“I Wish I Was Joking”: 50 Times People Were So Stunned By Food Presentation They Had To Take A Pic (New Pics)

“The benches, painted bright pink and yellow, sat on top of tables seating actual grown adults. And what was the first thing these infantilized diners did? It wasn’t try the food—it was whip out their phones and take a picture,” he shared with Bored Panda.

“Over the following months, the picnic benches became increasingly popular, coinciding with the specials board becoming progressively smaller, before it eventually disappeared altogether.”

“I sat there one Sunday, watching bench after garish bench emerge from the kitchen like a technicolor carnival of idiocy, before my usual roast arrived. The meat was cold, and the potatoes were burnt. It was once their main Sunday trade, but the traditional roast had died an unpalatable death. But that’s OK because they were doing a roaring trade with the benches, right? Sure, until the pub down the road started doing them too. Then the one around the corner,” the creator of ‘We Want Plates’ revealed how the trend quickly went viral.

“Before you know it, everyone’s doing the same ‘quirky’ thing, except it’s not ‘quirky’ anymore because you can’t move for mini picnic benches and now all their roast dinners are rubbish to boot.”

According to McGiness, the very worst thing that he’s personally encountered was a piece of cake served on a table tennis bat in Barcelona, around 2008. “It still gives me sleepless nights,” he quipped.

We’d love to hear from you, Pandas! Which of these plating disasters made you laugh or cringe the hardest?

Why do you think restaurants try to pull nonsense like this?

What is the weirdest thing that your food has been placed on when dining out?

Have you ever had any food placed on random and weird items that actually kind of worked aesthetically?

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