Dear bars and restaurants, we do genuinely appreciate how hard you try to impress us. After the pandemic hit, it has been a continuous struggle to save your business and attract both workers and clients. So it’s only normal to put that extra bit of effort into everything, from the thoughtful playlist to premium Marseille soap in the bathroom.

Some restaurant owners and chefs take the dining experience up to the next level and come up with very ingenious ways to serve their food. Think of starters served straight on the table, croquettes served in an iron mask and no, I am not kidding.

Thanks to the internet’s beloved We Want Plates project founded by Ross McGinnes back in 2015, we now have a crazy collection of absurd food servings to scroll through. “It’s the global crusade against serving food on bits of wood and roof slates, chips in mugs and drinks in jam jars,” says its description and hey, thanks for the public service, you guys.

Psst! More hilarious food servings from We Want Plates can be found in our previous posts here, here and here.

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#1 Quality Postmodernism

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#2 The Juices Dripped Onto My Legs Through That Nice Crack In The Board

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#3 This Rose Flavored Chocolate Dessert That You Have To Lick Off Your Hands! (Miami)

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#4 Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition

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#5 Multi-Flavor Pizza Served In A Tire

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#6 You Could Order Barbie Meat At A Chinese Hot Pot Restaurant My Sis-In-Law Went To Last Night

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#7 So I Went To Alinea This Weekend

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#8 Pasta, Sauce, Bread. In A Wire Cone

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#9 Breakfast In A Egg Carton

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#10 Dinner With A Side Of Tetanus Anyone?

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#11 A Friend Ordered Tiramisu In Scotland. Why Sugar The Lid?

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#12 Friend Of Mine Went To A Restaurant And Their Starter Came In A Book

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#13 Plates Shouldn’t Fall Over When You Stab Them With A Fork

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#14 Uhm.. How Do I Drink It..?

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#15 Our Corn Chips Came In A Rusty Bucket

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#16 The Croquette In The Iron Mask

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#17 Lunch Served On A Heavy Stone? I Felt Bad For My Server Who Had To Carry It

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#18 Crepes Served As Babushka Barbe

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#19 My Meal Was Served In A Folded License Plate. I Mean I Guess It Is A Plate In A Way

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#20 Friend’s Mother Went To A Restaurant And Got A Glass Of Pasta! Upside Down!

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#21 A Bottle Of Fish

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#22 On A Cleaver…

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#23 My Boyfriends Ice-Cream Came In A Little Metal Tub, But Mine Came In A Little Plastic Wheelbarrow

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#24 Twigs And Moss

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#25 I’d Send This Back. This Replaced An Amazing Restaurant In My Town That Was Killed By Covid

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#26 Spaghetti-No

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#27 Pasta Flight, Ended Up Everywhere

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#28 My “Flying“ Noodles. They Where Cold Within A Minute

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#29 Steak Pie In A Jar…

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#30 Kids Food On Dvd-Case (Photo From Restaurants Own Page)

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#31 Soup In A Burnt Cabbage

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#32 Removing Splinters With Greasy Fingers

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#33 We Want Tables?

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#34 I Swear, It’s A Chocolate Mousse And Pop-Corn On A Wooden Board….

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#35 Flattened Chips Due To The Weight

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#36 I Guess We Are Serving Fish On Fish Bones?!

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#37 Aah Yes, I Finally Experienced The Classic Shovel Plate

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#38 An Actual Non Stick Pan, Instead Of A Plate

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#39 This Would Be Embarrassing

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#40 So This Is Supposed To Be The Best Way To Eat Caviar…

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