Food served on wood chopping boards

[Seabag]

Oh lord, the whole slate thing has come full circle

There's now a slate, made into a 'proper plate'

Where do we go now?

http://www.slateware.co.uk/uploads/products/REF%20HMPV27(2).jpg

[Louisa]

I think the overriding point should be, why should you be forced into that position to ask for a plate? What next? Soup on a slat? Get in quick before it runs over the sides. Good grief. Bloody hipsters.

Louisa.

[Louisa]

Or how about Gruel served in a bankers bowler hat? The irony-meter is off the bloomin scale!

Louisa.

[steveo]

Breakfast in a beard?

[Jeremy]

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.

[Seabag]

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

[DulwichFox]

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

[Jeremy]

Seabag Wrote:

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> 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

Sounds amazing. So.. authentic.

[Jah Lush]

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.

[Jeremy]

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.

[FJDGoose]

I've just wasted ten minutes out of my day looking at this thread.why?

[Sue]

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> I've just wasted ten minutes out of my day looking

> at this thread.why?

And another minute posting on it :)) :)) :))

That's eleven minutes out of your life ....

[Mick Mac]

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

[ed_pete]

@Jah - not sure who was first the US or the UK, this was what I got when I ordered a beer in Brooklyn last summer.

 

[Jah Lush]

Most stupid ideas come out of America and for some idiotic reason we seem to blindly follow suit. Looks like marmalade and that's what it should be used for.

[Rosetta]

I don't mind a jam jar to drink from, but it has to be a decent size.

[DulwichFox]

These places are just taking the 'P***' out of people... They really are.

..and some people are buying into it... and these places know it..

.. They are not laughing behind our backs... They are laughing in our face.

DulwichFox

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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

[steveo]

Missing your breakfast brandy?

[*Bob*]

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.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Have you seen the picture of the shepherds pie served in a pint glass on WWPs? Very funny.

[Louisa]

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.

[maxxi]

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.

[*Bob*]

A wellington boot for soup.

Fried eggs - served on the back of a moving tortoise.

Sunday roast - in a bagpipe.

[Jeremy]

Nah. Bonne Maman is so mainstream. It's gotta be London Borough of Jam.