Why do they serve food like this?

I have a cup just like this that I use to add wood shavings to my compost toilet.

This picture makes me uncomfortable.

Shovels... Tile Slates. I miss WeWantPlates but not going back to reddit for it.

Apparently we haven't worked out the perfect receptacle for eating ice cream so a flat tile has been proven to be the optimal way to eat it... just like famously we eat pasta from mugs...?

On a cold winter day, I like to cozy up by the fireplace with a blanket and a piping hot mug of macaroni

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This is nowhere near the worst that I've seen in WeWantPlates.

You do realize it's actually easier to eat macaroni that way right you don't have little pieces running away from you so it's easier to eat every last bit.

I usually eat like this at home when there’s no clean bowl.

It's also a good way to look like you got a lot of food when you really didn't.

That'll be easy to eat. A handle to hold it and if you use a spoon, dead easy to scoff the lot.

I would appreciate this if this was a drive through order and you're somehow eating on the go. But at a sit-down restaurant... This is annoying.

They can charge more and laugh at you.

Requesting a /c/wewantplates! ... lol.

They do that because the plates are occupied with the soup atm.

Stop your whinging and drink your macaroni, Carl.

So that people give them free advertising by taking pictures and putting it on their social media.

And so that the kind of people who post photos of their food on social media will come there for the pictures, not the food.

Because apparently we are animals with muzzles. I’d ask for a plate and then dump it onto the plate in front of them and be like “see? Not that hard”

Could be worse, like a funnel or something decorative that's not dishwasher safe

"Hey Bob, I've run out of pasta bowls... Where should I put this macaroni, on a plate or somethin?"
"Nah man, watch this!"

Is the bowl hot? Is the handle less hot?

Maybe it's so you can drag the bowl around without touching the hot bit. ... Kinda like the handle on a cup of hot tea/coffee/cocoa?

Someone threw all the plates away in the forest

It'll stay hot longer with less surface area exposed to the open air compared to a bowl, which you might've been expecting. Mug > bowl > plate

That's frustrating to look at.

Because nobody got time to clean the dishes. Only mugs left.