Page 3 | Grazing tables...wtf?

BiffChipsandKippers · 2023-02-14T22:20:07+00:00

Anyone seen this craze for just dumping a load of food in a table as the catering at a party? AIBU that this is unhygienic and gross?

SpookyBlackCat · 15/02/2023 01:55

LemonJuiceFromConcentrate · 15/02/2023 01:43

So intensely unappealing 😶

I am curious as to why those who like it, like it. What’s the appeal?

I guess the appeal is eating the food. Some people aren't so picky about stuff touching.

WhiteNoiseMoreToys · 15/02/2023 01:55

They’re apparently going to become extremely trendy for weddings in 2023..
it’s something I’d put on for a event or party for close friends and family.. but not so much for my 90 guest wedding.. although it was thought about as I do love a good cured meat and stinky cheese.

But no, there is something very off putting about a free-for-all finger food affair.. as pretty and rustic as they may be.

ComfortablyDazed · 15/02/2023 02:05

Very off-putting, and agree they’re up there with other bandwagon-jumping naffness, like Live, Laugh, Love signs, gender reveal parties, ‘fashionably’ drab interiors, etc.

bussteward · 15/02/2023 02:10

My work took it to the next level by doing one as a picnic for the away day – so not only all that horrible intermingling with wet slices of fruit rubbing up against crackers and sweating cheese, but served on cardboard, on the GROUND. Enjoy your backache as you watch your lunch dipped into by dirty colleagues.

rumporolypolyofthebailey · 15/02/2023 02:23

For fucks sake wish I hadn't googled images for that! They look like the table they used to put together for those horrible "you are what you eat" type programmes where they put what some poor obese person consumed in a week. Good lord no, just no, definitely no

User11122 · 15/02/2023 02:25

Love these, in my circle of friends/family these are very common esp at parties and events.
We all have manners and are aware of hygiene, so no using grubby fingers to touch all the food.

I'm suprised lots of people here dislike them but I understand each to their own, I do think it is silly people pay others a crazy amount to come and set these up for them.

SprungIsSpringing · 15/02/2023 02:39

They are really unappetising to me but I thought the fad had been and gone?

GlamGiraffe · 15/02/2023 02:42

When I do then they are absolutley not directly onto a table but into large flat washable players size by side. With fresh baking parchment laid in to for good measure. I herne try to en sure mats are arranged so they can are actually contained, not obvious from a visitor's point of view. Things aren't over everything. For every foodstuff that's meat I make sure it has every þ of pyroclastic beside that type of product when I don't know the dietary status of the people coming. I replicate it on a. Non meat area. In order than anyone c who doesn't witch to expend meat can happily eat items efficiently haven't meat contact with any. It is so popular. Choose nice products presented vl considerately and attractively and a graclzing table is loved

EmmaEmerald · 15/02/2023 02:54

Glam can you show us a photo of a good one?

MakingTheVeganYorkshirePud · 15/02/2023 02:55

Never heard of them until reading this post, and I thought you'd just stumbled upon a typical buffet. I'd be livid if food was just put on the tablecloth without any plates. Surely the BBQ pulled jackfruit will stain the cloth, and I'm meant to just pick it up with my fingers, throw it in a teacake and and finger in the slaw? Dirty gets.

EmmaEmerald · 15/02/2023 02:57

MakingTheVeganYorkshirePud · 15/02/2023 02:55

Never heard of them until reading this post, and I thought you'd just stumbled upon a typical buffet. I'd be livid if food was just put on the tablecloth without any plates. Surely the BBQ pulled jackfruit will stain the cloth, and I'm meant to just pick it up with my fingers, throw it in a teacake and and finger in the slaw? Dirty gets.

I think it's more normal to have a plate underneath, and to use tongs...but I still find the foods touching to be gross.

MakingTheVeganYorkshirePud · 15/02/2023 02:59

@EmmaEmerald oh, that's a relief then 😅

ComfortablyDazed · 15/02/2023 03:01

I don’t mind large platters, but when I (and friends) do these - even then - food is on/in plates and bowls, on the platter.

I wouldn’t put meat - even cured meat and salami - on a wooden board, I’d put it on a plate/pottery platter, on the board.

Olives/artichoke/pickles/etc. go in bowls, on the board.

Grazing tables - just no.

magicthree · 15/02/2023 03:13

SpookyBlackCat · 15/02/2023 01:55

I guess the appeal is eating the food. Some people aren't so picky about stuff touching.

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I agree, the appeal is eating the food. Every time you go back to the table you find something you didn't see the last time you looked. They are reasonably popular here, and presumably some people aren't quite as picky as others. I couldn't care less if some food is touching other food.

QueenCamilla · 15/02/2023 03:35

I don't like that. But 100 different deli items on little plates/in bowls and adult guests only and with cutlery, would be wonderful!

RenegadeMasterx · 15/02/2023 03:42

If I went to an event with one of these you can bet my arse I wouldn't eat a thing off it. Everyone's filthy mitts delving into a pile of food that's just been chucked out of packets and thrown onto a table no thanks

Gingerkittykat · 15/02/2023 04:25

It's butter boards that replulse me. Stick a bunch of flavourings into butter that is spread onto a chopping board and everyone uses their bread to scoop it up.

GlamGiraffe · 15/02/2023 04:36

@EmmaEmerald I can't say I've ever taken a picture picture in all honestly as they are for the events I have personally ( sometimes) held, nothing else. They are always attacked and devoured though so really can't be bad. I do agree if they are overly big they do look off putting though. As a vegetarian of 31 years I take meat avoidance very seriously. I will never eat anything tbl hat had touched meat and don't expect others to either. I think it's pleasant where v the there is a large selection of veg and fancy fruit with any meats and cheese as well as sweet treat nestled net to fruit eg browniesflapjack,truffles. They reaaly are just so so popular. I might do one for 25 people bit more than that is silly as it looks tacky like the ones pictures. It's also snacks not a meal in my view

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 15/02/2023 04:41

Here's a dessert table at a wedding 😕 really! It could be before or after the guests had helped themselves.

liveforsummer · 15/02/2023 05:14

Ironically this started to become really popular during the covid times when people were beginning to socialise again but many things weren't open so it was house parties. It's not a buffet, there are no plates - the stuff is all most placed down side by side and touching each other - doesn't take long to mix in to each other after a few people have been at it and you never know what's been touched by others 😬

StarsSand · 15/02/2023 05:22

I think they are disgusting. I think we'll look back on this trend and be a bit embarrassed.

I was hoping the pandemic would have put an end to them but they are popping back up.

They result in a lot of food wastage as well, as no one wants to eat the last parts of it as they might from a buffet

SillyDoriswithaDangler · 15/02/2023 05:22

Nothing is ever cold on them, there’s no way I’m eating room temp deli meat

liveforsummer · 15/02/2023 05:26

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 15/02/2023 04:41

Here's a dessert table at a wedding 😕 really! It could be before or after the guests had helped themselves.

😧

PyongyangKipperbang · 15/02/2023 05:27

pristinesurfacesGBTD · 15/02/2023 04:41

Here's a dessert table at a wedding 😕 really! It could be before or after the guests had helped themselves.

That looks like the end of the splat gun finale of Bugsy Malone!

Who on earth would look at that and think "yes....that says 'classy wedding'"?!

liveforsummer · 15/02/2023 05:30

@PyongyangKipperbang great description 😆. The juice running down the table edges is just the final straw too!