I want a proper plate.

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  • RoyandBev
    RoyandBev Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited April 2017 #32

    I must agree, we to our local restaurant for a meal. My meal was served on a wooden broad and on paper ok it was fish and chips but at £10+ surely a plate could have been used a not a plank.

    Glad others of you feel the same, we even use proper plates in the motorhome. Bev x

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited April 2017 #33

    Had a lovely meal out with friends last week, myself choosing a seafood platter with dips. It arrived to much hilarity (everyone else had opted for a slice of pie, on a plate). I was presented with a wooden plank, three little bowls of different dips, and........the rest of my meal was artistically arranged in a small frying basket, the kind used in fish and chip shops! One false move and the whole lot would have been everywhere! Waitress grinned as she put it down, I just smiled and said "very nice, now Madam would like a plate, thank you"! Food was delicious though!laughing

  • ABM
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    edited April 2017 #34

    I  do  like  your  self  control,  TDA  smile  Yours  Truly  would  have  been  a  little  more  acidic,  I  can  assure  you   yell  !!

  • mickysf
    mickysf Forum Participant Posts: 6,474 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2017 #35

    The first move in this direction I recall was back in the late 60s with chicken in a basket. I too like a proper plate but if the food is good and reasonable I'll put up with a the likes of 'Steak on a trencher' which we recently experienced and very good it was too. Apparently that was the very old way and eaten with a dagger!

  • scoutman
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    edited April 2017 #36

    Ah yes, chicken in a basket, at least the prawn cocktail came in a champagne glass.

  • Bakers2
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    edited April 2017 #37

    Now that makes sense as it should be a bread trencher to be the 'plate' and was part of the meal 😀

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited April 2017 #38

    A few years back a restaurant in Corfu, just off a beach, served the salad in a baked pastry bowl. I didn't mind that as it was well seasoned and pleasant to nibble with a drink!

    I have, on a couple of occasions had fish and chips served on imitation newspaper on a plate. I had the plate taken away with a request that it came back sans imitation newspaper. 

  • ABM
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    edited April 2017 #39

    Why  ET,  had  you  already  read  it  ??

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited April 2017 #40

    Yesterdays news! Now if it came in proper newspaper from the recent week as in the good old days!! You could have a read around the edges whilst eating.

  • Navigateur
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    edited April 2017 #41

    Can I add to the list the abhorrent practice of pre-seasoning chips. If I want salt on them I am big enough and ugly enough to do it myself. In fact, as I don't want salt added due to there being more than enough for anyone in the food range available, it has caused a number of exchanges with staff in certain places.

    The best was a chef who came through from the kitchen to berate me as the chips "came like that anyway" but he went scuttling back when I pointed out there was no salt on them when they were dug up from the earth!

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited April 2017 #42

    I have sent food back on occasion, I can't stand luke warm or cold food. My sister and I walked out of a restaurant in Beddgelert, paying only for the drinks. I had sent food back once and it came back still uneatable, so we politely said we had had enough, got the bill for a couple of drinks and refused to pay for anything else.smile

    The food in the frying basket was delicious, and provided entertainment!

  • Oneputt
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    edited April 2017 #43

    Had my Thai curry served in half a pineapple shell the other day.  Convenient and tasty.  None of the peas.......wink

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