whats wrong with wetherspoons?

>>3861

Some people deride 'Spoons for being a chain that is taking over the land's public houses and turning them into cookie-cutter clones, much like Starbucks. I take issue with this in the case of Wetherspoons though, as they at least buy very interesting buildings to convert most of the time. One of them in my town was an old dock and boathouse, and another used to be a city mansion. I do suppose they encourage a 'you know what you're getting' attitude, but they still offer a lot of stuff (proper ale and drinkable wine for example) that you don't get with somewhere like Yate's, and no single landlord could afford to build a pub in a former mansion, so I can't complain.

I don't work for Wetherspoons or anything, by the way, though my praise might sound pretty zealous. I still wouldn't touch their food...

>>3862
I don't mind Wetherspoons on occasions, normally for a cheap night out. Its the Lloyd's no1 bars i dislike, exactly the same as a wetherspoons except with shitty annoying pop-dance music at unbearable levels.

>>3863

Agreed. One good thing about normal Wetherspoons is that they don't have any music at all.

I'd disagree that food is necessarily bad; a short menu, ideally a pie, cheese/ham ploughman's, and a roast on Sundays, or something of that order, is quite good; equally it's gutting to walk in, and be presented with a fine menu, only to find the turd in the picnic: thai chilli burger or some other such bastard child of bored chefs.
Smoking should of course be allowed, and the problem with the gastropub goes deeper than the bland, and often tepid food; for me, the worn, patterned red carpet, the dark wood bar, the fire and the decorated sign on a pole- all avowed enemies of the gastropub- are just as much of an indispensable part of the pub as the pickled eggs and pork scratchings they serve.
I for one would think long and hard about any obscure bunch of nutjobs running for parliament, if the future of our pubs and inns was high on their agenda.

>>3843

I dunno, that how I usually see it. Nowt wrong with a bit of presentation.

>>3845

It's all a bit hostile for a thread about bacon flavoured mayonnaise. I apologise.

Did anybody else see that episode of the The Daily Show where Jon Stewart ate a chocolate chip pancake wrapped sausage on a stick dipped in baconnaise?

>>3848

I agree. I think a truce is in order to preserve our dignity.

And to answer your question, yes.

I think I would quite like to try that pancake-sausage thing, call it morbid curiosity. I doubt it's legal to sell in this country, though.

>>3823

Found a UK seller! Now us britfags can try all-American foodstuffs:

http://buybaconnaise.co.uk/

>>3865

I'm not sure I want to pay a fiver to try that stuff. I only hope one of you ladmates does. I know one of you bought bacon salt already.

>>2790

>>2620There called peter peppers. I have alot of seeds. I planted them around my mailbox and had alot of fun with people that found them. Like what the hell...LOL

>>2791

I laughed heartily. Thankyou!

>>2791 Well played!

>>2620

Pic related.

>>2553
>>2554

My powers of deduction thus lead me to believe that Waitrose IS Canada

>>2545
I have no moral problem with that idea. It is the only milk humans should drink.

_{I am still retching at the thought though}

I'm making iced coffe with soymilk and it doesn't curdle. Could be the heat in combination with the pH value of the coffee. Try to mix instant coffee (the simple, freeze dried one without any sugar or added flavours) with about 0.2l hot water. After it dissolved, add another 0.5l cold water, ice, sweetener and 0.3l soymilk.
This is actually based on a greek recipe, they use milk of course.

>>3852
Iced coffee is pig disgusting though.

>>2558

I do believe it is natural for us to be weaned off milk at the appropriate time, and to not want to continue it after that. We only got used to drinking cow's milk relatively recently, and it is only the majority of us strange westerners that do not become lactose intolerant during infancy. We are not meant to be drinking any sort of milk past childhood.

>>3483
Good lad. A proper man's noodle pot.

>>3030

thread bamp as I am just eating some post pub ramen that will stop me being fucked for work tomorrow.

some variety of shin summat from the local ethnian shop.

hopefully I won't have some kind of msg meltdown.

>>3819

>>3813 is me coming home from the pub last night... can't go wrong with some tasty 3 minute msg laden noodles

also, cheese on toast or poached eggs on toast are also winners.

>>3483
I fucking love those, nowhere around here sells them sadly.

>>3313
Indomie export noodles are what introduced me to JUST how good asian noodles could be, I've moved on to bigger and better things but I can't see why I used to pay 60p for a packet of supers when at 30p per pack(discount for more than 20) I can get small bowls of heaven.

I jam a potato in the microwave and load it up with cheese and beans if a quick snack is the order of the day.

Beans on toast, from can to belly in the time it takes to toast the bread. Cheese, black pepper, tobasco on top. Lovely.

Basic frozen pizza base. Put on oven, load base with veg, sausage and extra cheese, chili sprinkles. By the time I've done this, oven is at optimum temp. 15 minutes later I'm eating it with a bottle of beer.

Tuna melt. Toast on one side while, mixing can tuna with mayo, cheese, onion, black pepper, lemon juice, a little salt. Spread half mix on toasted side of one bit of bread (it is half bread and half toast, not sure if I should say "place mix on cooked side of raw toast"), cover with other bit of bread (toasted side down). Toast under medium grill, turn twice for each side to let cheese in centre melt.

Bowl of cereal

Bowl of porridge (it does say porage on the box, but I'm no poragefag)

Cup of coffee and a fag.

left over chicken and 'mexicana cheese'
heat in microwave, add to a wrap with salad or to toast.

>>3824

Mexicana is seriously good stuff. A generous layer on toast will do.

>>3747

>Rashers of bacon is fine for crispy..

Disgusting. I bet you let the syrup from the chubby pancakes which you've alarmingly allowed to share the plate run into this burnt monstrosity and further pollute it, don't you?

>>3750

You sound like a nancy boy faggot

I just had a bacon buttie with my local butcher's own smoked bacon. I can never go back to a supermarket now.

>>3816

Aye. Even the absolute top-of-the-shop high end stuff from the best supermarkets is a disgrace compared to the real deal. I'm not sure why it's so pronounced with bacon, you can get some excellent meat from the better supermarkets otherwise.

>>3817
Supermarket bacon is pre-packed and tends to be full of extra water.

Sweet Chili

That's all.

I have a serious problem with tobasco. I used to but it on everything. Everything - I threw out my last bottle when I found myself looking at a strawberry muller rice, hotsauce in hand.

>>3811

I had a proper little giggle at that image, followed by an irresistible urge to try this myself. Must buy some muller rice.

>>3812
Savoury fruit-corner might work you know...

>>3667
Cholula > Tabasco

>>3778
They definitely exist and I agree, sounds like a bon bon.

Found them myself. They're called chocolate nibbs or nibbles. They look odd but they're delicious.

>>3787

Interesting, apparently they're chocolatedcoated, caramelised nuts? I think I want some.

>>3795

Haven't had them for years. As far as I remember I couldn't get enough of them. They usually come in those plastic tubs so have a look around if you see a shop with them.

I think you lads might be referring to Toffee Crumble.

Just reminded me how awesome it is, might make some when I get home.

>>3797

_no_

>>3797

Marquee isn't on the features page, damn it.

>>3800
Or blink, for that matter.

>>3805

Or spoilers.

>>3800

None of these are

I have never made any.. but BBC Recipes is normally pretty good

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/recipes/queryengine?templatestyle=refine_by_1_gg&orig_kw=Lentil+soup&config=db&scope=recipes&page=1&pagesize=15&attrib_26=keywords&oper_26=eq&val_26_1=Lentil+soup&attrib_2=programme_name&oper_2=eq&val_2_1=&attrib_3=chef_name&oper_3=eq&val_3_1=&attrib_13=quick&oper_13=eq&attrib_10=vegetarian&oper_10=eq&submit=Search+recipes

>>3801

so, in the end I did this...

1 large carrot, 2 medium onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 sticks of celery all finely chopped and sweated down in butter

lots of black pepper, 2 veg stock cubes, tsp cumin, tsp coriander powder, dash of tobasco, zest of lemon, juice of half lemon, tblsp chopped ginger

added tin of chopped tomatoes, blended, added water, aded red and green lentils until cooked, chopped spinach and finely chopped coriander added 10 mins before end of cooking time.

the lady loved it and more importantly it made her feel well, though in no small amount as it was the first thing she'd eaten in 3 days.

I have maximum brownie points :)

>>3803
Now that sounds lovely.

I've scored many times with soup. It's easy to make and works brilliantly at impressing the laydees.

OP as a fan of Sea Shepherd I hate you, I really do. Saying that as, as I've eaten everything from Ostrich to Alligator it makes me unable to flame you.

Personally I think you can make anything taste nice with the right amount of seasoning and sauce.

>>3764

There is always cod in cod and chips. In my experience, if you ask for "fish and chips" they say "cod?" and assume that's what you're after.

I don't think there are any laws about it yet, but I'm pretty sure there are sort of suggestions that people err away from it and buy more "sustainable" fish instead.

>>3763
Cod is still around although endangered. They farm it now too although the meat doesn't always come out "white".

>>3767

They sometimes use pollock for "fish and chips"
though if its "cod" then it will be cod, as otherwise it falls under the trade descriptions act..

>>3769

My local chippery, if asked for cod and chips, will repeat your order back to you, very clearly and deliberately, as 'fish and chips, yeah?' which is presumably quite an effective defence, and about as subtle as you're going to get.

They don't like it when I give them monopoly money and say 'here's your tenner, yeah?' though.

>>3122

You may be an 'educated chav', as my "friends" refer to me as.

>>3058
I find that the local Holland and Barrett's stocks some fine milk/white chocolate coated raisins, amongst other such things.

>>3124

>educated...as my "friends" refer to me as.

A rather low threshold for the term in that case. Do your friends spend their time decorating cave walls?

>>3124
I've got those very boots and I'm not a chav, they are very good walking boots dear boy.

>>3058

Holland and Barratt ;)

>>3707
In that case, yay, great success!
Did you toss?

(The LED thing - my hob has idiot lights, as telltales for how hot each burner is, since there's no way you could spot the line on the knob, or the flame under the pan. However, there are 5 individual lights, but the cheapskate electronics can only turn on one, three or five of them. Yeah, sorry, I design consumer electronics crap for a living, and even I'm not that cheapskate.)

I've made one and took a picture, but I think I'll upload it tomorrow.

>>3708

Yer ours do that too, but doesnt really bother when i cook on the hobs

Bamp. I wanted pancakes today, but didn't have flour and the shops had closed. Solution: crushed biscuits!

Moderate sucess.

>>3761

I "made" pancakes at scouts tonight (well i supervised..) they were putting red/blue food colouring in, in them.. they looked rather horrible. I just had a plain one with sugar/lemon