We Want Plates,a Twitter campaign against the restaurant trend for serving food on breadboards and miniature shopping trolleys, launched six months ago. Now some chefs are scrapping their slates. We serve up some of the worst offendersWhy would you serve chips inside a miniature shopping trolley? To disguise a portion that would fit inside a cigarette packet? Because nothing says “tasty” like a tiny recreation of a freshers week piss-up? Or is it because no one’s been kind enough to say: “Dude! You work in a greasy spoon!”?These are the questions that, and since March,Ross McGinnes has been asking via his We Want Plates Twitter account. To rail against pretentious restaurants’ “gastropub style-over-content nonsense”, he tweets photographs – largely submitted by his followers – of their more baffling presentation choices. Think casseroles served in jars, or desserts that maintain been squished into plant pots,and fry-ups dolloped atop garden shovels. All of these are actual examples.
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Source: theguardian.com