THANK goodness the trend of serving food on pieces of slate or slabs of wood is finally going out of style.

Personally, I’m sick of having my meal on top of something off a building site – it doesn’t make the food look more appetising and is just annoying.

Plates are, according to a YouGov survey, what people prefer and quite right. Goodbye forever to arty vehicles for food. What person in their right mind wants to have their chocolate pudding served on a trowel, waffles in a dog bowl and gravy in beer cans?

Plates were made for the job.