Brits want food served on circular plates, not wooden blocks/slates

[Brillopad]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/22/brits-want-food-served-circular-plate-not-slate-mug-according/

Have to agree with this. Hate being served up food on those wooden blocks. The amount of times I have complained to my friends 'I just want a proper plate'.

[Niamh.]

I agree, justice for plates :fist:

[andybigbro]

Gotta say I quite like funky ways to be served food.

Especially antipasto on a washing line :smug:
http://imgur.com/DtRlquF.jpg

[Kizzy]

This is the definition of a first world problem :/

[Brillopad]

Gotta say I quite like funky ways to be served food.

Especially antipasto on a washing line :smug:
http://imgur.com/DtRlquF.jpg

Blimey, not seen that before. Not for me though. I wouldn't know where to start! :hehe:

[Underscore]

Boring

[Crimson Dynamo]

Thankfully i do not eat at places that would entertain such gimmicks

[user104658]

Even Frankie & Benny's have started with this nonsense! We went last night... thankfully, my pizza came on a regular plate, as did my wife's burger. The kids, however... eldest got the "mini hotdog trio" with chips. The hotdogs came on a chopping board and the chips in a tiny metal bucket :fist:. Youngest got her usual chicken bites and chips and they came in what I can only describe as a small tin trough with a handle... though to be fair, she quite enjoyed that.

[Northern Monkey]

Even Frankie & Benny's have started with this nonsense! We went last night... thankfully, my pizza came on a regular plate, as did my wife's burger. The kids, however... eldest got the "mini hotdog trio" with chips. The hotdogs came on a chopping board and the chips in a tiny metal bucket :fist:. Youngest got her usual chicken bites and chips and they came in what I can only describe as a small tin trough with a handle... though to be fair, she quite enjoyed that.

Love the Newyork potato dippers from there.

I do like when you go to a curry house and get it the metal thing they cooked it in.
Don't even mind the wooden slab things tbh.We have square plates at home.

I'm really not fussy aslong as it's clean.


Edit:The little metal bucket that holds the fries is never big enough.I get the bacon cheese fries as you seem to get more

[Smithy]

This is the definition of a first world problem :/

Literally, pathetic, so many things wrong in the world and some people have the audacity to complain about a plate

[Niamh.]

Literally, pathetic, so many things wrong in the world and some people have the audacity to complain about a plate

Are we only allowed discuss serious issues nowadays? :laugh: That's enough Lady GaGa chat from you Mr. there's people starving in the world :nono:

[Brillopad]

Literally, pathetic, so many things wrong in the world and some people have the audacity to complain about a plate

Proof positive some people will complain about anything some people say.

[Smithy]

Are we only allowed discuss serious issues nowadays? :laugh: That's enough Lady GaGa chat from you Mr. there's people starving in the world :nono:

In serious news and debates? Erm yes :hee:

[Niamh.]

In serious news and debates? Erm yes :hee:

Actually it's Serious Debates and News and this thread would fall into the latter category - News :hee:

[Smithy]

Actually it's Serious Debates and News and this thread would fall into the latter category - News :hee:

I think it'd be more general chat myself :hee: people have certainly been clocked for posting similar issues like this before

Also brillo, something you may have missed http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=327860 :hee:

[user104658]

We have square plates at home.


****ing pervert http://rationalia.com/forum/images/smilies/nag.gif

[Niamh.]

I think it'd be more general chat myself :hee: people have certainly been clocked for posting similar issues like this before

Also brillo, something you may have missed http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=327860 :hee:

Well it's a news article and it's in the news section, makes a welcome change from the usual Trump/racist/Muslim threads tbh

[jaxie]

Even Frankie & Benny's have started with this nonsense! We went last night... thankfully, my pizza came on a regular plate, as did my wife's burger. The kids, however... eldest got the "mini hotdog trio" with chips. The hotdogs came on a chopping board and the chips in a tiny metal bucket :fist:. Youngest got her usual chicken bites and chips and they came in what I can only describe as a small tin trough with a handle... though to be fair, she quite enjoyed that.

Love Frankie & Benny's my favourite is the chicken club triple decker.

I don't really care if they serve the food on a block of wood as long as there isn't gravy sloshing off the edge.

[user104658]

well it's a news article and it's in the news section, makes a welcome change from the usual trump/racist/muslim threads tbh

British People Forced To Eat From Wooden Plates With Carvings Of Muhammad On Them Made Using Traces Of Animal Products. Literally everyone offended.

[Brillopad]

I think it'd be more general chat myself :hee: people have certainly been clocked for posting similar issues like this before

Also brillo, something you may have missed http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showthread.php?t=327860 :hee:

Why have you provided me with that link - it has nothing to do with me as I am not posting from a mobile?

[user104658]

Love Frankie & Benny's my favourite is the chicken club triple decker.

"American Hot" pizza almost every time. Bloody delicious. Not too kind on the way out though http://rationalia.com/forum/images/smilies/FIREdevil.gif

I don't really care if they serve the food on a block of wood as long as there isn't gravy sloshing off the edge.

See that's the issue though; the wooden blocks are flat with no upturned sides, and my daughter is clumsy AF. Trio of hotdogs flying hither and tither.

[Brillopad]

Love Frankie & Benny's my favourite is the chicken club triple decker.

I don't really care if they serve the food on a block of wood as long as there isn't gravy sloshing off the edge.

That made me laugh. I have felt stuff was going to 'slosh' over the edge and is very off-putting.

[Cal.]

Poor those people

[Smithy]

Why have you provided me with that link - it has nothing to do with me as I am not posting from a mobile?

...ok.. maybe reread it and try again....

[Withano]

I'm not sure if I care too much. I think wooden blocks are better for greasy food perhaps cos they soak up the grease.. put greasy food on a round plate, and the foods gonna get soggy after ten mins. I'm sure there's other half-arsed logic behind other gimmicky-looking plate-alternatives too

[user104658]

I'm not sure if I care too much. I think wooden blocks are better for greasy food perhaps cos they soak up the grease.. put greasy food on a round plate, and the foods gonna get soggy after ten mins. I'm sure there's other half-arsed logic behind other gimmicky-looking plate-alternatives too

But they usually put the greasy food on grease-proof paper on top of the blocks :suspect:. It's a conspiracy.

[Withano]

But they usually put the greasy food on grease-proof paper on top of the blocks :suspect:. It's a conspiracy.

True

Its probably for the free social media promotion, in the same way that starbucks will purposely misspell your name

[Brillopad]

...ok.. maybe reread it and try again....

Grow up. If a mod says it's okay for SD then what's your problem?

I have posted threads in general chat but felt this suitable for SD. So!

[Smithy]

Grow up. If a mod says it's okay for SD then what's your problem?

I have posted threads in general chat but felt this suitable for SD. So!

Ok clearly didn't read it so the point has gone completely over your head, nevermind :facepalm:

[Livia]

I don't want to drink my drink from a jam jar (another annoying fad), nor do I want to eat my dinner off a bit of wood that I'm not 100% sure has been cleaned properly.

[Brillopad]

Ok clearly didn't read it so the point has gone completely over your head, nevermind :facepalm:

Now whose complaining about something silly when there are so many serious problems in the world. Practice what you preach.

Your blatant attempts to find any excuse to ridicule and bait are there for all to see. I will leave you to it! :wavey:

[Kizzy]

And yet there was a national outcry when we couldn't have our fish and chips in paper any longer.

[user104658]

And yet there was a national outcry when we couldn't have our fish and chips in paper any longer.

Was there? Wasn't it because they found out the ink was carcinogenic?? :joker:

"HOW DARE YOU take away my delicious cancer paper. Bloody bureaucrats!"

[Kizzy]

Was there? Wasn't it because they found out the ink was carcinogenic?? :joker:

"HOW DARE YOU take away my delicious cancer paper. Bloody bureaucrats!"

There was in the mail.. as it is a bastion of Britishness.. you know like smoking in pubs and choking everyone with exhaust fumes, it's British innit!!!

[Oliver_W]

I was given a drink in a planter the other day. Ridiculous pretentious rubbish.

[Tom4784]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

i used to love the smell of fish and chips in newspaper

[user104658]

i used to love the smell of fish and chips in newspaperBut then you got a huge tumor in your nose and had to have it removed entirely?

[Kizzy]

Well now we have to eat them in a nice melting plastic tray mmmmmmmmm melting plastic

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qVrM_dx0790/hqdefault.jpg

[AProducer'sWetDream]

I quite like the little metal bucket for chips. It keeps them seperate from the rest of the meal, especially if it's greasy. I don't want my chips drowning in meat juices.

[Brillopad]

I quite like the little metal bucket for chips. It keeps them seperate from the rest of the meal, especially if it's greasy. I don't want my chips drowning in meat juices.

You might have a point there! My pet hate though, as TS so succinctly put it, is eating off a chopping board. I got a burger etc served up in what appeared to be a frying pan a few weeks' ago.

[Kizzy]

That will be a sizzling platter, they have been around for as long as chicken in a basket :joker:

[AProducer'sWetDream]

That will be a sizzling platter, they have been around for as long as chicken in a basket :joker:

I hate these! If I wanted to feel anxious about burning myself I could have cooked my steak at home.

[Brillopad]

That will be a sizzling platter, they have been around for as long as chicken in a basket :joker:


They can keep their sizzling platter and give me a plate. :fist: I haven't' had it before probably because I usually order pasta dishes.

[Niamh.]

actually this pub near me serves the chips in these little frying basket things, they do look nice but I always just throw the chips on my plate anyway

[T*]

I like the presentation that gives your food like a special vibe and links it to the culture the dish is from, all I worry about though is the cleanliness of some of the materials like wood and everything and if they can remove all the bacteria from it, especially when the wood is carved
A very first world problem though

[T*]

I love those steak on the stone things though

[user104658]

For two weeks at the beginning of 2nd year Uni, I had no money, no plates, and very little food (a couple of huge bags of rice and things like onions, peppers, the occasional chicken breast) which I literally ate out of a frying pan :joker:. I just cooked it and then ate it direct :worry:.

[Kizzy]

For two weeks at the beginning of 2nd year Uni, I had no money, no plates, and very little food (a couple of huge bags of rice and things like onions, peppers, the occasional chicken breast) which I literally ate out of a frying pan :joker:. I just cooked it and then ate it direct :worry:.

Serves you right should've had cheesy chips and ramen noodles like everyone else!!

[user104658]

Serves you right should've had cheesy chips and ramen noodles like everyone else!!

I literally had £15 to last 2 and a half weeks - cheese was a luxury I could ill afford! :joker:

[Josy]

I hate boring ol circle plates, i have oval, square, rectangular as well as circle at home

And i like having mine served on quirky things when eating out at a restaurant

[Vanessa]

I don't mind. As long as the food is good. :laugh:

[smudgie]

We had good old fish and chips, served in paper a mere two hours ago.
I just wish fish shops and fish restaurants would learn how to cook decent chips:fist:

[Kazanne]

I have a hygiene problem with wooden boards in particular,would these go through a dishwasher all the time ?

[hijaxers]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/22/brits-want-food-served-circular-plate-not-slate-mug-according/

Have to agree with this. Hate being served up food on those wooden blocks. The amount of times I have complained to my friends 'I just want a proper plate'.

Plates Yes but not bloody round ones ! I hate round plates i don't own any, its oval plates for me - round plates are stupid.

[Niamh.]

I have a hygiene problem with wooden boards in particular,would these go through a dishwasher all the time ?

I'd imagine so, I worked in a few bars/restaurants when I was younger and everything went through the dishwashers

[Brillopad]

Plates Yes but not bloody round ones ! I hate round plates i don't own any, its oval plates for me - round plates are stupid.

I'm not fussed about the shape, I just want a plate!

[Niamh.]

We had good old fish and chips, served in paper a mere two hours ago.
I just wish fish shops and fish restaurants would learn how to cook decent chips:fist:

omg same here, the two fish and chip shops near me would have nice chips if they bloody cooked them properly, everytime they get busy (which is alot) the chips are half raw :fist:

[Tozzie]

I hate it if I get served up my meals on wooden things. Crockery all the time for me please

[smudgie]

omg same here, the two fish and chip shops near me would have nice chips if they bloody cooked them properly, everytime they get busy (which is alot) the chips are half raw :fist:

We used to blanche our chips, then it's a quick dip in hot oil for lovely crispy cooked chips.

[Niamh.]

We used to blanche our chips, then it's a quick dip in hot oil for lovely crispy cooked chips.

mmm you need to teach them Smudgie

[Denver]

In Bulgaria when i had fajitas they brought it on in like a small wok and big oval plate

[GiRTh]

I dont see what difference it makes. If the thing is clean then I dont care if a block or a slate or a plate

[DemolitionRed]

I always use wooden chopping boards (hard wood) because I believe they hold a lot less bacteria than plastic ones but I really don't want my food served on a rectangular chopping board because its flat and food too easily falls off the edge.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I buy and sell lots of vintage ceramics and so often change my plates. At the mo i am rocking Denby Marrakesh

Denby ware is tough and resistant to chipping

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/pict/332346189533_1.jpg