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 have been known to phone a restaurant and say 'do you have plates?' to be met with 'er, yes, we're a restaurant'. Further questioning sometimes reveals that whilst they have plates, they like to serve their food on a plank of wood/Ferrari tyre/corpse etc. And then when you say 'really, what does the soup come in, a shoe?' they get the arse. By which point they've long lost my booking.

I mean, if you're going to take the piss by putting my dinner down in front of me and you can't tell the difference between a fucking plate and an antique coffin lid/80s popstar/washing machine part, you've got to expect a wee bit of ribbing.

Has anyone actually gone to a restaurant, and when their overpriced pasta is plonked down, balanced precariously on an umbrella or something, leant into their bag, brought out a plate and swiftly shoved their food from a random object on a fucking plate? I would love to do that.

Maybe we should all start paying in pseudo-arty currency. Like ball bearings and toenail clippings and odd socks.

ThingummyJigg, Brilliant!

One pub my husband used to work in was targeted at students. The star dish was a "dogs dinner" of chips, beans, sausage & egg served in one of those metal dog bowls . Was actually quite popular with the drunk students

It's just pretentious twattery, isn't it. I bet that Jamie Oliver started it.
To me, food should be served on a plate, round and plain white for preference. It's not rocket science. And while you're on with it, no need to 'build' the meal. Just place it neatly on the plate.

You've given me encouragement- next trendy meal served on anything weird is getting sent back with a request for a plate.

And don't get me started on "deconstructed" dishes.....

Yanbu

#wewantplates

HEAR HEAR
to Please serve my meal on a plate
excellent Idea.

No plate = no tip
simple

I would want a plate and a proper mug. I even once got a dirty look when Starbucks tried to charge me full price to drink my coffee at their table form a paper cup because their dishwasher was broken. I don't want a paper cup thanks, and I'm not paying the drink in price for the "privilege" of drinking from one. I don't even drink from a paper cup when I have a takeaway; I have my own muggy/flask thingy.

YANBU! I've recently endured having my breakfast served on a roofing slate and my dinner all separated out into different containers, with the chips in some sort of pointless metal basket.

I wonder if it all started in the '70's with 'chicken in a basket'. (And just which drugged-up idiot thought that one up?) And it seems to be getting worse; I've just started following @WeWantPlates and the some of the pictures are ridiculous. One family had their spaghetti just dumped on the table, not even a shovel in sight.

There may come a time when look back fondly on merely having our meals served on the turntable of a 1960's Dansette record player :(

It's everywhere. Had coleslaw served in a mini colander in a garden centre restaurant recently.

Is deconstructed food a thing now? Do they think we're idiots? I go out so someone else makes the food for me. Diy salad, really??
Next they'll have us all queuing to wash up our own cricket bats and flat caps, and we'll be paying through the nose for the privilege.

DH has MS which makes it quite difficult for him to manipulate cutlery. Not long ago we went out for a family lunch - all but one of the meals were served on a proper plate. DH's was on a slate, pie, chips, peas and gravy! A total disaster for an able bodied person - absolutely impossible for him! We did ask for plate and were met with sighs.
Funnily enough, we haven't been back........

Stealth it is unfortunately. I came across this beauty on Twitter. Apparently it's a deconstructed ploughmans. On a fucking table tennis paddle. Bet that smear of butter is manky and tastes like rubber.

I think plates should be used for hot food, runny food, ...etc but one place I love that doesn't use plates is the garden kitchen, I actually think it looks great, and isn't awkward as it's just finger food. They also do milkshake in glass wellington boots, cute I think! lol

But yes, food in hats, on tiles, in strange shapes...etc. I also don't like hot messy food on those wooden slabs, as I never think you can ever get them clean enough.

No, I don't like this fashion either. I hate the noise of slate and steel scraping.

Sorry Coffee and Biscuits, but I don't like that either!

I came onto the thread to point you in the direction of @wewantplates on Twitter, but see it's already been mentioned.
I love that Twitter account, there's some corkers on there, it's hilarious!
No to all this pretentious twattery, bring back the plates already.
Sorry, Coffee, but milkshake in glass wellington boots?! You may think cute, I think "Da FUQ?!" lol

twitter.com/WeWantPlates

Some belters

I wonder if you were to go to an NHS canteen they'd serve their food in bedpans and drinks out of IV bags with a line attached that you suck the end of

As someone who may occasionally eat baked beans straight from the tin I like to think I was way ahead of the trend. Heston hasn't thought of that one yet.

I hate this way of serving food, even my very downmarket local serves fish and chips in a bloody frying basket.

They'll start on the cutlery next. It'll be all adjustable spanners and pliers, mark my words.

How about tuna or anchovies straight from the tin AbbyCadabra

A fancy pants tapas place that has opened in our city serves both of these in what appears to be the tin that it came in.

Some of the presentation and serving looks quite reasonable but there are some corkers if you scroll through the photos. My particular favourite is the battered old plant pot arrangement that the caption at the bottom tells me is chocolate mousse.

Chocolate mousse

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Lmao at spanners and pliers.

I promise to ask for a plate next time I'm faced with flipping SLATE or a manly old bread board.

Thank God for curry houses and the local chinese

*manky