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plates are so passé

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Can't afford proper dishesI’ve noticed a trend in the restaurants, cafés and pubs who occasionally serve a meal to me. No plates. Popular alternatives are:

  • plank of wood
  • slate tile
  • basket
  • small bucket or mug (of chips or vegetables)

I’m hoping that it’s just a passing phase. I find it quite difficult to eat off a slate tile without simultaneously decorating the table.

plates are so passé
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This scribble was published on Thursday, February 14th, 2013. You can follow any banter on this scribble with the RSS 2.0 feed. You can share your inspired musings after typing the anti spam word near the bottom of the page. But no Pinging because its too naughty.

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  1. Will Watts writes:
    February 14th, 2013

    Agreed. If they give you no plate, put yourself on red alert for pieces of hair. This is what the great Veg taught us.
    http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2012-05-15T19:32:00%2B01:00&max-results=7&start=175&by-date=false

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  2. Stefan writes:
    February 14th, 2013

    Indeed, agreed. I also find that it is usually a sign of what I call “over-engineered” food, which I tend not to enjoy (and which is usually way to expensive). I once ordered a dessert, and it came on one of those slate tiles, and consisted of three sculptures of different kinds of chocoloate and cake and whatnot. Looked extremely pretty, very artistic, worthy of a photo on the frontpage of the newspaper, but the taste … mwoh. I’ve had better, to put it mildly. And then I’m not even discussing the price (didn’t think slate was that expensive…)

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  3. wendy writes:
    February 15th, 2013

    with this meal the sound of the flatware on the stone was icky. I love the chink of silver on china..

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