Bowls on plates

Porcelain on porcelain is WRONG. mainly seen in pubs.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VbDDnQ8MqvQ/UB4rLckF8gI/AAAAAAAACUw/iJt6LJvahjs/s1600/DSCF8055.JPG

white-on-white crime

hot porcelain-on-porcelain action.

it must be tough

getting through life as the OP

On the same level as wearing white before Easter.

My favorite restaurant serves french fries in a pint glass balanced on the plate. Drives me crazy.

http://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/IHJELMso3tycY1Q3nsKrww/o.jpg

Maybe not a pint glass. Still. Why.

wtf

at pint glass obv, pie dish on plate is fine.

XP actually thats....ok?

not great but ok

I'd hazard a guess that the chips-in-a-glass approach was designed by the restaurateur to avoid having to use a larger plate to accommodate the amount of food being served with that order, especially when much of the plate is being hogged by that square dish of sauce and the pickle spear. Possibly the next size larger plate was too big. You are supposed to react with 'how clever and artistic' rather than 'wtf is going on with these French fries in a glass'.

what about soup

I always immediately dump the fries out so it's not that big of a deal, but it still seems weird. Maybe I am having sympathy for the servers, since in my days as a waitress, I would have spilled SO MANY GLASSES OF FRIES trying to get those dumb plates to my tables (I was a terrible waitress).

Regardless, those fries are amazing. And that little dish of goo is malt vinegar aoli, and the pickles are made in-house and are the best pickles I've ever had, and the burger is so good and you do not need to put an egg on it it is perfect just as a burger.

annoying chip vehicles you have recently encountered

http://i.picresize.com/images/2015/03/09/juyel.jpg

Aimless I bet you are correct! Well, okay, I will give them clever, because I would be loathe to not get as many fries. Not artistic, though.

It's better than the weird trend of restaurants serving their meals on boards, which I could also do without.

xp lololol also, is that served on a board yn

Dude that's not enough fries, gtfo.

w what the

of course it's served on a board

enjoy fries, tip dishwasher 35%, chuck chair through window

Man, stop serving food on boards. Things roll off. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the board.

Reminds me of this, although this one seems designed to be set on the tabletop, rather than another plate.

http://www.savorysimple.net/v1/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/buttermilk-ranch-fries_collage.jpg

I totally welcome new innovations in fry/plate chaos management.

uh, that was xposted to carls pint-glass thingy. Not sure if I'm on board with the grocery cart tbh.

seriously none of you have ever eaten soup

out of a shopping trolley?

Little shopping trolley full of chips is incredibly nonsensical, I think I am a fan.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the board.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha)

shameless attempt at bonus points utterly successful imo

lols on yeats

Frankly speaking, porcelain on porcelain makes me throw up. A lot.

but I thought you were a man of prandial tradition

seriously none of you have ever eaten soup

― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, March 9, 2015 12:51 PM (26 minutes ago)

listen to the man

seriously none of you have ever eaten soup

― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Monday, March 9, 2015 12:51 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

out of a shopping trolley?

― Number None, Monday, March 9, 2015 12:53 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/You-Will-orange-259x230.png

http://foodservedonstupidthings.tumblr.com/

those little pub pie/lasagne dishes are annoying as fuck but more because they're a totally inaccessible shape. having said that, i'm inclined to agree with "double crockery is stupid and bad"

Ceramic on ceramic: no.
Plastic on ceramic: ehhh.
Ceramic on plastic: yes.
Metal on rubber: maybe.
Plastic on brillo: absolutely.
Eggshell on turqouise: on occasion.
Flesh on flesh: why not.
Duplo on Lego: never.

Do you not put teacups on saucers?

i don't drink tea and everybody else in our office uses a mug

omg the shopping cart

here is one rib and a french fry tapas enjoy

LOL Ive seen minature fry baskets before for chip delivery (stupid enough) but that shopping trolley is next level.

Also, food on boards is a Bad Idea not just cos it falls off, but because GERMS OMG.

Bread in slippers
http://t.co/cH5CEHSDOc

wooden boards is just stupid and inelegant. chips in bowls is best - those white enamel bowls with the blue rims that are everywhere are actually quite a nice design.

Old Lunch gets it.

How am I supposed to eat this without it clinking around and worrying about accidentally chipping the crockery? what is the point of the plate? just give me the damn bowl, or even better, put the lasagne nicely on a plate so I can eat in a civilised fashion.

http://a3.urbancdn.com/w/s/i4/Z8lgEFdf6XGEj8-640m.jpg

also fuck eating chips out of shoes, even if they are indoor shoes.

omg that twitter feed

if i had a restaurant, i think i would serve food upon incredibly large spoons, but you'd have to eat using miniature china plates as utensils

I would divide the dish up into mushed-up spherical bites hanging from the ceiling by silk threads then give each customer a map to follow to get each bite of their chosen dish. Gravy/custard etc could be dripped down the appropriate threads

Peas would be served in a ball pit at the end

🗻

Maybe not a pint glass. Still. Why.

The greatest crime against humanity on that plate is the egg on the burger.

Gilding the lily for sure.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/22/42/19/2242196bd844f96c61c44dd535760356.jpg

The board that makes me rage. I've started asking for a real plate.

http://a3.urbancdn.com/w/s/i4/Z8lgEFdf6XGEj8-640m.jpg

The reason for this being on a plate is that that dish was just under the BROILER to melt the top, and it should be sizzling hot. The plate is so your server doesn't lose a hand.

or the table doesn't get a burn mark

seriously this thread is some of the worst aesthetic posturing i've ever fucking seen on ilx

as nick b and kinder helpfully suggest, start your own restaurants

surely there is a more elegant solution to either of those problems than just clunking it on a plate?

btw crock on crock is not an aesthetic problem, it's a nerve thing- like fingernails on a blackboard

eg, I am ok with this. http://sukhumvithotels.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Classic-Lasagna-Bolognese.jpg

My favorite restaurant serves french fries in a pint glass balanced on the plate. Drives me crazy.

― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 9 March 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Saw chips in a mug on Sunday night. Wanted to shut the place down.

I will not start my own restaurant as I am lazy and bitter. Solution => complain endlessly on a message board.

Thank you.

thomasintrouble, why not then start Doilies: C/D instead of this mislieadingly-titled thread?

Or expand the discussion to incorporate more elements of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

you're taking this pretty hard man

hey lj be useful and clean up every ilm thread first pls

this thread is a pain in the ass mainly because it made me hungry I will report back on how food is served

While enjoying some fine dining the other evening, I noticed with horror that the thread count on my napkin was somewhere far south of 300 and my napkin ring was not of the finest mahogany. I had multiple heart attacks and developed scoliosis.

I have no problem with fries in a bucket, fries in a glass, burger on a board, w/e. I do hate beer in a mason jar though, it just doesn't taste or feel right.

bees in a mason jar are a+ tho

soup bowl on plate with sandwich I'm fine with this

the sandwish is an authentic new york Reubens this is untrue

Burger on a board has real issues. If a burger is of proper juiciness, that juice falls directly on the board and starts heading towards the edges, pouring off right onto the table. And with the fries in the glass, if you desire to dump those out onto your board, there isn't nearly enough real estate to let them breathe.

You can use the fried egg dribblings from yr burger to stick them to the board iirc.

they could prevent all those issues by putting the board inside another giant bowl

perforated board with drip pan below

I'd just chew up a couple of boards and use the resulting paste as a burger spread between two intact boards.

Someone start a thread about chopsticks

Or food that is needlessly difficult to eat.

I think every italian restaurant I've experienced in most of my short life that serves pasta in a casserole dish (pasta baked with melted cheese on top) has done the porcelain on porcelain thing

all that clinkin' and clankin' it's driving me crazy!

this could be a culture of local savagery, though
http://dmjuice.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/0305Restaurants2.jpg

do your plates make too much noise all the time?

imo we are socialized to a certain level of clanking in the dining room

Pasta served in a silk hat or gtfo.

Or food that is needlessly difficult to eat.

― Jeff, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:11 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A french co-worker once asked me how you were supposed to eat a muffin, and I realized that, as much as I eat them, I really had no idea. There is no civilized way to eat them.

I usually perform surgery to separate the saucer section from the base. Eat the base first then the top.

"owaaar uuu zuppozed to eeet zees 'moofan'?!"

fuckin french

Bowls on trays, much more civilized.

http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/resources/lessons/tempura_tray.jpg

seriously this thread is some of the worst aesthetic posturing i've ever fucking seen on ilx

― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I find this very hard to believe.

the bread in slippers thing is grotesque and horrible but otherwise i have no problem w/ any of these. fine w/ beer in mason jars, though that's what i do at home since most of our glasses are mason jars, so it is nice to get a regular heavy pint glass at a bar.

mason jars are just very cheaply priced and at the same time very sturdy and multi-functional, they are great imo

what bothers me more than anything itt besides bread in slippers (which i've never had thankfully) is when your food is served on a plate that is waaaaaay too big for the food so there is stupid amounts of white space on the plate

Nothing compliments a nice pilsner like drinking it from a hollowed-out mannequin leg.

also bowls on plates is very useful if you don't want the rest of your food getting soggy from whatever is in the bowl

I'm picturing thomasintrouble waking up in sweats after dreaming of a ceramic bowl of dip and a ceramic mug of fries on a ceramic plate on a wobbly ceramic-topped table in an earthquake

What about bread bowls?

http://www.facebookfaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/soup2.jpg

not crazy about them. feel like the only time i've eaten out of a bread bowl was some chili at a vermont ski resort. same kind of place you could get a taco salad out of a tortilla bowl

All of our glasses at home are old mason jars or reused spaghetti jars and the like. Plus one mug shaped like a boot that my wife may have stolen from a mexican restaurant in a former life.

http://texasslavgerman.com/images/products/4084.jpg

i would serve a row of pints in those mugs on a shoerack tbh

totally had a boot glass growing up. it is still at my folks house and their grandkids love it

I don't care for bread bowls as I think the bread/soup ratio is off but I do love a taco salad in a taco bowl.

I've never had a bread bowl. Does one eat the bowl after, or concurrently?

yes

Treat it like an ice cream cone.

Had an extraordinary bread bowl soup at the Lexington recently, was a sheer delight but clearly ILX holds to a higher standard of gastronomy

trigger warning for thomasintrouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1qOPBGYdo

Surprisingly, there's a dearth of dish-on-dish crockery ASMR

The thing is I would totally enjoy beer in a mason jar if I was like chilling on the porch with Marcos or whatever, I just feel like when I go to a restaurant or pub I want a proper glass.

I don't like the way the lip and grooves feel

whoa, whoa buddy, this isn't the TMI thread

*rubs fork across teeth*

yea i get the need for a proper glass at a bar. though i really like the grooves on the mason jar b/c i can grab the glass w/ them without getting the glass all greasy from my fries & burger hands

I used to have actual pint-glasses for brew, but they both broke in the sink within like a week of each other. I was so bummed I was just like fuck it, why buy nice glasses again?

We have pint glasses that we bought in bulk from a restaurant supply place, I think. Cheap.

stealing them from a pub is the traditional (and cheapest) method

I have fancy stem beer glasses that came with an Ommegang gift set

cmere btw fried egg on a burger is a+

:((((((((((((

I'll have yrs its cool

Eggs, pineapple, and beets. Supposedly an australian version? Very good.

kiwi iirc?

timely http://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/what-do-we-want-plates-when-do-we-want-them-now#.bgqAn5mYY

is Bim Adewunmi a Matthew Perpetua pen-name?

Potential new DN in that link: Cleanup in aisle ARRRRGHHHH

(for those who missed the great buzzfeed post>ilx thread>buzzfeed phish post content creation scandal of 2014: people dancing to Phish )

kiwi iirc?

Nerp, aus.

Love me some beetroot and egg on a burg, no pineapple tho, bleugh.

afaik NZ do employ egg and beetroot and pineapple as burgredients too

all three at once is out of line though imo

damn straight

This must be a US/UK difference or just me being a terrible snob with a sheltered upbringing, but I didn't realise drinking out of jars was a thing real people did for real people reasons of economy/flexibility/whatever, rather than just a thing hipster bars do to go "look, we are so rustically-with-a-dash-of-steampunk* unconventional and, like, whatever, dude"

(* ok, not quite steampunk, but late-1800s chunky engineering aesthetic)

I quite like a sauce/dip in a kilner jar with a nice wide neck, as my local pub serves them: opening the jar is satisfying; the sealed-ness reassuringly signals clean and hygienic even though I'm not normally germ-phobic and I'm aware it's no better sign of cleanliness than just being in an open ramekin; the wide neck allows easy dipping; plus with a dip you probably aren't so bothered about getting cutlery into all the corners to extract the goods. But those baked beans upthread in a narrow-necked jar are just wrong, for contravening the last two points.

not too bothered by bowl-on-plate (good for soup, cumbersome for lasagne etc) but a pie in a dish on a plate is wrong because 99% of the time it means there is no pastry side or base, just some too-crumbly pastry on top of a soap dish of watery stew, and that is not a proper pie

food opinions4u from someone who can barely cook, there you go

When I was a little kid, my parents always gave us rinsed-out jam jars to drink out of although they had regular drinking glasses that I used as I got bigger. As a grown-up, I bought glasses or stole them from restaurants or whatever, but eventually brow them so often that reused mason jars/spaghetti jars just made the most sense.

I break a ton of plates too though and wouldn't mind finding a similar solution, but as described above, there really aren't any good substitutions for a dinner plate.

there really aren't any good substitutions for a dinner plate.

have you ever considered a wooden chopping board?

Ahh, I forgot that you could reuse food jars (duh) so I was thinking "but a jar (bought new, from a cook shop) costs more than a drinking glass! perhaps it does not in America"

They must be less fragile too, it's true. I used to get really sad and/or angry at myself whenever I broke a glass but now I have more glasses than fit in the cupboard so at least now I can tell myself I just freed up some space

ok, this is actually a Neat Life Hack that has passed me by I guess

graduating from washed-out jars to buying glasses is a major indicator of not being a student in your own head anymore

Or of having a shit-ton of money I guess.

just throw all the food on the floor and roll around in it imo

that's basically what the kids do anyway. might as well join the club.

I've bought half a dozen glasses in the last 15 years, that $12 was burning a hole in my pocket

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/modern-toilet-restaurant

misread that as the Dating District of Taiwan and thought 'that's a neat idea'

Some condiment jars when I was a kid were designed in such a way they were *meant* to be reused as drinking glasses; the lid was one of those inner-rubber seal press on metal lids, so no screw threading in the glass. Cream cheese, vegemite and jam in particular came this way.

I only remember it for Nutella but man I loved those simple tumblers.

capillano honey glasses with the bee dude on them!

I really cant find any examples! This is the closest one, and this is a fricking eastern european cheese jar.

http://media2.eurobalkanshop.com/1804-thickbox_default/kraft-cheese-spread-240g.jpg

http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss95/retro_collectable/Simpsons2_1_zpsdc14f4f6.jpg

simpsons nutella glasses :D

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e1/ef/8e/e1ef8e6ebe30cef020f95a8ce3f9259c.jpg

simpsons nutella glasses :D

yesssss

In the USA some jelly jars used to be like that.

http://modernkiddo.com/images/jellyjar_peanuts.png

oh MAN I had two drinking mugs with handles that were originally honey jars, loved those so much

orange juice from concentrate, dunk the butternut snap from a pack of family assorted in the top

"but a jar (bought new, from a cook shop) costs more than a drinking glass! perhaps it does not in America"

not the case at all, you can get a 12-pack of 16oz ball mason jars (with lids too!) for like $8 at the hardware store and they are sturdy as fuck and they are multipurpose if you make jam, pickles, ferments, or use them as food storage. regular drinking glasses are like $1-$10 per glass depending on what you're buying, and ime are much more fragile regardless of whether you are buying cheap or fancy glasses

that said i do see single mason jars for sale at boutique food and cooking shops, there is definitely a "artisan rustic chic" thing going on that people will shell out $5 for a single mason jar, but if they look down the street at the hardware store they could buy them for very cheap

tbh the last mason jar I had shattered the moment I tried to sterilize it with hot water but that's Kmart shit for you I guess.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/we_want_plates_heroic_citizens_take_a_stand

I refuse to eat anywhere that appears to value flash over utility, and apparently I am not alone in just wanting my fucking food served on a fucking plate. This is nowhere close to being “too much to ask for.” A plate???

just pills and IV drips then

http://i.imgur.com/Q37OLO4.jpg

https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates

YESSSSS

I do love that twitter

Powls on blates

Treat it like an ice cream cone.

opening line to Tool's "The Grudge" iirc

what the fuck is this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD9KQtYW0AAwkvH.jpg

No.

any day now people will be paying to kneel in rows and feed from galvanised pig troughs.

there was a Man v Food episode where Adam Richman had to eat something like 5 litres of icecream from a sink, quite possibly that very one

imagine that metal tube in the middle impaling the windpipe of a frantic glutton

a flat cap full of bread; a thousand chocolate mice in a wellington boot; an egg poached in a condom; searching the face of a customer for traces of the delight which has long faded from your heart

Haha

http://i.imgur.com/cE0wQqN.png

That ice cream kitchen sink thing actually is amazing and deserves respect, I feel.

I'm sure the menu says something along the lines of Everything INCLUDING the Kitchen Sink!

It had better.

That little wheelbarrow looks pretty dirty.

Kinda thought "Human Garbage Disposal" was supposed to just be some sort of unflattering metaphor...

At first glance I thought the apple sauce wheelbarrow was made of chocolate but now I realise it is made of rust.

i saw somebody yesterday doing that #hipstercop meme that went around twitter, and they said "#hipstercop on a stakeout, takes his sandwich out and puts it on a wooden slate before eating it"

so wooden slates are omnipresent, gauche and also hipster all at once.

derogatory use of the word hipster seems so widespread now that it can p much apply to 'anything not already part of my cultural sensibilities'. tho some of that is a subsense where hipster = fogeyism or artificial rusticism, which is maybe where the wooden slate thing comes from. regardless, i tend to feel more in sympathy with their derided hipster than that sort of stagnant reactionary self-congratulation.

yes

this thread continues to be fucking stupid

http://laughingsquid.com/san-francisco-restaurant-serves-truffles-plated-on-ipads-playing-a-video-about-truffle-hunting-dogs/

We Want Plates crusades against serving food on bits of wood and roof tiles, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars.

Enough now pic.twitter.com/XbdbA5ku6y

— The MICHELIN Guide (@MichelinGuideUK) July 12, 2017

god yeah they posted a collage last week and I was like there needs to be some kind of local govt intervention bcz this is terrifying

what is even happening there? i need someone to label all of the parts

#AwfullyBritishEatingProblems

Wooden boards.

Roof slates.

Breakfast on shovels.

Chips in plantpots.

Bread in hats.#WeWantPlates pic.twitter.com/TKB1l3gG7O

— We Want Plates (@WeWantPlates) August 6, 2017

Netanyahu puts wrong foot forward by serving Japan’s Abe dessert in a shoe

https://i.imgur.com/KhD3jQY.png

https://i.imgur.com/4i8ou4U.jpg

shoe-ish tradition

scrambled egg, with a comb, from a shoe

sorry all i am entirely pro this (it's in the montage a few posts about but it needs to be see EN CLAIR) :
http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/crazy-food-serving-5.jpg

where's the bacon ffs

i feel sorry for the person sitting diagonally opposite.

they'll be ok, theirs was served with a strimmer

But that's a shovel.

People don't eat food off of a shovel.

How are they cleaning the shovels?

dig a flowerbed with them

a quick dunk in swarfega and they'll be fine

In a restaurant in canada last night I was served pudding on, and I wish I was joking, an ancient VHS copy of The Bodyguard pic.twitter.com/53oQfXDlNw

— P.S.Burton (@PSBurton) August 8, 2019

Restaurant in question is a fun joint full of board games, lined with stuff from Dr Who, Minecraft, D&D etc popular with kids of all ages. The menu features lots of pop culture gimmicks.

So this is a bit like saying "I went to a restaurant in the USA and couldn't believe the waiter was dressed as Pinocchio" without mentioning that the restaurant was at Disneyland.