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Carvery Food

  • 26-07-2015 12:12PM
    #1
    316
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭


    I don't get the hard on some people have for it, each to their own I guess.


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  • #2
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Stop eating at nudist clubs and then their hard ons won't be as bothersome.


  • #3
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,574 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    I would murder a carvery right now.


  • #4
    henryporter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    Nothing says 'muck savagery' more than carvery frequenters.


  • #5
    Help!!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    316 wrote: »
    I don't get the hard on some people have for it, each to their own I guess.

    Its only good if they have crispy Yorkshire puddings, crispy potatoes & thick gravy (not the watery phish that makes everything soggy )


  • #6
    haveringchick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭haveringchick


    HalloweenJack wrote: »
    I would murder a carvery right now.

    Me too. A big heap of roast rib beef and a mountain of mash. Croquettes drowning in gravy. Followed by big slice of lemon meringue. Lovely


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  • #7
    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    316 wrote: »
    I don't get the hard on some people have for it, each to their own I guess.

    I feel your pain, I only get a semi watching people eating cavary.


  • #8
    haveringchick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭haveringchick


    henryporter wrote: »
    Nothing says 'muck savagery' more than carvery frequenters.

    Muck savages is what we are then


  • #9
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    henryporter wrote: »
    Nothing says 'muck savagery' more than carvery frequenters.

    I agree completely. I prefer more pretentious food.


  • #10
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Nothing like it,meat,spuds,veg swimming in gravy,washed down with a few scoops.

    If that makes me a woolly-backed muck savage so be it.

    Fcukin ace it is.


  • #11
    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    Nothing says "Nothing says 'muck savagery' more than carvery frequenters." more than a muck savage racist.


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  • #12
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    For people who don't like food and just like to bury their snot in a plate of muck like a pig in a trough.


  • #13
    ygolometsipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ygolometsipe


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    I agree completely. I prefer more pretentious food.

    I only like pretentious food that suffered a lot before it died.


  • #14
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I can't abide carvery lunches. I have never liked them. Give me a proper dinner any day.


  • #15
    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Miranda Muscular Vegetation wrote: »
    I can't abide carvery lunches. I have never liked them. Give me a proper dinner any day.

    What's the difference? #confused


  • #16
    strelok
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭strelok


    i'd much rather a chinese or a quarter pounder and chips


  • #17
    junospider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭junospider


    roasts are always way overcooked


  • #18
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    junospider wrote: »
    roasts are always way overcooked

    They are usually..... roasted...


  • #19
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    When this country starts delivering sophisticated, classically-inspired dishes on a Sunday afternoon, then I'll start buying them. Until then it's carvery.

    Don't hate the playa, hate the game.


  • #20
    RichardCeann
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 647 ✭✭✭RichardCeann


    They are the business when hungover and not in the mood for cooking.


  • #21
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    Mmm, tasteless carvery dinners. For people who don't like food but need it for practical reasons, like staying alive.


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  • #22
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    strelok wrote: »
    i'd much rather a chinese or a quarter pounder and chips

    I think the idea of a carvery is that we can pretend it's a healthy meal, so we can then justify having a Chinese later on that night. They're not mutually exclusive.


  • #23
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Valetta wrote: »
    What's the difference? #confused

    The carvery meat is made from cardboard and the gravy is made from snot and the vegetables are made from plasticine.

    Or something.


  • #24
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Leopardstown Inn....

    Awfull lounge, but an excellent carvery.
    The best gratin potatoes I've ever had.

    The carvery is very much an Irish/British thing.... I love it.
    €12-€14 get your fill, in & out, no waiting around for waiters/waitresses.


  • #25
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Banjoxed wrote: »
    Mmm, tasteless carvery dinners. For people who don't like food but need it for practical reasons, like staying alive.

    For muck savages not having mammy cook their Sunday lunch from age 3-33, like a lot of dubliners.


  • #26
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Don't like it either, overcooked meat and veggies kept warm under hot lamps for hours.
    It's for people who don't really like decent food and eat meat with two veg and/or deep fried food all the time.


  • #27
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    henryporter wrote: »
    Nothing says 'muck savagery' more than carvery frequenters.
    I left carvery food and "muck savagery" behind when I moved on to buffets

    I'm quite the sophisticate


  • #28
    Banjoxed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Banjoxed


    The criteria for a "beautiful" carvery from more than one carvery fan: tasteless grey overcooked beef with gravy on everything, and stuffing.


  • #29
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    I don't get the hate. If it's decent food and cooked correctly, what's the issue. The hate seems a bit of a bandwagon tbh. I love the more "adventurous" meals and so on, really love going to restaurants, but a decent carvery is delicious I think. Would love one now actually.


  • #30
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    I used to have to stay in England over weekends a few years ago. Sunday's were the day to get a good roast dinner with the Yorkshire pudding. That was often a carvery, sometimes not. No real difference at a normal price range. If you paid a bit more you might get better quality. Might.

    In general they don't actually go and cook the roast beef, spuds and veg on demand. They are either being keep heated in the kitchen or in the carvery area.


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  • #31
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    This is going to turn into a culchie versus Dublin thing.

    In before someone mentions coddle.


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