Please help stop this disgraceful practice.

[likelysuspect]

Greenery on things where it doesnt belong

Ordered baked beans on toast (we'll come back to that) today.

Came with a clump of greenery on top. Salad garni.

What person in their right mind does this?

And OF COURSE it was bloody sourdough. Because NO other bread exists these days. And it was not toasted. It was barely within sight of the toaster I reckon

So it turns up with its green clump and then, to make matters much worse, it came with some butter pats but THE BEANS WERE ALREADY ON THE UNTOASTED TOAST.

So I scraped off my beans to try to spread the butter but of course this was a wasted effort because the butter wouldnt adhere to the untoasted toast due to the bean juice so I ended up just smearing it around while it stuck to my knife.

Anyway back to the greenery. I cant tell you how many bits of rocket have gone flying down the road before when served atop something, because of course a bit of wind will pick up salad and send it flying into the face of an unsuspecting pedestrian.

And dont get me started on bloody pea shoots.

#endgreeneryoverload

YANBU - Garnishing perfectly adequate meals with frilly extras is a performative nonsense to make something out of nothing

YABU - I really like bits of salad on top of a full English and you're only posting this because your OH has the football on anyway and you're bored.

I swear there was someone else on here complaining about the baked beans in a community cafe last week. Too spicy or not from a tin or something. Maybe you could start a club? Picket offending establishments?

You are not being unreasonable. As someone who hates the majority of fresh/raw herbs (coriander being the main culprit) there are an alarming amount of eateries who sprinkle herbs all over everything, too. Most unnecessary (especially when it isn’t mentioned on the menu).

YANBU op. Baked beans are an abomination with or without unnecessary greenery - disgusting revolting balls of mush but I agree with you on mumsnetting due to football boredom.

You don’t have to convince me.

I think plant foods are overrated in so many ways and the plant based mantra is a load of nonsense.

I’m 90% animal based and never felt better.

This genuinely has to be my thread of the year and sourdough needs to go in room 101

In our house... it's got green shit on!

This kind of garnish is daft but offering butter after the beans have made contact with the toast is unacceptable.

Sourdough is the emperor new clothes of bread.

YANBU about the greens. The only thing that should be sprinkled on baked beans is copious amounts of grated extra mature cheddar. However, I do like a nice bit of sourdough, appropriately crozzled, with lashings of butter that goes all melty with the hot beans.

Not greenery, but I had poached eggs on toast served to me the other day with a balsamic drizzle all over it.
Notions. This shit needs to stop.

@likelysuspect I don't know you but I'd love to have breakfast with you x

Its completely unacceptable. But Im British and therefore I smiled sweetly when asked if everything is ok and seethed silently and then started a thread slagging off the practice on a forum.

I hear you. Salad and dressing (usually with a shit load of raw red onion) really ruins the comfort of jacket potato beans and cheese 😢

Was it at a Wanky Hipster Cafe? If it was, therein lies the problem. What you need to do is to eat at a Greasy Caff if you want baked beans on proper (white sliced) bread.

I hate the beans on the toast, soggy toast is yuck

Totally agree about the butter. I like butter on avocado toast but if you dare ask for it all the hippie cafes look
at you like you’re nuts and go “but it’s vegan!” Well but I’m not! And then they bring you a pat of butter on the side. Ridiculous.

I had toasted sourdough with a breakfast once. It was impossible to eat.

It wasnt at a Wanky Hipster Cafe (WHC) but it wasnt a greasy spoon (RIP) either.

Seems like you cant go anywhere these days and get a decent basic.

Oh I am absolutely with you. Get your floppy curly nonsense leaves off my hot beans. And
I bet the butter portions were also too cold to spread.

My usual go to breakfast when at wetherspoons is miners benedict. But it comes with rocket on it. I used to pick it off and moan but I actually quite like it now.

What the fuck is wrong with the world?

I love this thread.

I voted yabu because of your description about being bored - and I LOVE pea shoots 🤣🤣🤣🤣
that said, anyone who served me beans on toast with a clump of greenery on top and un buttered barely toasted bread I would (just like you) smile sweetly and seethe on the inside and probably make a thread about it on mumsnet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️

1. Baked beans are an abomination so YABU to order them in any shape or form.
2. Greenery is good in all shapes and forms. Don't get me started on serving a pasta dish or pizza without any greenery. Or a jacket potato. Or countless other dishes.
3. You are right about sourdough. Just give me some normal bread for a change.

One of my DH’s pet hates was flowery shit sprinkled on plates. He was fine with appropriate fresh herbs for the dish, but def no flower sprinkles a la Meghan. Garnish just gets wasted 99% of the time anyway.