A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[jsabine]

that is correct it is a diety.

Your diety won't be too great if you worship at the altar of the square sausage

[ScumOfTheRoad]

The Whisky Exchange changes its name  https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/feature/the-whiskey-exchange




(yes.. I know)

[hellymedic]

Sad story of Little Chef…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68796980

[Tim Hall]

"We are a bistro pub"

Oh <Bad Swears> I want beer, that tastes of beer*, with the chance of ham egg and chips for lunch.

*Saturday night there was a beer with "notes of banana and honey. GTF.

[Feanor]

Mrs F was on a 100k Audax yesterday, and came to a 'cafe' which had a notice board outside advertising teas, coffees, snacks etc.

She and her riding companion went in.
It looked a lot like a 'traditional' 'Lager or Export' pub.
But there was a proper commercial grade coffee machine on the counter.

Oh, can we just have a couple of coffees, please?
Ah, no. The machine is not in use, it's just for show.

Oh. Then tea, perhaps?
Ah, no. We don't do that either.

Well, if you don't do anything but keg lager, why do you put it on your notice board?

[Jurek]

Mrs F was on a 100k Audax yesterday, and came to a 'cafe' which had a notice board outside advertising teas, coffees, snacks etc.

She and her riding companion went in.
It looked a lot like a 'traditional' 'Lager or Export' pub.
But there was a proper commercial grade coffee machine on the counter.

Oh, can we just have a couple of coffees, please?
Ah, no. The machine is not in use, it's just for show.

Oh. Then tea, perhaps?
Ah, no. We don't do that either.

Well, if you don't do anything but keg lager, why do you put it on your notice board?

WTAF?

[sg37409]

It only dawned on me later, the woman on the coupled Shand could well be your wife - If it'd dawned on me when we saw her a few times, I'd have said how much I loved your south american adventure !  Were you doing the 200 ?

Also, which cafe was that ?  We stopped in Aberlour (the gatherin')  and Lossiemouth at the harbour

[Cudzoziemiec]

"We are a bistro pub"

Oh <Bad Swears> I want beer, that tastes of beer*, with the chance of ham egg and chips for lunch.

*Saturday night there was a beer with "notes of banana and honey. GTF.

I have drunk actual banana beer, brewed from bananas, and it's not bad. Didn't really taste of bananas. Orange beer ditto, in as far as it didn't taste of oranges, but it did have a taste vaguely reminiscent of petrol.

[rafletcher]

Sad story of Little Chef…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68796980

They were brilliant places for a business trip breakfast. And notable for a significant number of Downs folk amongst their employees.

OTOH those in non-business locations could be pretty grim, the one I recall like that being close to the Holyhead ferry port.

[Feanor]

It only dawned on me later, the woman on the coupled Shand could well be your wife - If it'd dawned on me when we saw her a few times, I'd have said how much I loved your south american adventure !  Were you doing the 200 ?

Also, which cafe was that ?  We stopped in Aberlour (the gatherin')  and Lossiemouth at the harbour

Yes, that was her. The green Shand Stoater with S&S couplings.
Yes, I was on the 200.

The un-cafe was somewhere in Lossiemouth, but I don't know the name of it.

Hope you enjoyed the day out!

[hellymedic]

Sad story of Little Chef…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68796980

They were brilliant places for a business trip breakfast. And notable for a significant number of Downs folk amongst their employees.
OTOH those in non-business locations could be pretty grim, the one I recall like that being close to the Holyhead ferry port.

They were popular Audax controls.
ISTR teethgrinder had a particular penchant for them back in the day.

[T42]

Ever noticed how fruit flies - which pedants will now tell us are really Phoric flies - how fruit flies will dive eagerly into coffee but won't go near Movicol?

[Tim Hall]

Up in London's Famous London today, helping marshall The Tweed Run (great fun btw). We finish at Spa Fields. I go into The Bourne and Hollingsworth building to buy a pint of BEER. That'll be £7.13. <faints>. I know I'm in London and they need to pay for the streets to be paved in gold, but that made me wince. Delving further, it's £6.50 for the beer plus 12.5% service. I'm not quite sure what service was involved in pouring a pint of beer into a plastic glass.

[Cudzoziemiec]

You should get a discount for having to drink it from a plastic glass.

[Pingu]

£8.29 for a cheese and ham toastie for lunch today 

[Jurek]

Up in London's Famous London today, helping marshall The Tweed Run (great fun btw). We finish at Spa Fields. I go into The Bourne and Hollingsworth building to buy a pint of BEER. That'll be £7.13. <faints>. I know I'm in London and they need to pay for the streets to be paved in gold, but that made me wince. Delving further, it's £6.50 for the beer plus 12.5% service. I'm not quite sure what service was involved in pouring a pint of beer into a plastic glass.

Don't ask for a glass of white wine in the member's bar at The Tate Modern.
£19.00
I kid you not.

[andrewc]

    What size glass was it ?   


£9.50 for a large G&T at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool yesterday.   Ungraciously slopped into a plastic half pint glass without even a the offer of a slice of lemon or lime.......

[hellymedic]

Mr Sainsbury’s 'Taste the Difference’ meal deals seem to offer good value for money for  those who don’t limit their alcohol, Calorie, meat, or gluten intake.

I might get one and split it up...

[Jurek]

   What size glass was it ?   


£9.50 for a large G&T at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool yesterday.   Ungraciously slopped into a plastic half pint glass without even a the offer of a slice of lemon or lime.......

'Twas a large.

[mrcharly-YHT]

£7 a pint of beer, Similar for a large (250ml) of wine, seems standard up here.

In part, I think, due to the scottish taxation on alcohol. Bottled beer in a supermarket is 2.20 a bottle, whereas in the same supermarket chain in Yorkshire, it is under £2.

[Jurek]

Also, on a Sunday morning, I'll often pop in to the greasy spoon at the end of my road for 3 poached eggs, baked beans and some bubble.
That used to come through the till at £9.80 - which, I think, is quite spendy anyway.
But this week it has jumped from £9.80 to £11.30 - which is hell of an increase.

[Tim Hall]

   What size glass was it ?   


£9.50 for a large G&T at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool yesterday.   Ungraciously slopped into a plastic half pint glass without even a the offer of a slice of lemon or lime.......

'Twas a large.

I expect nothing less.

[andrewc]

A large full english with a coffee was £15.85 in Liverpool last week.   In most of the pubs I use, a pint of decent beer hovers around the £4 mark. 


My last London beers were £6.40 Morpeth Arms (Pimlico), £6.15 Mitre (Greenwich) & £4.90 at the Euston Tap.   


Someone on Twitter was complaining about paying £6.50 for a slice of Victoria sponge cake & £3.20 for a cup of tea at the ROH....  https://x.com/amwilson_opera/status/1783869515601707336


https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/30/the-5-coffee-is-coming-but-should-we-swallow-it


Time for a thermos & a tupperware box of sandwiches.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Time for a thermos & a tupperware box of sandwiches.

To quote from someone I know, "We eat out all the time, in fact we eat out every day, but we never eat in a restaurant."