What’s important is the quality of the food, not what it’s served on. Right? Wrong! Sometimes, when you’re at a fancy restaurant, waiters serve your meal on such weird things and in such strange food containers that you pay more attention to them than your dinner. Those are the times that it’s acceptable to bombard your friends with pictures of your food, instead of eating it.
There’s a whole community of regular people and dedicated foodies who have banded together to form the online group ‘We Want Plates.’ Their mission is all in their name — they want restaurants serving food on actual plates, not on “bits of wood and roof tiles, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars.” This is an internet community that loathes hipster things and trends, and “crusades” for the right to have their food brought to them on plates, as Mother Nature intended.
Keep scrolling and let us know in the comments what bad designs of food serving you found to be the most amusing. Let us know if you’ve seen something even weirder! Remember to upvote the worst food serving designs and ideas and share them with your friends. And after you’re done, have a look at Bored Panda’s other lists about restaurants that have gone too far with food serving and trying to impress customers too hard. Some of these eateries are beyond saving, don’t you think?
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Self-Aware Absurdity? Apple Pastry Desert Served On An Image Of A Plate.... On An iPad
A Meringue Served On A Magnetically Levitated Pillow
It took over 5 minutes for them to get the pillow to hover. I nearly fell asleep.
My Bread Served Inside Roadkill
Cheese Foam That Is Spooned Onto The Back Of Your Hand By The Waiter And Then You Have To Lick It Off
So These Motherf**** Actually Gave Me A Plate... Upside Down
"I Put Fries In An Enclosed Bowl So They Steam And Get Soggy" - Some Prick Cook
So you shove it all in there and don't give them a plate so they can actually eat it? Just... that's just annoying. At least with some of the other nonsense you don't have to excavate layers of food.
Saw This On Twitter
I Guess I'm Not Supposed To Eat My Soup?
My Boyfriend Was Just Served A Bloody Mary In A Fry Basket
That looks really, really unappetising. In a fry basket would look cool, but guys... it's a liquid. Let it stay in a glass.
Ravioli On A Clothesline, As You Do
Curry On A Chopping Board
It would have made better sense to have the rice on the board and curry in the bowl
It Has A Plate... But Still
This Dessert Trend Needs To Stop
Why?????
This Is The Most Awful Thing Ever. Broccoli Impaled On A Metal... Thing?
I think it supposed to be a tree. Like from the Lord of the rings. :) :) :)
Self Cleaning Bowl
I Was Served 3 Chips On A Log
Your Food Directly From The Shovel To The Table
Raspberry Ice Cream On A Twig, In A Hole Drilled Into A Rock
Love It When Sand Gets In My Soup
Who thought this would be a good idea? The soup looks like vomit and the sand looks like that stuff they use to clean up vomit with.
Fish Are Friends, Not Food
My Parents Sent Me This Picture From Their Vacation In Italy
So I Went To Eat Hot Pot Today...
My Wife's Cocktail Was Served In A Hollow Stone And Had To Be Drunk Through The Hole, Without A Straw
Pizza Served On Hooks
Pizza On A Snowboard
Our Appetizer In A Shoe. They Refused My Request To Try It On Or Take It Home.
Horrifying
this is one of those tiny portion restaurants where you're supposed to eat at home first
Someone I Know Got Her Food On Some Kind Of Bone
I want to know what kind of bone that is!!! Also if it's easy to clean/ sanitize.... but mostly what it came out of.
Literaly 6 Nachos For The Whole Table
This Expensive Salad Was Served Like This...
These Snacks Served With Stones: Some Are Real Stones And Some Are To Eat. You Have To Guess!
My Appetizer Served On A Goathorn And Straw...
Just Go Ahead And Dump My Shrimp All Over Some Empty Beer Cans Please
Why Would You Do That
Excuse Me, Wtf
The Same Tiles Were In The Bathroom
Pudding In A Pot. Wanna Know The Worst Sound Ever? Silverware Scraping Against Terracotta
I Ordered A Cocktail And The Bartender Started Preparing It In A Friggin Child's Welly
Why Wouldn’t I Want To Eat Caviar Off A Wooden Hand??
Fish Served On An Empty Beercan In A Dirty Ashtray
Just Saw This On Instagram... Send Help
Saw The Server Bring This Out And Thought It Belonged Here
Cheesy Triceratop
Friend Sent Me This. I Was Not As Impressed
Spaghetti In A Cone
"Nacho Table" At A Celtics Game. I've Never Wanted A Plate More In My Life
They Recommended To My Friend That He Get His Cheeseburger “In A Cup”
Overcooked Eggs Served In The Pan That They Were Cooked In. Thanks...
Cast iron pans carry a ridiculous amount of residual heat, so the eggs should only be slightly cooked, as they'll carry on cooking in the pan. They obviously didn't take that into consideration.
The Aesthetic Is "I Haven't Done The Dishes So I'm Just Using What's Clean"
Pizza With Scissors On A Slab Of Wood With Historic Grease Soaked In.
‘Fried Cheese’ Served In A Wine Glass At A Mexican Restaurant In Japan, I Don’t Know What I Expected
Bacon Served On A Clothesline...
Donuts Served On A Door At A Wedding
My Friend Sent Me A Picture Of The Salad She Received At A Restaurant Yesterday
Steak Tartare & Oyster Served On Your Hands At Librije In Netherland
Considering your hands are supposed to be incredibly germ ridden most of the time...
Chocolate Tartè On A Squashed Pepsi Can
Sushi, Sides And Mains Served In IKEA Style Organisers Because Plates Aren't Orderly Enough And Bento Boxes Are Too Common.
Pitcher Of Poutine Being Offered In Montreal
My Smoked Salmon Came In A Smoking Jar Of Salt. Tried To Lift It Out, Broke And Fell In The Salt, Rendering It Inedible
Oh come on. Just wipe off the salt. Inedible? You clearly grew up on a home where once something fell off the plate, it went into the garbage. Don't you know about the 5 second rule?!
What's In The Booooxxxx? Oh
Justice Is Served
Tuna Served On An Upside Down Cocktail Glass... If Only There Were A More Stable Food Serving Object To Eat Off Of
So you have to tip in onto the plate to eat it and risk making a mess. Pointless.
This Saddens Me :(
Yeah I’ll Have A Crusty Can Instead Of A Glass I Guess
I Hate To Stifle Someone's Creativity, But I Really Dont Like This
The Optimist Says The Glass Is Half Full
This is Beer Ramen - It doesnt have actual beer in but created this way to have the similarities of a beer - vancouver loves this ish
I Don't Know What To Eat And What Not
They Brought The Breadsticks Out On A Plate, Then Proceeded To Take The Plate Out From Under The Breadsticks
Taquitos In A Cigar Box
Shoonk! French Fries In A Pneumatic Tube
Here's Your Beef In A Log, Now Stfu
A Caesar Salad At A Resort In Costa Rica. While All The Parts Taste Good, How To Eat It Is Escaping Me....
Now I Get Why It Was Advertised As "Half A Bottle Of Fries"... Fries In A Cut Off Bottle Of Wine
Pizza Served On A Tire
I Love When My Steak Leaks Off My Stone Circle
Who Wants Dessert?
I Ordered A Bagel..
"The Brick Keeps It Warm!" The Brick Was Stone Cold...
Fried Rice...in A Shovel For Some Stupid Reason.
But I mean looking at the rest on this list this one might even pass as artsy.
These Individual Bowls Carved Into The Table
I’m Thirsty. Got Any Potatoes To Drink?
$70 A Head Luncheon? Have Some Butter On A Rock
A Restaurant Where The Food Is Served Directly Onto The Table
Does This Count? 😐
Technically This Meat Is Served On A Plate, But....
Huckleberry Soda In A...lab Flask?
This one is cool, not hurting anyone either. The cans and such were unsanitary but there’s nothing wrong with this
The Butter Was Just Smeared Directly On The Plank
If my food was served to me this way, I would pack my things and walk away.
More people should. But with little drama --- any drama makes the remaining people feel they're superior and "get it", while it's just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes. "Am I a joke to you?" is the correct rhetorical question here, then go away.
Load More Replies...Do any customers actually appreciate this? To me, this makes it harder to eat, harder to tenjoy the actual meal/recipe, and worst of all impossible to carry on a conversation that doesn't revolve around 'WTF is this place even doing?" I hope this kind of nonsense is prompting warnings in the reviews on Yelp, Zomato etc.
Marina....generation has nothing to do with it....I surveyed my 20 something grandchildren and my 50 year old children....and everyone thought it was ridiculous....that includes my son-in-law and my grandson who are both chefs.....
Load More Replies...If my food was served to me this way, I would pack my things and walk away.
More people should. But with little drama --- any drama makes the remaining people feel they're superior and "get it", while it's just a case of the Emperor's New Clothes. "Am I a joke to you?" is the correct rhetorical question here, then go away.
Load More Replies...Do any customers actually appreciate this? To me, this makes it harder to eat, harder to tenjoy the actual meal/recipe, and worst of all impossible to carry on a conversation that doesn't revolve around 'WTF is this place even doing?" I hope this kind of nonsense is prompting warnings in the reviews on Yelp, Zomato etc.
Marina....generation has nothing to do with it....I surveyed my 20 something grandchildren and my 50 year old children....and everyone thought it was ridiculous....that includes my son-in-law and my grandson who are both chefs.....
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