I want my dinner on a plate.

....and I hate it when they say HOME MADE chips when they quite clearly are not.

We were once served our dessert on a slate. It must have been through the dishwasher as it was still very warm. Not the best thing to serve ice cream on or rather the sort of sweet gravy that it had turned into between the kitchen and the table!! It looked like a pile of sick. The waiter even looked surprised when we pointed it out to him. He said 'but the chef always serves pudding on a slate'. Funnily enough we've never gone back there!

Bella one does one's best to raise a chuckle ( or even a wry smile)

Greyduster good job you said whippet and chips rather than greyhound on this forum, although you could have said racing pigeon and chips.

Not as much meat on a racing pigeon, roses! ?

Yes it's a bit like a lot of the cookery shows on TV all trying to be more pretentious than the next person.
I don't mind the chips in a wire basket so much but as for the rest, give me good food on a white plate and I'm happy.

Another vote here for dinner on a plate, and please may I have cutlery with handles that are flat? We were in a hotel with round-handled cutlery which was all right on flat plates, but with deeper ones the knife in particular kept rolling off into the plate, so that you ended up with gravy-covered fingers

Yes I agree, plates go in dishwasher where the water heats up to the appropriate temperature to eliminate germs, can't be sure that's the case with wooden slabs and slates. Jamie Oliver was prone to presenting food on his shows on a wooden slab and notice his restaurants use them too Saw an article somewhere or other with pictures where food was being served on such bizarre things as shovels and even a flat cap, ugh! how off putting, particularly if someone's head had been in the cap at some prior stage

Just give me a nice old fashioned china plate. Slates seem a bit grubby, I don't like boards either. I'm on one today!

Even in one today!

Are you serious Terri ? I just made that up about the fish and chips in a flat cap.

It drives me insane. In all honestly you can be pretty sure that the food will be grim when they use such ridiculous stuff

I haven't experienced "the flat cap" personally roses I'm glad to say, I'd request a plate. It was in an article a while back I think a week-end colour supplement, Ridiculous I know.

Nice to know that I am of the zeitgeist when it comes to food presentation, haha.

Now, what else can I think of..... haggis in a gazunder?

Bread in a flat cap. Allegedly.

Crumbs! I would show that to DH but it might make him think he could keep a few slices under his flat cap in case he felt peckish! Come to think about it, perhaps he does!

Oh no, silly me; that's dandruff, not breadcrumbs!

Doesn't Paddington Bear keep a marmalade sandwich under his hat?

I had the best 'homemade' chips I'd ever eaten in a hotel in Buxton and they were served in a miniature tin bucket. They were so lovely they could have been served on the whippet or in the flat cap and I'd have eaten them!??????

Yes he does but think I I still prefer a plate. Not a fan of hair with my food.

I'm not too keen on being served a crumbly meat pie in a separate pie dish on a bigger plate with the veg. Instead of fiddle faddling with all that, I just tip it all onto the main plate and tuck in...... much easier. I too wonder about the cleanliness of wooden boards and slates but am not averse to fries served in a basket! I eat them by hand anyway - easier to dip into the mayo!!

I like a plate with a shallow rim around it so that the gravy/sauce does not go everywhere - I quite like square plates or the rectangular ones and they do tend to have slightly 'bent up' edges.
Why do they make some plates so heavy they are hard to lift - especially on days the arthritis is playing up! I like bone china when possible rather than the thick stuff which chips so easily.

The last time I took my Dad out for a meal was for his 85 th birthday and I felt really sad that his salmon was served on a wooden board. That was his last meal out sadly. Surely waiters could look at their customers and think the elderly may prefer a traditional plate.

I always ask for a proper plate. I know I'm old fashioned but I can't accept that the wooden blocks and slates can be totally clean /hygienic. I don't mind the chip baskets but don't really see the need for them

I have slate place mats and they are difficult to clean so I would be wary of food served on them. I quite enjoy novelty china. There was a dining pub in Yorkshire that served fish and chips on china where the pattern was newspaper print. I remember when ikea did milk jugs like cows and as a child I had a tiny milk jug like a daffodil for cream on porridge and my brother had one shaped like a thistle. Apologies to any Scots but we had sugar as well but we were skinny little kids.