What's wrong with a plate?

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.

With you on that one Rocky!

I'm a big lad, and when I eat I like plenty of it!

Some of these places bring a massive plate with a tiny "work of art" in the middle which is meant to be a "meal".

Wierd!

Bugs

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.

I'm with you on that one too Rocky, although I might draw a line at the dustbin lid!! 

David

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.

With you on that one Rocky!

I'm a big lad, and when I eat I like plenty of it!

Some of these places bring a massive plate with a tiny "work of art" in the middle which is meant to be a "meal".

Wierd!

Bugs

 

With you on this one too. Once, when out for a meal we queried the lack of vegetables( thought a side dish hadnt been brought).

Son, who's in the food industry, replied when we told him what had occurred, "don't be silly mother, theyd have been self garnishing!" (We didn't even get a roll with the soup, which, thankfully, had come in a bowl!)

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.

I can't manage to copy it , but Flaming Grill Pub chain have  a grill section on their menu and one of the meals is called a Trash Can Lid Challenge and  is served on what looks like  a dutbin lid, £19.99.  It could feed a small family.

Im not a big meat eater(but I love gravy) but I'm a massive veg lover-cabbage, broccol, cauliflower, & any salad on offer. If it's a small portion I ask for extra veg, I've not been refused yet. These places seem happy to give you extra veg but not the meat-works for me. I find asking for a 'doorstep crust' to dip in my gravy does get me odd looks mind

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........ 

Better still, get a special big plate, like Alan Partridge going for the buffet breakfast at his hotel.......

Here you go........

We don't eat out that often but have found that the Chinese restaurants always give good size meals, I'm with Rocky (and others) they can arrange my food however they like but just give me a decent portion, 6 chips in a mini chip frying basket ain't enough to go with my 8oz steak 

Talking portions, many years ago, I accompanied my OH to a Christmas do with his Firefighter Watch. They had chosen a posh, up market little venue to try, newly opened, very much on the expensive side. We all sat down and were served. There was a stunned silence, as a couple of dozen big lads, used to around 5/6000 calories per day, doing hard physical work took in their artfully arranged slice of turkey, couple of twice roast potatoes, pea purée, stuffing ball and a smear of cranberry jous artfully arranged on plates the size of a football field! Then the growls started, and the chef was called for! A near riot was only averted by almost all the kitchen larder contents put to good use! It was never visited again!

On one of our cruises we shared a table with a lovely friendly couple from Hamilton. At one of the evening meals we ordered and waited (as one does) the meal arrived and our gentleman friend took one look and said " where's the tatties"