Am I being tight/ greedy?

[Feebeela]

I ordered sourdough toast with avocado, tofu and plantain at my local cafe for lunch today. I was hungry. The dish was 2 slices of sourdough toast; 1 slice with avocado, 1 slice naked no butter, 2 small strips of tofu and 2 small slices of plantain with about 5 spinach leaves. I questioned the portion size as it seemed a bit, well, mean. My friend said it was about right but I was expecting avo on both slices and more than 2 slices of plantain for £4.95.

AIBU or AIB greedy?

Well it looks like a pretentious lunch to me, so yeah they do tend to serve stingy portions in those arty farty places.

Pretentious? Eh?

Plantains and avocados are normal, basic foodstuffs in half the world, but in the UK, anything that isn't a basic ham sandwich, or beige and chips shite is pretentious and middle class .

It's an open sandwich isn't it? The presentation isn't that great, but the price seems about right to me

For a fiver that's perfectly fine for the money.
I'd be a bit embarrassed if a friend questioned that for a fiver. It'd be around £7-8 in Brighton.
Yanbu to still be hungry but yabu to complain to the cafe that it seemed mean. Order a cake afterwards if you are hungry or a side of fries etc.

Greedy!

But then I hate vegan food.

What a ridiculous comment.

I don't think you're being greedy as it's quite a small portion but more than I would expect for that price. Around here it would cost £8/9 at least.

I live right up north, where houses are 50p and we dont have leccy, and even I looked at the pic and thought hmm £6.95 before seeing the actual price. Seems fine to me.

Devorak I live in Belfast and want to know where you got that for £3.95! Looks much nicer than my local.

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I don't think it is ridiculous at all.

I love he concept of vegan food. I would love to go to a place where the food is vegan but recognizable as food. Instead, began restaurants don't do vegan versions of dishes, but strange vegan concoctions.

Vegan pizza, pasta, salads, risotto are all easy and delicious and I would rather eat a decent vegan penne arrabiata than things with seeds and plaintain etc.

But that's just my POV.

*Pretentious? Eh?

Plantains and avocados are normal, basic foodstuffs in half the world, but in the UK, anything that isn't a basic ham sandwich, or beige and chips shite is pretentious and middle class* .

Agreed.

They've taken BASIC ingredients and placed them on the plate in piddly portion sizes, therefor it IS pretentious 🙄

Looks perfectly reasonable for London.

I want some plantain now.

If it's a thriving business then people must be happy to pay that price for that portion of food. If you want value for money go somewhere else. Even Starbucks charge around £4 for a cheese and ham baguette and they are really cheap ingredients.
Choose your cafe more carefully next time.

"I don't even know what a plantain is."

I remember when I first lived in Liverpool as a student. I couldn't for the life of me understand why the local convenience store sold these big, horrible, dark green, unripe bananas.

Plantains are DELICIOUS!!!

It looks ample to me, but I don't like huge portions and lots of waste, That would be a lovely lunch for me at a decent price and the sot of food I love. Devoraks greasy spoon plate looks revolting to me, I would never that, it would turn my stomach.

The amount of bread looks about right for the price but it needs more toppings. The presentation is also odd - why have they put all the avocado on one slice and not put the plantain on the other? It Ames the bare slice look very unattractive. At least there is butter

The sourdough avacado and plantain would actually make that high calorific and filling

Sorry forget to say and that's very much me

YABU to order anything with avocado.

You paid for that?! I'd be expecting someone to pay me to eat it. Whatever happened to proper food...

I paid £7.95 for this

Lady avocado, bread and plantain isn't proper food? What would you consider to be 'proper'? I'm genuinely curious!