18 Photos Of Ridiculous Food That Range From Silly To Straight-Up Bone Chilling

    I understand the need to be different, but c'mon.

    IDK about you, but I have a slight obsession with restaurants that present their dishes in ridiculous, over-the-top ways to seem *cool* and ~different~. Here are some of my recent faves, courtesy of r/WeWantPlates:

    1. "Pizza staircase."

    A pizza staircase

    2. "Fries or bread in a clog is almost excusable, but ice cream?"

    Ice cream in a clog

    3. "We ordered a salad..."

    A salad in a glass bust

    4. "Scrambled egg in an eggshell, on a straw hat, on ice, on a slate!"

    An egg on a straw hat over ice

    5. "Black skin fried chicken served on driftwood."

    Blackened fried chicken

    6. "Yes, I asked, it’s a real bone."

    Meat in a bone

    7. "Left a trail all the way from the counter to the table."

    Melting chocolate on a slab

    8. "Ordered the 'Feedbag Shovel' and got this abomination..."

    A shovel wrapped in aluminum foiled with food on top

    9. "Why is this a thing?"

    Noodles in a skillet on a table

    10. "[Hummus] fresh from the garden."

    Hummus on a small gardening shovel

    11. "Soba noodles in [an] ice block."

    Noodles in a block of ice

    12. "A glazed doughnut grilled cheese on a banana hanger (hanging over tomato soup)."

    Food hanging over soup

    13. "Wife got plate, but upside down."

    An upside down plate with food on it

    14. "French restaurant served my [girlfriend] food on a rock."

    Food on a stone

    15. "The classic. Straight up shovel (but it was good)."

    A shovel with different-colored dumplings on it

    16. "I wanted a plate, not a whole tree."

    Food on a tree branch

    17. "Fried asparagus."

    Fried asparagus in a glass

    18. And finally, "Matcha tea chocolate crisp on wire trees and in a squirrel's mouth."

    Matcha in a fake squirrel's mouth

    What was your favorite (or least favorite) plate-less dish? Tell me in the comments!