Dinner sets should be white and white only. AIBU?

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I’ll give you a pass for off white.

Please someone tell me they also remember when the woman posted her roast dinner on a clear see through plate? #wistful

I love Polish pottery too, and Islamic patterned pottery - Turkish / Moroccan...

My in laws have Wedgwood Indian Tree, which I really don't like.

These is what have and I love them. They're a lovely cream colour and the hearts make me happy 💓

IWishItWasSummer those plates are beautiful but I couldn't cut my food up on a little rabbit's face .

The Wetherspoons pubs have been using blue floral plates for a good couple of years , always makes me wince a bit , hoping they go back to some plainer ones .

I used to have a BHS Country Vine set (white with ivy) but I didn't use it often enough so I put it in the charity shop (before Christmas couple of years ago) for someone else to love .

I have some random Christmas plates that add to the white set for Christmas .

I used to have a load of M&S Maxim (IIRC) plates that used to mark when cutlery was used , I had to clean it with Astonish paste .
My Sainsbury round ones don't mark (hurrah) and I have some of the oval steak plates which are fine .

I like old asiatic pheasant patterned plates. Mind are all from flea markets and cost pennies. They have been in use for 100 years. White yes in a restaurant but the pale blue pheasant pattern (still being made in Stoke today) is too lovely not to use at home.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget and what are Wetherspoons supposed to do with thousands of perfectly serviceable bits of crockery?

No to white bed linen. Will get grubby in no time at all. I have gorgeous 300 thread count sets - one with peacocks on, another which is very country house with deer park. I love them. No-one else in our house has white either. It's boring and smacks of cheapo hotels

Grubby ? We only have white and washing them at 60, sometimes with a scoop of Vanish ( or generic equivalent) keeps them bright white. Though that’s pure cotton high thread count - maybe poly mix goes that way ?

My parents in the 80’s had a crockery set with poppies on them, still have a few & whenever I see them I just smile because it takes me back to my childhood, they also had a Royal Doulton tea set (grandad worked there) my mum had them on show for a long time but now in a box because they really aren’t in fashion anymore!

@Abibranning What a beautiful plate!
I can imagine it with a lovely dessert sitting on the white bit but somehow meat and veg would look just wrong.

Ours are bright orangey yellow. I love them!

If your whites are getting grubby then you aren’t up to MN standards of fresh bed linen once a week

I much prefer white plates, I don't know why but good looks much more appetising on a white plate. My mam had square bowls and plates at one point so many levels of wrong, goes through me. Slight pet hate, even square mugs. My cuppa would be down my front haha 😂

White, slightly square with green lilies. Brilliant for everyday because I can replace individual pieces at the local supermarket when they get broken.

For special occasions, hand painted Japanese porcelain but the design was discontinued 30 years ago so it doesn’t come out often.

Now feel very old as I remember the translucent brown/grey arcopal stuff although I’ve never owned any 😂

More PICTURES!!!

I'm 50 and have a full set of spode (inherited) a tea service (bought when I thought collecting pretty, old china was a good idea), a Versailles Royal Worcester that I started collecting as part of getting married (could now throw a Banquet) and then standard white for the kdis from Habitat - doesn't make me cry when kids stack and empty dishwasher! However now both set of parents are getting older and suddenly I'm supposed to take things from them! I'm overloaded!

I love a colourful plate

Only white here as I really don't like patterns, black makes food look greasy.

Most of ours are round and we have oval for dinner plates.

Can we discuss plate shapes whilst we are on the crockery subject and agree that the only acceptable shape for a plate or dish you eat from is round ?

A square, rectangle or octagonal (should I include triangle?) plate is unacceptable

To all those who keep their Denby for best, please don't. Use it every day. It's sturdy stuff.

Absolutely agree. We've got Debby Greenwich and have used it every day for 20 years. It's still immaculate.

Hubby is a chef and insists on all white, he also hates square plates. Personally I prefer grey but I don’t get a look in!

Mine are teal and brown bought from Costco years ago and my side plates don't match (because the ones in the Costco set are the size of dinner plates and the dinner plates were huge and wouldn't fit in the dishwasher!). So I've got white side plates. I like patterned or coloured crockery, but actually, does it matter as long as it's clean and the food tastes good? 😂

Food looks fabulous on blue plates.

Hard to keep nice and white, they need to introduce Vanish for White Plates. 😄

I have white plates ..so I can replace when broken without too much notice but if money was not at the heart I would experiment.

I have black square plates... And matching white square plates.

I also have purple and blue towels. And worst of all a large red and yellow McDonald's beach towel that my brother got me in Turkey i think it's great.

I have a dinner set made up of seven or eight different Emma Bridgewater patterns. My dresser looks very attractive, and we enjoy eating off these plates.

I used to have a set of M&S plates that was white, with an embossed pattern around the edge - I liked those too.

and what are Wetherspoons supposed to do with thousands of perfectly serviceable bits of crockery?

Whatever they did with the previous ones before they changed ?

I'm sure they lose a % due to breakage (or theft) . Once they know the levels are dropping they could order in new crockery (in non blue flowery) and gather up the remaining to send off to other 'Spoons (until it is all broken over time)

They have a continuity of menu but all the pubs have different themes so they could cope with different serveware .

We have 2 Wetherspoons within a thirty pace walk. One I go into, one I don't . Both quite different