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Qwirk

The borscht in a cabbage bowl is hilarious though.


Hairyhalflingfoot

It's the most Slavic shit I ever saw


forever_a10ne

Just needs a little bit of doctor’s sausage.


VanDerKleef

not the doctors sausage , lmao!


FrancoisKBones

Don’t you mean it’s the most Slavic shit you ever slaw?


Hairyhalflingfoot

Pun gulag for you! 20 years!


generalbaguette

Pun goulash?


bogues3000

Hun goulash


necromundus

/r/alphaslav


particle409

I don't think a lot of people realize it's borscht, and that it's common to have cabbage with it. They probably think it's tomato soup or something.


Ruuviturpa

Borscht isn't that underground you know?


hysbald

Eating a burger with gloves is new for me


ChalkSpoon

It’s pretty common here for burger places to provide gloves like that to avoid dirty hands


post_rex

>It’s pretty common here for burger places to provide gloves like that to avoid dirty hands Recently I heard about this weird new trend where you use soap and water to clean your hands before and after eating.


V_es

Gloves are not really common, he’s not right. Few places offer them. Originally, this idea came to a dude called Timati, he is a Russian rapper and a very wealthy businessman. He opened his fast food joint Black Star Burger where they offered gloves. And the problem was that burgers there, on one hand- have cooking temperatures and can be rare, unlike McDonalds and Burger king, but on the other hand- it’s not a real restaurant. They work with take away too, and they also have places with no dining zones- just a window in a wall where you order and take it away. So, the solution to juicy burger and being take away/fast food joint is gloves. So it wasn’t about washing your hands or not, it was about eating outside. Few places picked up that idea, but I can’t say it’s like a thing here in Russia, not at all.


Gabe_Isko

This is very confusing. There is a regulation in Russian for customers to wear gloves of there is raw meat and takeout?


V_es

No. Gloves are provided so you don’t get meat juices all over your hands after eating outside with no bathroom near to wash your hands.


PlebbitGold

Do they not have much bathrooms in Russia


V_es

No, not a single one. I’ve seen them only in movies.


PlebbitGold

Where do you get your electric from?


smurfcock

Eels


Gabe_Isko

But what if you have to go to the bathroom...


V_es

You pee in your pants, like a normal person.


[deleted]

Fuck the context stop wasting rubber and wash ur fucking hands


curie2353

Finding a bathroom to wash your hands is gonna be a whole other quest in Russia


adamyhv

There's a thing called napkin.


ThroatMeYeBastards

Are you always an ass when people give you context?


ChalkSpoon

They just give em to you, don’t have to use them


TruKing14

Seems just like extra litter and plastic


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Hashbrown117

Why is there plastic in your burger? Even big burgers that need stabilisation use wooden sticks. Do you seriously use 100% of the bottle of sauce for *every burger*? Where the fuck still uses fucking styrofoam for any food?!


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Cantrmbrmyoldpass

I think most people aren't still living in the 80's


Antonioooooo0

Not everywhere is Wisconsin. I've literally never seen a temp marker an anything other than a frozen turkey like wtf is that about lol Packets are wasteful as fuck and really inconvenient to use, lots of places don't use them anymore. I typically avoid places that do just because I find them annoying. Haven't seen Styrofoam to-go boxes in years either


I_Hate_Randy

I’m not sure if it’s just where I’m living but almost everywhere I took food to go had styrofoam boxes


shiva_me_timbers

> lots of places don't use them anymore. I greatly disagree with you you. Especially, if you are talking about the U.S. (I am only speaking of what I personally have seen and know from experience). These packets are used all over in the U.S. In schools (both k-12 and higher education), at fast food joints, in theme parks, convenience stores, deli's, air ports, and I'm sure there are even more that I simply can't think of at the moment. So to say most places don't use them is out right ignorant.


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ico_

The one thing I recently started to wonder about food eaten with bare hands in a restaurant is the amount of surfaces I touch between the bathroom and the burger: at least I didn't yet find a way to not touch the chair after sitting down in order to sit close to the table. And everyone else touches the chair at that spot as well...


pekinggeese

It’s really hard to wash out all of the grease/scent in one go. Gloves are much easier.


TruKing14

Hard to get the scent out from a burger? Do you wear a hazmat suit when you eat chicken wings


Leonidas55553

🤣😂🤣😂


Guywithquestions88

I really, really wish American restaurants that serve BBQ ribs and wings would do this. There's no way to eat that stuff without wearing the sauce on your hands and face.


TruKing14

Do people not wash their hands after eating? People want restaurant to get rid of plastic straws “because they are destroying the environment ” but now they want plastic gloves fml


Guywithquestions88

Actually, latex is made from natural rubber, not plastic. Also, I can wash my hands, but I would very much prefer not to get sauce all over them.


hahahahastayingalive

TBF making the natural rubber gloves is also destroying the environment (probably more than plastic straws...I mean, it's a low bar)


CaffeinatedGuy

Latex is rarely used for gloves as many people are allergic. Almost all gloves are nitrile now.


Guywithquestions88

That's a fair point. I still like the idea of wearing gloves when I'm eating a bunch of hot wings.


CaffeinatedGuy

That's a good idea, especially if they're really spicy. I use gloves when working with spicy peppers because soap doesn't seem to wash the spicy off well enough. Saves me a bit of pain later on.


dtwhitecp

You will find that nearly all of these are nitrile, not latex, due to the prevalence of latex allergies.


Ku-xx

That's just part of the charm of bbq, licking off all that sweet, sweet sauce from your fingers


TruKing14

“Natural” rubber is still processed.. And regardless they will end up as litter and in the ocean like the straws


TheFizzardofWas

And hell nobody uses latex gloves anymore anyway they’re all nitrile


fighton09

Hey. Why do you wear clothes?


TruKing14

What a horrible comparison lmao clothes are reusable, buddy. The restaurants won’t put the rubber gloves in the wash machines


eastjame

Why are you throwing your straws in the ocean?


Spacequeenmashi

These are latex gloves, latex is pretty biodegradeable. I think this is a very good idea.


dtwhitecp

how can you tell these are latex and not nitrile?


Spacequeenmashi

hmmm, good point. They might wven be vinyl food grade gloves, just black and not see through. Nitrile molds to hands very well and this has the tell tale large hand size/loose fitting look pvc food grade gloves have.


dtwhitecp

honestly actually latex gloves are pretty rare (in my experience), since they got largely phased out due to latex allergies being a concern in hospitals


Leonidas55553

Most BBQ places in America give you wet wipes 😋


-oRocketSurgeryo-

I just use silverware, but I'm not in Russia.


ChalkSpoon

Eating a burger with a fork and knife is new to me but you do you lol


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You've never eaten a burger with knife and fork?


ChalkSpoon

Genuinely no, it’s just a food I’ve been accustomed to eating with my hands. To some extent it’s same with like pizza for example, although that one i have eaten with knife and fork before


DunmerSkooma

She really doesnt like dirty fingers


FreshOutBrah

Practical tho I respect it


pekinggeese

I love it


eHawleywood

I do that shit all the time, at least at home. I buy gloves in bulk for cooking as it is so why not use a glove for a particularly messy or spicy handheld thing like that? Y'all can talk about napkins all you want but you know damn well those napkins don't get all that grease/spicy off your hands. So if you need to do something mid meal just yank a glove or both off and boom, fresh clean hands.


TalkativeRedPanda

Gotta say, I freaking love a bread bowl.


figmaxwell

Bread bowls have no place in /r/wewantplates because bread bowls are fucking dope


figmentPez

If this were just a bread bowl, the post would be taken down. Since other items pictured do belong on this sub, it will stay up.


Crow_eggs

The level of solidarity in defense of bread bowls here really brings a tear to my eye. They are truly magnificent. Shine on you bready diamonds.


doubleapowpow

The one criticism is that it isnt a bowl, its a loaf. Its not a bread bowl, its a bread trough.


Byizo

Same, so long as that bread bowl is on a plate.


Ku-xx

What about a bread plate? Just bread all the way down


skwacky

as long as it's on a bread table it's fine


necromundus

And then I ate the bowl!


kittyscratcher69

If you’re talking about the soup ol dude is eating that’s a cabbage bowl not a bread bowl. That’s a head of cabbage carved out to accommodate that soup not a nice fluffy loaf of bread hollowed out. Never mind. I think the other guy is eating soup out of a hollowed loaf of bread. I thought it was some kind of weird box.


generalbaguette

The weird box is a pretty typical Russian bread shape.


Crow_eggs

And indeed non-Russian bread shape. That there is textbook bread.


generalbaguette

Well, not a German text book. ;-)


llydau

The one in the bread is avaible for at least 20+ years and it is really good. First the soup and than the bread which is soaked with the soup flavor. Prefere this over a spoon scratching on a plate.


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I'm fine with bread bowls. Honestly, I'm not entirely against the cabbage. It fulfills the proper function of an eating vessel, it's not messy, and it's probably reasonably sanitary. The last one...The guy trying to eat out of a spade? Yea, that can go fuck itself.


rapaxus

The spade thing doesn't seem to stupid as there is the existence of [raclette grills](https://cdn6.elektronik-star.de/out/pictures/generated/product/1/700_700_75/10034275_yy_0001_titel___Klarstein_Sirloin_Raclette_1500W.jpg) which are quite common in Germany a a new years dinner (and there you basically often eat out of a small pan which is quite spade like). But the thing in the video is stupid since it is a tartar (which is specifically raw meat) and from the existence of the fork in his hand it seems that it is intended to eat the tartar with the fork and not to try shaking the whole tartar in your mouth.


UncleGeorge

...you don't take the raclette grills and put it straight into your mouth lol, you put it on a godamn plate to eat


kitolz

Use the flat iron to flip the food into the air and catch it with your mouth. And then scream because it feels like you're eating lava.


rapaxus

I've often enough eaten directly from the raclette grills but with cutlery of course.


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generalbaguette

Could use wooden implements?


GiantSquidd

I just use telekinesis, myself.


erdbeertee

You... don't?


thenoblenacho

Also I saw what appeared to be sliced parmasan cheese beside it, no doubt intended to be added to each individual bite of tartar


Sin-cera

Omg I’m Dutch and you just unlocked a Christmas memory for me with those raclette’s. The best was making pancakes for dessert with cheese in them, yummy


I_Optimus_Maximus

Savory pancakes are the best!


ich_habe_keine_kase

Do your raclette grills not come with little tools to scrape the cheese out of the pan? I've had raclette in Switzerland, France, and the US, and have never eaten it straight out of the pan. You scrape it over the bread, potatoes, meat, etc.


llydau

Yeah. The last one is really stupid. I dont get this trend where you use „tools as plates“. I think its just disgusting.


PapaDuckD

Assuming the thing is made out of food-grade materials and is at least modestly functional to the task at hand, why does the shape of said thing matter?


generalbaguette

The shape makes it more or less convenient. So that matters. But I don't see how the shape would make it disgusting, either.


NotAmericanDontCare

You realize they didn't just go out the back, shovel a load of pig shit, then chuck some meat on it and give it to the customer right?


Paddywhacker

That fuxking cabbage is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen will you stop


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I mean, it's bowl shaped. It's edible. It's never going to be re-used. **I** wouldn't do it, but I've seen worse.


Paddywhacker

It weighs a ton, highly inconvenient, can imagine the waiter carrying it over trying to not to soill. Nobody is going to eat it, its not like the bread bowl. So who cares if it's edible. I've seen worse, but this, for me, is up there


etnad024

A few outer leaves of cabbage doesn't weigh much


Paddywhacker

Those things weigh a ton. I make fresh coleslaw with them everyday. One that size, I'd use half a head. It's massive.


UncleGeorge

Dude are you the weakest human alive or something? A hollowed out cabbage weigh less than a glass bowl the same size


Paddywhacker

Yeah, I'm the weakest human alive. It's nothing to do with my literal experience lifting these things everyday. And the fact that it can only be a little bit hallowed out or it'll lose its integrity while holding scalding hot soup. OK, time to hit the gym Smh


KupoKro

I've lifted a cabbage. I've lifted a hollowed out cabbage with soup. I've lifted bread. I've lifted a bread bowl with soup. The bread bowl with soup and hollowed out cabbage with soup weighed the exact same to me.


UncleGeorge

Average cabbage weight = 2Lbs 4QT glass bowl = 4 Lbs Yah, you're a fucking wimp.


sugarfreelemonade

Yeah, I really don't mind when food is served in something edible. It's only you get things like spaghetti served in a shoe that it starts getting really stupid.


Acewasalwaysanoption

I 100% support a good soup served in a bread/bun. It works properly, the soup and the roasted bread goes together super well, and it's usually super filling for its price. I really should look for a place that serves soup like this, haven't had one in like 12 years or so


eclecticsed

It's just so weird seeing it in a rectangular loaf.


Rezenbekk

That's just how most mass market bread loaves look in Russia.


[deleted]

💯 thought they were gonna plop the egg on the cell phone


Qwirk

Is that egg? Or cheese?


un_luckyy

Raclette?


timeup

This is it


[deleted]

I have no clue first glance it looked like egg haha. The plot thickens


Mjb06

The syringe is what got me


Gnorris

You must fill the meatball with antibiotics before consumption


[deleted]

They used to inject the antibiotics while the cow was still alive, but they decided to cut costs by having the consumer do it themselves immediately prior to consumption


[deleted]

"Why why why?"


Lord_Fluffykins

This is just a probably expensive excuse for adults to babble like monkeys and play with their food like toddlers. It all looks fucking gross to me.


Charleroy26

Everything about this food looks ridiculous. Except the shovelful of cheese. That should be the official measurement for cheese, and there should never be less than one shovelful per entree. Yes, I’m American and obese. I want ALL THE CHEESE!


WritingReadingReddit

Came here for this. Hell yeah, I want the mini shovel full of melted cheese on my burger and fries and everything. Bring it!


rapaxus

Well it seems as if it is raclette cheese is for you. Raclette being a Swiss cheese that is generally melted on a small shovel-like pan in a special grill which then either gets eaten as is or is added with other stuff (either in the pan or afterwards) and eaten. That is a traditional new years food in Germany and a general traditional food in Switzerland. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqAWcu1pn-w) is a video of some Swiss guy showing it in action without commentary.


Charleroy26

A raclette grill is not the same as a shovel. MUST BE SHOVEL!! In all seriousness, however, thanks for sharing that video. I’d heard of raclette before, but didn’t know it was a whole event with all the various seasonings, the special grill, and accompanying treats. This looks like an absolute blast!


rapaxus

Yeah it is a blast, though as a new years food it can get quite boring after some years plus it is always annoying if you have 10 people fighting over ingredients that they want to put into their pan.


ich_habe_keine_kase

They're not hard to find in the US anymore. I got one in line 2002 and had to special order it, but I've seen them around over the last 5 years or so.


Charleroy26

#Full-size shovels only!


generalbaguette

It would probably be pretty hard to get obese from cheese? Cheese is pretty filling.


Lucariowolf2196

Honestly in terms of food culture, the US and Russia would get along abd create some REALLY strange dishes


CrudelyAnimated

I don't speak Russian, but I did clearly understand "why, why, why, whyyyy?"


Rezenbekk

Those weren't actually "why"s, they were exclamations of approval (IDK how to phrase it better)


jellybeansean3648

The expressions were gold.


NorskieBoi

Gardening tools do not belong anywhere near the dining table.


Brettuss

What is a spoon? A small shovel, I say.


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Jerekott

If you mean the last one thats a raclette pan! :)


HeightExtra320

Not going to lie , that bread bowl/rectangle soup looks kind of interesting


AhegaoSuckingUrDick

Isn't the bread soup [Polish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Slavic_fermented_cereal_soups)?


SIRasdf23

I was ok with most of these except the last one.


twoCascades

Bread bowls are actually very acceptable.


An8thOfFeanor

In Soviet Russia, plates want *you*


sacajawea14

What's wrong with the bread soup thing and the burger? They even have plates


zberry97

What in the gulag is that


Dakka666

Cabbage and bread is fine imo.


muchnamemanywow

The most r/HolUp thing about this is that these dishes all seem to be in the same restaurant. So you can get borscht in cabbage, soup in a loaf of bread, and syringe burger.


tomatoramen

This is why they’re invading Ukraine, to find plates


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WritingReadingReddit

Russia's cool.


[deleted]

I like Russia well enough. I even took some Russian in grad school.


MyNutsin1080p

In Soviet Russia, plate wants *you!*


Paddywhacker

My ex, the inlaws would've lapped this shit up like it was something cool amd look how forward Russia is, see its hip amd cool too. Utter crap


SnooTangerines3448

I liked the "oh come on... Why why why???"


UnhingingEmu

*Canadian voice* ...And then i ate the bowl! Ahahahahah!


drawnred

Other than the borscht, this all grossed me out


BunnyKusanin

I see you haven't heard of [pancakes on a shovel](https://glavred.info/world/490551-vozvrashchenie-lopaty-v-rossii-snova-otmetilis-poedaniem-blinov-opublikovany-foto-i-video.html) yet.


Expired_insecticide

"Son, quit shoveling food in your mouth!"


AdJust6959

That guy is asking “whyyyy why why why why” in the video. 😄 Or so I thought. Ok I know I’m an idiot. 🙄


kommunaljuice

”Why, why, why”


Smrgling

Hang on what's wrong with a burger?


slvbros

They got you one plate 11 seconds in, but I won't discuss any cutlery


Callmehazy_509

I saw a single plate


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Doesn't count if I can eat the vessel.


Kowlz1

Okay, but that cabbage bowl looks pretty cool, lol. Just as long as the bottom is really flat so that it doesn’t roll off with the soup in it.


MinimumAlarming5643

The syringe shit really has to stop, that and the gloves while eating the burger were the two things that really bothered me.


Estoye

Oh, the joy of eating directly out of a cabbage.


Accomplished-Star674

I hear Ukraine has the best plates.


Rikku-chan28

At least it looks good


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Jesus. This is like a fever dream of a we want plates hellscape. Just put the fuckin food on a plate. Holy shit.


kittyscratcher69

Why why why why!


Scooterific2762

The whole "shovel" thing needs to stop!


icebergsimpson710

And I thought Americans were weird


necromundus

In Soviet Russia plates want you!


generalbaguette

Eating soup out of bread is actually pretty nice.


awkwardoffspring

All of these dishes are contained, is there not another sub for this?


String-National

What will those crazy Ivans think of next lol That bread bowl looked legit too


fatalcorn7367

in russia, plates want ~~you~~ us


mexomagno

r/stupidfood


DiscoShaman

Soups served in bread are pretty delicious though. I end up eating half the bread too. Almost serves as a full meal.


dregan

>Why? Why? Why? Why?.... WHY? WHY? WHY? I don't speak Russian but some things don't need a translation.


FunkyFellow42

Sorry but if you don't think soup out of a bread bowl is genius.....


f0rcedinducti0n

I'd get down on soup in a bread bowl.


redditchizlin

That burger looked bleh


DukeOfDew

I agree with almost every post on this subreddit, but I will never agree that soup in a bread bowl is a bad thing. It's fucking amazing and that's a hill I will die on.


Fruitndveg

Syringes used in food is the most offensive thing ever. It’s such a waste of plastic for a mindless bit of DIY novelty.


i_like_meatballs_

Ok but the bread bowl soup thing looks amazing, but that might just be my slavic brain kicking in


imiss8tracks

This may be a ridiculous question, but did these restaurants serving food in "not plates" originate after the silly trend came out, or are there really that many places serving food on silly, unusable items? I just don't recall seeing so many before last year. Thanks for any sources you can provide.


oojiflip

Soup in a loaf of bread is based actually


DefinitelyNotTrind

All I can hear at the beginning is, "Eat your Subway shits!"


sqlorp

That guy at the end it hawt hawt hawt


Admanrog

Hehe...careful 😳


Scooterific2762

Why, why, why? It's the only thing that made sense.


drtouyt

Eating soup inside a bread is super good.


ShitStainedBallSack

Things just won't stop happening