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.

I'm not a remotely fussy eater, but anyone over 12 that orders baked beans when they go out to eat deserves jail time.

There’s a greasy spoon just around the corner from us that does the chepeast, most basic beans on toast and, as the young’uns would say, it always absolutely “slaps”. Usually at home I’ll make it a bit fancier so it feels like I’ve made more of an effort with cooking a proper meal but you really can’t beat the basics.

Watercress balanced on top of a bowl of soup

Yes that horrible pink slimy stuff that so many cafes serve with everything should be banned.

The only thing permissable atop beans on toast is grated cheese. Greenery is an abomination.

I think baked Ben’s are one of the foods of the devil, with or without green garnish. But I agree with you entirely that sourdough needs to be an option, not a default. Starbucks, I’m talking to you.

It's like when they put ice in your drink without asking. A) I don't want it and b) it makes the drink go watery as it melts and c) it dilutes the drink.

Well done op, this gave me a real laugh - love your writing skills 😃.

I had to vote YABU for the comment about DH watching the footie (I had to go home leaving OH in the bar with all the other screaming fans last night - so I feel your pain).

I don’t mind green garnishes - but I do mind cheese on everything. I can’t stand cooked cheese and you can hardly order anything these days that doesn’t include cheese.

It’s wanky sliced onion on everything especially salads that boils my piss. I don’t want to breathe onion over everyone all day.

Baked beans should be served on white toasted bread spread with butter, and maybe with a light grind of black pepper. The only acceptable topping is cheese.

Agree. I’m beginning to loathe red onion - seems to be on everything these days. And what’s with mayonnaise on a bloody chicken sandwich ? Bit into it and it stuck to the roof of my mouth before I realised it was there - unasked for and unwanted !!

PM me for a stonking, easy and foolproof recipe for your own soda bread.x

The greenery I couldn't care less about, just flick it off.
But beans on unbuttered toast and butter on the side. Fucking abomination.

I hate unbuttered toast with butter on the side. I've ordered a 3000kcal full English, I'm obviously going to have butter on the toast. But by the time they've brought it out the toast is cold and it's so much harder to spread the frozen butter on and it doesn't melt in. Utter bollocks.

YADNBU 100%!!

My bloody pudding came with greenery on it the other day - I said to DH what fresh hell is this?! It's bad enough having wanky green stuff on lunch offerings when out, now it seems to be spreading to every blummin course, all hours of the day/night....just waiting for somewhere to have the audacity to sprinkle it on my latte next!!

My personal thing like this is icing sugar dusted over desserts. Turning what's already too sweet into a tooth-murdering experience. Someone has come up with a recipe to get that dessert or cake just right - why in God's name do you add effectively an extra spoon of sugar to mask all the other tastes?

Me and DH went to a pub once for a fried breakfast. It came with a side salad on the plate(yes, on the plate amongst the sausages eggs and bacon) Needless to say we didn’t go back.

I'm with you on the brioche buns! I had a really lovely spinach and lentil burger this week ruined by the sweet bun. I left most of it. Why?

Bloody red onion on everything is hell for an IBS sufferer! Just why - it doesn't even taste nice. I'm so sensitive to it I can't even breathe in the bloody onion fumes without unpleasant consequences. Worst is when they chop it into teeny tiny pieces so it can't even be picked out.

And it's never mentioned on the sodding menu description either, it's just a 'surprise'.

Lesson learned . Do not try and be some high falutin person ordering beans on toast at an eatery . No wonder you got sourdough . In future know your place and eat your meals at home by the hearth .

YANBU… reminds me of last year, we stayed at a lovely hotel in Greece… gorgeous breakfast of Greek yoghurt and granola, with a pretty flower on top… all good until it comes to eating the yoghurt and the damn flower was a garlic flower, so strong that it made the yoghurt taste of garlic… yuck, what made them think that was a good idea, who knows but every day the damn flower on all breakfasts! And they grew the damn things in the gardens

For me it’s avocado on the side of everything. I hate it. If it’s touching something else on the plate, the whole meal is ruined!

I ordered cilbir (Turkish dish of poached eggs on yogurt) it came with chilli oil - fine, pistachio - bit weird but ok and pomegranate seeds - more than weird - plus pansy flowers - ultimate wankiness
If also came with sourdough bread which was lightly toasted.
Any of the above I could manage but it was served in a metal dish which made me shudder when the cutlery made contact, I did mention it to the waiter who seemed aghast I mentioned it as nobody.had ever mentioned this before

And as for brioche buns with a burger, well they can just burger off too. They don’t have the structuralnj theory to withstand a nice juicy burger with tomato, lettuce and gherkin. They go soggy and fall apart.
useless. Not fit for purpose.

Haha yes, tbf I love reading a good rant. Isn't that what we all come here for??