General Chat

I much prefer plates too.

I've had fish and chips served on top of a grease proof type paper on a normal plate...Why?

Another thing I'm not keen on is pie, lasagne or whatever served in a small pie dish and then balanced on a plate, where vegetables or salad items do their best to hide out of sight.

And,while we are at it, why do peas and chips come in buckets?

Bucket of chips - It's difficult for youngsters to grasp the description of growing up & living in a working-class environment that existed particularly between the 1930s & 1950s.

Explain.

Dermot, I am just wondering, it is not your smoke in the woods is it? Seems like you have been tapping your still today.

I hate the veg hiding behind the pie bowl.....what fun is there if you can't hide the veg you don't want to eat.....now that was childhood.....eat your sprouts they were only cooked for a week what's wrong with you !!

Just give me a normal plate with well cooked food and enough of it....none of these baskets or mini versions of things and charging me ten times the price.

The old joke is where Manuel the waiter asks customers if anything is all right?

I had whitebait in an enamel mug once.
Then realised my cats had, for years, been given really trendy (before their time) food bowls - they're enamel (white with the blue edging) :-D :-D :-D

Another thing I hate is a meal, such as meat and two veg, served in a bowl! :-( :-( Bowls are for liquidy stuff and it is almost impossible to use a knife and fork in one.

John and Greg on Masterchef don't like it either. I have heard them, on more than one occasion, asking why something is in a bowl, when it should be on a plate.

In some hotels in France we have eaten breakfast (if you can call a continental breakfast that) off paper straight off the table. Apparently that is considered normal.

I still can't get me head round that soup in a basket malarkey

I have now noticed that the word 'protein' is now creeping into some TV Cooking shows and into more general usage.

Chicken, pork, beef, lamb etc have now been reduced to that one word.

I don't think that I will order 'protein and chips' at the local chippie, neither will I be ordering a protein curry at the local Chinese; I like to know which protein I'm eating

I absolutely dislike food served onto cold plates.............

as for fish n chips, I use a plate, but fold the paper to make a cushion between the plate and food..........stays warmer that way but best of all....................
doesn't taste the same as when served in newspaper....LOL

A bit of newsprint added to the flavour Bob ;-) :-D

Ah, but we all died of printing ink poisoning when chips were served in newspaper didn't we?

I am a vege and I do like to know if there is protein in what I am eating and what the protein is. I find that it is when I have not eaten enough protein that I start wanting to eat muck.

"I'll have a cup of tea in my fist" - an old expression of a bygone era.

I'd like to expand on the saying but I dislike being ridiculed in public. So, I'll remain shtum for a while.

i have had food served on modden new paper
i pulled it from under my food and started reading it
and it was the history of the shop
very intresting untill i got to the middle that was to gressy to read so i ask
for a clean one so i could finninsh reading

Shelly!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

What about the food they serve in a bowl made of bread...like Chilli....do you eat the bowl as well ?!

What's a bread-like chilli, and how do you grow them?

Do they knead any special treatment? :-D

Yes don't touch your eyes after kneading it Allan