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Carvery food

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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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eireannBEAR

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

No ****, sherlock, you know there's only 9 Michelin-starred restaurants in the whole of Ireland? The premise of the OPs argument was that carvery food is worse than Mcdonalds

I doubt most people over 8 would agree with that.

osarusan

dark crystal wrote: »

I honestly had no idea eating a roast lunch outside the home was such a contentious issue!

My goodness, you'd swear going by this thread, people were paying good money for gruel rather than meat and three veg! When did roast lunch become so passe??

I think the people who don't like carvery like to imagine that the people who do like carvery view it as top cuisine and are therefore ignorant of real cuisine.

.jacksparrow.

Fussy people, food snobs, moan moan moan.

HooohRaaah

Standing in a queue with a brown tray waiting on the "chef" to give me chicken with sauce that is developing a skin along with dry veg.. No thanks

For the same money I can get decent food with a table service. I find the people who love their carvery are a lower class of people. They think having a carvery is being fancy. They sit there with their tray, pint of Bulmers and watch United vs Spurs.

.jacksparrow.

HooohRaaah wrote: »

Standing in a queue with a brown tray waiting on the "chef" to give me chicken with sauce that is developing a skin along with dry veg.. No thanks

For the same money I can get decent food with a table service. I find the people who love their carvery are a lower class of people. They think having a carvery is being fancy. They sit there with their tray, pint of Bulmers and watch United vs Spurs.

This is quite good I'll give you that!!

[Deleted User]

I hate it as well. And the price for such bland boring food is insane. I remember going to one with someone and I said I'd get it for us both. The girl quoted the price, okay for 2 dinners that seems okay. Then she pauses. Oh are you paying for both of you? That's pricex2 then.
WHAT.
Should have walked out
unreal

FTA69

I'm not a big fan. The Brits are absolutely obsessed with roasts like. I have friends who simply wouldn't countenance consuming any other sort of food on a Sunday afternoon. Homemade roasts are great stuff but most of the sh*t you get in pubs here is vastly inferior yet they manage to pack them in. There's even a special chain here called Toby Carvery who does nothing but that sort of sh*te. I remember I worked in a pub that at the time didn't do Sunday roasts and some of the customers used to be incredulously enraged at being deprived of their overcooked meat and dry veg.

Carvery is grand if you're pinting on a Sunday and want something to fill the gap, I wouldn't pretend it's great food though because it isn't.

Eutow

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

So it is basically food hipsterism.

Yawn. Nobody can like something different without this word been used. Most overused expression ever. Beats even LOL for most overused expression.

suicide_circus wrote: »

two points
1. I have never seen a restaurant stop their usual menu when carvery is on. I've seen PUBS do this but if you want a menu with restaurant quality variety, why are you going to a pub? Pubgrub is plain slap-up food.

2. Do people really still eat carvery style meat and two veg meals twice per week at home? I cant remember the last time I cooked such a meal and all my friends would be the same. maybe it's still common for old people or down the country.

That is what I meant, pubs, I didn't mention restaurants.

Eutow

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Yes but these people are slamming the concept and food as a whole...Food hypsters jim,Food hypsters and im not impressed,Beef gravy and stuffing......Is pure irish excellence.

Do you even know what hipster means?

anncoates

c_man wrote: »

it's awful seeing people leave their seats after main meal and having to queue again for their dessert.

It's a pub not a restaurant.

Karl Stein

Carvery lunch.

Eutow wrote: »

Do you even know what hipster means?

Anyone who dares to stray from centre-spectrum on any matter of taste.

e_e

I find the idea that people are only expressing their distaste of carvery food to seem cool absolutely hilarious tbh.

I think the word has reached full redundancy now.

jimgoose

Charles Rocher wrote: »

Carvery lunch....

That grass looks pretty good. Where is that, exactly?

Eutow

Charles Rocher wrote: »

Carvery lunch.

Anyone who dares to stray from centre-spectrum on any matter of taste.

That hippo would liven up the bland ol' carvery.

mmmm Hippo

Karl Stein

jimgoose wrote: »

That grass looks pretty good. Where is that, exactly?

I'd rather not say - it'll only end up spoiled by riff-raff if it gets a good reputation.

eireannBEAR

Eutow wrote: »

Do you even know what hipster means?

Yes and i believe it is applicable here.

Eutow

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Yes and i believe it is applicable here.

Go on.........

Hedge11

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Eutow wrote: »

Do you even know what hipster means?

Yes and i believe it is applicable here.

Do you know who Jim is?

eireannBEAR

Eutow wrote: »

Go on.........

Hypster,A pretentious person with too much money and a sense of intellectual superiority that has a disliking to traditional values,Going by some of the posts here would i not be correct?

Thats the definition of hypster that i feel is applicable here.

jimgoose

Charles Rocher wrote: »

I'd rather not say - it'll only end up spoiled by riff-raff if it gets a good reputation.

Well to blazes with you, Sir! I'll find out where it is, and then I shall come along and perform various sporting chants and fling excrement at the patrons.

e_e

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Hypster,A pretentious person with too much money and a sense of intellectual superiority that has a disliking to traditional values,Going by some of the posts here would i not be correct?

Thats the definition of hypster that i feel is applicable here.

That's some insane projection onto people who more or less just say "I don't like carvery food." :rolleyes:

Hedge11

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Hypster,A pretentious person with too much money and a sense of intellectual superiority that has a disliking to traditional values,Going by some of the posts here would i not be correct?

Thats the definition of hypster that i feel is applicable here.

Did you know that before you looked it up?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

Carvery is just fast food in a pub, it isn't there to compete with restaurants, it's there to compete with McDonald's and diners ect.
I end up in McDonald's ect far more now but it is way crapper than carvery. A few lovely pints in a comfy pub with the lads and the rugby with some meat and veg vrs. in McDonald's you get a handful of chips and a boring burger on uncomfortable seats surrounded by teenagers and kids with sh1t pop music playing in the background. I end up doing the latter now almost exclusively but I would go pub carvery 100% of the time if circumstances allowed.
You want to get dressed up, with table service, with intimate surroundings ect great, but it's a completely different experience to a carvery and it's silly to state otherwise.

jimgoose

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Hypster...

A cool, trendy person - often with a goatee beard - who drives a fork-lift.

Eutow

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Hypster,A pretentious person with too much money and a sense of intellectual superiority that has a disliking to traditional values,Going by some of the posts here would i not be correct?

Thats the definition of hypster that i feel is applicable here.

Wrong

eireannBEAR

Hedge11 wrote: »

Did you know that before you looked it up?

Well you, e e,and Eutow certainly didnt..now apologize please??

Hedge11

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Well you, e e,and Eutow certainly didnt..now apologize please??

Where does "Jim" come into all this?

eireannBEAR

Hedge11 wrote: »

Where does "Jim" come into all this?

Now your picking at straws,lets make up and go for a dinner i know a nice place.

e_e

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Well you, e e,and Eutow certainly didnt..now apologize please??

Nope, I already knew it was a redundant word used by people with a shallow disdain for differing opinions. Thank you very much. :pac:

Eutow

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Hypster,A pretentious person with too much money and a sense of intellectual superiority that has a disliking to traditional values,Going by some of the posts here would i not be correct?

Thats the definition of hypster that i feel is applicable here.

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Well you, e e,and Eutow certainly didnt..now apologize please??

I apologize for wanting something off the regular menu that a pub has no trouble serving up the other six days of the week. Apparently it is hipster now for wanting a pasta dish, fish, lasagne, a sandwich, or something that isn't bland, on a Sunday with a pint while watching a football game.