A man had fish and chips served on his lap at his home because there were no plates available due to costs from the recession. The mess required him to wash his trousers in the sink. He also had to pay £120 for the meal and was served frying oil instead of tea. The manager said using trousers as plates was primitive and charging £120 for a meal was monstrous, reducing residents to poverty.

1. FISH AND CHIP NEWS
One day a man was told by the staff at his home that he was going to have
fish and chips, but was told there weren't any plates so he had to have
them served on his lap, and what a mess it made, all over his trousers, with
some dropping right on the floor.
Miss Stake, the carer in charge said,' I'm sorry that I have to put you
through this because there aren't any plates, we can't afford them because
of the recession, so you'll have to endure having to eat in a primitive way.
Soon after dinner the man who had to eat his meal on his lap and to take
his trousers off and wash them in the sink with fairy liquid as if it was a
plate then dried them in a trouser oven taking only five seconds.
The “meal – on – the trousers” saga ‘wasn’t the only ordeal he had to go
through, for he had to pay £120 for his fish and chip meal.
Normally you would have a cup of tea after a meal but instead of tea ‘frying
oil was poured into the cup and the diner had to drink it when he should
have had tea.
The manager in charge, Mrs. Nina Tendo said, 'I will sort this matter out,
fancy having to have fish and chips served in this way, where each resident
has to have them emptied straight onto their trousers instead of a plate, it's
absolutely primitive all because there aren't any dinner plates available.
Using one's trousers as a dinner plate is very unpleasant ‘but there ‘wasn't
any alternative, 'and, '£120 for a meal, it's absolutely monstrous, how can
you very well afford it, it's no wonder that so many residents were reduced
to great poverty.