ENDORSED: A Piece Of Wood Is Not A Plate:

Because here’s the thing: For almost all of human history, eating off a plank of wood was a sign that something was wrong. That you and your tribe were not economically or technologically developed, or that you’d lost a war and the other guys carried off or smashed up your dinnerware. . . .

Because when it comes right down to it, the whole food-on-boards thing is nothing more than an affectation, a pre-civilisational pretense reminiscent of what the French call the nostalgie de la boue — politely translated as a longing for the mud, a desire to throw off the shackles of society and return to a more degraded state. People who want to do that sort of thing should go camping.

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