Thread: Dinner

^I worry about him not knowing what good meat and different cuts look like, and being robbed while out shopping. Mendip got stitched up buying Thai Wagyu, I hope Chitty isn't being taken to the cleaners as well...

Originally Posted by aging one

Nothing like in the USA.

The UK don't allow growth hormones

Originally Posted by malmomike77

The UK don't allow growth hormones

Just mad cow disease instead.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

The UK don't allow growth hormones

I meant the grading process.

Originally Posted by Headworx

I hope Chitty isn't being taken to the cleaners as well...

At £4.99 a packet I think he doesnt care.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

At £4.99 a packet I think he doesnt care.

And that's that answer. You pay for quality or you don't and at that price its the same quality that gets used in ready meals so its akin to mystery meat. I took the decision long ago to buy quality and pay more and get less quantity.

I know we take the piss, but Chitty is currently an unemployed single parent with a few mouths to feed, so he's probably not gonna be paying top notch for steak that he'd murder anyway . Watch the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.

^ I agree and if that's that case you could buy a chicken and veg and roast it and feed 4 with a carcass to make soup. I always cooked once ate twice with the kids as money was tight in the early days.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Watch the pennies

If he was, he wouldnt be eating at the pub several times a week nor getting pissed on cheap brandy.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

getting pissed on cheap brandy.

Ahem.

And do you know how cheap Wetherspoons pubs are? It can often be cheaper to eat out than to cook (and I know from the pics he posts that he takes his kids there for the odd treat).

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Wetherspoons pubs

They are named after Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.

Tim Martin opened his first pub in 1979 in Colney Hatch Lane in Muswell Hill, London.^[5] Many of the other early Wetherspoon pubs were also in the western part of Haringey. The name of the business originates from JD, a character in The Dukes of Hazzard, and Wetherspoon, the surname of one of Martin's teachers in New Zealand, who had told him that he would not amount to anything.

https://www.google.com/search?client...therspoons+pub

Originally Posted by bsnub

They are named after Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.



Wetherspoons pub - Google-haku

Well, I never knew that! Brilliant about his teacher too. Have that!

You can't fault the places IMO for what they offer and the prices they charge. Always a good selection of beers too.

There are scores of FB groups and pages dedicated to counting how many chips you get in your local Wetherspoons.

An interesting reply on their business model here.

Basically, they've managed to nail every little inefficiency in the trade, and eliminate it. Then.. they can also afford to shrink their wet sales (alcohol) profit margin down to nothing, because they've rebranded the pub as a cheap family restaurant where you go with your elderly gran or your work team at lunch... Eating lots of high profit food, and drinking high profit soft drinks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comme...spoons_can_be/

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

There are scores of FB groups and pages dedicated to counting how many chips you get in your local Wetherspoons.

I got 14 last time

Originally Posted by Joe 90

I got 14 last time

I hope they were chunky bastards.


I just went to the fridge to take a photo of the Aussie ribeye I bought yesterday. The daft bint's only went and put it in the freezer.

She's lucky she's locked away in the gym with covid.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

because they've rebranded the pub as a cheap family restaurant where you go with your elderly gran or your work team at lunch.

So like a chain restaurant here in America. I hate those types of places. So not somewhere you go to truly get on the piss, I am guessing.

Depends what you drink cos it's a 5 mile hike to the toilets.

Originally Posted by bsnub

So like a chain restaurant here in America. I hate those types of places. So not somewhere you go to truly get on the piss, I am guessing.

They do both and are particularly popular with the pisscans during the week cos they open early and the beer is cheap. Why do you think Chitty is in there on a Monday morning?

Weekend evenings have bouncers on the door with the focus on booze.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Why do you think Chitty is in there on a Monday morning?

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Depends what you drink cos it's a 5 mile hike to the toilets.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Weekend evenings have bouncers on the door with the focus on booze.

Looking at the pics of the place, it has that chain restaurant vibe to it that just rubs me the wrong way. If I was over there, I would be looking for an independent local pub.

Why are Wetherspoons called Wetherspoons?


For the first month of trading, it was called Martin's Free House – after its owner, Wetherspoon's founder and chairman Tim Martin. Then, early in the new year of 1980, the pub was renamed Wetherspoons, after Tim's teacher, who'd taught him at school, when he lived in New Zealand.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

he takes his kids there for the odd treat.

They must look forward to that.

^Covered about an hour ago.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Depends what you drink cos it's a 5 mile hike to the toilets.

It's like a scene from the Squid games trying to locate the toilets.

Originally Posted by cyrille

^Covered about an hour ago.

Yes but incorrectly you pedant

Originally Posted by bsnub

They are named after Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard.


Tim Martin opened his first pub in 1979 in Colney Hatch Lane in Muswell Hill, London.[5] Many of the other early Wetherspoon pubs were also in the western part of Haringey. The name of the business originates from JD, a character in The Dukes of Hazzard, and Wetherspoon, the surname of one of Martin's teachers in New Zealand, who had told him that he would not amount to anything.