If i wanted to drink out of a fucking jam jar

[JackandDiane]

I would stand by my recycling bin
Please use glasses

I didn't have a problem with keeping it upright on the tube but then I use quite a structured briefcase style shoulder bag for work and it wedged in nicely. The jamjarwanker thing was really what did it for me.

Don't get me started on bento boxes, I have huge bento box envy and have to physically restrain myself from owning more than one at a time. Just look at these beauties.

www.japancentre.com/en/categories/929-bento?category_ids%5B%5D=929&per_page=24&tag_ids%5B%5D=168

en.bentoandco.com/collections/bento-boxes/modern-boxes

The slates and the wooden boards are bad enough, but when you are serving your customers their ice cream on a wooden board (albeit with dents in), why do you surround it with a plethora of little green blobs of unidentifiable goo?

Felicity I LOVE bento boxes too. I have 5 at the moment and thanks to you posting that link I'll most likely have 6 . I tried the salad in a jar thing but much prefer pretty bento boxes

Sorry Bods I'm an enabler I know. I may have to swing by the Japan Centre soon, the clip as the fork on my current box snapped off a couple of weeks ago so I deserve a new one.

I was once served fish and chips in a blue kids castle shaped plastic bucket with spade stuck in too! I just sat there opened mouthed as it was placed in front of me. Wish I had taken a photo now. Still ate it tho!

Three words

Edible.Fucking.Soil.

WTF WTF WTF

About 4 years ago me and DP went to a naice restaurant where he ordered a steak -served on a wooden chopping board- and I went for the macaroni cheese..... also served on a chopping board complete with side salad and dressing dripping all over the sides.

Here's the . I actually have it recorded on my phone so I can play it next time I get a bizarre inappropriate serving.

I particularly hate children's meals not served on plates - the poor things have enough trouble with table manners without the restaurant making it even more difficult - chips do not naturally stay on slates / boards. A pizza can just about get away with being on a board but nowt else and definitely not anything with sauce or in an item that can't be washed properly.

Stop it now!

Eating of a slate makes my teeth hurt like finger nails on a blackboard. We were served a milk bottle of green slime at a Spa recently I think it was a smoothie. It is ridiculous for serving staff as well as they are cumbersome to pick up and carry.

We grew up on a farm and in the summer would help an elderly farmer neighbour bale carting. His Wife would drive over the field with a tea-towel covered basket filled with Jam Jars of sweet milky tea and Date & Walnut cake.

We loved it, the best tea and cake you would ever have- sat on the back of a trailer of hay. We were hip before hipster was invented!

Dammit 1stWorldProblems I was just about to add that link! I love that song, and so do the kids - they sing along when we have that episode on in the car, and give me knowing looks when we go to any eating establishment that strays from traditional tableware .

Recently went to a bar/nightclub in central london for a friend's birthday.
DH bought a bottle of wine,instead of coming in a bucket of ice we got it in a welly.
Not joking.

Thought of this thread, watching Hacker Time on cbbc. The 'Hipsters' song was spot on, especially, 'I like my burger on a slate and my drink in a urinal'

I went to a bar in Edinburgh that serves cocktail in teacups, mini milk bottles in a carrier, drink resting in mini shopping trolleys etc. I didn't mind actually (I quite enjoyed it) but I knew it was a hipster bar, complete with artisan popcorn, hidden speakeasy entrance through a shop with a bouncer outside, moustachioed staff and old barbershop chairs to sit on.

I don't like it when a 'normal' looking restaurant does it though, and I can't stand the noise from slate. I might start carrying a piece of chalk around with me to write a message on it...

I shit you not... We went for lunch in a new place recently and my son got his lunch served to him in....a first aid box.

fuck some of these are hilarious!

I recently got my Americano served on a small wooden chopping board instead of a saucer.

weird.

Cinderella did his food taste of antiseptic? Barf!

In a bar in Manchester I was served a gin and tonic IN A BAG. It was a sandwich bag, with a small plastic goldfish. Like you get at a fair. Wtf.

I don't think so- he ate it all. Maybe he likes the taste of antiseptic.

It's a new 'quirky' place opened. Milk for tea is given in small brown glass medicine bottles and the chefs wear theatre scrubs. It's all very

Barry island allegedly so DH says is currently selling fish and chips in a bucket, with a spade alongside

When did flat whites become the ONLY coffee variant considered cool enough to serve in a school canteen glass, instead of in a cup with a handle to stop you burning your fingers on the hot liquid inside? As has traditionally been the case?

Onion rings hanging from a mug tree was a memorable one, they were fucking freezing before they got to the table. Thankfully that place closed.

They would have gone nicely with some bacon ofshoes
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The thing about slates and boards, too, is that they don't keep the food HOT or even warm. The food cools too quickly.

Chips in a wee basket or cup means the place stints you on chips.

My uncle used to use jam jars when he'd ran out of clean mugs...

Jam jars have been used as drinking glasses for years. It's certainly nothing new, so doesn't bother me at all. The slates instead of plates, however, is daft.