I want a proper plate.
A dislike of mine is to be served my restaurant meal on a flat piece of wood or other strange object. One wrong move and chips, peas and assorted other ingredients fall off onto the table or the floor. Sometimes the situation is made worse by the fact that some parts of the meal are in their own separate containers which require more care when eating. Pies still in a small bowl, sauces ditto. Chips inserted into small metal galvanised "buckets" etc etc. Just put my meal on a normal plate please, I like to eat my food not juggle with it!
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I thought it was just me who was old fashioned in my preference for the serving of food. I also prefer a decent plate and why build food up into a tower when the first thing the diner has to do is knock it down.
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And supply your drink in a bottle alone. Even when one has had to ask for a glass it is usually the wrong size, and one is expected to pour it oneself. Which is possible slightly better than watching the "waiter" make a right mess of it and get froth everywhere.
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Hi JillwithaJay DSB & Remus,
I would say you are far from being Old Fashioned it is to the greater part most peoples choice to have their meal on a Plate, however there are so called Themen restaurants who do tend to serve food on various recipticals. Here in Bavaria we were once served
food in a miniturized wheel barrow which was fun though not something I would like to have often. Having chips served in small buckets is more 'trendy' in association with a Pub meal, I have found this a couple of times when in Scotland on courses, even had
fish served in a bucket and cut into strips :-).In Bayern it is the custom to have cold cuts and cheese served on a wooden platter when in a more traditional pub.
Either way I guess that it is impossible to find the 'middle' route to appease everyone.
Have a great day everyone.
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Pretentious nonsense most of it! (I don't include food served abroad, when one chooses to partake of a different culture one should respect that culture!)
Reminds me of a night out with my OHs Fire Service colleagues, after tiny plates, artistically arranged were plonked in front of all. There was a deathly silence, a sharp intake of breath and then the Manager was called. He was left under no uncertain terms
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I loathe having my food arranged into an artistic tower with .
. . . the stuff I want to eat first placed at the bottom.
Where are the days when a diner would transpose his knife and fork to signify that he was not right-handed and the waiter would worlessly place items on his plate accordingly.
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We were in Salisbury this week and had a pub lunch with friends. My creation came on a board with a can of chips. I chose a "veggie" burger made from a field mushroom, goats cheese, onion marmalade and peppers...these over ambitious burgers now require a pin (bamboo this time) to hold everything together, trouble is as soon as you try to dismantle it everything goes everywhere, the board doesn't work, no chance of picking it up and just eating it! The others had an assortment of choices but everything was split into liitle bowls...at least we could pass the spares round.
It was a very old timbered pub, no doubt in days of yore they used to get some good trenchermen in there, I expect they ate from wooden plates but probably the right shape?
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Don't mind chips in little buckets but I do like my meal on a plate, mainly because I know that it can be washed properly in a dishwasher or in hot water. Wooden platters or slates, I can't think how these can be cleaned properly. Makes me shudder when food
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Had lunch out today at our local, it came on a plate, no fancy gimmicks, and my curry was only £3.50.
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......peas are definitely the worst. Although they tend to give you a large spoon to transfer, I always loose one or two in the process..... And I always find they give you too many peas.
David
I eat my peas with honey, I've done so all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny but it sticks them to the knife.
As for the toothpick through the burger, I thought that was to demonstrate that the item had indeed been killed. Bit like stakes and vampires.
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......peas are definitely the worst. Although they tend to give you a large spoon to transfer, I always loose one or two in the process..... And I always find they give you too many peas.
David
I eat my peas with honey, I've done so all my life,
It makes the peas taste funny but it sticks them to the knife.
As for the toothpick through the burger, I thought that was to demonstrate that the item had indeed been killed. Bit like stakes and vampires.
Write your comments here...I also eat my peas with Honey, she hates me calling her that though.
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One place I read about but, thankfully, didn't experience personally served meals on a shovel. Now I know that footplate firemen used their shovels to fry a bit of bacon for a sandwich but, mostly, we are not in the cab of the Flying Scot are we? It's not all bad news though. Apparently the restaurant had removed the handles first which I think was jolly decent of them.
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The hotel restaurant where I to work decided to use boards and slates when they introduced the corporate menu, it was a disaster, the boards had to go through the dish washer and after a few days use they just split open allowing sauces etc to trap in them. After the first week we had 10 boards left out of 100 but a lovely pile of firewood, the slates fared a little better but try to imagine serving apple crumble and custard on a slate or cheese cake with ice cream/cream and although served in little jugs it still goes on the slate. One of the first group of people to suffer at this stupid idea were actually a bunch of suits from head office, not surprising that after they had put in for dry cleaning that the idea was dropped and they were soon put firmly in their place when they tried blaming me for the mess, I didn't have any say in the stupid idea it was the idiots from head office. As for plant pots and little galvanised buckets for chips etc they have to go through the same dish washer at close on 80degrees and 70degree rinse so they will be clean.
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Chips in little buckets! Why can we not have big ones?
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One of our local restaurants serve their chips in miniature chip baskets with the fish plonked on top and a container of mushy peas squashed in at the side. My husband always asks the waitress to please serve his food on a plate and not in a basket! The
last time we went there, most of the customers were asking for plates. My salad is always served in a huge dish...like a massive old-fashioned soup dish. I would prefer a plate too, to be honest! In the house, we have slate place mats and I notice that
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The Wheatsheaf at Baslow (Chatsworth) went through a faze of serving it's steaks on a board. Mine came out with all the requisite parts neatly arranged on a plank
The waitress asked me if she could get me anything else, I said "a plate would be nice"
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It's probably a consequence of the 'Greek Taverna' influence.
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We had a new one today - for 'Tea for Two' we were given a lovely matching set of cups, teapot, sugar basin, but with a ceramic milk 'jug' which looked just like a torn open cardboard carton of milk! Difficult to hold, impossible to pour from, and just
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Chips in little buckets! Why can we not have big ones?
Write your comments here...because of head office directives we were only allowed to serve 8 hand cut chips per serving at £2.95 a time, I'm a full blooded Yorkshireman and it really annoyed me, when I buy chips I expect a full bag for a quid!
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