What's wrong with a plate?
Second time out this week for a meal , first time my chips were in an enamel mug and last night they were in a (mini) watering can. I wonder what makes restaurant owners think I want my food on anything other than a plate? 
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I have had chips in a plant pot amongst other things. It seems to be the fashion to use everything and anything other than a plate!
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Totally agree. I've had a meal served with a pie in a dish, a pot with sauce in and chips in a small bucket. All balanced on a wooden platter (slate is also somtimes used) with a load of salad leaves on top. By the time I've assembled things into some sort of order half the stuff has fallen off onto the table. I'm surprised that no-one has yet decided that serving your meal in a bedpan would be "tres chic" - give it time eh?
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I wonder how well these "chic" (or whatever) items get washed?
It is nice when your server asks "Is there anything else I can get you?" and one can reply "Plate!"
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I find the opposite is often the case as the food is dangerous to eat at such a high temperature - and yet the beer is so cold it prompts hicups and convulsions. Suppose it balances out somewhere in the lower gut.
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One of our local pubs used to do really good food at reasonable prices, but since their refurbishment .... most things seem to come on a "slate platter" with 9 chips 'artfully arranged' in a bucket
They now charge £14.95 for a burger and chips with "dressed leaves"
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Some places have got a bit 'poncy' with prices to match. We find we eat more in the van now, seldom treating ourselves to a meal out.
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What a lot of moaners we have become ,,,, at least we have food think of the Syrians no food, no real life really so perhaps we should be thankful we can fill our stomachs from whatever the food is served in or on and be thankful.....SG2....
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What a lot of moaners we have become ,,,, at least we have food think of the Syrians no food, no real life really so perhaps we should be thankful we can fill our stomachs from whatever the food is served in or on and be thankful.....SG2....
Sorry SG2, but the discussion is about food presentation. It has nothing to do with Syria or anywhere else!
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Some places have got a bit 'poncy' with prices to match. We find we eat more in the van now, seldom treating ourselves to a meal out.
That made me laugh CY
as I would describe a couple of pubs near us as 'poncy' . Both are called "The (poncy) Plough" 
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The way people moan on here about CC site charges I am amazed that so many people 'eat out' at all
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Lyn Ruby,
I am educated enough to understand the theme of the discussion about plates and food presentation . My point was to highlight how petty the discussion had become worrying over cups, mugs, bins and plates for chips etc when there are thousands starving who would eat anything from anything if it were food. Obviously you are not sensitive enough to understand that, I am and felt my comments were valid...SG2
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Last year while holidaying in Wales we ate at a hotel in Llandudno. We should have known what to expect when we saw pictures of Hotel Inspector Alex Polizzi on the wall. The burger and miniscule side salad were served on what looked like a roof slate and
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Perhaps it's an age thing but I fail to see the logic of the various items of a dish being piled one on top of another when the first thing you need to do is knock them all down to be able to eat them. When did it become the norm not to arrange your steak
or whatever on a plate with your veggies and carbs nicely arranged around the plate?
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SG2 .... I do realise that there are people starving all over the world
I was not being insensitive, just keeping on topic. Maybe you should start a new thread regarding your concerns?
Write your comments here...no need lynruby youhave shown yourself for what you are..... sg2
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SG2 .... I do realise that there are people starving all over the world
I was not being insensitive, just keeping on topic. Maybe you should start a new thread regarding your concerns?
Write your comments here...no need lynruby youhave shown yourself for what you are..... sg2
I'm not sure what you mean?
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SG2, with respect, you are entitled to your views but you lost my sympathy with your last two posts to lynruby who has an equal right to her/his opinion and which I found rather rude to be honest.
The thread was simply expressing opinions on the "masterchef" style of presenting food these days and has no relevance to the situation in Syria, surely?
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What a lot of moaners we have become ,,,, at least we have food think of the Syrians no food, no real life really so perhaps we should be thankful we can fill our stomachs from whatever the food is served in or on and be thankful.....SG2....
SG2, I think most of the topics on this website are irrelevant to the poor souls caught up in war zones anywhere in the world.
Are they bothered about caravan layouts, tow cars, ferry crossings, reverse polarity, unoccupied pitches, dogs, etc, etc. Oh, and alphobetical anythings.
Perhaps not.
There are very, very, many more appropiate websites open to anyone who wants to discuss the inequalities of life.
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Perhaps the initial question is wrong. How about "what's so great about a plate that makes it obligatory?" If somthing different makes you think, laugh, admire or just savour all is good. If not, oh well there is always another day.
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It's the small portions that wind me up. I'm happy to have it served any which way as long as there's enough to know I've had a meal. These gastro pubs with 6 fat chips or an egg cup of mash with 3 strips of meat is a complete bummer. No one should need
to buy a takeaway on the way home from a meal with family & friends-it just ain't right. Plate?, I'll take it on a dustbin lid if there's
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Last Friday we went to a local pub for supper. Nothing wrong with the food or presentation. But I'm a bit of a Gin nerd and find it hard to resist buying new ones to try. So when the waitress came for our drinks order, I asked what Gins they had. "Oh, about eight - what would you like?" She was hard pushed to remember what they were, but I picked one from her list that I knew I liked. I asked for the tonic not to be added to the Gin glass. That was OK - the tonic was in it's bottle - but the Gin was more like a flower display than a drink - a tall elegant large bowled wine glass with what seemed like a punnet of strawberries in it with the odd rose petal.. I sent it back and asked for GIn without the fruit. No problem. Butt the replacement had nine large ice cubes,Sparkly and pretty but not really wanted. (I fished them out onto my serviette).
Style over substance.
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and all on proper plates
