Please help stop this disgraceful practice.

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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.

It should be zero tolerance.

Its true isnt it. I should phone environmental health or something.

I did indeed. But I was really sad about those eggs, they could have been so perfect ....

I love pea shoots!

I mentioned in a post that there's a campaign against that. Places still bloody do it, though. And drinks in a jam jar can get in the sea as well.
Oh, and I can deconstruct my own cheesecake, I don't need to pay a fortune for someone else to present it to me looking like it's been made out of other diner's leftovers.

Baked bean should be on thick white bread (warburtons toastie ideally) toasted until golden and slathered in butter. No green shit required! And definitely no spicy or altered beans!
i actually fancy beans on toast right now but i have neither bread nor beans!

My personal pet hate is when you order a jacket potato, and they ask if you want butter. To which you, of course, say yes. Then it arrives, already filled with the coronation chicken or tuna and sweet corn or whatever, and the butter is still in the fiddly packet on the side. No way to put it on to the potato under the filling. Aaargh!

You are my kind of person. Baked beans 🤮 are the fruit of the Devil. The Devil, I tell you.

DH once went to a local place, tarte au citron avec garnish of cress. Cress! It's not an egg sandwich.

I don’t mind a bit of green stuff but I do find edible flowers a bit weird.

Oh, those I do like. I've always loved flower flavours though.

Along with brioche rolls. Especially with a burger bleugh.

It wasn't beans on toast it was "Haricot beans in a rich tomato sauce, served on fresh lightly toasted sourdough bread with a garnish of rocket and real dairy butter" they can make it £10 then even if it was shit 😉

I was once confused and appalled because I was served a jacket potato with beans and cheese where the cheese was invisible, under the beans!

I was like, "oh, I ordered beans and cheese"

And she replied, "the cheese is under the beans"

!!!!!???????!!!!!!!???????!!!!!

Jay Raynor wrote an excoriating review if a place in Yorkshire that had the temerity to serve his bread rolls in a flat cap. It was a work of vitriolic genius.

I love sourdough bread and sourdough toast, but the thing with the butter is a pure insult. Would you like your toast buttered, well you CANT have that, hahahahahahahaha.

Taking a line through a thread from the other day, I think the solution is for cafes to ask whether you would like the wanky version. No shade - some people love pea shoots - and I speak as someone who enjoys her sourdough baguette with unsalted French butter and hand fried salted potato crisps…

It's coriander that annoys me, I don't want to eat a fried egg that tastes like soap.

Yanbu although I don't mind sourdough. We had a full English in a very nice cafe but it had spinach on it. I would never eat that anyway never mind with bacon. Wanky pretentious nonsense. It was also the first place I'd been in that had a charity donation thing on the card machine and I didn't have my glasses on and had to ask what it said. Luckily I'm not afraid to say no.

YABU for not making your own beans on toast!

I've thought of starting a similar thread from time to time. You are SOOOO not unreasonable. Round where I am, the restaurants seem to have an obsession with serving bloody rocket with a full English breakfast. Who the hell wants wilted tasteless rocket leaves on their fried egg and bacon? Why don't they just leave it out and cut the price down?

I don’t have any beef with the greenery but the rest of your post is just shambolic.

the toast needs to be toasted.
butter goes on the toast
beans last.

I’d have sent the fucker back

Beans on toast are abomination in itself, beans with spoonfuls of sugar in the sauce (vom - who puts sugar in beans), served on bread?? What kind of twisted mind came up with this „dish”, probably the same one who first put chips in between two bread slices and called it a sandwich

Only a Brit would complain that they were served sourdough aka real bread, not that gooey spongy chemical-filled monstrosity sold labelled as bread. Bread only needs water, flour and salt (sourdough) or added yeast (if not sourdough). Read the ingredient list on the thing you call bread, it’s like calling McDonald’s a healthy homemade meal.

YABU - nice bit of salad, some herbs, lovely. Unless of course it’s DILL which is an abomination - but assuming you are not in Scandinavia or eastern Europe hopefully you are still safe from that, praise be

How can you hate fresh herbs?

No wonder colorectal cancers are on the rise.

My other half will only eat white, processed shit bread with no flavour, texture or anything nice at all.

I presume you're from the USA? My American friend finds it very strange that we eat beans on toast whereas they're usually used at a BBQ or something as a side. Full English brekkie freaked her out when she saw the beans, but not as much as mushy peas.

But, don't knock a chip butty. Home made chips, has to be King Edward potatoes, between two bits of bread is sometimes just what the soul needs.