Author Topic: the food rant thread (Read 234750 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #1075 on:** 06 May, 2016, 03:54:28 pm »

Food with too many adjectives again...

contango · « **Reply #1076 on:** 16 May, 2016, 04:38:14 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 06 May, 2016, 03:54:28 pm

Food with too many adjectives again...

I always laugh at menus that say things like "delicious, succulent chunks of tender chicken". As opposed to what, "unpleasant, dried out chunks of tasteless rubber"? It's a chicken curry, so cut the crap and call it a chicken curry. I'll decide for myself whether the sauce is "creamy and delicious", and whether it's a "generous portion".

Ham · « **Reply #1077 on:** 17 June, 2016, 08:45:29 am »

I don't often have anything much for breakfast. The idea of a cheese toastie grew, I was really looking forward to it. Then the fucking toaster ate my toastie.

Should this be in first world problems?

ian · « **Reply #1078 on:** 17 June, 2016, 09:44:30 am »

Quote from: Ham on 17 June, 2016, 08:45:29 am

I don't often have anything much for breakfast. The idea of a cheese toastie grew, I was really looking forward to it. Then the fucking toaster ate my toastie.

Should this be in first world problems?

You can't get decent domestic staff these days. Fire them.

I like toast but I hate buttering it. I hate buttering bread in general. It's a messy business.

T42 · « **Reply #1079 on:** 17 June, 2016, 10:23:05 am »

We don't butter bread any more, we omega-three-spread it.

L CC · « **Reply #1080 on:** 17 June, 2016, 11:34:47 am »

Quote from: T42 on 17 June, 2016, 10:23:05 am

We don't butter bread any more, we omega-three-spread it.

A rant indeed.

ian · « **Reply #1081 on:** 17 June, 2016, 11:39:23 am »

Olive oil spread says my fridge. I'm living the Mediterranean lifestyle. Without the sun and beaches.

L CC · « **Reply #1082 on:** 17 June, 2016, 12:38:27 pm »

fancy margarine is still margarine.

nicknack · « **Reply #1083 on:** 17 June, 2016, 01:06:16 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 17 June, 2016, 12:38:27 pm

fancy margarine is still margarine.

Quite. Fortunately we have been a marg free household for decades.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1084 on:** 17 June, 2016, 01:10:49 pm »

Seconded/thirded/n+1ed. I'd rather use olive oil itself (if I were rich!) – or nothing – than olive oil spread. But OTOH if you like margarine, you like it.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1085 on:** 17 June, 2016, 01:31:59 pm »

Pfff! You can't get proper margarine any more. The stuff made on Teesside, from boiled cows. Much better than Campag's so-called "Special" Grease for wheel bearings.

ian · « **Reply #1086 on:** 17 June, 2016, 02:16:09 pm »

I do actually like my olive oil spread. I find butter a bit too buttery. I probably shouldn't eat it with a spoon.

I grew up eating Stork Margarine that may, I suppose, actually have been made from rendered-down storks.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1087 on:** 17 June, 2016, 02:21:35 pm »

We buy olive oil in 5l drums. Does that make us rich?

It's not particularly pricey if you buy in bulk. I could drink the stuff.

ian · « **Reply #1088 on:** 17 June, 2016, 03:36:18 pm »

Everyday I walk past a big blue barrel (it's used as a water butt for garden). I assumed it formerly used to house something creatively industrial but I read the label. A mammoth 250 kg of mango chutney. But be warned mrcharly, you're going to need a lot of poppadoms.

T42 · « **Reply #1089 on:** 17 June, 2016, 05:51:49 pm »

The omega-3 stuff isn't too bad but it slides off the knife too easily.

When I was a kid we had one of those claws for making butter curls. That was fun, and made the stuff easier to spread.

closetleftie · « **Reply #1090 on:** 30 June, 2016, 05:38:06 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 10 January, 2016, 08:09:04 am

EU rules say all new coffee machines must have auto switch off hot plates.
Sine the hot plate stews the coffee fairly quickly it's not a bad thing. What you want is a thermos jug instead, keeps the coffee hot without stewing it.

Good God! Auto switch off hot plates? What will the out-of-touch elite in Brussels think of next? Good thing we can get rid of all those Euro rules now. And have our Great! British! Coffee! That! Tastes! Like! Washing! Up! Liquid!

ian · « **Reply #1091 on:** 18 July, 2016, 12:53:38 pm »

At a restaurant in Nairobi. What did my food arrive on? A piece of slate, that's what.

I fear the plate is rapidly becoming an endangered species.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1092 on:** 18 July, 2016, 02:30:45 pm »

We Want Plates might provide you with merriment...
wewantplates.com

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #1093 on:** 18 July, 2016, 02:48:42 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 18 July, 2016, 02:30:45 pm

We Want Plates might provide you with merriment...
wewantplates.com

That's brill.

My fav
http://wewantplates.com/2015/05/cut-your-own-salad/

caerau · « **Reply #1094 on:** 18 July, 2016, 02:54:40 pm »

Quote from: mrcharly on 18 July, 2016, 02:48:42 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 18 July, 2016, 02:30:45 pm
We Want Plates might provide you with merriment...
wewantplates.com
That's brill.

My fav
http://wewantplates.com/2015/05/cut-your-own-salad/

Yes I discovered we want plates.com a few weeks ago. My sides have only just recovered.

That particular one I'd missed. I thought "wow food in a plant pot - that's not the word I've seen"

Then I realised that's actually real soil...

I agree with you, that's AWESOME.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1095 on:** 24 July, 2016, 11:37:11 am »

Fridge! You are a fridge. You cool, therefore you are. However, you are not a freezer, so if you could refrain from turning my ~~gourmet scran~~ Taste the Difference Breaded Fishy Things into solid blocks of ice I'd be ever so grateful. I will never have teeth like Jarlin J Jarlinsson (teh Columbian Viking) but I would at least like to keep the ones I have intact.

hellymedic · « **Reply #1096 on:** 24 July, 2016, 01:48:08 pm »

I think fridges are struggling in this weather and working overtime.
The back of the fridge is much colder than the front and mine freezes.
Allowing air to circulate by not overloading the fridge should help.
I never put strawberries at the back of the fridge.

ian · « **Reply #1097 on:** 16 August, 2016, 07:57:51 pm »

I'm not messing with the cook in this bar. He brutally murdered my pickle.

Note obligatory serving plank and galvanized chip pail with super-handy carrying handle. You never know when you'll need to transport your hot french fries.

In other news, peanut allergistas, the gluten intolerant and adopters of whatever this week's oh-look-at-me-I'm-so-special food fad is, fuck off and stop telling me about it.

mike · « **Reply #1098 on:** 16 August, 2016, 10:00:34 pm »

bugger that, what the hell are you drinking???

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #1099 on:** 16 August, 2016, 10:47:25 pm »

Looks like a hefeweizen to me.