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Food on paper napkin on plate

Putting food on a paper napkin (serviettes, tissues, whatever) on a plate in cafes. What’s the point? You have to pull the napkin out from under the food, and it’s then unusable because of the grease or crumbs on it.

Please feel free to comment.

Posted on Mar 29, 2015Jul 27, 2017 by mrmeaningPosted in Stupid and pointless trendsTagged #foodonnapkin, #napkinunderfood, #stupidtrends. Leave a comment
  • About Soothfairy – the overshare
  • Sonnet 18: Shakespeare in love – with himself
  • Mirror, mirror – the narcissistic universe
  • Colour me racist, blame my genes – racism explained as a redundant instinct
  • Jackson Browne & Daryl Hannah
  • Whatever happened to Black Lives Matter?
  • Identity politics – fun with Foucault
  • A brief history of the UK’s brutal colonisation of Ireland, and its troubled aftermath
  • Gingerism – the acceptable face of racism?
  • Decolonise this – the dark side of the Enlightenment
  • Asian, Indian, Pakistani – what’s in a name?
  • Is it OK to say ‘mixed-race’? No. But…
  • Forward to the Past – hunting and gathering as a leisure activity
  • We’re all normal and we want our freedom
  • I’m a woke dirty old man
  • Universal Basic Income is too basic
  • Alice and Pooh and Madame Blavatsky
  • As any fule kno…
  • Tell the truth then, Soothfairy
  • lockdown is like the end of the world
  • Coronavirus – Soothfairy speaks
  • More tea, Vicar?
  • The ineffable
  • Here we are again
  • A solution to Brexit
  • Four EU freedoms are indivisible, said Verhofstadt – but Blair’s mobility of cheap labour is no freedom
  • Halo Goodbye, Suu – the Rohingya crisis
  • Brexit and free movement – the east European elephant
  • Fear of Islamophobia
  • Antisemitism – anti-what??
  • Awkward encounters with celebrities
  • Robots could mean leisure
  • Patriotism – for scoundrels
  • The meaning of meaning
  • Driverless cars would need sci-fi AI
  • Loony calendar?
  • Angels?
  • Occupy your mind
  • Brucciani: God the farmer?
  • It’s in the blood
  • All fur coat and trousers
  • Artificial stupidity again
  • Bernie Sanders – can he be a socialist, please?
  • Boring actors
  • Consciousness, anyhow
  • Corbyn supporters repeatedly trashed by Guardian
  • Drugs – good, bad and beautiful
  • Beware the talking animal
  • Food on paper napkin on plate
  • George Clooney, baby killer
  • God is a mixed metaphor
  • Heaven
  • The super-rich – law and order
  • Liberal leader equates Jeremy Corbyn to Donald Trump
  • Neanderthals – not thugs
  • Old people – youth vampires
  • Somehow, consciousness
  • AI fake news – Turing test (not) passed
  • Victoria Park morning

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