The worst things restaurants have used instead of plates

It is time for the most natural of partners to unite once again: restaurants and plates.

If you're wondering when they ever parted ways, just pop into a hipster dining establishment and get ready to walk out horrified, confused and exhausted.

Whether wooden slabs, wicker baskets or roof slates, here are the worst offenders shared by Redditors in the name of the global crusade against wannabe plates: We Want Plates.

You've got to be as dumb as a rock to think this is a good idea.

Hopefully it was an accident and there's a pile of laundry in the bowl where the ravioli is meant to be.

This is satire, right?

This is sad proof that you're not safe even with a plate.

It's not just the customers who want plates.

Spot the second drink nestled by the fries.

How do you even come up with something like this? And more importantly, why?

Enjoy your dessert off the pavement when it inevitably falls off this doomed construction.

Did a 5-year old trying to hide the fact they've dropped their ice lolly invent this?

More: This restaurant is closed, for an extremely good reason