To want more bloody toast with my pate?!

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Every single time I ever get pate at a restaurant there is never enough bread/toast. Never ever ever! And it is doing my head in!

Last night I had pate and it came with a crostini the size of a 50 pence piece. Great. What am I meant to do with the remaining slab of pate on my plate? Grab my dessert spoon and scoop it directly into my mouth like some bizarre meat ice cream?

My regular pub only gives two tiny triangles of toast with a massive ramekin of pate and chutney. I asked if I could be cheeky and request an extra slice of toast as there is never enough, and was told I could have an additional bread basket but they would have to charge me. No no no! I don’t want a whole bread basket (which would then be too much bread, oh the irony!), I just want one extra piece of toast because there is never enough! Just charge me for one extra slice of toast if you need to!

I don’t understand this because surely cost per gram, pate is more expensive to buy/make than bread? Especially if you are using bog standard sliced loaf and just toasting it. Yet everywhere insists on giving you a slab of pate covering half the plate which will be wasted as there’s never enough bread!

I love pate but am thinking of boycotting it forever now. Please tell me I’m not the only one!

Nope - I’d much rather stuff more pate or cheese or fondue or whatever in! The carbs just take up space. Cut out the middleman!

Ah yes - the paucity of bread with a baked Camembert as well. It's not quite the same dipping DH's chips in to finish it all.

@TheQueef your post has reminded me of a question I keep meaning to ask a Scot - what on earth is "best butter"? And does that mean there's a worst butter?

Veg is one of my favourite bits of a Sunday roast at home.
I always steam at least 4 kinds, smother in butter and herbs.
Plenty left to make soup for the week.

Decent pate (always fish, imo) needs plenty of melba toast and toasted sourdough as a minimum.
Cheese needs grapes, celery, radishes and lots of different crackers and oatcakes.

But then, I'm greedy :)

@HavelockVetinari - I think best butter is the more expensive 'higher end' sort with more cream and usually salted. And yes, there is worst butter

Also when you order a pot of tea for two and there's a tiny jug of milk. Why?

I feel your pain. Same with cheese and crackers. Is it because of the popularity of low carb diets? Very annoying.

My heart bleeds for you

I always have to ask for extra butter
I sometime ask for extra toast for pate, but I think me and @DontFundHate may be paté twins ...I like to slather it on so you leave teethmarks in a bite, so I battle bravely on with my miniscule toast allowance

I do agree with the skimping on cheese biscuits....and to add insult to injury up here it's oatcakes more often than not...talk about the cheap option!

oh and best butter is the pricey stuff...I am always telling dh to hide the best butter (beurre d'isigny) or ds2 will put it on his bread like cheese.

:o

I agree, I never ask "can I have an extra slice of toast?" I just say "Pate, with an extra slice of toast please". It has worked so far.

Another observation - rock hard butter so you can't spread it because if you do you end up with corrugated toast with lumps of butter in all the holey bits.

DH actively enjoys this part of the ritual meal

My heart bleeds for you

Ah, so charitable.

Leave a review on tripadvisor saying that they're mean with the toast, perhaps it'll encourage them to be more generous.

I didn't order pate on Saturday night, even though I really fancied it, because of this exact reason!

Absolutely agreed with the pate/toast ratio.

One that drives me mad is the lack of gravy that comes with a roast dinner. I don't want it swimming in gravy but there's usually so little. WHY ??? This has to be the cheapest component.

@cologne4711 I measured it out once. Barely three teaspoonfuls in a tiny jug.

The ratio of toast to pate is always crap. DH loves pate and will even ask if he can have toast instead if oatcakes beca I se that just useless. My friend asks how many slices of toast are provided and asks for extra every time. It’s useless having to scoop pate up with a fork!

In the days when I used to eat out at Beefeater and Berni restaurants (remember them?),this used to annoy me too. My favourite starter was pate with toast,or prawn cocktail with bread and butter. Without fail,the pate would be a huge slab,with 4 tiny squares of toast. Likewise the prawn cocktail,just 2 try tiny triangles of bread and butter. I don't like spreading pate half an inch thick on toast,and when I have a prawn cocktail,I like some carbs to accompany it.

Agree, there’s never enough toast. Or crackers with cheese.

And the toast / crackers are surely the cheapest part of the meal. Why skimp on that bit??

Stupid small jugs of milk for tea. And I like my tea strong. But say a lot of tea hold two cups of tea there's only enough milk for one

I feel like this is something where I'd have loads of examples to rant about but minds gone blank

Also when you order a pot of tea for two and there's a tiny jug of milk. Why?

Because they probably have more people like me who wave the milk at the tea from four foot away and that's plenty.

The key to getting pate and meagre toast allowances balanced is to eat if differently - don't spread it on the toast, put a big blob on one corner, eat, apply another blob, eat, and so on until you've demolished both, taken much long to eat it than usual and not quite as starving for the main course.

I ask for more toast / bread now. Have never been charged as everywhere I go seems to get that extra bread is not going to destroy their profit margin. I also ask for more butter, or butter full stop if none has come. Ask for what you want! Especially when it costs practically nothing.

I agree completely and have always thought this!

Pate on toast...Ploughman’s lunch?

Now I’m reminiscing and could murder an old fashioned prawn cocktail with really pink sauce and bread n butter!