I want a proper plate.

I must agree, we to our local restaurant for a meal. My meal was served on a wooden broad and on paper ok it was fish and chips but at £10+ surely a plate could have been used a not a plank.

Glad others of you feel the same, we even use proper plates in the motorhome. Bev x

Had a lovely meal out with friends last week, myself choosing a seafood platter with dips. It arrived to much hilarity (everyone else had opted for a slice of pie, on a plate). I was presented with a wooden plank, three little bowls of different dips, and........the rest of my meal was artistically arranged in a small frying basket, the kind used in fish and chip shops! One false move and the whole lot would have been everywhere! Waitress grinned as she put it down, I just smiled and said "very nice, now Madam would like a plate, thank you"! Food was delicious though!

I  do  like  your  self  control,  TDA    Yours  Truly  would  have  been  a  little  more  acidic,  I  can  assure  you     !!

The first move in this direction I recall was back in the late 60s with chicken in a basket. I too like a proper plate but if the food is good and reasonable I'll put up with a the likes of 'Steak on a trencher' which we recently experienced and very good it was too. Apparently that was the very old way and eaten with a dagger!

Ah yes, chicken in a basket, at least the prawn cocktail came in a champagne glass.

Now that makes sense as it should be a bread trencher to be the 'plate' and was part of the meal 😀

A few years back a restaurant in Corfu, just off a beach, served the salad in a baked pastry bowl. I didn't mind that as it was well seasoned and pleasant to nibble with a drink!

I have, on a couple of occasions had fish and chips served on imitation newspaper on a plate. I had the plate taken away with a request that it came back sans imitation newspaper. 

Why  ET,  had  you  already  read  it  ??

Yesterdays news! Now if it came in proper newspaper from the recent week as in the good old days!! You could have a read around the edges whilst eating.

Can I add to the list the abhorrent practice of pre-seasoning chips. If I want salt on them I am big enough and ugly enough to do it myself. In fact, as I don't want salt added due to there being more than enough for anyone in the food range available, it has caused a number of exchanges with staff in certain places.

The best was a chef who came through from the kitchen to berate me as the chips "came like that anyway" but he went scuttling back when I pointed out there was no salt on them when they were dug up from the earth!