CHEFS! Stop food sliding onto tables by serving it on non-slip industrial flooring.
Or, y’know, plates.
Pic: Rob Wyborn
You could eat your dinner off that floor
We Want Plates – The Book
An hilarious and infuriating collection of the best pictures from the We Want Plates archives, plus unseen material.
A social media phenomenon on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the online crusade has collected thousands of pictures of absurd, unexpected, and downright stomach-churning occasions that restaurants have shunned the ordinary plate, including soup in a stiletto, bread in a flat cap, beef Wellington on barbed wire, prawns in an iron and a phone box sandwich.
The book includes an introduction by Ross McGinnes – the man behind the crusade – and a foreword by the Sunday Times’ restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin.
Where to buy it
You can buy the book online from Amazon, Waterstones, The Book Depository and Hive, or pop into one of those lovely buildings called book shops and speak to an actual person.
Information
- Format: Hardback | 112 pages
- Dimensions: 120 x 170mm
- Publication date: 06 Nov 2017
- Publisher: PRESTEL
- Language: English
- Colour illustrations: 88
- ISBN10 3791384287
- ISBN13 9783791384283
Bread in a commode
“Table for two, please.”
“Table for three? Certainly.”
“No, there’s only two of us.”
“One chair’s for the bread.”
Pic: @alexbean
We’re in the wrong job
‘Smashed Martini’ nonsense
CHEFS! Turn brownies into expensive brownies by simply serving them on a plank with a broken glass.
(Legal note: it’s actually plastic. SO THAT’S ALRIGHT…)
Pic: @pollianicus
RSI from an RSJ
VACANCY
Waiter required to carry burgers on Rolled Steel Joists.
£8 per hour.
No sick leave for back problems.
Pic: Jon Russell
DIY salad
Your salad arrives on a plate.
But it’s also in a plant pot.
With a pair of secateurs.
And you cut it yourself.
Pic: @jenvmcclure
Boiled egg plumbing new depths
“Would you like your egg boiled, poached or scrambled?”
“Boiled and balanced on a 15mm isolating ball valve, please.”
Pic: @lucyfishwife
Obligatory mini desk lamp
If only someone would invent a thing…
If only someone would invent a round, ceramic vessel with a lip to prevent custard spillage.
Pic: @stakgeorge