I remember that I once wrote that serving is a very important thing. Moreover, the setting is not the table itself (I do not understand it at all, I confess honestly, I constantly try to close this gap somehow, but it does not work, because the number of devices is scary), but the dishes. Its, so to speak, decoration, if the blues are not served in portions. Or serving it on a plate, if everything is in portions.
Food that looks good on a plate induces an appetite, even if the person does not feel special piety for the products from which it is prepared. Let me give you an example from my Soviet childhood: in Jurmala (do not ask the name of the station, because I don’t remember) in ancient times there was a children's cafe, on the second floor, it seems, of an entertainment center for children. So, in that cafe they served mushroom cutlets. Two small cutlets, decorated in the form of forest mushrooms, in truth, were inedible (hard minced meat, a piece of sausage in the middle, for stability), but everyone ordered them (at least once), and even ate them - it's interesting, it's so cool filed!
Here we must pay tribute - the cutlets themselves looked pretty.
But it so happens that a person tries his best to decorate food, but he gets something that causes a gag reflex.
Most often this happens if the creativity is raging, if a person is guided by folk wisdom "The need for invention is cunning", or if he has a sense of humor... on the humorometer, "red label ".
For some reason, salads and cakes most often become victims of such decorations. A little less often - ordinary "hot" dishes.
Here's a salad. Looking at him I feel like a cannibal. No need to make salads in the form of faces! And in the form of body parts, too.
In the comments I read the story of how the herring was served on the table under a fur coat. A tail protruded from one end of the plate, a head from the other. The appetite of eaters disappeared instantly, because it looked... not very.
I'll tell you a secret - the head and tail are not the worst thing that can be done with a herring under a fur coat.
How do you like this option?
However, you can scoff at any food. I got baked trying to figure out what it is. Is it really a patch?
And here I can't help but write: why is it so with mashed potatoes? Great product, delicious and satisfying. The main thing is to catch up with the eaters and explain to them that the author did not intend anything bad. By the way, the creator of this sculpture is very talented. Olive eyes have penetrated me to the depths of my soul. They are so touchingly gathered in a bunch and look so sadly, as if asking:
- Well, will you really eat me?
Here is also a pig, and I also got it on the Internet.
What do you think, from what?
By the way, very often chickens become objects for creativity (or parts of it). Once, I remember, I happened to see a salad made in the shape of a turtle. A chicken's head stuck out in place of the turtle's head. With a beak, all the cases. And the turtle's paws were decorated with chicken claws. The salad decorated the table, and the audience looked at it in awe. Nobody dared to try it.
No, no, I do not condemn the authors of masterpieces. On the contrary. Serving is important. I'm just saying that this kind of creativity scares me.
By the way, have you had any cases of collision with such "creatives"? And how is the reaction?