Teh One Who Knocks
08-24-2017, 10:48 AM
By Joshua Barrie - The Mirror
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Scallops in umbrellas and eggs on old clipboards, salads in barrels and quiche served on long swords, entire portions of crisps put in miniature bins, these aren't a few of our favourite things.
Welcome to dining in 2017. Chefs and restaurateurs think it reasonable to deliver fish and chips to customers by way of a Wellington boot.
That's not to say people don't get emotional. When a Cardiff cafe started doing jam jar cooked breakfasts, insults were thrown. We chatted to the owner at the opening. He was quite convincing.
Yet only 18 per cent of the British public think jam jars acceptable, according to new YouGov statistics. That's just one per cent higher than garden shovels – a worryingly common reciprocal for food these days.
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YouGov recently showed 2,030 Brits a series of unconventional, though real, eating vessels. The results would likely make MasterChef judge William Sitwell, who in 2014 described square plates as "an abomination" – only circular will do – throw his risotto at the dessert trolley.
The research was partly inspired by Twitter feed We Want Plates , which angrily documents many of the bizarre methods of serving food to diners.
YouGov presented the figures positively – saying that "fewer than one in ten Brits (9%) say it is acceptable to serve food in a shoe."
And adding: "A dog bowl is the second-most inappropriate plate replacement. The overwhelming majority of Brits take exception to eating from the same type of dish as Fido and Rex, with just one in ten (10%) saying it was an acceptable thing to eat food from."
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But hold on. That means one in ten of us think it entirely reasonable to eat their fashionable fried chicken out of dog bowls? That seems high.
What's more, nearly 20 per cent think it totally normal to eat out of shovels, while 28 per cent are alright with flooring panels. Flooring panels!
So, were a party of ten to go out for dinner at the new new, posh-looking place round the corner from Jill and Simon's, around three of the group would be happy to receive their steak frites on a piece of B&Q's 'walnut effect' laminate flooring.
More than half are happy for their food to be served in a plant pot (52 per cent).
On a more positive note, 99 per cent of us are happy with circular plates. Presumably the one per cent consume a diet exclusively made up of kale smoothies. 98 per cent are happy with square plates (sorry, Sitwell).
YouGov also suggests a class divide. The majority of Brits back wooden boards and slates (69 and 64 per cent respectively).
However, as YouGov explains: "Both are staples of restaurants and gastropubs attempting to effect a classier atmosphere, and, perhaps as a result, are the only two vessels on which there is a noticeable difference between working and middle class opinion.
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"Those in the ABC1 social grades (middle class) are 12 percentage points more likely to consider slates acceptable than those in the C2DE social grades (working class), and 8 points more likely when it comes to wooden boards."
The middle classes ruin most things, to be fair. Also: millennials. According to the results, younger generations are more open to the more peculiar, untoward mechanisms.
https://i.imgur.com/xTMnIT9.jpg
Scallops in umbrellas and eggs on old clipboards, salads in barrels and quiche served on long swords, entire portions of crisps put in miniature bins, these aren't a few of our favourite things.
Welcome to dining in 2017. Chefs and restaurateurs think it reasonable to deliver fish and chips to customers by way of a Wellington boot.
That's not to say people don't get emotional. When a Cardiff cafe started doing jam jar cooked breakfasts, insults were thrown. We chatted to the owner at the opening. He was quite convincing.
Yet only 18 per cent of the British public think jam jars acceptable, according to new YouGov statistics. That's just one per cent higher than garden shovels – a worryingly common reciprocal for food these days.
https://i.imgur.com/pAL39E2.jpg
YouGov recently showed 2,030 Brits a series of unconventional, though real, eating vessels. The results would likely make MasterChef judge William Sitwell, who in 2014 described square plates as "an abomination" – only circular will do – throw his risotto at the dessert trolley.
The research was partly inspired by Twitter feed We Want Plates , which angrily documents many of the bizarre methods of serving food to diners.
YouGov presented the figures positively – saying that "fewer than one in ten Brits (9%) say it is acceptable to serve food in a shoe."
And adding: "A dog bowl is the second-most inappropriate plate replacement. The overwhelming majority of Brits take exception to eating from the same type of dish as Fido and Rex, with just one in ten (10%) saying it was an acceptable thing to eat food from."
http://i.imgur.com/6MJ9Iho.png
http://i.imgur.com/izoTSQi.png
But hold on. That means one in ten of us think it entirely reasonable to eat their fashionable fried chicken out of dog bowls? That seems high.
What's more, nearly 20 per cent think it totally normal to eat out of shovels, while 28 per cent are alright with flooring panels. Flooring panels!
So, were a party of ten to go out for dinner at the new new, posh-looking place round the corner from Jill and Simon's, around three of the group would be happy to receive their steak frites on a piece of B&Q's 'walnut effect' laminate flooring.
More than half are happy for their food to be served in a plant pot (52 per cent).
On a more positive note, 99 per cent of us are happy with circular plates. Presumably the one per cent consume a diet exclusively made up of kale smoothies. 98 per cent are happy with square plates (sorry, Sitwell).
YouGov also suggests a class divide. The majority of Brits back wooden boards and slates (69 and 64 per cent respectively).
However, as YouGov explains: "Both are staples of restaurants and gastropubs attempting to effect a classier atmosphere, and, perhaps as a result, are the only two vessels on which there is a noticeable difference between working and middle class opinion.
http://i.imgur.com/5Zed7Nw.png
"Those in the ABC1 social grades (middle class) are 12 percentage points more likely to consider slates acceptable than those in the C2DE social grades (working class), and 8 points more likely when it comes to wooden boards."
The middle classes ruin most things, to be fair. Also: millennials. According to the results, younger generations are more open to the more peculiar, untoward mechanisms.