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Making people plates of food VS letting them help themselves.

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  • #52
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I grew up with the "help yourselves" version, no matter if it was just dinner for the family of a full-flung party.
    Back home, even restaurants catering for a large group will sometimes opt for this, and put the big plates and bowls on the table so people can take whatever they want.

    I've only seen the plating up thing on "Come Dine With Me", and I suspected that people doing this in real life were just aping their telly, but apparently there is a sort of tradition of this...
    Strange.


  • #53
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Prefer to have it on a plate myself, pain in the hole leaning over the table, or getting up every time I want to get something.

    You need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Romanoff-Products-Inc-34301-Spintray/dp/B0000X60QK/ref=sr_1_22?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1357644773&sr=1-22&keywords=large

    In the States some restaurant serve shared plates to large groups in restaurants and call it "family style". There's no designated starter or main, it's kind of like tapas, the different dishes come out one after another and you just grab a portion or two of whatever takes your fancy.


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