40 Discombobulated diners who just wanted plates, but got these messed-up meals instead

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 9, 2022 3:00 PM EST

These diners got way more than they bargained for after going to certain fancy-pants restaurants! Clearly, restaurants see the trend of photographing your dinner, and want to make people's meals as photogenic as possible. They've really come up with some, um, interesting ways of displaying their meals. 

Would you still eat your meal if it came in a slipper, though? Could you "do it for the 'gram," as they say? These diners are brave for eating off these weirdo serving trays, from clipboards to VHS cassettes. Keep scrolling to check out the dinners of these surprised foodies who just wanted normal plates. 

Next up, click here to read about these people whose brains are forever changed by being chronically online. 

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    Asparagus taking a ride in a mini cart on a plank with a lemon wedge (?)

    Food - (Pic: @ClemMurphy) TIRISSOJINNI BURGERS
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    Food - "Your amuse-bouche. "Is that a real cactus?" "It is a real cactus. Sign here." "A real cactus." "Sign the disclaimer form, sir." Sign here." (Pic: Tom Staroscinski)
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    They didn't even peel the oranges AND you have to juice them yourself? Check, please

    Hat - tWe Want Plates Retweeted . We Want Plates @WeWantPlates · Aug 20, 2018 "Welcome to the Lazy Chef Cafe, what can I get you?" "An orange juice, please." (Pic: @justandrea) WE WANT PLATES NO 20 [9001 ANIYS ons is bes
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    Font - "Hi, we asked for the bill." "We brought it." "Where is it?" "It's under the raspberries." "Under the raspberries is a rock." "The bill is under the rock." [blinks] (Pic: @ruthreed01)
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    I physically could not eat off a skateboard

    Tableware - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Jul 20, 2016 Call us cynical, but we don't believe this skateboard will see the inside of a dishwasher. (Pic: @GabrielGTweets)
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    Clothing - (Pic: Ged Richter)
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    Food - tWe Want Plates Retweeted Alex Lomas @alexlomas Feb 23 Just caught a TV chef serve gravy out of a pipe. @WeWant Plates BNC 0:01 38.7K views
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    Font - We Want Plates joe@goulcher Saw these condiment udders last night and can't stop thinking about them. triggered my fight or flight response Retweeted Nov 29, 2021 KETCHUP MUSTARD THE OG HAUS THE WINTER VILLAGE ERO w – TRUPILE & PARMESA MAYO -THE- DOG HI -YORKSHIRE B £5.50 - CURRYNURST £1.9 - VEGAN F ¿ TRUFFLE E :
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    Table - Not since the one-eyed taco Chihuahua have we been so torn as to whether a serving method should be mandatory or banned. (Pic: @HannahM_73)
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    So much grass for so little food!

    Plant - WE WANT PLATES we wan ridles Retweeled We Want Plates @WeWantPlates Aug 14, 2017 "Here's your pork, sir." "Where?" "In the trough." "What?" "The trough." "Eh?" "On the chute." "Eh?" "In the grass." (Pic: @UKChris1982) ...
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    This person got their food on a license plate with a side of chipped yellow paint

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    If only there was a way to hold liquidy foodstuffs...

    Food - (Pic: @stakgeorge)
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    I'd lose my appetite

    Food - (Pic: @LilMissCakes) CRUDO OPCORN SHOOTS, ANANAS SALSA CEVICHE NGER, SOY, LIME, YUZU OT AT LIQUID JELLY, SEAS FFLE ALAS NISE FRIED GOH YAKI, CRISPY RICE CUBE TONAL POACHED CELERY SAGE, TARTAR. CORNICHONS PRY GINGER COULIS ALMOND FOAM
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    Food - (Pic: @EliotLandrum) 2 PINT 2/3 CUP Vs CUP
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    Food - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Apr 30, 2019 If only someone would invent a kind of skewer device for eating corn on the cob. (Pic: @isobelblaikie) ad
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    This croc actually does look clean, but could you trust it?

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    New rule: plate should not be more than 10x bigger than the actual food

    Plant - (Pic: Gina Murphy)
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    Food - (Pic: @DARRENR6)
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    One fed-up chef said, "Assemble it yourself"

    Food - (Pic: @Cuff76) 854
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    Does this count as a trifle?

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    The danger makes it tastier

    Wood - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates · Oct 12, 2017 CHEFS! Turn brownies into expensive brownies by simply serving them on a plank with a broken glass. (Pic: @pollianicus) :
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    Font - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Jan 14, 2017 Chicken tikka staircase and chutney cupboard at the Tourist Janpath Hotel, New Delhi. A CHUTNEY CUPBOARD. (Pic: @philipotts) LPG Chiquid fotelin LEWIN AM
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    Wood - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Mar 5, 2017 "Would you like your egg boiled, poached or scrambled?" "Boiled and balanced on a 15mm isolating ball valve, please." (Pic: @lucyfishwife)
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    A poor excuse for fish n' chips

    Food - Pic: Simon Spence)
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  • 25

    Sadness personified

    Food - SN cantina breakfast Sorry but no substitutions or -9.00am to 11.30am FRESH MAPLE PORRIDGE COCONUT PL PETIT DEJEUN YANKEE PANCAKE FRENCH CINNAMON BREAKFAST BLT Toast EGGS SCRAMBLE TICO HAST
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    Macaroons served on a VHS???

    Food - MCA HOME VIDEO STEVE MARTIN TOM HULCE RICK MORANIS MARTHA PLIMPION KEANU REEVES JASON ROBARDS MARY STEENBURGEN DIANNE WEST Parenthood It could happen to you. Parenthood HI FI ENGINE ENTEXTUA 162 STEREO (Pic: @ChrisWhyard)
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    Plant - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates · Oct 20, 2017 "Welcome to the Michael Jackson Fan Convention, enjoy the buffet." "Thanks. I'm starting with the ham on the mirror." (Pic: @Trowners)
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    Absolutely not

    Food - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Oct 4, 2017 The Bread Slippers of Switzerland are still a thing. (Pic: @seis_matters)
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    Drinkware - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates • Nov 29, 2016 "How would you like your iced coffee?" "Deconstructed and served on a child's book, please." (Pic: Lyn Nguyen) ܫܢܐ de Golden Brink PR Grus :
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    The beans in a 1/2 cup measuring spoon has me weak

    Food - t We Want Plates Retweeted Henry Bennett @islandwall Nov 27, 2021 Terrible business this plate. Ffs @WeWant Plates
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    Food - (Pic: @lesleyrdunlop)
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    Fearful on several levels

    Food - We Want Plates @WeWant Plates Mar 22, 2019 "Today's special is Dangerous Fish." "Why's it dangerous?" "If the splinters don't get you the fish hook will." (Pic: @lamLilyP)
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    Food - Ciar @CiarMcKinley Should be a disclaimer on the menu telling you what your food will be served on so I coulda avoided eating my dinner aff a f. shovel tonight. @WeWant Plates . Jul 26, 2021 9-1
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    These noodles are surrounded by two live goldfish, just swimming around, living their lives

    Food - மடுபடி To 0:04 136.4K views rom Fine Dining Explorer 1000
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    Plant - Paul Dawson @Mrpauldawson Jul 16, 2021 Last night I went out for dinner and ordered chicken in a basket. It arrived in a chicken shaped basket and was impossible to eat @TheCarlWheatley @WeWant Plates XX
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    Wood - (Pic: @AstridsTaste)
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    Tire - BODDOG SUPER TRUCK B A CONSTR UCTION SUPER CAT HEAVY MACHINE CH2 22 SUPE ມone> ฮ SUP compo SUP
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    Food - We Want Plates Retweeted syed t. hoda @01sth02 Nov 4, 2021 go to a restaurant order cauliflower and it turns up on a truck! LAER fk
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    Creative!

    Tableware - (Pic: @megoizzy)
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    Photograph - We Want Plates Will @lfc_arrow Look at the f . Retweeted May 29, 2021 glasses in here 0000000
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