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 blame social media. No one even cares what the food tastes like, as long as it looks good in a picture.

However.. I do love rocket salad! But yeah can't have sourdough for beans on toast ffs.

my grandma always said "you never serve a dish without greens". I stuck by that rule! even if it means a leaf of parsley on the beans.

Im reporting back

Ive let you all down and I know you've been waiting to hear about my second foray into beans on toast this week at caffs

We didnt go to the planned caff so I will never know what format they come in

We went somewhere else

I had a cheese scone, with cream cheese (in a pot), chilli jam (in a pot) and the cheese scone ON SLATE, FUCKING SLATE, with bits of parsley.

I say no more.

Agree. Can’t stand the look or smell of them, and god help me if I get a bit of sauce on my finger when giving to my hubby😱

Exactly this. Thanks for answering for me! 😀 Also because they are overpowering and I just don’t like them 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was once given a cheesecake slice with a warm fruit sauce and cream on a fucking slate. It was dripping off the edge as they delivered it. I didn’t even let the waiter put it down, told him to take it back and put it on a plate. He came back with it in a nice slightly dished plate, and an extra jug of sauce.

Stand your ground, people.

Sourdough is fine... as long as you know that's what you are getting and you have actually chosen it. Otherwise it's a bit much.

Going massively off-topic here, I know (sorry, OP), but I hate raw coriander — it tastes very scented to me — and I found out the other day it’s genetic. It’s a gene called OR6A2, apparently, and if you have it, it means you’re particularly sensitive to certain chemical compounds found in coriander (which, to be fair, are also found in soaps and detergents — so no wonder it tastes scented!). If you don’t have the gene, you presumably think raw coriander is simply refreshing and tasty, and not the devil’s own herb…

@likelysuspect Oh FFS the world has just gone mad . I hope you told them what they could do with their cheese scone . The dirty SLATE serving bastards .

No. I ate it. Winced at every glance of the slate.

Gave the slate the side eye

Gave the waitress a tip.

Theres no hope for me

Tomorrow, we have no beans on toast options.

While I had my cheese scone, OH had a salad. The right and proper place for green stuff.

How many ex husbands do you have?

Well I say I ate it, I ate half and now Im eating the other half as I put the left overs in my handbag. I dont think I realised how nice the actual scone was because I slathered the chilli jam all over it.

Its very nice and therefore their slatey ways are forgiven. Just about.

You can never have too many ex husbands

What is a collection of ex husbands called? Like a colony, or herd, or gaggle.

Just a bit of hindsight - Turn the hipster bread over, next time. The bean-juice free side 🤣🤣🤣

Not greenery but I once received a full English breakfast with a pile of grated carrot on the plate. I love veg but there's a time and a place.

M&S do soda bread

OMG I cant believe I didnt think of this.

They are an abomination. I thought I was rhe only person who gets odd looks when I say absolutely NO l baked beans (devil’s food) with my breakfast, thank you very much.

I think that’s a reference to proper English toast done on a toasting fork in front of an open fire, as opposed to under a grill or in a toaster.

Which is obviously the best kind of toast, as long as it’s a thick slice of farmhouse white slathered with lots of salty butter.

Phwoar, now you're talking

couldn't agree more

A fuckwittery of ex-husbands

A murder.

As someone who's allergic (yes, actually allergic) to practically all things green/veggie, I'd have sent that plate straight back, complaining that the 'green shit' was not stated on the menu and that I want 'normal' bread, not crappie sourdough (yuk, tastes like vinegar), that I want my 'proper' bread toasted to a crispy, darkish tan colour and buttered (not margarine'd) BEFORE the sufficiently hot beans climb aboard.
Then, and only then, would I accept the plate being deposited in front of me!

Best piece of toast I ever had was a slab of home made white toasted over a wood fire on a rusty Tudor toasting fork.

I think the rust together with the fork’s historical significance added a certain something to the experience.