[Brillopad]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...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

[andybigbro]

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

Especially antipasto on a washing line

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by andybigbro

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

Especially antipasto on a washing line

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

[Kizzy]

This is the definition of a first world problem :/

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

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? That's enough Lady GaGa chat from you Mr. there's people starving in the world

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

In serious news and debates? Erm yes

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

In serious news and debates? Erm yes

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

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Smithy

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.

[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 . 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]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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 . 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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

We have square plates at home.

****ing pervert

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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 . 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]

Originally Posted by jaxie

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

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]

Originally Posted by jaxie

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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

True

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

[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.

[Kizzy]

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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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??

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