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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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x43r0

Glenster wrote: »

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.

That is phrased beautifully

It manages to be hilarious AND depressing!

selwyn froggitt

This thread is giving me a good laugh as I sit here sipping my Sri Lankan hand picked tea infused with fat free lactate from a two year old Friesan currently residing in North Cork.
On the table before me sits a hand thrown pottery bowl in which rests a gathering of Munster grown flakes of fresh corn lovingly wrapped about with honey from the famous "Bees of Downpatrick" and soused in more of the Friesan cow juice.

(That's a cuppa and a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes).

[Deleted User]

The Draugan wrote: »

My OH hate's Nandos i never get why , the chicken is fresh , sauce is class the chips are quality , The Hummus is an unreal little starter and it's quick enough to be kinda fast food but your not starving within an hour whats not to love.

I don't hate it, just think it's vastly overrated. It's just chicken and chips.

StupidLikeAFox

Alun wrote: »

Every kind of meat has to be "pulled" these days to make it trendy apparently .. pulled beef, pulled lamb, pulled chicken.

If you pull meat apart you are introducing gaps between the strands. This means that you can stretch one chicken fillet into double its size. If you got a pulled pork sandwich and pushed it back there might not be as much pork in there as you think

jimmy blevins

Fiji water did an ad in the states that disparaged the water in Cleveland, Cleveland tested both and found that the Fiji water contained arsenic.
Artisan water my hole I'll take my chances with tapwater.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000322.html

_Jamie_

I love a good burger.

I love brioche bread.

I do NOT like a burger in a brioche bun. Please restaurants, stop with the brioche buns wrapped around burgers. They simply do not go. A burger needs a more firm bun to stand up to it. And the burger kills the delicate flavour of the brioche. Stop the madness.

And yes, 'slaw' annoy me too.

_Jamie_

The Draugan wrote: »

Pulled Pork is also awesom , but not here never here in the states done properly low and slow with a dry rub its quality, most places here its some over sweetend goopy muck on a bun wrap etc... The only place i can think of does it anywhere near properly in Ireland is Pitt Bros

Actually, Pitt Bros doesn't do it properly, as all the reviews from confused Americans on Tripadvisor show. I've eaten there and the food was pretty awful.

Bison Bar on the quays does BBQ meats well though.

Maximus Alexander

The Draugan wrote: »

Pulled Pork is also awesom , but not here never here in the states done properly low and slow with a dry rub its quality, most places here its some over sweetend goopy muck on a bun wrap etc... The only place i can think of does it anywhere near properly in Ireland is Pitt Bros

Try Bison Bar on the quays if you're in the area. They do a proper slow cooked pulled pork. Brisket too. And some mean ribs.

Edit: D'oh, only just saw the post above mine. Ah well, now you know it's true.

LordSutch

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I'm sat in a restaurant slash cafe place near Grafton st .....

Talking of food fads, is this an example of a linguistic fad?

meeeeh

Kale and other 'super' foods. Just have a varied diet, I would like to know how many people are eating avocado or kale even though they hate it just because it looks good on social media.

Dr Crayfish

LordSutch wrote: »

Talking of food fads, is this an example of a linguistic fad?

No, me have sh*t English.

Kale and other 'super' foods. Just have a varied diet, I would like to know how many people are eating avocado or kale even though they hate it just because it looks good on social media.

In fairness how could you not like avo, it's only gorgeous. "Fruits answer to butter", I don't call it.

nice_guy80

No way is coleslaw a side salad

It's bloody horrible

meeeeh

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

In fairness how could you not like avo, it's only gorgeous. "Fruits answer to butter", I don't call it.

I love avocado but plenty people don't. I despise kale though.

Dr Crayfish

meeeeh wrote: »

I love avocado but plenty people don't. I despise kale though.

I've never met anyone who didn't like it! How could you not?!

[Deleted User]

For the sake of the planets resources of meat, agricultural land, energy and the enivornment, I wish peoples demand for eating "protein" would diminish. You see it with teenagers getting protein milk and chicken fillet rolls every day, loathsome use of protein on menus as mentioned, overfamiliarity by too many with the science behind nutrition for the purposes of aesthetics ultimately rather than health, adds for eggs "get a 6 pack" etc.. The price this vain, self-indulgent generation is going to inflict on future human beings through it's ignorant and selfish insistance on consuming as much meat as they can, will be greater than we currently imagine - once the third world demands what we demand we will know all about it. There is only so much potential for biomass to be locked up in animals on this planet without using enormous amounts of energy, a resource that, along with land, will also be in limited supply in the not too distant future. By the way, while I acknowledge the fact that killing animals is cruel, even if we stick our heads in the sand about *that*, the reasons of resource economy alone should be enough to push in the direction of reducing meat intake. Not that I see it happening, given that the same selfish and wilfully ignorant individuals tend to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to energy and water consumption in relation to their having a shower or two every day, washing clothes super often etc.. no sense of how limited these resources are over fleeting timespans of history eg. centuries.

Billy86

Funny enough the word coleslaw came from the US every bit as much as 'slaw' has now, both via Dutch immigrants - http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=coleslaw

coleslaw (n.) Look up coleslaw at Dictionary.com
also cole-slaw, cole slaw, 1794, American English, partial translation of Dutch koolsla, from kool "cabbage" (see cole) + sla "salad" (see slaw). Commonly cold slaw in English until 1860s, when Middle English cole "cabbage" was revived.

Fecking 'Murcans and 1860s hipsters! :mad:

Can't stand either myself, but pulled pork if it's got the right sauce/marinade/spices/rub/whatever the feck is ridiculously tasty. Just you lads wait til the curried goat fad kicks off!

_Jamie_

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I've never met anyone who didn't like it! How could you not?!

I know a fair few people who don't. I only really like it in guacamole form myself. People I know who don't like seem to dislike the texture mostly.

Dr Crayfish

Deleted User wrote: »

For the sake of the planets resources of meat, agricultural land, energy and the enivornment, I wish peoples demand for eating "protein" would diminish. You see it with teenagers getting protein milk and chicken fillet rolls every day, loathsome use of protein on menus as mentioned, overfamiliarity by too many with the science behind nutrition for the purposes of aesthetics ultimately rather than health, adds for eggs "get a 6 pack" etc.. The price this vain, self-indulgent generation is going to inflict on future human beings through it's ignorant and selfish insistance on consuming as much meat as they can, will be greater than we currently imagine - once the third world demands what we demand we will know all about it. There is only so much potential for biomass to be locked up in animals on this planet without using enormous amounts of energy, a resource that, along with land, will also be in limited supply in the not too distant future. By the way, while I acknowledge the fact that killing animals is cruel, even if we stick our heads in the sand about *that*, the reasons of resource economy alone should be enough to push in the direction of reducing meat intake. Not that I see it happening, given that the same selfish and wilfully ignorant individuals tend to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to energy and water consumption in relation to their having a shower or two every day, washing clothes super often etc.. no sense of how limited these resources are over fleeting timespans of history eg. centuries.

Well said, it's hard not to feel a little guilty about nearly every aspect of my life these days living in a consumer society, depressing really!

hullaballoo

I love coleslaw with most things so I'm happy it's trendy at the moment. I don't really care what they want to call it.

One thing that does annoy me is "soup of the day" on menus. What's so great about it? Why can't you just say "soup?" I know what that means.

irishguitarlad

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

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.

With all this cutting of words we'll be soon talking through grunts. George Orwell covered this aspect of the simplification of language to an extreme point in 1984, looks like we're heading that way.

_Jamie_

Salted caramel is another current food trend. It's about to go off too, I think, because it's creeping into mass-produced produce. It's lovely though.

Dr Crayfish

hullaballoo wrote: »

I love coleslaw with most things so I'm happy it's trendy at the moment. I don't really care what they want to call it.

One thing that does annoy me is "soup of the day" on menus. What's so great about it? Why can't you just say "soup?" I know what that means.

I don't know but I get excited asking the waiter what is the soup of the day. What's he going to say?! It could be anything!

Beanntraigheach

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

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.

It's so satisfying to read that article with the knowledge that the place completely failed

The comments underneath are amusing too.

Dr Crayfish

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

It's so satisfying to read that article with the knowledge that the place completely failed
The comments underneath are amusing too.

I'm one of them, the really handsome guy

But seriously. What f*cking morons thought putting money into a bloody hot dog restaurant on a back street was ever going to pay off? Do these people not do any research?

_Jamie_

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

It's so satisfying to read that article with the knowledge that the place completely failed
The comments underneath are amusing too.

How long did it last? I'm curious as to how it failed so quickly! It seemed very overpriced though and I think people might have been put off by the name.

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I'm one of them, the really handsome guy
But seriously. What f*cking morons thought putting money into a bloody hot dog restaurant on a back street was ever going to pay off? Do these people not do any research?

In fairness, Montague Street isn't a bad location at all. It's just off Harcourt Street and Stephen's Green so is near lots of offices. Green Bench Café is on the same street and it's very popular. So I don't the location was the issue.

cactusgal

_Jamie_ wrote: »

Actually, Pitt Bros doesn't do it properly, as all the reviews from confused Americans on Tripadvisor show. I've eaten there and the food was pretty awful.

Bison Bar on the quays does BBQ meats well though.

Big time! Pitt Bros is awful. Bison Bar is better, so is My Meat Wagon in Smithfield.

hullaballoo

Slates are a bugbear of mine as well. They have no redeeming features whatsoever imo. Absolutely horrible to eat from scraping your cutlery on them and then some genius comes along and does this:

https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates/status/762347169424797696

castletownman

Not a fad so much but it sickens me to see the vegetable farming community in this country on their knees barely making a profit from their products, while at the same time all these expensive, trendy super foods are flooding the market.

Support Irish? Pah. Sure there's a new berry found exclusively in the steppes of Asia that is guaranteed to boost your energy levels.

Another thing, has being a hipster become so mainstream now that it has imploded on itself?

Edups2.0

castletownman wrote: »

Not a fad so much but it sickens me to see the vegetable farming community in this country on their knees barely making a profit from their products, while at the same time all these expensive, trendy super foods are flooding the market.

That's because big supermarkets sell them so cheap so the buy price is cheap. The could raise the buy and sell price but people would be in uproar. The farmers all complained about Aldi's super 6 vegetables, people told them to get over it.

Mena Mitty

gramar wrote: »

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

First time I heard about 'pulled pork' my dirty mind was doing overtime.