40 Times People Would’ve Rather Got Plates And Glasses Instead Of These Disasters (New Pics)
Dear bars and restaurants, we do genuinely appreciate how hard you try to impress us. After the pandemic hit, it has been a continuous struggle to save your business and attract both workers and clients. So it's only normal to put that extra bit of effort into everything, from the thoughtful playlist to premium Marseille soap in the bathroom.
Some restaurant owners and chefs take the dining experience up to the next level and come up with very ingenious ways to serve their food. Think of starters served straight on the table, croquettes served in an iron mask and no, I am not kidding.
Thanks to the internet's beloved We Want Plates project founded by Ross McGinnes back in 2015, we now have a crazy collection of absurd food servings to scroll through. “It’s the global crusade against serving food on bits of wood and roof slates, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars,” says its description and hey, thanks for the public service, you guys.
Psst! More hilarious food servings from We Want Plates can be found in our previous posts here, here and here.
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Quality Postmodernism
The Juices Dripped Onto My Legs Through That Nice Crack In The Board
This Rose Flavored Chocolate Dessert That You Have To Lick Off Your Hands! (Miami)
Previously Bored Panda spoke with Ross McGinnes, the founder of the ‘We Want Plates’ community. Ross started the campaign in 2015 after a friend posted a picture of an average-sized steak on Facebook, which had been served to him on a large chopping board.
“It was captioned, unironically, 'That is a big meal!' It wasn't a big meal—he'd fallen for all this style-over-content hipster gastropub nonsense,” he recounted. Then, Ross searched Twitter for an account which would allow him to vent his spleen with like-minded people, but he found nothing. That’s how We Want Plates was created. Today, the project has 900,000 followers across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.
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Multi-Flavor Pizza Served In A Tire
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McGinnes also noted that some restaurants put food on strange things because they want to try to impress their customers. Sometimes, that turns against them. “My local pub used to do a great Sunday roast: twelve quid, piled high, tasted great and yes, it came on a plate. One weekend they added a quirky offering to the menu: little sandwiches, pies, dainty cakes and mini milkshakes served on a miniature picnic bench. The benches, painted bright pink and yellow, sat on top of tables seating actual grown adults. And what was the first thing these infantilized diners did? It wasn't to try the food—it was to whip out their phones and take a picture.”
“Over the following months the picnic benches became increasingly popular, coinciding with the specials board becoming progressively smaller, before it eventually disappeared altogether,” Ross told us. He remembered sitting there one Sunday, watching bench after garish bench emerge from the kitchen like a technicolor carnival of idiocy, before his usual roast arrived.
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“The meat was cold and the potatoes were burnt. It was once their main Sunday trade, but the traditional roast had died an unpalatable death. But that’s OK because they were doing a roaring trade with the benches, right? Sure, until the pub down the road started doing them too. Then the one around the corner.”
Ross recounted that before you know it, everyone’s doing the same ‘quirky’ thing. “Except it’s not ‘quirky’ anymore because you can’t move for mini picnic benches and now all their roast dinners are rubbish to boot,” he told us.
Plates Shouldn’t Fall Over When You Stab Them With A Fork
Lunch Served On A Heavy Stone? I Felt Bad For My Server Who Had To Carry It
My Meal Was Served In A Folded License Plate. I Mean I Guess It Is A Plate In A Way
Friend's Mother Went To A Restaurant And Got A Glass Of Pasta! Upside Down!
My Boyfriends Ice-Cream Came In A Little Metal Tub, But Mine Came In A Little Plastic Wheelbarrow
I’d Send This Back. This Replaced An Amazing Restaurant In My Town That Was Killed By Covid
Spaghetti-No
Pasta Flight, Ended Up Everywhere
Ridiculously unnecessary, not practical for guests and too much idiotic work for the kitchen. The chef here is a jerk.
My “Flying“ Noodles. They Where Cold Within A Minute
There are a reasonable number of things I want from my food. Flying isn't one of them.
Steak Pie In A Jar…
Removing Splinters With Greasy Fingers
We Want Tables?
I actually was planning to do my garden table somewhat like this, with left over 'green roof' materials. I hate mowing and grass, so it would be Sedums; the problem it it's either boring or very uneven.
I Swear, It's A Chocolate Mousse And Pop-Corn On A Wooden Board....
Is there a conspiracy against chocolate mousse I haven't heard about?
Aah Yes, I Finally Experienced The Classic Shovel Plate
An Actual Non Stick Pan, Instead Of A Plate
Well, that's bowel cancer waiting to happen. Never use metal on non-stick cookware, kids.
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I just feel like if you're going to serve me in a mini wheelbarrow, hat, trash bin, or throw a skeleton model on my food, that I should be able to keep it as a prize.
Like a souvenir ice cream baseball helmet at a stadium.
I still have my Mets souvenir ice cream helmet from the 60s.
i actually have one of those, but it cost extra. the dippin dots was worth it tho
I've almost never seen well-executed "quirky" serving ideas. If you want to stand out, let the quality of your cuisine speak for itself.
Exactly. The king of quirky cuisine is Heston Blumenthal - he does things like make apple purée in the shape of a pork chop and makes the pork chop look like potato wedges or whatever, and other random taste combinations and "feasts for the eyes", but from what I've seen on the internet, his restaurant serves quirky food on actual *plates*. There are some things served on breadboards, but they appear to have been specifically designed for this use and able to be properly cleaned after, and not some random driftwood. (He did do some weird serving stuff for his TV programs, but that was kinda the point - they were usually experiments and definitely one-offs as part of the wider experience)
One time I saw a cutsie serving idea that I liked. A&W (Canadian burger chain) newer sit down locations serve their fries in tiny litter deep fryer baskets. I thought it was cute and creative, bit it was still practical and hygienic that's the key
Oh yea I went to a restaurant once that served the fries the same way. Wasn't A&W tho
Half of this isn't even quirky or cute, it's just pretentious. AND unhygienic.
I didn't see even one that was quirky or cute, let alone half. The ice cream in the wheelbarrow was borderline cute. The rest were all terrible.
I just feel like if you're going to serve me in a mini wheelbarrow, hat, trash bin, or throw a skeleton model on my food, that I should be able to keep it as a prize.
Like a souvenir ice cream baseball helmet at a stadium.
I still have my Mets souvenir ice cream helmet from the 60s.
i actually have one of those, but it cost extra. the dippin dots was worth it tho
I've almost never seen well-executed "quirky" serving ideas. If you want to stand out, let the quality of your cuisine speak for itself.
Exactly. The king of quirky cuisine is Heston Blumenthal - he does things like make apple purée in the shape of a pork chop and makes the pork chop look like potato wedges or whatever, and other random taste combinations and "feasts for the eyes", but from what I've seen on the internet, his restaurant serves quirky food on actual *plates*. There are some things served on breadboards, but they appear to have been specifically designed for this use and able to be properly cleaned after, and not some random driftwood. (He did do some weird serving stuff for his TV programs, but that was kinda the point - they were usually experiments and definitely one-offs as part of the wider experience)
One time I saw a cutsie serving idea that I liked. A&W (Canadian burger chain) newer sit down locations serve their fries in tiny litter deep fryer baskets. I thought it was cute and creative, bit it was still practical and hygienic that's the key
Oh yea I went to a restaurant once that served the fries the same way. Wasn't A&W tho
Half of this isn't even quirky or cute, it's just pretentious. AND unhygienic.
I didn't see even one that was quirky or cute, let alone half. The ice cream in the wheelbarrow was borderline cute. The rest were all terrible.