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Dr Crayfish

I'm sat in a restaurant slash cafe place near Grafton st having finished my "Middle Eastern Chicken" lunch, which was basically a greasy kebab regurgitated onto a plate, and a few things have gotten on my nerves.
"Slaw". Why? What happened to cole? Would you like a side of slaw? Excuse me?
I've noticed a few people have done away with poor old Cole and only use the latter half of the word now.
"Would you like to choose your protein?". Strikes me as anally retentive, for people who want to be vegetarian but don't have the cojones. Too afraid to associate meat with an actual animal that has been slaughtered and gutted.
"Fiji Water". Wtf? Let's fly f*cking WATER from the South Pacific, just for the fancy design logo. To the scorched arid landscape of Ireland. Seriously?
This is the type of place that serves food Roz Purcell champions in the Sunday Indo every week. Avocados and quinoa. Why am I here anyway? I'm leaving now.
So any food trends get on your tits nowadays? Dirty food?
Also - why have they removed "hot" from "hot dog"? This would confuse Vietnamese tourists.

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Temptamperu

My cats breath smells like cat food.

andekwarhola

Finish your food and stop shouting at your phone.

frag420

I heard the crayfish was very bitter....

biko

I have never heard colseslaw referred to as slaw.
And yeah, calling meat "protein" is weird.

sbsquarepants

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

What happened to cole? .

She's knocked up apparently - but I still would:cool:

Glenster

Calling coleslaw 'slaw' strikes me as an American affectation. You see it in barbeque places.

And if I walked into a café and they tried to serve me a dish called "Mediterranean chicken" I'd tell them where to go, it sounds like the kind of thing your childless aunt would make out of a knorr packet.

sashafierce

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Dr Crayfish

sashafierce wrote: »

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Oh yeah food trucks. They're not really a thing in Dublin yet but they are all over London and hipster enclaves in the US. They're actually quite a good idea, I think.

skittles8710

Doughnuts (donuts) everywhere...give me a fresh bakery bun or scone any day!

quickbeam

Does "protein" not refer to meet or cheese? So instead of saying three syllables they're saying two - 66% increase in productivity right away.

me_irl

I mean, what IS it with those tiny packets of peanuts on airplanes?

Dr Crayfish

skittles8710 wrote: »

Doughnuts (donuts) everywhere...give me a fresh bakery bun or scone any day!

Oh yeah of course. Jesus those places are all over Dublin now. Who buys them ffs? I mean I might eat a donut once every couple of years or so but are they really incorporated into Dubliner's diets that much nowadays that we need so many donut shops around the city?

Dr Crayfish

me_irl wrote: »

I mean, what IS it with those tiny packets of peanuts on airplanes?

What has airplane food got to do with any of this?

gramar

The whole pulled pork thing is just silly and completely underwhelming.

Irish Stones

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

"Slaw". Why? What happened to cole? Would you like a side of slaw? Excuse me?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleslaw
Wikipedia says it is also known as simply as Slaw

looksee

Irish Stones wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleslaw
Wikipedia says it is also known as simply as Slaw

Well it is now.

Edups2.0

Jaysus this is bottom of the barrel thread.

looksee

quickbeam wrote: »

Does "protein" not refer to meet or cheese? So instead of saying three syllables they're saying two - 66% increase in productivity right away.

Also eggs, beans, fish, quorn. But yes, not tempting.

NiallBoo

Irish Stones wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleslaw
Wikipedia says it is also known as simply as Slaw

It's an American colloquialism, from the southern U.S. in particular.

Americans can never be trusted in their use of the English language.

gramar

NiallBoo wrote: »

It's an American colonialism, from the southern U.S. in particular.

Americans can never be trusted in their use of the English language.

:eek: bastards colonising our words.

Stonedpilot

Biggest fad of them all is 'Organic' Pay twice the price for something NOT to be sprayed with chemicals?. Wasn't all food back in the day organic?. Also whom decides is it organic?. Perhaps it's just the same. Pure money racket the whole thing.

dzilla

gramar wrote: »

The whole pulled pork thing is just silly and completely underwhelming.

Pulled pork is so 2015 now. It has become so common at subway and macdonalds coming pre-packed and blobbed onto your sandwich like load of gelatinous gloop

me_irl

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

What has airplane food got to do with any of this?

Um... Beees?

Edups2.0

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Biggest fad of them all is 'Organic' Pay twice the price for something NOT to be sprayed with chemicals?. Wasn't all food back in the day organic?. Also whom decides is it organic?. Perhaps it's just the same. Pure money racket the whole thing.

No it wasn't sprayed back in the day but that's because they didn't have access to the growth chemicals.

Organic food not sprayed doesn't grow as plentiful that's why it costs more. Farmers trade price increases for it because there's less growth than sprayed food which obviously grows bigger. Look at organic onions against non organic, they're massive.

Also where do you buy your organic food? I buy a fair bit of it from dunnes and Aldi and it's defiantly not twice the price :rolleyes:

recyclebin

me_irl wrote: »

I mean, what IS it with those tiny packets of peanuts on airplanes?

Think they dont even sell nuts on plane anymore! Too many hipsters with allergies

Dr Crayfish

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Biggest fad of them all is 'Organic' Pay twice the price for something NOT to be sprayed with chemicals?. Wasn't all food back in the day organic?. Also whom decides is it organic?. Perhaps it's just the same. Pure money racket the whole thing.

I was watching Horizon on BBC a couple of years ago, and the most sustainable meat we can eat is factory chicken! There simply isn't enough space to have happy chickens running around fields.

gramar

dzilla wrote: »

Pulled pork is so 2015 now. It has become so common at subway and macdonalds coming pre-packed and blobbed onto your sandwich like load of gelatinous gloop

I've only had it a couple of times and that's exactly what I thought of it.

Dr Crayfish

Anyone remember this place?

http://www.thejournal.ie/porndog-porndog-porndog-2350859-Sep2015/

Opened for about 5 minutes before it shut forever. There's a chicken wing place opened recently there now, that's all they serve, chicken, I'd say it'll go under within a few months.

Edups2.0

gramar wrote: »

I've only had it a couple of times and that's exactly what I thought of it.

Get it in Abra. Not a pork smoothie.

gramar

Edups2.0 wrote: »

Get it in Abra. Not a pork smoothie.

I've had in restaurants...with all the hype of pulled prok this and pulled pork that I was expecting something an awful lot better than what it was.