What's wrong with a plate?

SG2 .... I do realise that there are people starving all over the world   I was not being insensitive, just keeping on topic.  

Maybe you should start a new thread regarding your concerns?

Write your comments here...no need lynruby youhave shown yourself for what you are..... sg2

I'm not sure what you mean? 

SG2, with respect, you are entitled to your views but you lost my sympathy with your last two posts to lynruby who has an equal right to her/his opinion and which I found rather rude to be honest.

The thread was simply expressing opinions on the "masterchef" style of presenting food these days and has no relevance to the situation in Syria, surely?

Sg, that is a wholly big nasty streak you have there, lynnruby did not deserve a retort like that, are you having a bad day?

Next time you eat out, take a plate with you ,and when they bring your food to the table just scrape the food off what they bring it on ( tile , wood, etc) and watch their reaction........ 

That will probably be the next fad....bring your own plates and cutlery. 

What a lot of moaners we have become ,,,, at least we have food think of the Syrians no food, no real life really so perhaps we should be thankful we can fill our stomachs from whatever the food is served in or on and be thankful.....SG2....

SG2, I think most of the topics on this website are irrelevant to the poor souls caught up in war zones anywhere in the world. 

Are they bothered about caravan layouts, tow cars, ferry crossings, reverse polarity, unoccupied pitches, dogs, etc, etc. Oh, and alphobetical anythings. 

Perhaps not.

There are very, very, many more appropiate websites open to anyone who wants to discuss the inequalities of life.

Perhaps the initial question is wrong. How about "what's so great about a plate that makes it obligatory?" If somthing different makes you think, laugh, admire or just savour all is good. If not, oh well there is always another day.

It's the small portions that wind me up. I'm happy to have it served any which way as long as there's enough to know I've had a meal. These gastro pubs with 6 fat chips or an egg cup of mash with 3 strips of meat is a complete bummer. No one should need to buy a takeaway on the way home from a meal with family & friends-it just ain't right. Plate?, I'll take it on a dustbin lid if there's enough of it.

Last Friday we went to a local pub for supper. Nothing wrong with the food or presentation. But I'm a bit of a Gin nerd and find it hard to resist buying new ones to try. So when the waitress came for our drinks order, I asked what Gins they had. "Oh, about eight - what would you like?" She was hard pushed to remember what they were, but I picked one from her list that I knew I liked. I asked for the tonic not to be added to the Gin glass. That was OK - the tonic was in it's bottle - but the Gin was more like a flower display than a drink - a tall elegant large bowled wine glass with what seemed like a punnet of strawberries in it with the odd rose petal.. I sent it back and asked for GIn without the fruit. No problem. Butt the replacement had nine large ice cubes,Sparkly and pretty but not really wanted. (I fished them out onto my serviette).

Style over substance.

Its not the meal  that is getting pricy its the "presentation