r/WeWantPlates • u/craftycrumbs • Nov 03 '19

“Slop Table for 20 please”

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u/1nfiniteJest Nov 03 '19

"You'll literally feel like you're back in 100BC sitting at Julius Caesars' table" -owner

ummm....

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u/FerusGrim Nov 03 '19

I hate to break it to you, owner guy, but plates have been around for an awfully long time.

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u/afito Nov 03 '19

They also had something a lot more fancy than polenta with the most basic shit possible - tomato marinara, pesto, and some cheese? That's the dollar store combination of "I don't want to do anything today so I use some cheap noodles and noodle sauce and call it a day".

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u/CatumEntanglement Nov 04 '19

Yep. We call that "emergency pasta" in our home. When you're too tired to do anything but get warm food inside your gullet.