Author Topic: The general food & drink grumble thread (Read 4424 times)

Basil · « **on:** 29 January, 2015, 08:27:44 pm »

Oi! Chip shop people. Simply hard boiling some eggs and then tipping them into the big jar of vinegar on your counter, does not magically turn them into pickled eggs.

File with pie/not a pie.

Paul · « **Reply #1 on:** 29 January, 2015, 11:57:10 pm »

Ah. So what's a pickled egg? I've never had one, and assumed that was what they were.

Basil · « **Reply #2 on:** 30 January, 2015, 12:31:02 am »

Basically, pickling takes rather longer than just putting a boiled egg in a jar for an afternoon. All that produces is a boiled egg with vinegar on it.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3 on:** 30 January, 2015, 12:35:42 am »

Just been to Barnet Cyclists monthly meeting.
The mother of one of our riders has given us three large boxes of unbranded chocolates.
They looked lovely but tasted this:

MEH!

hellymedic · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 February, 2015, 07:39:23 pm »

Sainsbury's have discontinued JugIt milk bags and jugs because they 'have found other ways to save plastic'.

Perhaps they would like to take my jugs back as they will have no future use and take up scant cupboard space. They are now a waste of plastic...

Basil · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 February, 2015, 08:18:16 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 04 February, 2015, 07:39:23 pm

Perhaps they would like to take my jugs back

Sorry.

hellymedic · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 February, 2015, 08:22:26 pm »

My chesticles are firmly attached and too small to be noticed.

Basil · « **Reply #7 on:** 06 September, 2023, 03:21:12 pm »

Found myself outside Carmarthen Station at 7.30am yesterday after dropping off Mrs B and chum.
I decided that this would be a great chance for a slap up breakfast in one of the great places that I am usually too late for. (After the breakfast menu has closed).
Check on phone. Bugger. None of them open before 9. My choice would appear to be either Tesco's or Glangwili Hospital¹. Neither appealed and so I had to drive home and cook my own.

And wash it up.

And further grumble. No, Mr village store, that is not a baguette! It is normal British bread, but in a French shape.

¹ surprisingly un-dreadful.

Basil · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 September, 2023, 10:51:05 pm »

Oh god. Baked potato? That isn't a baked potato. You've wrapped a potato in foil and bunged it in the oven. That's not baked. It's some sort of steamed potato. And sorry, but it is bloody foul.

onerousdeporte · « **Reply #9 on:** 09 September, 2023, 11:59:36 pm »

But that is how I bake a potato near a real fire.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 September, 2023, 01:58:03 am »

My grate frend Mr Jackson wishes to complain that the branch of The Scottish Restaurant here in sunny Battle Mountain had NO CHANGE when he fancied a cheezburger for lunch

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 October, 2023, 09:50:41 pm »

Decided to buy a new stick blender being as I'm planning to make more soup.
As is my wont, I duly looked up the 2023 stick blender reviews and decided a Bosch model would suit my needs. Except that model is no longer available (hello Bosch, if you don't make it any more, how about removing it from your website?). Instead I can have a less nice one (a white plastic stick end instead of stainless) or I can pay £stupid for a model with loads of extra attachments I don't need.
Nothing's ever straightforward...

L CC · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 October, 2023, 08:30:09 am »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2023, 09:50:41 pm

Decided to buy a new stick blender being as I'm planning to make more soup.
As is my wont, I duly looked up the 2023 stick blender reviews and decided a Bosch model would suit my needs. Except that model is no longer available (hello Bosch, if you don't make it any more, how about removing it from your website?). Instead I can have a less nice one (a white plastic stick end instead of stainless) or I can pay £stupid for a model with loads of extra attachments I don't need.
Nothing's ever straightforward...

I (think I still) have a Bodum one with a stainless stick.
If you would like it let me know and I'll see if it has gone to charidee yet.
I don't like it because
- you can't dishwash the stick
and
- it has a weird arrangement where you change the blade for whipping/ blending

It's very like this one: https://www.bodum.com/fi/en/k11179-913euro-3-bistro-set

But black.

T42 · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 October, 2023, 09:54:19 am »

Quote from: L CC on 27 October, 2023, 08:30:09 am

It's very like this one: https://www.bodum.com/fi/en/k11179-913euro-3-bistro-set

I bought a Bodum Bistro coffee grinder in 2014. The nice rubber cladding, such as this appears to have, went all tacky about 5 years ago.

The grinder cost about half the sale price of the current one.

Regulator · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 October, 2023, 12:45:23 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2023, 09:50:41 pm

Decided to buy a new stick blender being as I'm planning to make more soup.
As is my wont, I duly looked up the 2023 stick blender reviews and decided a Bosch model would suit my needs. Except that model is no longer available (hello Bosch, if you don't make it any more, how about removing it from your website?). Instead I can have a less nice one (a white plastic stick end instead of stainless) or I can pay £stupid for a model with loads of extra attachments I don't need.
Nothing's ever straightforward...

We've got a Cookworks one (via Amazon) with a stainless steel shaft. Works really well and about half the price of the Bosch.

hellymedic · « **Reply #15 on:** 15 November, 2023, 01:16:21 am »

Large Sainsbury's bags of potatoes have shrunk from 2.5kg to 2kg...

citoyen · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 November, 2023, 11:58:39 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 15 November, 2023, 01:16:21 am

Large Sainsbury's bags of potatoes have shrunk from 2.5kg to 2kg...

And the price is accordingly now 20% less, right?

(No, of course I don’t really believe that will be the case.)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #17 on:** 28 November, 2023, 03:08:12 pm »

In a local Italian deli/wholesalers, run on a backstreet since the '60s by a real Italian family, I bought a few things, including a tin of hummus, Yes, hummus in a tin. No, I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling of hummus (houmus? hoummous?) but it's the way it's spelled on the tin. I had misgivings about what hummus in a tin would be like, but it was fairly cheap and it was from Cyprus, so it should be pretty genuine fwiw. I have just opened it and it is foul. Worse than I ever expected. I've mixed it with various herbs and spices but nothing can take away its essential tinniness. Do not buy it. Or if you do buy it, don't eat it.

citoyen · « **Reply #18 on:** 28 November, 2023, 03:47:09 pm »

Are you sure it wasn't humus?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #19 on:** 28 November, 2023, 03:55:24 pm »

Humus might be more satisfying to eat.

hellymedic · « **Reply #20 on:** 28 November, 2023, 07:09:52 pm »

A few years ago, Mr Sainsbury's website had three different spellings for chickpea paste/dip and each spelling would link to a different product. I think this anomaly has been corrected.

Pickled Onion · « **Reply #21 on:** 28 November, 2023, 09:19:39 pm »

In the 70s my Dad occasionally brought home hummus in a tin from a deli when he went up to London. This was something quite highbrow, but my parents were well-travelled. Considering in those days we were the only house in the street apart from the Italian family who actually ate spaghetti that didn't come out of a tin in hoops. But on opening it was foul, so he would mix it up with more garlic and lashings of olive oil. It was still foul.

ian · « **Reply #22 on:** 28 November, 2023, 09:47:28 pm »

I'm intrigued, I'm normally a fan of stuff in tins (yes, I've been to the restaurants, I don't think you should bother, you can open tins at home, and a £12 tin of sardines doesn't taste any different to a supermarket-posh £3 tin, and if you really want you can eat it off a slate to replicate the restaurant experience).

Americans have chocolate (and other dessert) hummuses which I think, in part, explains a few things about our colonial cousins.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23 on:** 29 November, 2023, 09:34:53 am »

The correct spelling is XOYMOI ME TAXINI as the Greek letters coincide, in form if not in value, with Latin ones.

And for ian's reference, it's made by Ch. Morphakis Ltd, 7000 Meneou, Cyprus.

T42 · « **Reply #24 on:** 16 February, 2024, 09:28:48 am »

The quality of my favourite blend of coffee has taken a bit of a nosedive. Last October the roaster delivered 4 kg instead of 4 x 250g and it was excellent to the last bean, but the current crop, roasted in January, is just coarse. They've maybe changed their recipe a bit, or one of their components has varied considerably; dunno, but it's annoying.