Carvery food

Hedge11 · 21-02-2014 12:25PM

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Now your picking at straws

Well, me & my hype-ster mates just love the ol' Star Trek references.

eireannBEAR · 21-02-2014 12:29PM

God you are coming across very hurt lads,Its only a thread about a bit of dinner take it easy. You can eat all the pasta and curries you wish,I dont mind really...

chopper6 · 21-02-2014 12:32PM

Anybody ever do all you can eat pizza?

Disgusting slop

dark crystal · 21-02-2014 12:39PM

Eutow wrote: »

This. The biggest problem is the fact that the carvery takes over. You can't order something else of the regular menu. Let people have the carvery if they want, but let others have the choice to eat something off the regular menu.

I just don't get the extreme popularity of them. All of us probably have potato's with meat and veg at least twice during the week, and carvery lovers seem to like having the same thing again on the Sunday. The last thing I want is something similar to what I had during the week, I want something different, something I would not normally make at home.

It is the same thing with beer, people just drinking the same bland lager or bland stout all the time, rather than trying something different.

Eutow wrote: »

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.

Do you not eat pasta, fish, lasagne or sandwiches at home either?

Davarus Walrus · 21-02-2014 12:40PM

chopper6 wrote: »

Anybody ever do all you can eat pizza?

Disgusting slop

That Pizza Hut on Suffolk Street do an all-you-can-eat at lunchtime. I've walked past it a few times. Really depressing. It is all slobbering, jowly faces and massive fat arses. Almost attacking the assistant bringing out the next salt and sugar laden 'pie'.

Eutow · 21-02-2014 12:42PM

dark crystal wrote: »

Do you not eat pasta, fish, lasagne or sandwiches at home either?

I do, but if I'm out in the pub and I want something to eat, I may want to eat something besides carvery.

eireannBEAR · 21-02-2014 12:49PM

Eutow wrote: »

I do, but if I'm out in the pub and I want something to eat, I may want to eat something besides carvery.

Well dont buy one then.

dark crystal · 21-02-2014 12:50PM

Eutow wrote: »

I do, but if I'm out in the pub and I want something to eat, I may want to eat something besides carvery.

That's fair enough (and I'm sure there are pubs that have more choice than carvery on a Sunday), but each of the dishes you mentioned there would be bog standard dinner fare for most people during the week, whereas a roast lunch isn't generally something people would eat every day at home. It's traditionally more of a Sunday meal.

I honestly don't see how a roast lunch is any blander than any of the dishes you mentioned, but each to their own!

Eutow · 21-02-2014 12:51PM

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Well dont buy one then.

I don't, most of the time, but why can't I have a choice off their regular menu? Nobody has answered this yet.

Eutow · 21-02-2014 12:57PM

dark crystal wrote: »

That's fair enough (and I'm sure there are pubs that have more choice than carvery on a Sunday), but each of the dishes you mentioned there would be bog standard dinner fare for most people during the week, whereas a roast lunch isn't generally something people would eat every day at home. It's traditionally more of a Sunday meal.

I honestly don't see how a roast lunch is any blander than any of the dishes you mentioned, but each to their own!

Sunday roast is OK, nothing wrong with it, but having it every week wouldn't be for me. It's also easy enough to make, so I can make a better one at home than any carvery I have had. Roast potato, roast beef, carrots, mushy peas, broccoli and sauce. Takes about 90 minutes to prepare and cook.

I want a choice that is all.

chopper6 · 21-02-2014 01:13PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

That Pizza Hut on Suffolk Street do an all-you-can-eat at lunchtime. I've walked past it a few times. Really depressing. It is all slobbering, jowly faces and massive fat arses. Almost attacking the assistant bringing out the next salt and sugar laden 'pie'.

Revolting.

Look at the calorific content of pizza and it contains nothing of nutritional value:
http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/pizza

it's no wonder so many people in america are waddling sacks of suet..and i'll wager we're catching up rapidly.

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 01:20PM

chopper6 wrote: »

Revolting.

Look at the calorific content of pizza and it contains nothing of nutritional value:
http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/pizza

it's no wonder so many people in america are waddling sacks of suet..and i'll wager we're catching up rapidly.

Of course it contains something of nutritional value, a calorie itself is nutritious, so your statement is incorrect if a pizza contained only empty calories (which is also incorrect)

Warper · 21-02-2014 01:41PM

There are good and bad carverys, same as everything else. Personally i like them, a good hearty roast, beef, chicken, veg and gravy, sweet.

EyeSight · 21-02-2014 01:52PM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

That Pizza Hut on Suffolk Street do an all-you-can-eat at lunchtime. I've walked past it a few times. Really depressing. It is all slobbering, jowly faces and massive fat arses. Almost attacking the assistant bringing out the next salt and sugar laden 'pie'.

in our defence, there usually is no pizza out for a while until they decide to refill it.
Not a great experience there either way

WoollyRedHat · 21-02-2014 01:52PM

I rather a bit of lobster on a sunday afternoon myself, but then again, I have fine tastes.

chopper6 · 21-02-2014 01:54PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Of course it contains something of nutritional value, a calorie itself is nutritious, so your statement is incorrect if a pizza contained only empty calories (which is also incorrect)

A calorie is nutritous if you're starving...easting crud like pizza when you're otherwise well-fed is just gonna make you fat.

And it's not true to say that all calories are created equally...feed somebody on 3000 calories per day derived only from chocolate versus the same amount of calories from a normal diet and you'll see a marked difference after two months.

anncoates · 21-02-2014 01:58PM

Eutow wrote: »

I do, but if I'm out in the pub and I want something to eat, I may want to eat something besides carvery.

Somebody should invent specialist businesses where you can go in and sit down and order different foods to eat. Think it could really take off.

py2006 · 21-02-2014 02:00PM

Jesus, people must be getting really bad carvery's! I only eat them the odd time but they are usually very nice.

Not sure where the 'bad food' comments are coming from! Compared to a lot of stuff you can get served, they are actually quite good for you.

harry Bailey esq · 21-02-2014 02:05PM

say what you like about carvery,im looking forward to tucking into one today,I've not had one since before Christmas so a little treat for me. The place ill be having it is a pub somewhere between ballymun,finglas east and glasnevin. Carvery afficionados Will know the place im talking about,the food is always tasty,portions perfect,different every day and always served up with a smile by Keith Duffys (coronation street/boyzone) lovely mam:)
edit: could be his mother in law,a real lady nonetheless

anncoates · 21-02-2014 02:10PM

chopper6 wrote: »

Look at the calorific content of pizza and it contains nothing of nutritional value:
http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/pizza.

And don't get me started on Special K.

Stuff is packed with sugar.

Orlaw3136 · 21-02-2014 02:21PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Hmm. Let me see...

On the one hand, we have:

Option A: Spend half the day doing the eejit in the kitchen, looking for ingredients, swearing because some of them are missing, pre-heating the oven, boiling pots, and finally, exhausted and on the point of starvation, sit down to a plate of stuff after more than two hours messing.

And on t'other:

Option B: Hop into my Jaguar with Mrs. Goose and cruise down as far as the Four Elms in Glounthane for a plate of possibly the best carvery in Munster.

Ah no not a bit of it - get the oven on, peel and par boil your spuds, chop your veg while that's happening, brown your meat (har har) as necessary, get everything loaded up into the oven and within a couple of hours you have only to make the gravy and you're set.

One pot (spuds), 2 roasting trays (if you do the veg separate). Ingredients - spuds, fat/oil, carots, parsnip, meat & the makings of your gravy to your preference.

And yes Mrs. Orlaw is deeply appreciative of the effort, if you're asking :pac:

donvito99 · 21-02-2014 02:22PM

Reminds me of Alan Partridge and his stay at the Linton Travel Tavern

21-02-2014 02:24PM

Are people going to some place where they get punched in the face while ordering a carvery? Jesus.

harry Bailey esq · 21-02-2014 02:25PM

donvito99 wrote: »

Reminds me of Alan Partridge and his stay at the Linton Travel Tavern

"i have a scam going with a 12inch plate"

Sir Arthur Daley · 21-02-2014 02:27PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Are people going to some place where they get punched in the face while ordering a carvery? Jesus.

Alot of faux outrage here for sure.

Femme_Fatale · 21-02-2014 02:29PM

While I disagree every carvery is shyte, personal preference is not being a hipster.

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??

Agreed. Although the Wilton Bar (Cork) was mentioned here because it gets so packed for carvery. That IMO is an example of a place that does awful carvery, but as with anything, there is good and bad.

21-02-2014 02:37PM

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

While I disagree every carvery is shyte, personal preference is not being a hipster.

The "OMG how can you eat that muck" stuff is generally being hipsterish though. Or at least incredibly ignorant based on a small sample size that they apparently can't imagine being different elsewhere.

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 02:38PM

chopper6 wrote: »

A calorie is nutritous if you're starving...easting crud like pizza when you're otherwise well-fed is just gonna make you fat.

And it's not true to say that all calories are created equally...feed somebody on 3000 calories per day derived only from chocolate versus the same amount of calories from a normal diet and you'll see a marked difference after two months.

A calorie is nutritious. You can't live without calories, so you don't have to starving for it to be nutritious. There's nothing wrong with eating pizza occasionally, I have the most fastidious diet of anyone I know and I eat pizza sometimes

RollieFingers · 21-02-2014 02:41PM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

You gotta love Ireland, in fairness. A place where your considered a snob if:-
a) You go out for lunch a prefer a waiter/waitress to take you order and bring your food
b) Don't consider dissolved brown pellets to be actual coffee
c) Like to spend a few extra quid on wine that won't double as paint stripper
d) Like a decent beer instead of the fizzy, yellow, mass-produced piss that comes out of the only 6 or 7 taps you'll see in most pubs in the country
e) Hope for a bit more from a Sunday lunch than a salty cure for the 8 or 10 pints of that fizzy piss consumed the night before, or as lining for the 6 or 7 pints of the same piss that will surely follow.

Seriously, is there any other country in the world where you'll be told ,"It's far from [insert tasty foodstuff here] you were reared."
Fukk that sh!t. I'm far from a snob. I like a decent burger, curry, lasagna as much as the next person, but I have some standards. One of those standards is that I expect a better standard of food and service when I go out for lunch than I would get from a work canteen. If all I want from my lunch out is that I'll dodge the pots and pans then I' rather go to a take away. It's cheaper, I'll get a better choice, and I know I'll get a seat at my kitchen table.

I think you are considered a snob when you regurgitate such pathetic posts!
"Fizzy, yellow, mass-produced piss", get over yourself like!

chopper6 · 21-02-2014 02:42PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

A calorie is nutritious. You can't live without calories, so you don't have to starving for it to be nutritious. There's nothing wrong with eating pizza occasionally, I have the most fastidious diet of anyone I know and I eat pizza sometimes

But calories derived from junk food ie food high in sugar and salt is not nutritious...it's better than nothing but it is not beneficial to human health.

Occasionally never hurt anybody...i was referring to people gorging on vast quantities of pizza and other such crap.

Carvery food

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