Carvery food

billyhead · 19-02-2014 09:11PM

Rasheed wrote: »

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.

Depends on where you get it. Some places do a ****e carvery

Kiwi in IE · 19-02-2014 09:11PM

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

Places that serve carvery deserve to have people miss when taking a dump in their toilets.

Is it good on a hangover because it induces vomit and makes you feel better? Maybe it does have it's place. Must try that.

we'llallhavetea · 19-02-2014 09:11PM

i dont get this either, the beef is always thinly sliced dry cheap cuts and the gravy is beyond fcuking vile.

The Dagda · 19-02-2014 09:12PM

A lot of people seem to be linking a carvery with bad food.

The food in a good carvery is perfect, IMO, you can see exactly what your getting, and you don't have to worry about microwaves and spitting kitchen staff...

Corvo · 19-02-2014 09:12PM

Hold on here a second - before we even get to the absolutely horrendous vegetables, meat that is drier than Ghandi's flip flop and spuds a Smash lover would turn away, can we first address the coffin dodgers that frequent these places?

Jesus H Christ, getting stuck behind these biddies that have been coming to the same carvery since Lincoln was in office and make the same complaints every week is just soul destroying.

"Yes I'll have a three-quarter portion of Beef with just carrots...yes that's right just carrots...and a touch of gravy...a little more....OH! Too much, I can't eat that. Can you start again?"

Meanwhile I'm standing behind them and the wooden tray (aren't they always the same trays) is in splinters I'm wrenching it that tight.

whupdedo · 19-02-2014 09:16PM

Corvo wrote: »

Meanwhile I'm standing behind them and the wooden tray (aren't they always the same trays) is in splinters I'm wrenching it that tight.

You should ware it off the back of their head

Corvo · 19-02-2014 09:16PM

whupdedo wrote: »

You should ware it off the back of their head

If the food hasn't killed em, no amount of violence will!

eireannBEAR · 19-02-2014 09:17PM

I love a carvery where else can you get pork,ham,beef all on the same plate together with roast spuds,mash, chips,gravy and stuffing!!!

Holsten · 19-02-2014 09:17PM

I used to love it, then again I used to love spending hours in the pub and if your there on a Sunday its part of it.

The idea of it now makes me feel ill.

kryogen · 19-02-2014 09:18PM

From a business point of view, a busy carvery is a goldmine, its relatively cheap to produce and once it actually sells you make a great margin from it.

Some carvery can be ok, if you get it early, once it hits the front basically! Any I have been involved in personally I know has all been cooked that morning, its the day after you might get the re heated stuff and I have heard of places that actually used bags of Smash instead of real potato

billyhead · 19-02-2014 09:21PM

kryogen wrote: »

From a business point of view, a busy carvery is a goldmine, its relatively cheap to produce and once it actually sells you make a great margin from it.

Some carvery can be ok, if you get it early, once it hits the front basically! Any I have been involved in personally I know has all been cooked that morning, its the day after you might get the re heated stuff and I have heard of places that actually used bags of Smash instead of real potato

Thats it. Get it early and you will have no problems. Leave it late and you will only get scraps and leftovers that would turn a cow from ****eing

Kiwi in IE · 19-02-2014 09:24PM

wil wrote: »

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

No! It's not the same. McD's, KFC etc, although I can't stand them most of the time either, have a unique taste that once in a blue moon you might be in the mood for. I couldn't make the exact replica of a McD's burger or piece of KFC chicken at home. If I overcooked the meat and vegetables, used frozen 'roast' potatoes and instant gravy, then left it all to sit in a warming oven for four hours and asked whoever I was serving dinner to to line up for it, I could make an exact replica of carvery food pretty easily.

billyhead · 19-02-2014 09:31PM

Kiwi in IE wrote: »

No! It's not the same. McD's, KFC etc, although I can't stand them most of the time either, have a unique taste that once in a blue moon you might be in the mood for. I couldn't make the exact replica of a McD's burger or piece of KFC chicken at home. If I overcooked the meat and vegetables, used frozen 'roast' potatoes and instant gravy, then left it all to sit in a warming oven for four hours and asked whoever I was serving dinner to to line up for it, I could make an exact replica of carvery food pretty easily.

Carvery is a lot healthier then the muck you get in the likes of KFC and McDs

Holsten · 19-02-2014 09:34PM

billyhead wrote: »

Carvery is a lot healthier then the muck you get in the likes of KFC and McDs

Is it really though?

I'd love to see the nutritional content of an average carvery meal.

orchidsrpretty · 19-02-2014 09:35PM

I won't go into a pub that serves carvers food. The smell of that food makes me feel sick and would turn me off from having a alcoholic drink.

Mena · 19-02-2014 09:36PM

Man a lot of you eat in really crap places!

Tin Foil Hat · 19-02-2014 09:39PM

The Dagda wrote: »

A lot of people seem to be linking a carvery with bad food.

The food in a good carvery is perfect, IMO, you can see exactly what your getting, and you don't have to worry about microwaves and spitting kitchen staff...

Microwaves are grand (ish). Spitting staff is a myth. Food kept warm over hot water, or under hot lights, that I have to bring back to the table myself is for prisons.

Kiwi in IE · 19-02-2014 09:40PM

billyhead wrote: »

Carvery is a lot healthier then the muck you get in the likes of KFC and McDs

If you were wanting a healthy option you'd avoid both like the plague.

cletus van damme · 19-02-2014 09:43PM

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

one of the better places.

I adore carvery but I'll accept since the end of the celtic tiger when the price of a carvery dipped from 12-15 e to the tenner and below mark the quality of them have fallen.

a few good spots left on my list.

If the missus would let me I'd go to a carvery on a sat night for a night out

Corvo · 19-02-2014 09:46PM

cletus van damme wrote: »

one of the better places.

I adore carvery but I'll accept since the end of the celtic tiger when the price of a carvery dipped from 12-15 e to the tenner and below mark the quality of them have fallen.

a few good spots left on my list.

If the missus would let me I'd go to a carvery on a sat night for a night out

Ah Jaysus.

orangesoda · 19-02-2014 09:46PM

I've been to a few in tyrone, it reminds me of a victorian soup kitchen, starving people lining up for scraps of undesirable food.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 19-02-2014 09:48PM

Used drink in a local pub where the landlady would give out free plates of bacon and cabbage or ribs to anyone drinking there on a Sunday morning/afternoon.

The drinkers would get a bit of nourishment and build up a massive salt induced thirst.
It was great and everyone was a winner.

eireannBEAR · 19-02-2014 09:51PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Used drink in a local pub where the landlady would give out free plates of bacon and cabbage or ribs to anyone drinking there on a Sunday morning/afternoon.

The drinkers would get a bit of nourishment and build up a massive salt induced thirst.
It was great and everyone was a winner.

Oh you animal,I detest that you would eat that filth,Is what some here might say....

Absolute heaven,I wish i knew of a pub that did that!!!

Corvo · 19-02-2014 09:53PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Used drink in a local pub where the landlady would give out free plates of bacon and cabbage or ribs to anyone drinking there on a Sunday morning/afternoon.

The drinkers would get a bit of nourishment and build up a massive salt induced thirst.
It was great and everyone was a winner.

Oh feed me ribs and Guinness you harlot, feed them to me.

Eutow · 19-02-2014 09:54PM

The Dagda wrote: »

A lot of people seem to be linking a carvery with bad food.

The food in a good carvery is perfect, IMO, you can see exactly what your getting, and you don't have to worry about microwaves and spitting kitchen staff...

The heat lamps act as the microwave and they can spit in the food before they slop it into those steel containers.

As already mentioned, a carvery reminds me of prisoners, or workers in their work canteen, lining up for their slop, brown tray in hand. Soul destroying it is, and if you want food in the pub, you are forced to eat this cr@p because pubs refuse to allow you to choose food from their regular menu.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 19-02-2014 09:57PM

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Oh you animal,I detest that you would eat that filth,Is what some here might say....

Absolute heaven,I wish i knew of a pub that did that!!!

Too many spongers copped on to a free meal and would go in for a mineral or glass of water and a feed of bacon flavoured goodness.

Fcuked it up for everyone,miserable bastards.

Eutow · 19-02-2014 10:07PM

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Too many spongers copped on to a free meal and would go in for a mineral or glass of water and a feed of bacon flavoured goodness.

Fcuked it up for everyone,miserable bastards.

A three drink minimum, with each drink no less than 4.2% ABV would have sorted that out.

pharmaton · 19-02-2014 10:29PM

I may be a bit boring but on Sunday I was ravenous for a carvery. I live with a non meat eating freak so roasts don't happen here, I get one at Christmas (at the mothers) and if I'm lucky some other "feast" type day during the year. Decided to use the match in the pub as an excuse to remove myself to eat some roasted goodness washed down with extra thick gravy juice stuff from the carvery at the bar when I got collared and had to eat a wrap that had already been lovingly prepared for me.

I'm still sad.

eireannBEAR · 19-02-2014 10:36PM

pharmaton wrote: »

I may be a bit boring but on Sunday I was ravenous for a carvery. I live with a non meat eating freak so roasts don't happen here, I get one at Christmas (at the mothers) and if I'm lucky some other "feast" type day during the year. Decided to use the match in the pub as an excuse to remove myself to eat some roasted goodness washed down with extra thick gravy juice stuff from the carvery at the bar when I got collared and had to eat a wrap that had already been lovingly prepared for me. I'm still sad.

Dont blame you,I hate paying good money for some rice or pasta,If im paying for a meal i want the plate to be cracking from the weight of the food placed on it.

I also consider it a crime if people order salmon when there is a perfectly good piece of beef or steak on offer.

maryishere · 19-02-2014 10:37PM

cml387 wrote: »

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

not talking about Amsterdam.;)

Carvery food

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