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.

Yes, I always cut the toast in half, diagonally of course, and put the beans in the middle so most of the toast stays crisp.

Could not agree more about coriander. Nasty soapy stuff.

I really like a chunk of toasted sourdough, but it has to be toasted well, almost like it's going to break the teeth well. Beans on top, maybe a little grated cheddar...

But butter after and absolutely no place for any green shit on top. I say that as a lifelong vegetarian..

Agreed. And I loathe rosemary. Ruins a perfectly good focaccia.

It's not a new thing.

I can remember going to a restaurant 30-odd years ago and ordering scampi and chips (top class establishment, obvs) and the whole plate had been liberally sprinkled with very finely chopped parsley. I didn't like parsley and every single mouthful tasted of it.

It made me very sad 😢

Am totally onboard with the banning of tooth-breaking sourdough bread.

I like sourdough but when you toast it, it's like shrapnel when you try to cut into it, flies off the plate like a speeding bullet.

Baked beans (Branston) I have separately on the plate to the toast and the toast needs plenty of butter on it.

No greenery should be anywhere near this

I agree OP it's an absolute travesty. Especially on beans. Were they home made and spicy? (iykyk)

ps come on England!

Oh I forgot about flowery shit too

Yesterday, at a pub, a nice old country pub, ordered a scone.

Firstly, I accepted it wasnt going to be quite up to par as it was whipped cream instead of clotted but I was desperate for a scone and cream, you know how it is, so I accepted this. But the cream came with some strawberries in it and some flowers on it.

It was very nice of course, but flowers. Very pretty, but flowers?

There used to be a cafe near me where there were two distinct options on the menu and the staff were very clear on the fact that they were entirely different meals

Beans on toast with grated cheese on top

or

Grilled Cheese on toast with beans on top

Sadly the establishment has been modernised and is now more likely to offer green garnish than such nuanced options (they also took down the nostaligic photo wall of pictures of generations of climbers 😥).

It was a mum who ordered beans on toast for her one yr old. She didn’t expect them to be spicy and child wouldn’t eat them. I think she wanted a refund. I think she had a point. The fact they were ‘spicy beans’ should have been on the menu

You can't go through life ungarnished!

A sprinkle of diced parsley... a dollop of sour cream.

My fridge is often empty, bar that jar of capers.

Civilisation would collapse if you can't lob an olive across a crowded bar... Where would we be?

(I am French).

Glad to see you are keeping British traditions alive; stuff upper lips chaps.

I was given sourdough toast the other day that was SO toasted I nearly broke my teeth.
Also, egg sandwich described as just egg was filled with wanky pea shoots. Ugh. I just want proper unwanky food.

Op u are completely correct, this practice should be condemned worldwide, how many tortoises could those bits of greenery fed alone, without being added to fking beans!!!! Like where tf did it come from? I think find a name and we can sue collectively!

I absolutely love rocket (and sourdough actually), but beans on toast with rocket on top? NO.

Untoasted bread is the norm in cafes, though, however unappealing it is.

YABU OP, but only because I now really want beans on toast, and I don't have any lactose free butter because my local supermarket doesn't stock it any more, I've run out of lactojoy tablets and I can't get to the next nearest supermarket (45 minutes away) until Friday.

But no, greens (as much as I like pea shoots) do not belong on beans on toast.

You are being unreasonable about the greenery. You are not being unreasonable about the butter.

Didn't see the thread but I totally agree. I hate chilli/spice and tikka masala is my limit. So common nowadays for unmentioned chilli to be either in a dish or garnishing it. Personally I think it's lazy cooking, ah can't be bothered to make something tasty, just lob a bit of salt and chilli in and charge customers a fortune.

@likelysuspect agree with you. I don't mind the garnish as such but nobody is eating it for the health benefits, it's just pretentious.
Sourdough meanwhile, ugh, I hate the stuff. Impossible to cut, impossible to chew, hard and sticky. I just want a normal slice of bread.

I agree with you about the subject matter but yabvvu for not putting a trigger warning in the title. The mental image of the bean juice on untoasted bread has given me PTSD.

yanbu.

my local cafe puts fucking cress on everything, including beans. An abomination.

Herbs on baked beans is just wrong but I bloody hate sourdough bread as well. Overly chewy crust with rock hard inner when toasted and the sourness is just weird. Definitely the emperor's new clothes.

Greenery on beans on toast is a bloody abomination. I only like beans on toast when the toast is very crispy and buttered when cold and the beans are not actually on the toast as they make it soggy. I appreciate this is non standard but garnish is definitely very wrong.

Oh god you're right, sorry

And Im likely to have flashbacks from this too.

Yeah, but then it wouldn't be beans on toast. It would be beans next to toast. Or beans in the vicinity of toast. I mean, it's a fair point, though, perhaps venues could cater for those who prefer beans adjacent to toast by stating on the menu that it's an option. Mind you, the kind of places that eff around putting green stuff on the beans would probably charge an extra fiver for the privilege of an alternative beans placement.

My husband is also watching the football...