prawn cocktail served on top of a live goldfish??? FFS.

YANBU. Plates were invented for a very good reason.

My daughters took me to Chimichanga for Fathers Day. (I would rather have gone to Chiquitos but they're younger and prefer Chimis)

My eldest wanted the steak fajita and asked for her steak well done. Cue panic from the waiter..'I'll have to check with the kitchen'!!! Youngest daughter wanted a wrap. It came on a plank. The look on the waiters face when she asked for a plate!

I had the steak fajita and wanted my steak medium rare. It was like I asked the wait to give me a blow job.

Give me the good old meals on a real plate and strong tea in a real mug.

I loves transport caffs {grin]

Blimey Pumpkin was it a goldfish and prawn cocktail! Goldfish DO have tails

I do hope they weren't going to eat the little bleeder. It looked so cute, if a bit cramped, moozying around there in its er... wine glass.

I'm going to fret about this now.

I have seen those ridiculous mug jars in shops so there are people who actively choose to drink from those at home.

When I go to a restaurant and notice food being served on anything other than plates, I ask for a plate upon ordering. If it can't be provided, I leave.

Just send it back or tell them no plate, no me.

No wonder food poisoning is on the increase.

It's much more difficult to wash things like cricket bats, wooden boards etc thoroughly.

At lease with a white plate it can be washed at high temperatures, and because it's white - you can tell if every scrap of food has been washed off or not. If not - in it goes for another wash.

That's the brilliant thing about plates - white plates in particular - there's nowhere for any food residue to 'hide'.

at least

I hear you!

I love my local barbecue place but they serve burgers and chips on a chopping board. I send it back. They get awkward but I insist on a plate.

A local pub serves shots in test tubes and cocktails in jam jars. I went once, ordered a Pimms, gave the poor bar tender this look and never returned. Total batshit.

Someone on here was served an ice cold cocktail in a tin can. FFS. Enjoy your drink whilst your fingers freeze.

Thanks for the @wewantplates twitter thread lead. Some are

I found the huge plank of cheese and meat and stuff, served on top of 3 tins of tomatoes at Jamie Olivers particularly offensive.

Also the most beautiful cooked breakfast I've ever had, served on slate. I thought about eating it with my hands just to avoid the torturous scraping.

@WeWantPlates is brilliant, I'm howling at "samphire wig"

I can't remember where it was but we went somewhere a while ago that served chips in a teeny little shopping trolley