• @[email protected]
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      012 days ago

      Cheese isn’t even good when it gets that thick. It takes on an unpleasant texture. And in a sandwich like that it would be ruinous to the bread. You would at least have to slice it thinner and layer it.

  • @[email protected]
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    This is at a restaurant. Someone paid money for cheese and raw onion on bread. What are we doing here?

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        It’s the same damn thing

        There’s only so many words in the English language for “a place you can get a meal at”, you wanna go over em all?

        And yes I’ve been to actual midcountry pubs, they’re bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.

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          They’re absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they’re feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.

          If you’re in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.

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            Blah blah blah blah

            At the end of the day it’s a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say “it’s a restaurant” that’s what we mean.

            I get the historical context. But you can’t define a pub in a business plan in any way that won’t leave me going “it’s a restaurant”. “It’s a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!” Yeah I get it bro, it’s a bar.

            I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won’t fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don’t go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you’re learning something.

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              Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?

              It’s a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).

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                That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of “restaurant” require “dining space”? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.

                My point is, when Americans colloquially say “restaurant” they mean “any dining establishment”. We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.

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          Yes, you’re right. All these words are equal. It’s a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.

          • @[email protected]
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            Well, yes. If you shop around you are able to find the same kind of food on some place using any one of those names.

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            It’s almost like these different words to differentiate between the locations that offer varying services, you nonce.

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                The fact is that it’s pretty much irrelevant what kind of establishment it is. The point is who the fuck pays for that sandwich. Your insistence on correcting them on something totally irrelevant to the point makes you a twat.

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                  Someone might pay for that sandwich if the primary function of the establishment is the consumption of alcohol (as it is in a pub) and not the serving of quality meals (as it is in a restaurant).

                  In a pub, especially if it’s the type of place where some real serious drinking occurs, the primary function of the a method of filling a stomach and absorbing alcohol and that sandwich would probably fill the brief.

                  I’m not saying it looks like a good sandwich, but it’s a practical one. A real sandwich for a real alcoholic. It’s definitely not the type of food you’d expect find in a restaurant. The type of place IS relevant, you chump.

    • @[email protected]
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      Pubs aren’t restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it’s not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they’re persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.

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          Funny. We Iranians almost always eat raw onions alongside food, but everyone in the west seems to hate them unless it’s dripping with 6 liters of frying oil

          • @[email protected]
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            Vidalia Onion is good this thick, but usually only in a burger. It’s a very sweet variety, though the sweetness and flavor have declined as it’s become more available I feel. At least where I buy them.

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          You say that now but that sounds exactly like every fucker I’ve ever heard with a hangover saying “Jaysus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends I’m never touching a pint again.”

          As my father used to say “hunger is good sauce”.

          Four pints in and no dinner I’d gobble that down. GOBBLE IT. Best sandwich I’ve ever had at that point I’d wager.

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            This is the truth.

            As my father used to say “hunger is good sauce”.

            I went camping with my dad up in Canada in early April. Completely snuggled down in my sleeping bag, hiding from the creeping cold, it was the best sleep I’ve had in my life. That morning I got up and had starbucks instant coffee (no cream or sugar) heated on a pot over the campfire, and a can of Hormel corned beef hash from the same fire. That was the best coffee and best breakfast ever. I’d freeze for a other night to replicate that feeling. I don’t think it comes entirely from misery though, I think it comes from the inability to have anything else. The nearest town was hours away, and so that cheap coffee and canned hash was literally the best food available. There was nothing else to have, so there was nothing else to want.

  • @[email protected]
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    013 days ago

    Churchill is dead is a sentence that always will bring me joy. Fucking genocide ass removed.

    • TipRing
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      that is what i was thinking, you grill it, melt the cheese and sautee the onion a bit and it would be fantastic. same ingredients, not much work.

  • FreshLight
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    My life is somewhat like the cheese section of a European supermarket. One half is moldy and the other half is not affordable for me.

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      I’m an USAian and that was my first thought too! “Put some branston on that and it’d be an alright lunch.” Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.

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    People really think Blitz-era Brits were so decadent? Look at how much cheese is on there! That’s enough to give an elephant nightmares. And that’s like half an onion!

    Besides, London rats are a meal all in themselves. No need for fancy cheese and onion cobs when you can go to the bins behind your local and get a wriggling, squeaking meal washed down with some fresh bin juice for free.

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    Just the good people of the Blur Boar Pub doing god’s work, steadily battling shrinkflation one cob at a time. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-pub-goes-viral-gargantuan-9596401

    "A Leicester city centre pub has gone viral online on account of its humongous cheese and onion cobs. The manager of The Blue Boar pub on Millstone Lane, Jo Kearley, said they get comments “every single day” on their gargantuan size, but admits that they can’t now start making them smaller. She said: “We don’t want to be labelled with the whole ‘shrinkflation’ thing. Our sort-of saying is that we aren’t ‘just a cob shop’, we also sell beer.”