Fun & Famous

MAY I HAVE A PLATE PLEASE?

I don't know exactly where the trend comes from (maybe Doctor Jet can tell more about that), but for some time now it has been trendy for restaurants to present their dishes especially not on a regular plate.

It started with the terror of the square plate. Suddenly it was trendy. Nowadays, it is mainly extremely sad people and restaurants, think of clumsy brasseries in unremarkable places and almost-not girls who think they are hip who still dare to put down square plates, but they are still there.

The square plate made way for the colored plate. Black plates, red plates; suddenly everything just had to be possible, as long as it wasn't white. Seriously, what is wrong with a regular white round plate? Anyway, it gets even worse.

Because now your order doesn't come on a plate at all, but on a ‘robust plank’ or ‘rustic piece of wood.’ Or worse, in a basket. Or a jar. Or a bag. Or ANY conceivable object that is at least not a plate. I am furious about that nonsense and when things come on a square plate I already know it's crap, but if it comes on some kind of float, I am capable of resolutely walking out the door.

Now thank god I am not the only one here. Well in the minority, because apparently there is a market for it, but not the only one. Recently I came across an extremely entertaining Twitter account called We Want Plates. That covers the subject reasonably well, but for completeness: here photos are collected of restaurants that have completely lost it.

Apparently, food is served in a dustpan and brush, a shoe, glasses, branches, pans, books, stones, mini shopping carts, and tree stumps. Really, you just can't make this stuff up, but you see it all happening. So let's start by all following this account and then protesting en masse against the idiocy of square plates and everything that has come after. That will teach them. Hopefully.