Garnishes

[Orang Utan]

Do you eat yours if served with your food in a restaurant?
Do you ever present them on a plate at home?
Are they a lovely way to enhance the presentation of food or a shocking and immoral waste of food/resources?

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes

But don't know why you have to be so binary about it

 

[Orang Utan]

Does the bag of salad in Indian takeaways that no one eats count as a garnish?

 

[bluescreen]

Do you eat yours if served with your food in a restaurant?
Do you ever present them on a plate at home?
Are they a lovely way to enhance the presentation of food or a shocking and immoral waste of food/resources?

Depends what it is (in answer to all three questions).

 

[bluescreen]

Does the bag of salad in Indian takeaways that no one eats count as a garnish?

That counts as a shocking and immoral waste of food.

 

[telbert]

Does the bag of salad in Indian takeaways that no one eats count as a garnish?

Just had one with my chicken madras and I ate the fucking lot.

 

[Pickman's model]

Does the bag of salad in Indian takeaways that no one eats count as a garnish?

Only if you arrange it nicely on your plate at home.

When I get an Indian I only get what I asked for. If you don't want the salad why not say 'i don't want the salad'?

 

[Pickman's model]

Just had one with my chicken madras and I ate the fucking lot.

Maybe Orang Utan is just a picky eater

 

[telbert]

Maybe Orang Utan is just a picky eater

Or i'm just a greedy fucker.

 

[bluescreen]

It does depend on the salad. If it's good I will eat it. But in fairness to OU he was talking about "the salad that no one eats".

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't like to fill up on bread or salad before the main bits of the meal are dispensed with. Might eat them afterwards, but usually not

 

[Orang Utan]

I always eat garnishes in restaurants cos I'm right and I'll eat everything edible that's on my plate. But I draw the line at takeaway salad.

 

[Orang Utan]

It does depend on the salad. If it's good I will eat it. But in fairness to OU he was talking about "the salad that no one eats".

It's never good - iceberg lettuce with watery tomatoes and raw onions

 

[Orang Utan]

Only if you arrange it nicely on your plate at home.

When I get an Indian I only get what I asked for. If you don't want the salad why not say 'i don't want the salad'?

Never remember as I only eat takeaways occasionally.

 

[bluescreen]

Never remember as I only eat takeaways occasionally.

After this thread you will remember.

 

[Pickman's model]

Never remember as I only eat takeaways occasionally.

In that case you are making a conscious decision to waste food.

 

[telbert]

We were once presented with a swan carved out of water melon in a Chinese restaurant and the waiter made a massive deal of it, saying the chef had just made it for us. After we had finished the food on the platter my mate started fucking about with the swan and he discovered written on the bottom in biro were the words " We were served this on (yesterdays date) and it wasn't fresh then".

 

[eatmorecheese]

The salad on a ruby takeaway should be eaten on fragments of poppadom with raita drizzled on it alongside the pakora/kebab starter. In no way can this be classed as 'garnish'.

 

[moose]

I often eat the garnish at a buffet if, as often happens, there's nothing else for the egg-averse vegetarian.

In restaurants, I'm sometimes suspicious it might be second hand

 

[ringo]

I'll eat it if its a proper bit of salad and goes with the dish. Not if its just a randon sprig of parsley which has no place with the food its been plonked on. Its a pointless waste and annoys:

 

[danny la rouge]

It does depend on the salad. If it's good I will eat it. But in fairness to OU he was talking about "the salad that no one eats".

I've only ever been served "the salad that gets eaten" by an Indian restaurant. I may use different outlets.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've only ever been served "the salad that gets eaten" by an Indian restaurant. I may use different outlets.

You eat the grim salad in a plastic bag?

 

[danny la rouge]

You eat the grim salad in a plastic bag?

I've never been offered a grim salad in a plastic bag.

The Indian takeaway I use sends a foil box with a cardboard lid, containing lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, red onions and lemon.

 

[oneflewover]

Does the bag of salad in Indian takeaways that no one eats count as a garnish?

On a saturday night shift we always get an Indian takeaway, generally about 10 of us. Free poppadoms, coke, sauces and salad.

Only the salad gets left, all of it.

 

[souljacker]

I have the salad with the starter. It's nice with kofti kebabs, baajis or on the popadoms.

 

[krtek a houby]

I'll eat as much as I possibly can & anything left goes in the doggy bad

 

[Thimble Queen]

The salad should just be onions and tomatoes and should have vinegar, chilli powder and salt on it.

 

[campanula]

Cannot recall a single example of using a garnish. If it is on the plate - it's food...to be eaten, not admired.

 

[tim]

I'll eat it if its a proper bit of salad and goes with the dish. Not if its just a randon sprig of parsley which has no place with the food its been plonked on. Its a pointless waste and annoys:

As a child I used to think that the little sprig of parsley was the best tasting thing on the plate, and wonder why we didn't eat a lot more of it. This was before non-curly parsley became popular.

As I write, I'm musing about why I don't eat much more parsley than I do.

 

[Cid]

You eat the grim salad in a plastic bag?

Never come across this. What kind of salad? in which region is it commonly served?