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.

You made me laugh

Agree completely although I love a sourdough but they need to either butter the toast or serve the beans separately
I hate brioche burger buns. Why would anyone want sweet bread and a burger

YANBU. Loads of things are garnished with coriander, I cant stand the bloody stuff, it tastes like disinfectant ( I know it's genetic). I try my best to pick as much out as is possible but can still taste where it has infected the rest of the food.

Yep. She was complaining because they were home-made and not out of a tin, so too spicy and her kid wouldn't eat them. You couldn't make it up. Except she probably did.

You know where you stand with a place like that.

Shame about their demise.

You ordered baked beans on toast?
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As a bare minimum, beans on toast should involve toast. So you are nbu. I would have been crosser about that than the greenery, although that would also have been unwelcome.

I once had a pub meal of spiced baked beans which was basically overcooked Heinz beans with sultanas garlic and curry powder mixed in. Was rather nice.

but i had drank a few gins,

Agree 100000000% - I HATE sourdough. Pretty much anywhere I go these days only has that as its bread offering on the menu. Pisses me off.

When I was a child I liked plain food, not necessarily beige food, but I didn't like stuff touching or mixed up.
We went out for dinner and they had smoked salmon on the starter menu...great, my favourite. My mum asked if it came with anything and if we could please have it without any dressing, salad, etc. and we were told that was no problem. They obviously decided it looked a bit sad because they'd sprinkled a handful of very finely chopped parsley over the whole plate. Being young and already embarrassed that one question had been asked on my behalf I point blank refused to let my mum send it back and spent 20 minutes picking of every single piece of parsley before I ate anything.

I thought it was just me with the Brioche buns. It's everywhere now. What happened to the good old white bap?

You need to go on a Calmac ferry and have their magnificent breakfast. Proper toast, not sourdough, no greenery. Beans on the plate with everything else, not in a fiddly wee pot.

I like sourdough and the greenery doesn't bother me unless its coriander. 😳

But beans on untoasted bread? Disgusting and worse than that, un-British!

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Fiddly wee pots are super annoying.

how about when they serve your dinner on a piece of slate or a chopping board.

Pea-shoots….only good for sticking to teeth!

Agree.

Beans by toast, beans near toast, beans next to toast- yes.

Beans on Toast- no.

Do you remember some years back when the trend was for your food to be served on literally anything but an actual plate?

Greenery is fine but put it on the side ffs.

Never ever order M&S brunch of poached eggs on toast. Self assembly required - two rock hard slices of toasted sourdough, two pats of butter, and two poached eggs, beautifully shaped, runny in middle, lukewarm on arrival. By the time I'd buttered the toast and coaxed the eggs on board, eggs were cold. I was too hungry and too British to complain.

Oh my god, Im going to throw myself into the traffic the next time that happens.

Beans on untoasted bread is a total abomination. Buttering nicely toasted bread and then putting the beans on top is one of life's greatest pleasures.
I like to order scrambled eggs, beans and toast when out for brunch and I absolutely hate it when the eggs are watery and the toast gets soggy before I get to butter it.

We could start a campaign, like the one there was for proper plates instead of bits of roof slate and chopping boards. It's clear a movement against this sort of MasterChef wankery is needed.

Its the only way. I hope you ate it all as well.

I hate garnish on anything. And restrants garnish everything. I wouldn't have butter on the toast if im having beans. But yeah it was stupid to do that. I hate it when I ask for jacket potato with beans and cheese. And they put cheese on first 😭

YANBU @likelysuspect , green garnish on beans is just so wrong. And serving soggy, untoasted, unbuttered sourdough instead of proper, toasted white bread with butter...the place should be shut down.

Love a bit of token greenery but YANBU about the butter or the toasting.