Carvery food

RollieFingers · 21-02-2014 02:46PM

e_e wrote: »

No, for the 127th time people not liking the same things does not amount to hipsterism.

It definitely does!

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 02:47PM

chopper6 wrote: »

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.

You're confusing the word 'nutritious' with the word 'healthy'

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 02:48PM

anncoates wrote: »

And don't get me started on Special K.

Stuff is packed with sugar.

Thanks Whore!

super_furry · 21-02-2014 02:49PM

Eutow wrote: »

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

I'd imagine because it costs more to pay people to work in a kitchen on a Sunday and they can put out a carvery with minimal staff and cut their overheads.

chopper6 · 21-02-2014 02:51PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You're confusing the word 'nutritious' with the word 'healthy'

And you're splitting hairs for the sake of it.

RollieFingers · 21-02-2014 02:53PM

Eutow wrote: »

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

Cry me a river!

21-02-2014 02:54PM

Orlaw3136 wrote: »

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:

It's actually a lot of effort, even reading your post makes it look like effort and you are trying to make it appear like it isn't.

I did roast beef for the first time ever myself recently, its something I have basically eaten almost every Sunday but cooked by my mother or an occasional carvery and to be honest by the time it came to eating it I didn't really enjoy it half as much as I normally would because of the effort that went into it and that was with two of us working on it.

This is especially so when you don't like cooking (like me) and then there is all the tidying up. It also meaning being around the house all afternoon if you want to have dinner by 7pm.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

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

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.

I had roast beef there recently and thought it was good tbh.

Hedge11 · 21-02-2014 02:54PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

e_e wrote: »

No, for the 127th time people not liking the same things does not amount to hipsterism.

It definitely does!

No. There could be hipsters reading this thread & they will now declare carvery to be hip.

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 02:54PM

chopper6 wrote: »

And you're splitting hairs for the sake of it.

Not at all, a pizza provides nutrition. It provides essential macronutrients, namely carbohydrates, fat and protein. It also provides essential micronutrients e.g. calcium, b vitamins, etc... It's not the most nutritious thing you could eat, but you can say that about a lot of foods.

A tyre on the other hand, is not nutritious, it provides nothing that is nourishing to a human (excepting perhaps the radial bands, but I'm not sure we can absorb that form of iron)

Frank Lee Midere · 21-02-2014 02:56PM

e_e wrote: »

No, for the 127th time people not liking the same things does not amount to hipsterism.

Being concerned enough to start a thread on somebody else's food choices is not exactly live and let live. Nor is it just not liking the same things. It's very much self regard. And it's not like people who eat in carveys don't eat elsewhere.

Sir Arthur Daley · 21-02-2014 02:56PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

A tyre on the other hand, is not nutritious, it provides nothing that is nourishing to a human (excepting perhaps the radial bands, but I'm not sure we can absorb that form of iron)

Unless its a Michelin tyre.

--Kaiser-- · 21-02-2014 02:58PM

WikiHow wrote: »

Unless its a Michelin tyre.

:pac:

21-02-2014 02:59PM

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Being concerned enough to start a thread on somebody else's food choices is not exactly live and let live. Nor is it just not liking the same things. It's very much self regard. And it's not like people who eat in carveys don't eat elsewhere.

Why, is the thread stopping them from going and getting their carvery

Frank Lee Midere · 21-02-2014 03:00PM

Ezekiel Scrawny Octopi wrote: »

It's actually a lot of effort, even reading your post makes it look like effort and you are trying to make it appear like it isn't.

I did roast beef for the first time ever myself recently.....

I had roast beef there recently and thought it was good tbh.

Yeah, I did the whole thing once - Jamie Oliver's roasties, Majellas yorkshire pie, but gravy out of a can. Took all day.

Frank Lee Midere · 21-02-2014 03:05PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Why, is the thread stopping them from going and getting their carvery

It's not. It's still self regard. I don't like cheese. I won't be starting a thread on the kind of people who like cheese ( what's with them). I like Brussels sprouts. That's unusual but they are good for you. No thread from me on the kind of muppets who don't get the sprouts.

We could go on all day like this. In private life I don't like people who care to opine on other peoples harmless choices. Nor on the web.

And I don't do carveys often but they are not as miserable as portrayed.

darced · 21-02-2014 03:08PM

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e_e · 21-02-2014 03:12PM

darced wrote: »

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Why are they hipsters for not liking it? Genuine question.

Oranage2 · 21-02-2014 03:15PM

UOTE=e_e;89118784]Why are they hipsters for not liking it? Genuine question.[/QUOTE]

Because they do like it but they're pretending they don't to be hip.

e_e · 21-02-2014 03:16PM

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Being concerned enough to start a thread on somebody else's food choices is not exactly live and let live. Nor is it just not liking the same things. It's very much self regard. And it's not like people who eat in carveys don't eat elsewhere.

Are you serious? Stating a negative opinion is stomping on somebody else's choices? I think the pro-carvery folks are reading too much into this thread.

Although I will add that it is personally frustrating when your family invites you out for a nice lunch and you get all anticipated only for it to be less than what you'd normally get at home on a Sunday. If you're gonna go out for lunch you may as well adventure a bit.

e_e · 21-02-2014 03:18PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Because they do like it but they're pretending they don't to be hip.

That is absolutely ridiculous, pretending to be hip over Sunday dinner? Is not liking mash potato that much of a bug-bear that people have to invent some ulterior motive? Unbelievable. :pac:

e_e · 21-02-2014 03:21PM

RollieFingers wrote: »

It definitely does!

So you don't have any opinions that don't fall in line with the majority? Bizarre.

darced · 21-02-2014 03:22PM

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harry Bailey esq · 21-02-2014 03:23PM

another reason i like carvery is that i feel comfortable going into a place alone and having a meal,id be one of those people that would be too self conscious to be going into a restaurant alone,but a pub?no problem.im sure many are the same as me so carvery is kinda like fast food in that regard only much tastier and better value.

e_e · 21-02-2014 03:24PM

darced wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

Where? I read the whole thread.

anncoates · 21-02-2014 03:25PM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Thanks Whore!

I see it more as a public service duty.

Aglomerado · 21-02-2014 03:28PM

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

another reason i like carvery is that i feel comfortable going into a place alone and having a meal,id be one of those people that would be too self conscience to be going into a restaurant alone,but a pub?no problem.im sure many are the same as me so carvery is kinda like fast food in that regard only much tastier and better value.

That's a very good point. In some places you are invisible if you are dining alone, at least you'll always get served in a carvery!

It's good to have it as a choice, rather than relying on cardboard burgers and polystyrene chips from MaccyDs or similar, where you'll be hungry again in an hour.

harry Bailey esq · 21-02-2014 03:30PM

darced wrote: »

If some prissy chef was serving deconstructed carvery lunches they would be lined up down the street.

This is very true i reckon.

darced · 21-02-2014 03:33PM

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e_e · 21-02-2014 03:34PM

Saw very little of people insulting others who like it. In fact it seems like something that people are ignorantly projecting onto others here.

...and I think that people here are largely confusing hipsters with snobs. There's a subtle but important difference.

Oranage2 · 21-02-2014 03:35PM

I could count how many times I've eaten carvery on one hand. I definitely wouldn't say they're terrible.

I bet the same people against carverys are the same people who order steak and chips every second time they go to a restaurant. Something anybody could prepare in less than ten minutes.

It's all down to food snobs.

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