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.

Maybe they are trying to help you reach your five a day !

I would more incensed about the butter /soggy toast situation (Always butter on the toast BEFORE the beans) than the greenery, but honestly if it was coriander that would have finished me off.

And warm bread is not toast.

I wouldn't be going back!

Doesn't the butter start to melt momentarily when you leave the little pat on the warm item?

I tend to have things like olives, avocado and a little other fruit. But I avoid grains like the plague.

I don’t buy that they’re healthy and actually think they’re absolutely terrible for human health.

I’ve been doing this now for 1.5 years and I never get bored of juicy steaks, fatty pork, lamb, bacon, eggs, sausages, cheese & seafood.

I literally can’t put weight on eating like this and it’s so easy to stay satiated.

Maybe you’ll give it another try but go slow and it’s fine not to be 100% strict.

Coriander is strange that it tastes soapy to some people The rest of us it doesn't taste like that

Nor when it's rick solid in the first place

It still soon melts in two minutes.

By which time the toast is getting cold

I'm with you. I have even got this greenery on my
Fry where it most definitely doesn't belong. Also the other day out for lunch I got the liver bacon and onion gravy meal. Greenery again why.
Please just stop this stupid practice.
Also I always have to ask for extra butter for my scone. I like my butter. If hard I usually put it under my tea or coffee cup to soften it or the tea pot.

Surely this entire post is a banning offence?

When I'm dictator I'll make cafes and restaurants that serve greenery with breakfasts conduct a survey where for, say, a month, they offer the choice of one meal with salad and the same meal with something else, e.g. an extra portion of toast. Then they would have to report back honestly on how that want. I'm prepared to bet that the vote would go almost exclusively in favour of no greenery.

Ha ha straight to jail for me 🤣

Gulag, I would say. Beans on toast does not require butter. Worst thing I've read in ages.

Ah no - not Gulag. Maybe tarred and feathered?

Let's settle on the stocks. We could throw all the unwanted greenery and edible flowers at you.

Oh me too Im always asking for more butter, and if its a scone, more cream.

Send all the pea shoots and coriander my way.
I love an edible flower as well!

I think if you order beans on toast, the beans will always be on the bread, so this doesn't surprise me. Personally I wouldn't order this as the bread turns to slime.

You have however hit upon two of my pet peeves: sourdough bread as breakfast toast (no!) and pre-buttered toast (nooooo!).

Well Im nothing if not a glutton for punishment and will order beans on toast again today, I see a little cafe where we are going later which has it.

I will report back

Unless,,,, my other bug bear applies, which is that beans on toast is considered a 'breakfast item' which means it wont be served throughout the day.

You people are crazy! (Except for @Malasana )

Sourdough toast is perfect for beans because the rich sauce can soak in without making the bread all mushy and floppy.

If the sauce is good, you don't need butter. (Bold Beans make the best baked beans; the sauce is delicious)

I don't care either way about garnish, but I would like a grating of cheese and some hot sauce.

Of course people know those other breads exist. I happily eat them too but most people know that most commercially processed breads are not good for you, so the pp has a point, sourdough bread is healthier.

You seem to have gone from light hearted to militant on this thread.

I agree. The slightest bit of chilli gives my son a ‘stomach’ upset for days. So accordingly he is careful when eating out but sometimes he just doesn’t know

Oooh yes - cheese and some Tabasco. Perfection.

You always need butter on a jacket potato. On mash as well as in it. On toast. On baked beans on toast.
Sourdough is fine providing it is toasted enough when used for toast.
White plastic bread can lack the substance for beans on toast
I would not put greenery on beans on toast. It doesn’t go.
I want a bacon sandwich now. In crusty white unsliced bread. With butter !

Blame Jamie Oliver for that. He chops up a red chilli on pretty much everything.