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You could eat your dinner off that floor

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 wewantplates 11/08/2016
nonslip floor

CHEFS! Stop food sliding onto tables by serving it on […]

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The definition of rubbish chips

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 wewantplates 06/08/2016
rubbish chips

“How was your meal?” “The chips were rubbish.” Pic: @willdicki

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The march of the chiptanks

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 wewantplates 03/08/2016
chiptanks

Remember the pints of sweaty chips? “They’ll never catch on,” […]

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Candyfloss on a horse’s head

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 wewantplates 24/07/2016
horses head

That moment when everyone else gets plates and your dessert […]

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Please stop abusing skateboards

  • Wooden boards
 wewantplates 21/07/2016
skateboard

Call us cynical, but we don’t believe this skateboard will […]

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Coach bolt and camping mug

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 wewantplates 18/07/2016
corn bolt

If only someone would invent some kind of skewer device […]

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Germ-riddled crevices, yum yum

  • Food on rocks
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 wewantplates 14/07/2016
rock chorizo

Chorizo and crackers in a rock, for diners who love […]

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Fish and chips on a Ferris wheel

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 wewantplates 07/07/2016
food on a ferris wheel

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE REPEAT, THIS IS NOT […]

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More cream-on-slate madness

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 wewantplates 02/07/2016
cream pouring

DISCLAIMER: @WeWantPlates does not endorse heavy-handed, point-proving cream-pouring on slates. (Though […]

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The Hipster Holy Trinity

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 wewantplates 30/06/2016
the holy trinity

Shopping trolley – CHECK Chopping board – CHECK Mess tin […]

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We Want Plates crusades against serving food on bits of wood and roof slates, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars. It has over 160,000 followers across Twitter and Facebook. You can submit pics via Twitter, or by emailing creator and curator Ross McGinnes.

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  • You could eat your dinner off that floor
  • The definition of rubbish chips
  • The march of the chiptanks
  • Candyfloss on a horse’s head
  • Please stop abusing skateboards
  • Coach bolt and camping mug
  • Germ-riddled crevices, yum yum
  • Fish and chips on a Ferris wheel
  • More cream-on-slate madness
  • The Hipster Holy Trinity
  • Cartoonist Emily Flake nails it
  • When one tray just won’t do
  • The Curious Case Of The Phantom Jelly Moulds
  • Behold the Lego breadbasket
  • Hot chocolate infantilisation
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  • Now they’re deconstructing coffee
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  • Things could get messy…
  • TGI Fridays don’t know what plates are
  • Ridiculous fish ‘n’ chips
  • British Sandwich Week idiocy
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  • “What can I get you, Mr Bond?”
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  • It wasn’t even cooked in that, you idiots
  • Breakfast in a surgical tray
  • Health and safety nightmare
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  • A plea on National Toast Day
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  • If only someone would invent a thing…
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  • A table for tree
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  • They must be yolking
  • Unnecessary bird’s nest contraption
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  • See what they did there?
  • When one can just won’t do
  • Tapas in a teacup
  • Happy International Tea Day
  • Jenga chips on a slate coaster
  • Cheese on half a skateboard
  • What to buy a lunatic for Xmas
  • Happy Thanksgiving, American types
  • Huge chips or tiny table?
  • Shot glass traffic light spring rolls
  • What’s the collective noun for chips in mugs?
  • Please stop piping messages on boards
  • People are still putting food in shoes
  • Meat on a clipboard
  • Oliver Twist porridge debacle
  • Prawn cracker basket optical illusion
  • We’ve come so far in 350 years
  • Yes, that is an actual desk organiser
  • Chips in a pint glass
  • Of course it does
  • Beware of ghost cutlery on Halloween!
  • The real reason dessert is in a boot
  • We Want Plates sends plate sales soaring
  • Starter in half a tree
  • Soup in a pan saves on washing up
  • Well-washed fish dish
  • When is a plate not a plate?
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  • An affront to condiments
  • A plank of Bloody Mary meatballs
  • Heart-shaped bum-paddle
  • Half a pint of black pudding
  • Dinner with The Flintstones
  • Prosecco in a welly
  • Sticky table inevitability
  • Chips in a tree
  • Greeks rue plate-smashing
  • “White, one sugar, no salad”
  • Remember the wheelie bin code
  • Steak in a bird bath
  • Throw it in a tiny canal
  • Car boot sale soup contraption
  • That’s not a pie, Harvey Nichols
  • Peppercorn sauce catastrophe
  • Squid in a clog
  • Dinner on a fishtank
  • Sausages in a skull
  • Toast in a tin bath
  • Give peas a chance
  • Soup in a coffee percolator
  • Bread-shoe contraption
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  • International Bacon Day
  • A sheep died for this
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  • aka ‘Fish On A Plank’
  • The Botanist has a hissy fit
  • Happy National Burger Day
  • Hipster emojis
  • Camembert catastrophe
  • Barking mad
  • Yorkshire salad on a slate
  • Fish on a tree stump
  • Upside-down umbrella
  • Artist’s palette wrap
  • DIY burger
  • Are we being trolled?
  • The cheese cupboard
  • Pieces of hairy pig in a pan
  • Picnic table pandemic
  • Cappy Yorkshire Day!
  • Dirty protest
  • A dog’s dinner
  • Bread in a handbag
  • Five for the price of one
  • Rat trap and toaster
  • National Ice Cream Day
  • A Greek tragedy
  • Bloody London
  • A load of pretentious scollops 
  • No idea what’s happening here
  • Call a proctologist!
  • Sundae Bloody Sundae
  • Double fault
  • Spaghetti Bollocksnese
  • Bread on a steamer
  • Cake in a frying pan
  • Surf and, quite literally, turf
  • Mini shopping basket disaster
  • Raspberries on a rock
  • Train driver’s breakfast
  • Goldfish under a prawn cocktail
  • Mac and cheese mugs
  • Silly sausage
  • Mushy peas in a latte glass
  • You call this dignity in death?
  • Crumble in cup = custard woe
  • Starters on glass blocks
  • BBQ WTF?
  • Fiddly little starters on skulls
  • Half a pint of sausages
  • Not emptied the dishwasher?
  • Salsa donkey and nachos cart
  • Cheesecake vs raspberries
  • Gin in a Converse shoe
  • National Fish And Chip Day
  • Fish hooks in your dinner
  • Nightmares on wax
  • Skateboard cheeseboard
  • Cake drawer buffoonery
  • Pudding in a pan irritation
  • Ham on a mirror
  • Soy sauce shopping trolley
  • Beef on barbed wire lunacy
  • Sticky toffee pudding woe
  • Mason jar misery montage
  • Orange juice laziness
  • You CAN have too many chips
  • “Go home Chef, you’re drunk.”
  • Tiny Tabasco bottle on a slate
  • Decorators’ special
  • They’re invading our homes
  • Egg and toast argument
  • A mug of doughnuts
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  • Chicken in a crate
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  • My wife made lunch. Hilarious.
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  • Is that a cat activity centre?
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