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.

And bloody natural yoghurt. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of yoghurt. But it doesn't need to be included in EVERYTHING.

On the subject of chefs and greenery- my first XH was a chef in a Top London Restaurant. I had to restrict his home-kitchen actions after he used nearly an entire meal's worth of greenery as a garnish on something. We couldn't afford such fripperies at that time.

He did introduce me to soda bread though. Which you can no longer buy in the shops because SOURDOUGH.

I wonder how much money is spent on unnecessary greenery?

Beans on toast should only be made at home or made in a greasy spoon.

To those of you who like a sprinkle of cheese try this - put some streaky bacon in the oven for about 10 mins, put your toast in the toaster.

Get a jug, pour the beans in and add cheese microwave for 4-5 mins.

Butter the toast, add the bacon which should be crispy then pour over the cheesy beans.

Best thread ever. Needs to be in Classics.

why? I am British and complain politely when I need to.....But I am fond of decent sourdough.

dead easy to make your own. I think its rare in shops because it doesn't keep.

There was a pub that done a Sunday lunch not far from me, that put lettuce, tomato, cucumber and red onion on a Sunday lunch- yep complete with gravy!!

For those asking - M&S do a lovely soda bread.

Token leaf. Should be banned.

I know tangentially of a man who grows "micro greens". People subscribe to them. Actual hundreds of pounds they spend a year, to have little piddling cardboard pots of tiny green shit delivered to the door weekly. He is rich because of piffling around in his posh greenhouse, blithely producing these smallish and entirely superfluous leaves.

What happened to a good old fashioned nineties salad? A structured and firm salad with fun things like tomatoes and a proper dressing. That would never coerce the bean juice into an unpleasant scenario.

Did you perhaps inadvertently insult the staff, so they put it on the beans? Go back again in disguise and see if they present the green clump on the side this time, sans bean jus.

This concept is very upsetting to me, this whole scenario 😂

No!!! 😱

OP Unbuttered bread with the butter on the side...to mock you! I bet it was rock hard too and unwrapped so you can't even soften it by sitting on it.

I'm still annoyed by beans being served on the plate in a wee ceramic dish. It does a wall of death round the bigger plate, and you burn your fingers trying to dump the bugger out. Although it is somewhere else to put the butter to soften.

Thanks ❤️

Funnily enough I've just learned of a new greasy spoon on our local high street. The menu looks promising. I feel I need to go there for lunch today.

Thank you! I shall scoot off there this afternoon.

On the subject of untoasted toast- I was watching a FB reel of a lovely Scottish chap who's in the US for the football, and he was saying that he's several times been served toast that was only toasted on one side!

Is this usual across the pond? Is it a Thing? Can any Americans confirm this?

As you well know. She ordered children's beans on toast for her 1 year old & was given spicey beans for him long after he was given the toast which hd DH I don't like so spat out. So of course it turned into the usual bullshit

@likelysuspect i live sour dough, but it needs to be properly toasted AND buttered BEFORE the beans are put in top!

BUT if it didn't specify on the menu I'd expect it to come on ordinary bread toasted!

don't care either way about the garnish.

I’m most offended by retrospective buttering situation. What were they thinking?

I also get fed up with sour dough as it’s sour. It would drain the pleasure out of beans.

garnish. Meh. Take it or leave it. But inappropriate for the humble bean.

This is a fair argument to try sourdough bread. I really hate my food going soggy!

I got that recently in an Amsterdam hotel. I don't whether their toaster wasn't working properly or that was just how they perceived it should be done. It was baffling and strange.

We have similar issues in Greece where their notion of toast varies from "left in the sun for an hour" to "run through a warm room". It is very rare that it looks that the bread spent any of its brief life staring up at a hot grill. Maybe they think that browned bread is an abomination, but it's only at greasy spoon type places run by British that you get real toast...

I was once served toast done on one side by a boyfriend in the 1980s.

Sting has a song, 'English man in New York' which references toast done on one side.

It's from when Brits mostly didn't have toasters, they just used the gas grill which was usually at eye level. It used to freak me out when I came here on holiday.

To this day I associate the rasping sound of scraping burnt bits off a piece of toast with my Nan.

A day? I thought it was supposed to be five a WEEK! 😂

Fresh herbs are wonderful (I am possibly responsible for one third of the UK's fresh coriander consumption) BUT they have their place, and on top of baked beans is not one of those places.

Please can we yeet raw red onion into the fiery pit of hell also?

Salad? Yes - let's make it full of stinking onion
Burger - chunk of the hideous stuff right in the middle. You won't find it till you bite it, mind. And when you try and drag it out, it hangs on tight, then brings all the lovely cheese or burger sauce with it 😡

I love pea shoots, whereas baked beans are the food of the Devil, so I'm afraid you lost my sympathy when you started describing bean juice on soggy bread 🤢😆

I grew up with this in the 80s. We didn't have a toaster so it was put under the grill and Mum never bothered to flip it. I assume to save time.

I wish we still had the laughing emoji.