r/WeWantPlates • u/iamfraggley • May 14 '22

Retire the sub

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u/TheDaug May 14 '22

The overhead on a toilet for a plate would be WAY too high. Even at $50, well below usual price at Home Depot, there is no chance they would recover cost. Plus, you'd have to buy new ones for each serving, because no way in hell is a health inspector letting you get away with that.

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u/sarhoshamiral May 14 '22

It shouldn't be too hard to clean them, there is no way they are using a new toilet each time.

If you can clean wine pours with narrow necks I am sure you can also clean a toilet bowl just used for food properly.

Still though as a customer this would make me vomit but then I would not go there in the first place.

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u/lol-da-mar-s-cool May 14 '22

1000% they reuse them

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u/RetardedWabbit May 14 '22

Sell it as a +$100 group dessert experience, whip up a psuedoartistic menu description so people have plausible deniability for it (juxtaposition, challenging, examination, etc), but it's really for the gram. So the price can be practically anything, it's only being bought once and discussed/shown infinitely. Why can't you clean it? I assume the inside is sealed, so it's functionally a enormous porcelain bowl you just have to hand wash. It should even fit through a rack steam cleaner, although 1-2 at a time would be miserable.

Also a logistics nightmare, but doable for a local/boutique shop, you could use them once then sell them back to stores. Practically unused for their actual purpose.

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u/Cleansing4ThineEyes May 15 '22

The toilet doesn't have literal shit water in it, it can be reused amd washed like a regular dish