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.

I remember that in Magaluf in the early 2000s, everything came with a small salad. Pie, chips and gravy…. with salad. Full English breakfast…. with salad.

I don't suppose they make much of a difference tbh. I prefer herbs to be cooked as part of the dish, than random ones sprinkled on top that doesn't help the flavour.

On top of beans on toast though?!

YES to whoever mentioned Brioche.

I shop in Tesco and Sainsbury mainly, sometimes Waitrose for special.

There is no longer an option to buy a burger bun that isn't brioche. What the fuck is that about? Literally, not a single pack of burger buns that aren't essentially cakes.

You should have been grateful that the sourdough wasn't toasted, OP, if it had been it would have torn the top of your mouth to ribbons.

Only a Brit would complain that they were served sourdough aka real bread

Brits are perfectly happy with real bread. Give us a slice off a freshly baked farmhouse loaf, or fresh baked warm rolls, and we'll be happy as anything.

By no stretch of the imagination is sourdough real bread.

I love sourdough toast but it has no place near beans.

Right. Twice a week I treat myself to beans on toast at work. You are presented with two pieces of toast in an environmentally friendly takeaway box. The bottom piece of toast is covered in beans and soaks up the lovely bean juice and brown sauce combo. The other piece of toast is cut in half and artfully arranged either side of the main event thereby giving you the best of both worlds; soggy beany toast and crispy toast. Last week I was presented with beans in a box and two pieces of toast in a bag. What am I meant to do with that? By the time I got back to my office the toast had gone cold and sweaty. I was so disappointed.

Even if YABU I would vote YANBU for the simple reason your opening post made me laugh.😁

I don't mind the garnish, and I prefer my beans on toast without butter. Also, sourdough holds the beans better than your standard white sliced. All the same, YANBU, not even a tiny bit, because butter has a place and poking it underneath the beans is not it. I expect my own preference to be the outlier, not the norm. Also, barely toasted bread is not acceptable under any circumstances.

Well you can just lift it off and sort of scrape the bean juice off and then all is ok I think? Pea shoots, even rocket - the exception being in the case of dill, as I say, which will infect everything it touches with evil aniseed hideousness - it should probably lay be on some sort of proscribed substance list tbh - I feel quite strongly about this

Very unreasonable for ordering beans on toast. Not only are baked beans revolting, but aren't they like 4p? And in a can? Why would you pay someone to open a 4p can of yuckiness and put it on bread?! Just do it yourself - and save breakfasts out for stuff no sane person would ever do for themselves, like eggs benedict.

Plus pea shoots are fab.

But other random bits of stringy green crap all over your dinner is definitely wrong. Had fish and chips the other week with a couple of half dead leaves dumped on top. Why?! I barely eat the bloody peas. Either give me a proper side salad, or leave me to gorge on the good stuff without feeling guilty I'm not going to be getting anywhere near my five a day today.

I don’t like beans on toast.

As a kid, I would eat a bit of untoasted squidgy white with a thick layer of butter and hot beans, folded into a sloppy sandwich. With a cup of sugary builders. I miss my youth.

Yes I mean there was a thread about this recently and it established that there are people in the world, PP is probably one of them, that literally didnt know that there are all sorts of fresh baked bread that ISNT sourdough with its horrible sour flavour.

They dont know this!

They've never heard of a split tin, bloomer, cottage loaf, morning roll, soda bread, milk roll (which is a loaf, easy mistake to make for those who dont know the world of bread), plenty of others

Poor old PP.

Tesco seeded burger buns - old school, cheap white ones :-)

Thank you! I thought I wasn’t trying hard enough to find proper burger buns the other week as they were all brioche. What happened to a normal, sesame seed burger bun? I ended up buying sourdough rolls 🤣

Coriander Bleugh! Tastes like soap and I always try thinking it’s flat leaf parsley

Balsamic shit needs to get to fuck and beyond 😡

@Iarthar they were too spicy for her little one if I remember right

Aaaah that takes me back! Remember in the nineties when your pub lunch always came with one lettuce leaf, one bit of cucumber, a slice of tomato and a wodge of mustard cress? No dressing. But there was salad cream in a sachet which you could never spread evenly.

I also have to make sure I ask for my scrambled eggs “well done” because apparently vomit looking eggs is cooked! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Vomit looking eggs are my choice..cannot bare leathery dry eggs.

I want greenery, but on the side rather than on top.

Sourdough is bread, but neither sourdough nor coriander go well with baked beans.

Toast should always be toasted.

There's a whole forum on Reddit dedicated to complaining about getting unwanted salad with various fried things; it's called /r/Scotland.

Breakfast means breakfast.

I like fresh sourdough with lots of salty butter, but toasting it makes the crust like concrete and I’m always worried that I might break a tooth.

Beans on toast just needs a slice of toasted white farmhouse, well buttered (salted butter), topped with beans and seasoned with white pepper. Possibly with a bit of grated cheddar on the top.

I’ve lived in the USA and they have weird notions about bread. It’s bread Jim, but not as we know it.

If I have ordered hot food, I will never want a cold garnish (unless it’s cheese), or worse, a fecking salad alongside. Hot meal - bring me hot veg as my greens. Nice slice of cold quiche - salad me up. BUT NEVER SALAD WITH A HOT DISH!