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Michelin-starred floor sweepings

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 wewantplates 26/05/2017

CHEFS! Transform your floor sweepings into Michelin-starred floor sweepings by […]

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Tiny plate extension

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 wewantplates 18/05/2017

When you ask for a plate instead of a board […]

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Toast in a tin bath

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 wewantplates 10/05/2017
toast

Toast. Simple toast. Dependable toast. Just-put-it-on-a-plate toast. FOUR QUID TO […]

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“Any old iron? Any old iron?”

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 wewantplates 13/04/2017
Iron

IRONING INSTRUCTIONS Cotton: iron on high heat Silk: iron on […]

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Hello, what’s your emergency?

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 wewantplates 12/04/2017
Phonebox

*dials 999* “Hello, what’s your emergency?” “I ordered a sandwich […]

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Dog bowls are for dogs. Period.

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 wewantplates 11/04/2017
Dogbowls

A reminder on #NationalPetDay that dog bowls are for dog […]

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Second prize is two James Martin kits

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 wewantplates 15/03/2017
James Martin

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Boiled egg plumbing new depths

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 wewantplates 07/03/2017
Eggvalve

“Would you like your egg boiled, poached or scrambled?” “Boiled […]

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Sausage in a wine glass

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 wewantplates 25/02/2017
sausage in a glass

“What wine do you recommend?” “The 2004 Argentinian Chardonnay is […]

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We beg to differ

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 wewantplates 19/02/2017
noelfielding

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  • Michelin-starred floor sweepings
  • Tiny plate extension
  • Toast in a tin bath
  • “Any old iron? Any old iron?”
  • Hello, what’s your emergency?
  • Dog bowls are for dogs. Period.
  • Second prize is two James Martin kits
  • Boiled egg plumbing new depths
  • Sausage in a wine glass
  • We beg to differ
  • Happy Valentine’s Day…
  • The chutney cupboard
  • Dog-bowl dessert
  • Salvaged skirting board
  • Dessert in an ashtray
  • Plumbing new depths
  • The perils of chefs drinking on the job
  • Dessert on a sanitary towel
  • Cheesecake, apparently
  • Ice cream breaks for the border
  • Would someone think of the trees?
  • Scotch egg in a trophy
  • Small victories are better than none
  • Jam jar of coffee on a book
  • “Chippy on the way home?”
  • When fruit in a bowl just won’t do
  • Life Of Pi, of course
  • Macaroni cauldron, ketchup syringe
  • So near, yet so far
  • Duvet think we’re idiots?
  • Leaving a bad taste in the mouth
  • Perspex paddles and slate
  • Chip-dam to the rescue
  • Brexit has merits after all
  • Nonsense on a box of grass
  • The one-eyed taco Chihuahua
  • Howzat? Bloody awful!
  • Dessert in a little bath
  • Oh Vienna! Soup in a tin can
  • 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
  • Is there a DIY discount?
  • Pub bans man after chip bucket row
  • Avocado syringe
  • Now they’re deconstructing coffee
  • Watery mozzarella woe at Zizzi
  • Things could get messy…
  • TGI Fridays don’t know what plates are
  • Ridiculous fish ‘n’ chips
  • British Sandwich Week idiocy
  • Give this Wellington the boot
  • “What can I get you, Mr Bond?”
  • Watership Down prawn nightmare
  • We call this ‘Lazy Bastard Sardines’
  • VW camper van with surfboard tapas
  • Risotto in a mug
  • We need to elevate our food
  • Vegetable tempura in a shoe
  • Sausage tree klaxon
  • It wasn’t even cooked in that, you idiots
  • Breakfast in a surgical tray
  • Health and safety nightmare
  • TGI Fridays, you lazy swines
  • Half a pint of corn on the cob
  • Fish on a stick in a rock on a mirror
  • All the waiters are off with bad backs
  • Coleslaw in a shopping trolley
  • A plea on National Toast Day
  • Wasabi spongecake on a tree
  • Barcelona, you disappoint us
  • Chicken fingers in a skull
  • Obligatory mini desk lamp
  • Soup served in a stiletto
  • Shepherd’s Pie in a glass
  • If only someone would invent a thing…
  • More deconstructed guff on a slate
  • A table for tree
  • Pickles inside a Russian doll
  • The perils of a leaking crack
  • They must be yolking
  • Unnecessary bird’s nest contraption
  • Now they’re giving you weapons
  • Plumbing new depths
  • 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?
  • Bathroom tile sausage rolls
  • Tonka truck twattery
  • 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
  • Mozzarella bap disaster
  • Nosebleed on a plank
  • International Bacon Day
  • A sheep died for this
  • Beans ‘on’ toast
  • 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
  • Pasta in an axe
  • Fell off the back of a lorry
  • Chicken in a crate
  • Hors d’oeuvres on tin cans
  • Scotch egg with severed artery
  • Yes, that is dinner in a sink
  • Cocktail in a watering can
  • Hot wings with a toe tag
  • Dinner on an old hubcap
  • My wife made lunch. Hilarious.
  • Custard bottle conundrum
  • Picnic table idiocy
  • Weird sausage hanger
  • Breakfast in a tin can
  • Crimes against cheesecake
  • Is that a cat activity centre?
  • Tin dish and tweezers
  • Cut your own salad
  • All kinds of wrongness
  • Pink sperm on a slate
  • Half a pint of trifle
  • Wine in a welly
  • Pork in a urinal
  • Ice cream in a syrup tin
  • Fake grass asparagus trick
  • Gravy in a beer can
  • Pud on a shovel – dig in!
  • Farrow & Ball tin idiocy
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