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Carvery food

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  • 19-02-2014 8:48pm
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    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭


    Why why why why why is it so popular here?

    On a Sunday afternoon when you feel like going out for lunch, all that can be found are restaurants that have perfectly normal, acceptable menus at other times, serving carvery! And they are always full!

    The stuff is awful without exception. Why would anyone want to pay a restaurant for a few slices of meat, mashed potato, and some unidentifiable, overcooked vegetables that the average person could cook better themselves? They are like a boring week night dinner. I just don't get why people want that sort of food when they go out for a meal. Perhaps it's just me, but if I'm going out to dinner I don't want to pay for something I could cook better myself. I want food that is different that I wouldn't think to cook at home very often. The most useless cook could make a roast dinner taste better than carvery!

    Also there is the lining up to get the awful food! Carverys remind me of hospital/school/workplace canteens, and the food certainly tastes no better! I would actually rather get McDonalds and I'm not a fan of that either.

    That is my carvery rant over. Maybe someone could enlighten me on their popularity!
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    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    I would have sex with a nice slice of roast beef.


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    #3
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    I love a carvery!


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    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    Also there is the lining up to get the awful food! Carverys remind me of hospital/school/workplace canteens,

    This ^


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    GenieOz
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    Never understood it either, awful stuff. Anything you have to queue up for and get served from a Bain Marie is just not worth it.


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    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    Myself and the boyfriend have been wondering this for a while. We assumed everybody else just loves it. Glad to know this is not true.

    Dried out, old muck. Not that it's the type of food I'd eat anyway, even if it was edible looking.


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Don't forget the snotty offspring with their paws stuck in every jaysus thing.


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    Karl Stein
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    Food hipster.


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    YellowFeather
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Not a fan at all. And my parents always want to meet on a Sunday in the same place for the same carvery! Watery mushy peas - gross!!!


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    Butterface
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Butterface


    It's worse in England. There are chains of carvery restaurants that are all decorated the same way, produce the same food and serve the same selection of beverages - all at the same set prices.

    I'd prefer to go for a carvery meal in Ireland tbh. The standard of pub grub in England can be shockingly bad.


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    whupdedo
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    It's all the food they don't use during the week, they just stick it in the microwave and heat it up and serve it to the masses like their in the Shawshank redemption


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    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,493 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Depends on the carvery, some can be absolutely rotten, just stodgy, warmed up cr*p. Others can be really good, and still quite a reasonable price.

    Personally, I can make a lovely roast beef dinner at home, but its a lot of effort to do it properly. I see your point on this though, I rarely buy sandwiches or pasta dishes when out as I make them myself quite regularly


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    jaja321
    Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭jaja321


    Carvery food should be banned - seriously!


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    billyhead
    Registered Users Posts: 9,584 ✭✭✭billyhead


    I love Carvery food. Roast Potatoes, Gravy, beef and veg. Pure Bliss:P


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    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭cml387


    There are people who love a bit of poor quality meat that has been sitting under hot lamp for two hours.


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    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    My parents fu(king love carverys man. They tut disapprovingly if the roast beef is a bit pink, and instead go for the chicken. They hate going out eating anywhere else.


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    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Kiwi in IE wrote: »
    Why why why why why is it so popular here?

    On a Sunday afternoon when you feel like going out for lunch, all that can be found is restaurants that have perfectly normal, acceptable menus at other times, serving carvery! And they are always full!

    The stuff is awful without exception. Why would anyone want to pay a restaurant for a few slices of meat, mashed potato, and some unidentifiable, overcooked vegetables that the average person could cook better themselves? They are like a boring week night dinner. I just don't get why people want that sort of food when they go out for a meal. Perhaps it's just me, but if I'm going out to dinner I don't want to pay for something I could cook better myself. I want food that is different that I wouldn't think to cook at home very often. The most useless cook could make a roast dinner taste better than carvery!

    Also there is the lining up to get the awful food! Carverys remind me of hospital/school/workplace canteens, and the food certainly tastes no better! I would actually rather get McDonalds and I'm not a fan of that either.

    That is my carvery rant over. Maybe someone could enlighten me on their popularity!

    The day after a night out drinking stout its hard to beat heading to somewhere like O'Neills on Suffolk Street, getting a whopper turkey and ham dinner, having a massive dump after it and then getting stuck into more pints.

    /perfect Sunday


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    Banjo String
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    /adopts mams voice. "if you where in Africa, ye'd be glad of it.


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    super_furry
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    It's ****E! Those 'roast' potatoes? Not roast potatoes, they're frozen spuds thrown into a chip pan. Then they're served with shoe-leather dried out meat, stuffing that may just as well say Brennan's on it, such is the bread quantity and soggy, limp and flavourless veg. All drowned in manky brown instant gravy thick enough to repair a wall with.

    I'd literally rather eat McDonalds, it's that bad.


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    catallus
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    The quality of the food is much the same. It is a staffing issue; a kitchen doesn't run itself you know! And a Sunday carvery attracts a lot of people!


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    I dont go for the food , i go for the gravy


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    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Coleman Slawski wrote: »
    The day after a night out drinking stout its hard to beat heading to somewhere like O'Neills on Suffolk Street, getting a whopper turkey and ham dinner, having a massive dump after it and then getting stuck into more pints.

    /perfect Sunday

    No, just no.

    I cannot poo in a pub.

    Nothing like your own jacks Imo.


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    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    I fcukin love it.
    Mmmm...roast beef,spuds and veg swimming in litres of gravy and washed down with a few pints.
    I love sundays.


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    wil
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    wouldn't it make sense to ask the same question about most of the usual fast food joints.


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Banjo String wrote: »
    No, just no.

    I cannot poo in a pub.

    Nothing like your own jacks Imo.

    After a few pints of stout you wouldn't want to be dumping in your own toilet.

    Biological hazard.


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    #26
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    I'm clearly not alone in my dislike of carvery. What a relief! I was starting to wonder.


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    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I hate carvery food! Was only thinking that today when myself and mam went to a pub in Dun Laoghaire for a bit of lunch. The heaps of dried spud and lump grey veg turned my stomach.


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    wil
    Registered Users Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »
    I fcukin love it.
    Mmmm...roast beef,spuds and veg swimming in litres of gravy and washed down with a few pints.
    I love sundays.
    wot, no chianti?


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    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    I'd love a good carvery now, sweat drips and all.


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    geckovision
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    cml387 wrote: »
    There are people who love a bit of poor quality meat that has been sitting under hot lamp for two hours.

    Seems to be more people who love crap quality, chemical filled meat at every deli counter in Ireland. Pure rubbish.

    At least a carvery can be decent.

    I usually about both though. Most carvery's I've seen haven't been great.

    Produce rubbish and charge through the f*ck out of people - seems to be the Irish way.


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    whupdedo
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    Coleman Slawski wrote: »
    The day after a night out drinking stout its hard to beat heading to somewhere like O'Neills on Suffolk Street, getting a whopper turkey and ham dinner, having a massive dump after it and then getting stuck into more pints.

    /perfect Sunday

    I hope you're a man:eek:


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