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We Want Plates is the global crusade against serving food on bits of wood and roof slates, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars. It has over one million followers across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.

Created by Ross McGinnes.

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Soup served in a stiletto
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The Hipster Holy Trinity
All the waiters are off with bad backs
Amuse-bouche on a cactus
Woodcock brain on a rock
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Barbie Meat Dress
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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
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Wheelie bin sauce
Coleslaw in a shopping trolley
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A table for tree
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They must be yolking
Unnecessary bird’s nest contraption
Now they’re giving you weapons
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When one can just won’t do
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Jenga chips on a slate coaster
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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
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Toast in a tin bath
Give peas a chance
Soup in a coffee percolator
Bread-shoe contraption
Mozzarella bap disaster
Nosebleed on a plank
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Beans ‘on’ toast
aka ‘Fish On A Plank’
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Hipster emojis
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Greg Wallace’s garden trowel
Fish on a tree stump
Upside-down umbrella
Artist’s palette wrap
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