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to expect my food on a plate?

105 replies

CwtchesAndCuddles1 · 04/10/2015 16:25

Out for a meal last night, ordered seared tuna with garlic butter, it arrived on a wooden board. Why are so many places serving up food on anything put a plate? It never occurred to me to ask if my food would be served on a plate, it used to be the norm, from now on I'm going to check!
What made it really ironic was that my friend and I were talking about the campaign "we want plates" and laughing at some of the daft ways food is now being served................them my tuna arrived!

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TeamScoutRifle · 05/10/2015 07:31

Oh my goodness the one in a dogs bowl Shock now that really is a dogs dinner!
My dd had her fish & chips served in a kids plastic seaside bucket and if she finished it she got the spade to go with it (my son ate the bits she couldn't) which was handy because we walked straight out of the restaurant and on to the beach so she could use it. Saved a couple of quid there Grin

HemlockStarglimmer · 05/10/2015 07:36

My husband had coleslaw served in a miniature colander a few weeks ago. This wasn't a chichi place, it was a garden centre cafe.

ivykaty44 · 05/10/2015 08:41

This isn't a new thing though, back in the 70s chicken and chips was served in a basket and fish and chips was served wrapped up in newspaper. Prawn cocktails were esembelled in wine glasses.

nokidshere · 05/10/2015 09:14

I send all food not on a plate back to the kitchen to be plated properly! If they said they didn't have any I would leave.

MissHooliesCardigan · 05/10/2015 10:57

Plates are so, like, over. I threw all my plates out last year and I can't tell you how liberating it was. I am no longer constrained by the chains of crockery and am finally free to express myself. As we speak I am preparing a crime brûlée in DS2's old potty.
You dinosaurs need to move on. The only place for plates is in a museum.

LurkingHusband · 05/10/2015 10:59

There are places out there that serve crumble with only a choice of cream or ice cream and no custard at all. WTF??

I'm pretty certain that's against the Geneva convention.

EBearhug · 05/10/2015 11:38

Fish and chips should always be in newspaper. Paper, anyway. I can see the hygiene arguments for no longer using yesterday's newspapers (fine example of recycling that it was.)

And I don't mind food being served on a board if it's suitable for that - sandwiches, for example. A selection of cheeses. Just nothing liquid or round and rolling.

annielouise · 05/10/2015 12:57

Juggling - I caught The Great British Menu for the first time in ages and switched over as the food was served on mini picnic tables. Ridiculous. I couldn't be bothered watching it any more. So gimmicky. I wouldn't eat off a wooden platter. I can't imagine they go through the dishwasher and even if they did if they don't dry I imagine all sort of germs in the dampness. Don't like slates either. I just imagine these things aren't washed properly. Puts me off eating in places like that. Reluctant to ask for a plate in case they do something to your food for being "awkward".

JugglingFromHereToThere · 05/10/2015 13:07

annie I went on the "We want plates" site linked to up-thread and they had a pic of food, including salad, served straight on top of a fish tank with a goldfish in. How un-hygienic is that? I thought at least it would be in bowls Hmm

annielouise · 05/10/2015 13:20

That poor fish. These things are probably wiped clean with a dirty cloth rather than go through a dishwasher. It's got to end soon. The wire basket things must collect all sorts of gunk in them, old, stale grease, yuk!

I couldn't believe my eyes with the The Great British Menu. It was so twee. Previous series it was about the food.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 05/10/2015 13:53

Yes, and the fish tank had that fish tanky ridge around the edge so all the fishy gunk and old food could collect nicely all along the edge of the plate serving space - lettuce was right up against that. I'm not usually the fussy sort ....

Jux · 05/10/2015 14:03

Yeah, the GBM is beyond silly now. I wanted to be able to eat that mini-table as why else bother with it?

I can imagine being at the feast and just getting completely fed up with having to be surprised and delighted and shocked at every single course. I would be thinking, just give me some food, this is about food, make the food nice.

cozietoesie · 05/10/2015 14:07

A frisbee as a plate?

Confused
YakTriangle · 05/10/2015 19:40

Crime brûlée, brilliant Grin

Mumteedum · 05/10/2015 20:01

Sorry phantom. Dish not dishwasher
Blooming predictive text.

Was like this.

Maybe ok if you're not 4 years old? maybe not

Mumteedum · 05/10/2015 20:02

Oh...photo didn't work... I give up!

Senpai · 05/10/2015 20:23

Senpai it's off the new 'Create your taste' menu dont ya know! Still can't tempt me I'm afraid

It hasn't reached my city yet. It's only in NY and CA over here. Everywhere else in the country they're all same sad burgers flattened and tossed in a bag.

MrsMook · 05/10/2015 22:19

Recently I went out and the pudding was in silly little jars. The real stupidity was the bent spoons that were unholdable. I gave up on favour of a fork that evaded the starters. When someone else requested a proper spoon, the waiter asked if anyone else wanted one. All hands shot up (except the guy who'd bent his back to a wonky straight)

Jux · 06/10/2015 08:42

Perhaps all these chefs are simply trying to ensure that their customers don't lick the plates?

Maybe it's a test on the deliciousness of the food. Serve it in a mini urinal and if people lick it then it must be fab, but if people don't it's marked down as 'could do better' ?

vienna1981 · 06/10/2015 17:08

I make my own pizzas and always serve them on a large wooden chopping board. However, it makes sense because I don't have any perfectly flat 12 inch plates and it means I can slice them cleanly with a sharp knife without damaging the knife.

All this use of roof slates and little buckets for chips is just faddish nonsense which will hopefully go away as quickly as it appeared.

Warriorsoftheworld · 06/10/2015 17:29

YANBU
I once ate steak of a slate and everytime my steak knife cut through the steak it was like nails on a chalkboard boak andbit was gouged to death when id finished and my steak was covered in black bits of slate they couldn't possibly have washed it and re used it
Also chip baskets with about 3 chips wedged into Angry hate those and worse they are selling them in my local asda

anklebitersmum · 07/10/2015 02:07

They've been advertising it to death here in Oz Senpai I'd still rather head to the noodle bar or out for bbq ribs than a Mc anything Grin

We went for a steak recently and it came on a hot stone but then there was nowhere else for it to go-and when you like it blue leaving it hot stoning is not OK. To add insult to cremating steak injury I got a Hmm look when I requested a plate!

LeaveMyWingsBehindMe · 07/10/2015 05:34

Slate is really porous, that sounds awful Warriors. Slate is ok as a cheese board but that's all.

LeaveMyWingsBehindMe · 07/10/2015 05:35

That's ok though Vienna, a pizza on a flat wooden board makes perfect sense. A roast dinner on a flat wooden board doesn't!

noeffingidea · 07/10/2015 06:59

Complete pretentious upyerownarse twattery. I suppose the chefs who do this see themselves as being creative, because they're 'artists'.
No you're not. You're a professional cook. Plates have developed for a purpose, because they're ideal for serving and eating food off.