Possible Clues:

• Plate of say, chicken returned
• Raised on farm over thin sheet of rock
• Thin plate or layer
• Chicken possibly raised as layer
• Thin layer, as of metal
• Thin layers
• Aardvark or zebra / Thin layer
• Any living thing can be raised on a thin plate of rock
• Creature's back showing bony plates
• Plate of meat we hear Ian cooked