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Louisa Wrote:

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> I had a row with a member

> of staff at the Beefeater just off the M26 near Maidstone


I was in a Beefeater recently (the decision was out of my hands). TBH it's not cheap - surprised you didn't consider it to be a poncey rip-off joint. Needless to say, the food is abysmal.

steveo Wrote:

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> Breakfast in a beard?


We're getting dangerously close to 'soup in a bread/loaf bowl' thingy


Where's Bob Blubber when you need him


Mind you all this is old hat. They do chicken with fried potato sticks in a box, near to wher I live. Yeah, no knife of fork, just eat from the box and when you're finished, chuck the box on the floor.


It's amazing, there's a round 'cheese on toast' version with the same concept. It's not quite so popular in that when you order it you have to speak, rather than just point and grunt

I remember back in the early 80's The Plough doing Sausage(s) & Chips in the Basket..

Plastic mock wicker basket to stop the vingar running through..


2 Sausages and Chips ?1.20 ish if I remember correctly. sounds expensive for 1980


DulwichFox

I was in the Communion Bar on Camberwell Church Road early on Saturday night. I ordered a bottled beer and was offered a fecking jam jar to drink it out of. I mean, really. A jam jar. Do I look like an idiot? Don't answer that. I asked for a the correct drinking vessel to drink it out of and got the glass I should been offered in the first place. A jam jar... so bloody wrong.


Later I nipped over the road to The Hermits Cave (a proper pub) and drank lovely beer out of a straight glass. Some lovely cider too. It's good in there.


Cheese is for chopping boards. Nothing else.

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I was in the Communion Bar on Camberwell Church

> Road early on Saturday night. I ordered a bottled

> beer and was offered a fecking jam jar to drink it

> out of. I mean, really. A jam jar. Do I look like

> an idiot? Don't answer that.


lol

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Yeah, I've always liked the Hermits Cave... good

> beer and epic cider selection. Always seems to be

> a nice mix of people. No jam jars.



Miss the Hermits, was my local for years. Go teary eyed when I pass it on the 12

There are some especially amusing ironic drinking vessels to be had in Pedler, if you like that sort of thing.


A jam jar - which manages 'the double' of being both unpleasant to hold and to drink out of - offers nothing to the experience of having a drink.. with the added bonus of making you look like a tit.

The cool kids love this stuff though. Or do the 'right on' establishments just like to offer vessels smaller than a standard pint glass so as to sell less for more (in a cool glass obvs). I will have to stop typing on here as it's making me go quite 'road rage' for a totally disproportionate matter.


Louisa.

Rosetta Wrote:

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> I don't mind a jam jar to drink from, but it has

> to be a decent size.



-and refreshment-suitable. Hartleys for a stout, supermarket jam for lager, Bonne Maman for craft beer and Roses Lime for a whisky and splash.


Maybe pickled eggs in retro egg cups, crackling in a toast rack and refills via a four pint teapot.


Breakfast of champions.

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