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To think this looks awful?! Grazing table....

288 replies

PyongyangKipperbang · 27/04/2023 01:05

Posted by a local pub for an event ..... wouldn't be able to eat a thing if I was going! All those hands in there, not to mention how far over you'd have to lean to get to the food in the middle and the worst bit? This will sit there for at least 12 hours before the event which is surely not within food hygiene regulations and it will taste awful!

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Strawberrydelight78 · 27/04/2023 06:08

It looks okay just presented wrong. It needs to be more spread out and tongue's to pick food up would be good.

electriclight · 27/04/2023 06:21

I am not a fan of grazing tables but did eat from one at a baby shower recently. It was created by caterers in the host's home and was obviously just for the few good friends present. It was very artistic and beautiful to look at. That one in the photo is nothing like that. It is just food dumped on a table.

RestingMurderousFace · 27/04/2023 06:26

More of a trough than a buffet. 🤢

Nanaof1 · 27/04/2023 06:28

AppallinglyReheated · 27/04/2023 04:58

You haven't been on the internet long have you, you sweet innocent child...

It's a whole thing, food directly on the table. People do it at home, people like these fine folk I found via google images, go out and pay for this...

Ugh.

Its gross, the Grazing table is a vile abomination, the bastard son of the buffet and it needs to be stopped.

Not only is it all touchy touchy, and people will lean over it, breath on it, RUMMAGE IN IT, knock it all over the floor...

But its so wasteful, and people brag about it like they created a culinary master piece when in fact all they've done is open up half of Morrisons deli section and dump it on a table. Yay you, you opened packets!

I also think its a rather grotesque braggy 'look how lavish we are with all our foods we can just dump on a table, a whole tables worth of foods...' bleurgh.

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Wait, I am obviously naive. These "grazing tables" have you eating the food right off the table? Not putting what you want on a plate (like that spaghetti picture)?

Not only NO, but HE!! NO! I really am not fond of buffets unless they are really well run and clean. A bunch of food sitting on a table is like sending an engraved invite to ecoli and salmonella asking them to join the festivities.

DisquietintheRanks · 27/04/2023 06:29

Communal food bowls are the norm in many cultures world wide and don't particularly bother me (though my grandmother was horrified to be exposed to them when my grandfather took her back to his village during the war).

JackiePlace · 27/04/2023 06:30

It looks awful even before it's been pawed over.
It'd be a “no thanks” from me!

OneFrenchEgg · 27/04/2023 06:36

Disgusting but you can see they have a layer of baking paper under the food.

Pottedpalm · 27/04/2023 06:36

Strawberrydelight78 · 27/04/2023 06:08

It looks okay just presented wrong. It needs to be more spread out and tongue's to pick food up would be good.

😄 tongs maybe!

coodawoodashooda · 27/04/2023 06:39

Kingoftheroad · 27/04/2023 01:19

Wouldn’t touch it

Me neither

Tanfastic · 27/04/2023 06:39

Strawberrydelight78 · 27/04/2023 06:08

It looks okay just presented wrong. It needs to be more spread out and tongue's to pick food up would be good.

No tongues please 🤣

Tessisme · 27/04/2023 06:42

I would rather starve. I don't particularly like buffets anyway, but that big fat mess of different types food all touching each other is just very unappetising.

FancyFanny · 27/04/2023 06:43

Yuck!

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 27/04/2023 06:50

Yuck. No. Germ heaven and it would be a horrible mess after five minutes.

WonderingWanda · 27/04/2023 06:54

Ridiculous idea, surely it will end up all over the floor.

OMG12 · 27/04/2023 06:56

No, not great for those with dietary requirement.

hrazing tables make me want to vomit, ots like when people pile their plates really high. Or stuff food into their mouths. Gluttony turns my stomach

cryinglaughing · 27/04/2023 06:59

Don't get it. What's wrong with a serving plate or a bowl?!

Scalottia · 27/04/2023 07:00

Thst is just foul! YANBU OP.

Roselilly36 · 27/04/2023 07:04

Seems a trend atm, goodness knows why, it’s absolutely ridiculous I agree.

DancingWithTheMoonlitKnight · 27/04/2023 07:06

Looks ok to me. I'd get stuck right into that.

BeetleBailey · 27/04/2023 07:07

Looks like it's been barfed up

Fandabedodgy · 27/04/2023 07:07

What are vegetarians and people with allergies to do?

Mumski45 · 27/04/2023 07:09

It's a coeliacs nightmare. Irrespective of the hygiene issue I wouldn't be able to eat anything off that due to potential cross contamination.

RosaMoline · 27/04/2023 07:10

Hell to the no!

Willmafrockfit · 27/04/2023 07:13

has covid not taught anyone about hygeine?

AttilaTheMeerkat · 27/04/2023 07:14

Food Poisoning Central.