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Anyone else despise food being served like this?
Here in London nearly every restaurant does this. It was probably the biggest insult in my life having my food served to me in half a wellington boot or having my chips served in a little metal basket (which allows the chips to touch the filthy table below it). There's really nothing more humiliating than the giggling as people stare at your culinary abortion presented before you and then degrade yourself as you eat out of a fucking dog bowl, dust pan, boot, mirror or whatever they can think of. It's pretentious and embarrassing.
I've made a habit of taking these non plates home with me. If I take enough of them home hopefully restaurants will have to resort back to using normal plates.
>>7743126
Try cooking your own food, you lazy slob.
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If I was EVER served this I'd push it onto the floor.
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Here's a good example.
Whenever I get served stuff like this, I just take it home and put it in the bin.
>>7743144
That's for a fucking eating challenge you moron.
I bet you've never been served anything in unusual crockery; you're just bullshitting.
>>7743138
That's in poor taste, I don't care how "artsy" you think you are.
>>7743126
why dont you just ask for a regular plate, or leave
>>7743138
Leave the check on an armed Bear trap. Tell them it symbolizes Capitalism.
>>7743144
Don't order it then you stupid cunt.
Life must be a constant struggle for you.
>>7743144
is this theme based on ronald dahl's BFG story book?
I ordered dessert at this fancy restaurant and they brought out a balloon for me to eat. I was so insulted I tried to throw it on floor but it just floated to the ceiling.
https://youtu.be/cGMCmbLq2qs
>>7743223
i lold
>>7743212
It's Japanese, poop is less disgusting because waste management is almost completely perfect. It's not like they're fine with the idea of shit in public, exactly the opposite, the concept of shit is just so distanced from social interaction that it becomes a humorous abstraction that merely resembles human waste. As far as I can tell, it's a joke and it isn't contextually in bad taste anymore than eating out of any other silly-shaped bowl would be in the West.
>>7743259
How do you know it's Japanese? That pic could have been taken anywhere
>>7743126
>despise
You sound like a hobo that look at people through the glass and gets mad he can't afford it
>>7743126
Are you literally retarded/autistic?
I'm being very serious, are you? How could you possibly walk into a restaurant you don't want to be at and order something you didn't want?
>>7743239
lol this is pretty dumb. Also putting helium is probably borderline illegal.
>>7743259
http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Make+Delicious+Nourishing+Steaks+From+Human+Feces/article21932.htm
Their waste management system has been perfected to such a point that people can eat their own shit.
Food served in a boot? Is this real life?
>>7743126
>>7743371
I think you missed the point. He's not complaining about the food, he's complaining the presentation and the choice of serving dishes.
>>7743239
holy hell
>>7743371
often a restaurant will not describe their plating procedures on the menu
>>7743375
truly a meme country
>>7743382
If the ivy leaf is real you can sue them, it's a toxic plant.
>>7743386
Those fancy restaurants are common knowlege. They are expensive and demand to be put on a list weeks if not months in advance. You are full of shit to pretend not knowing what you'll get.
>>7743223
Kek
>>7743396
But that kind of crap isn't limited to fancy restaurants with a 3-month waiting list. Small, unknown places are doing it too.
I was visiting a friend in TX a couple weeks ago and he took me to a tiny local place attached to a microbrewery. Beer and BBQ. And they served the fries in perforated baskets and the meal on metal plates. The look of the presentation didn't bother me at all but it was a stupid choice of plating because the food was able to cool down so fast.
>>7743407
>to a tiny local place attached to a microbrewery.
so, literally a hipster shithole. How can you pretend those places won't serve you fad and meme shit?
>>7743395
Bless you, sweet child of summer.
>>7743413
It's true though. Ivy is toxic, and allergies are really bad. Don't put it near your food, even as decoration. Or even as a stamping model like you do for chocolate leaf. It's fucking nasty.
>>7743417
I'm chewing ivy leaf with the entire nursing home while I type this. We are all okay. Even the puppies are okay.
Of these meme things the ones I hate the most of slabs of slate instead of plates and mason jars instead of glasses.
>>7743366
Because I see a toilet chair in the background of that photo and I read about the world's only toilet-themed restaurant in a physical Guiness Book of World Records collection my great-aunt bought me as a birthday gift about a decade ago. I don't know for sure if it was from Japan, but it was some Eastern Asian country.
I also could have told you it's because of the bowl shapes, Japan is one of the only civilized countries that has both hole toilets and elongated toilets available to the middle class in even distribution. If you showed an American the bowl in the background he'd think it was some sort of baby carriage and if you showed an Eastern Indian the one in the foreground they'd think it was some sort of bathtub.
Further research shows that it's actually from a Taiwanese restaurant, "Magic Restroom Cafe", which is now closed.
>>7743239
Looks like Alenia.
How was the meal bro? Any good?
>>7743126
> goes to pretencious embaressing restaurants
> gets embaressed
Make better life choices dude . You live in London . Stick to traditional Asian and European restaurants where they don't fuck around and they don't grow stupid Viking beards
I go to some pretty trashy bars for lunch, this is about the best I get.
The potato chips go cold quickly in those basket things, that is probably my only real problem with this.
>>7743546
I FUCKING HATE WHEN THEY PUT SHIT THROUGH THE BURGER. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
>>7743550
Chips, brah
It's not McDonald's
>>7743576
Go to bed it's late where you are
>>7743546
This doesn't seem so bad. I think the baskets are cute.
>>7743587
Unless you live somewhere where the word chips means fries. Or did you know there are other countries And I ruined the joke?
>>7743589
I ate the chicken burger closest to the camera and it was really good tbqhf
>>7743587
French fries is what McDonald's sells, those are chips.
>>7743135
This. What kind of moran goes to restaurants?
>>7743427
it's highly lethal to pets. Enjoy your dead toxic meat.
>>7743608
those are crisps
>>7743126
>Anyone else despise food being served like this?
I expect everyone does.
If you're going to put my food on a plank of wood, at least put a fucking groove in it to stop shit dripping off the side.
I swear its fucking HR, sales, and marketing departments fucking it up for everyone in every industry.
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>>7743199
2 eggs a sausage, 2 hash browns, mushrooms and beans are not an eating challenge you donut.
I don't think you realize how common this is.
>>7743374
Helium is harmless.
>>7743226
I don't see any snozzcumbers so i doubt it.
>>7743773
I pick my dog shit up with a scoop very similar to that and I bet alot of dog owners do too. When you scoop up some clover and grass with the shit it looks pretty much liek that.
Why on earth would they think that is a good idea to serve, the only thing worse would be if they served chocolate mousse in the shape of a turd on it.
white people the thread
and you make fun of the groes for eating the chicken from buckets?
>>7743847
OOGA BOOGA BIP BUP POO DO DAT DUBBA SUMPIN CHIM BIMBO
Other people need to use the library computers, Mr. Washingthomasmith
This entire thread is concentrated, weapons-grade autism.
>>7743911
Even my dogs get their food in a bowl, why would you want it in a trough?
>>7743126
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
Please tell me London chefs aren't stooping this low.
Good food should always be served from white dishes which accentuate the colors and textures of the food, and of appropriate size to make the food look centered and appetizing
Anything else (with the exception of sizzle platters or other specialty plates/bowls for some specific dishes) is out of the question. .
>>7743435
kill it with fire
>>7743562
So much THIS.
I don't mind alt presentation as long as it serves a purpose beyond "look how relevant and hip we are!!1!".
That being said, I can only think of two chefs who do it that don't cause insta eye rolling (Dan Barber and Emma Bengtsson).
>>7743653
>moran
What kind of moron spells moron wrong?
>>7744089
How new are you? It's a common joke around here.
>>7744089
That's been a joke on the internet for about 13 years.
>not eat food out of a fucking clog
I mean it's CURRENT YEAR for gods sake
>>7743126
What exactly is the meal in OP's picture? I can't even tell what kind of food that's supposed to be.
>>7744106
it the cheese and pate plate. bread cheese pate and sweet shit to go with the cheese.
>>7743587
don't argue with the britbongs anon
you're literally arguing with retards
>>7743126
Lets them get away with less food.
Don't like it? Stop eating in London.
>>7744253
Literally how?
>>7743711
Fast food automation when
>>7743450
>which is now closed
How fitting.
>>7743382
are those chocolates?
>>7743521
>Rich Vos
KEK HOLY SHIT.
me and you can go way back.
>>7743653
Dylan?
Chef here, nothing wrong with boards and slates. They look nice.
>>7744597
chocolate covered mushrooms
>>7743126
a fucking wheelbarrow
>>7743796
I'm referring to the part where sophie and the giant met the queen for breakfast and he had to use spades and pitchforks for utensils
>>7743377
That thing looks like it would kill you then fuck your throat hole With its duck bill penis.
>>7743374
>helium is probably borderline illegal.
Yup, just like driving at the speed limit is borderline illegal. More often described as 100% legal until a law is created outlawing it.
>>7744106
It's a hot dog bun with chutney for dipping. A London staple.
>>7744103
>calamari clog
actually clever compared to the others
>>7743374
>borderline illegal
Literally retarded
Legality is binary
It either is, or it isn't. There isn't any fucking "borderline"
the wheelbarrow is cute.
I would just leave without paying if they served me that, but it's still kinda cute.
>>7743562
that burger is so poorly constructed that it would fall apart as you picked it up anyway.
>>7743374
This post is borderline offensive but you are definitely a retard
>>7744172
>its an american tries arguing about the english language episode
>>7743693
i love bugles
they are so mediocre like my existence
they are the snack i can identify with
and you can put them on your fongers
>>7745304
>pow-tay-tuh cheeps m8
>>7745304
>britbongs can't even speak their own language correctly
INNIT FWEE O CWOCK LUV OY RIGHTO ITIS M8
Beef wellingtons served on barbed wire
What the fuck is even going on in this thread?
>>7744623
Ever hear of a plate?
If you're doing this you're part of the problem. Stop pushing this faggotry.
http://wewantplates.com
>>7745920
>rustic
>>7743377
you know they didn't debug that straw
>>7743546
i don't want a cutting board that drool/slobber/other bodily fluids have been absorbed into
give me a fucking plate that has been steam cleaned between patrons. ffs.
>>7743562
>I FUCKING HATE WHEN THEY PUT SHIT THROUGH THE BURGER. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
i hate it when they put toothpicks in food. fucking hell, i just know i'm going to stab myself in the throat with one of those fucking things one day.
>>7745957
maybe it's a salt lick. would make sense, treating the customers like shitty animals anyway.
the only time i can think of this happening and it pissed me off was when i went to red robins with some friends, got a refill of bottomless fries on a side plate and attempted to move them onto the plate my burger was on, only to have the fries spill out everywhere on the table because they hadn't come in a cup, it was just a ring. LOL BOTTOMLESS FRIES
>>7743126
One could only imagine one day people paying to eat out of a dog bowl on the floor with their mouths as a 'novelty' experience and with no derision or shame.
>>7743392
>help me
>>7744970
that is actually kind of clever
it looks like a beer and you can hold it by the handle and attack it with a utensil
>>7746638
pig trough more like it
>>7746796
Yea, until you try and eat what's on the bottom, and your hand is inside a glass full of food stuck to the sides
No, it is not "kind of clever". It is the complete fucking opposite
>>7746810
>tens of thousands of years of human history and development
>tools are developed
>pottery is made
>styles are formed
>over time, certain standards become accepted after generations of refining and perfecting
>standards such as drinks going in mugs and cups, and food going in bowls and plates
>Some asshole on the internet decides what progress is and what progress isn't by judging people who love what they do
>>7743239
That's a picture from Alinea, in Chicago. It's like a 20 course tasting menu so I doubt you "ordered dessert." Stop trying to make things sound like your own experience poorfag.
>>7746804
>>7746810
oh come on, there's fucking slates and chopping boards and random bullshit.
then there's a pint glass with a curved bottom designed to dispense liquids into your mouth easy, with cottage pie inside vaguely resembling an ale
also what kind of retard cant tip a beer glass up and use a fork or a spoon to get the last dregs of meat into your gob?
>>7743259
except that bowl os from a fucking Indian resteraunt. they have a special shit curry that either tastes like shit or looks like it, don't remember which.
>>7746829
I'm not saying I do, I'm just saying that unlike the rest of everything that has been posted that actually is a practical vessel for cottage pie and it looks vaguely like a beer with a head of foam
It is OP's fault for living in the UK
>>7746838
imagine asking for beer and they mistakenly hand you that.
heads would roll.
>>7746847
I'm not even a chef but a single serving of cottage pie on a plate looks like a dogs breakfast so you resort to large ramekins
what better to use than a ramekin that holds literally a pint of stuff
>>7746851
>OI ME FOOKIN BEER HAS A PIE IN IT
>>7746822
>also what kind of retard cant tip a beer glass up and use a fork or a spoon to get the last dregs of meat into your gob?
Literally subhuman behavior
Do you lick your plate clean also?
>>7746874
okay fine, but you're just going to grip onto it anyway
why not have a handy handle?
>>7743546
>served with blood troth
>>7746884
Crockery stays on the fucking table
Are you a third worlder? No one should have such shitty table manners
>>7746895
I have table manners a plenty, I'm just not an autist raging about all and every retarded gimmick as though they're on equal footing
I have mentioned all the practical reasons as to why its fine in this one case. but you're triggered and your feefees are hurt so you won't accept the argument.
>>7746896
I love soup, you drag the spoon away from you btw.
>>7743395
>being American
Sue sue, gains goblin!
>>7746920
>>7746920
>Maybe they'd like it if you moved the restaurant a bit West to Wales. I hear they have shit taste.
>Here in London nearly every restaurant does this.
This doesn't add up.
>>7746986
Only in the same sense that being a fucking retard is "epic trolling".
>>7743138
Indian restaurants just ladle the curry out on the streets for you
>>7747008
Is Wales the UK version of Mississippi?
>>7743450
So it wasn't Japanese then
>>7743382
Shit like that makes it hard for me to even know what I can eat and what I can't.
>>7744366
>Literally how?
Don't eat in London. Go home before you eat dinner. Eat lunch before you leave.
> BUT I LIVE THERE
Leave. You're probably one of those UKIP voters who think 'London is full of immigrants' is a bad thing, forgetting that it's there to contain them and relieve them of their money and work.
Get on a train and ride. You don't own a car anyway, since you're in London. Maybe mortgage your house and get a cab. Although you probably rent a room because your 'london allowance' only covers increased food costs.
>>7747067
>>7747070
>>7747041
I just think you're being a homosexual.
>>7747074
>>7747082
>>7747075
ja i like it
>>7743138
Why would you go to that kind of restaurant in the first place if that was the case?
>>7743435
I kind of like the slabs tho, its practically a plate and they can be cleaned, if you're putting something like a sandwich in there I think it works fine.
>Mason jars
Oh my god how I hate that stupid trend.
>>7747026
OMFG YOU WERE RIGHT ANON!
AND ANON WAS WRONG!
oh wait, i sitll see you as samefaggin.
>>7745948
That one made me gag.
>>7743371
It's duck fried in greese with a side of french fries...............................17.45
(it is served in actual duck nest with rocks, just incase you wanted to know what the plate looks like... it's white.... with red floral design along the edges... and let's say a stamp of the manufactures on the bottom)
>how most menus look
ITT poorfags talk about things they'll never experience
>waah I can afford to live in a middle-upper class area and eat out there constantly
>>7747260
I dunno, I am gonna say it seems like poorfags will accident upon these shitty restaurants as they "splurge" where as me? I've never fell for, nor ever will fall for that shit, and tip well enough to feel confident to tell the waiter to take this back into the kitchen remake it and bring it to me on a fucking plate like I was channeling the spirit of Gordon Ramsey's ancestors.
While being as respectful and sarcastic at the same time as humanly possible.
And probably order another glass of wine while I wait, and expect to see the manager before the meals done and get a free desert, and try to help them correct their folly.
But frankly, I've never eaten at a place that I didn't hear from, from a friend, before hand, because that's just dumb. It's not hard to not eat at shitty restaurants that will close down within a few years.
Simple plates are still cheaper and more efficient then any level of presentation that has yet to be invented on the entire planet except for napkins, when you eat a hotdog.
>>7743138
it would only be appropriate if they wheeled out an actual toilet
>>7746864
>>OI ME FOOKIN BEER HAS A PIE IN IT
i doubt the bongs would even notice. they'd both be the same temperature.
>>7749397
Holy shit, the message this sends—the food and the bowl, both.
>>7743239
>the string is OBVIOUSLY dehydrated apple
OBVIOUSLY
WeWantPlates.com
>>7745948
DuChamp is laughing his ass off in his grave
>>7743776
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
>>7749459
That looks gross
>>7749459
The only time I had a Frisbee plate was when I was at a amusement/monument in my state, and I was like 11, its a cute way to add a toy to a kids meal sure, but not for adults
>>7743375
>same price as real meat
jesus chris who would stand in the store looking at real meat, take a glance at literal shit meat and then decide to go for the shit.
>>7747030
That's my primary problem. Why the fuck would you put something on a plate that you can't eat? A lot of these people are not connoisseurs and won't know what some of the stuff is. It's infuriating.
>>7751527
vegans
>>7745948
Funny thing is that's not even a real urinal fixture. Notice the lack of holes. Someone actually commissioned a pottery to make a serving dish to look as close to a urinal as possible with functional eating considerations. They thought this was a good idea.
Unlike this one >>7743138 which is obviously a small-scale repro of a toilet meant to be a joke/gimmick. Pretty fucking weird.
>>7743450
the first toilet themed restaurant was in moskow, russia
>>7744968
>t. nonlawyer
>>7754361
I think it's a modified bedpan
>you could be right though
>>7743138
please tell me you realize this is a photo from a bathroom-themed novelty restaurant, right?
>a curry
>>7746099
Ha.
I wish this would become a trend in America. Seems fun.
>>7755301
someone got turned on by that thicc piece of wood and fucking came all over it
that shit's jizz
>>7743596
Yeah, I'm scoping those red peppers
>autism: the thread
>>7746485
You're supposed to take it out you mongoloid.
>>7743126
>>7743138
>>7743144
1000% restaurants do this because their food isn't good enough and they need some gimmick to pick up the slack
This shit is a red flag because if their food was actually good, they wouldn't be doing this kind of shit
I mean, it's possible that the owner is very eccentric. But I doubt it
>>7743386
It's a fool me once thing
Go one time and if they play you, then don't go back again
But you only have yourself to blame if you continue going to a subpar restaurant
>>7743546
>mfw went to a steak house and they skewered the steak, potato and texas toast with the steak knife
The only novelty plating that's acceptable is sushi platter on a boat
>>7747067
Aaaaaaaaaaaah
Dress the hotdog not the bun!
>>7746813
> people love doing it so it must be ok
>>7743412
What kinds of restaurants do you go to if not fancy restaurants and not hip places? Cracker Barrel?
>>7743804
>All brown things are literally shit
>>7747070
are they seriously using actual red lettuce and not its green hybrid cousin???? OMFG
>>7747085
i guess this is ok if your a redneck dining out
>>7749397
genius
>>7743138
you should have shit in it and sent it back to the kitchen saying it was slightly off.
>>7749397
haha dog damn dude. my dogs have that exact same bowl.
Why so many deleted posts here lately?
>>7757010
A lot of people here are alcoholics who wake up the morning after and delete everything they stupidly wrote.
So basically, hipster food?
Never trust a hipster to cook you food....
>>7743239
>I ordered dessert at this fancy restaurant
lol
this reminds me of the time my friend told me he'd been to the fat duck and he 'just had a burger at the bar'
>>7746041
why is it a problem.
>>7747298
oh my god the fedora levels are off the charts
>>7747298
I get the feeling that you'll see your dish vanish into the kitchen, and it won't come out.
You'll accost the waiter, who will refuse you another glass of wine. After a while, you'll get angry, and the police will be called.
Or the chef will come out with the largest knife he can reach, and ask you politely what you don't like about his cooking. By the time you stammer something out about a plate, his knife will be handle-deep in your ribs, and the wait staff will be hauling you into the deep freeze.
>>7758767
lay off the edge m8
>>7743224
>Don't order it then you stupid cunt.
If you order the "full English" and it shows up on a shovel, what the fuck are you supposed to do? Most of the places don't say "Served in a fucking stupid fashion" on the menu you dipshit.
>>7743226
No. "Breakfast on the shovel" is a steam driver thing, where the footplate crew would cook eggs & bacon on the shovel in the firebox of the express train. They did it because they didn't have much choice and most people agree that a firebox is far too hot to properly cook anything and it all ends up tasting of coal smoke anyway.
>>7744089
Someone needs to get a brain.
>>7746638
Don't kink shame.
all of those abominations need to be on Kitchen Nightmares
>>7743126
London is a culinary backwater. Just as NYC surpassed it in the financial sector, so will it be surpassed in pretty much every other sector that matters.
>>7743382
>>7758905
Oh god yes. Ramsay already hates wacky plating, but this stuff would send him into a whole new level of rage.
>>7747243
>17.45
>served in actual duck nest with rocks
kek, righto.
>>7743546
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this board and bun is rightwise king born of England."
>>7747298
It's a cheap gimmick, friend.
This is the broken adult equivalent of getting a toy with your McD's Happy Meal.
>>7746099
holy fuck the prawns on a tree with the plastic rabbit
>>7744610
kek
>from Falco a restaurant with two michellin stars
