Sneelock
god
it's so easy to look down from above
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 24, 2020 23:46:03 GMT
this is the sort of lunch that I grew up knowing as "Gas Station Food"
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Post by sloopjohnc on Nov 25, 2020 1:10:29 GMT
Kind of a well known secret is you can probably get the best sandwiches at a supermarket's deli. At least I've found that to be true. That rings true to me, from what I've seen on the TV and heard from Americans abroad. What's ubiquitous and pretty terrible these days in the UK is the dreaded MEAL DEAL, where you get a sandwich, a can of pop, and a bag of crisps (or a choc bar or an apple) for £3. The sandwiches are usually miserable thin limp affairs with too much mayo, tasteless chewy bread, and any flavour absolutely destroyed anyway by the salt attack you get with the crisps that you probably eat with it. I reckon 62% of all office workers eat this shite every day for lunch  You can get those at supermarkets too, but why would you want to? What makes a supermarket deli good is they aren't limited to corporate amounts of meat, cheese or veggies they can put on a sandwich like Subway or other chains. |
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Post by tory on Nov 25, 2020 7:50:19 GMT
You can't beat a Cumberland sausage sandwich with mustard. I'll take that over some pretentious thing with ten ingredients anyday. What is pretentious about pastrami, cheese, pickle and chilli? FFS! |
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 25, 2020 8:34:24 GMT
Ahhh the Tesco 3 quid meal deal. A sandwich with 80% of your daily fat intake and a packet of crisps. Lunch of champs
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Nov 25, 2020 8:41:49 GMT
Not a patch on FARMFOODS 35p SOUP eh D? 😉
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 25, 2020 8:47:20 GMT
Oh I got bored of that stuff eventually.
I have upgraded to Heinz and baxters.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Nov 25, 2020 8:52:17 GMT
You can't beat a Cumberland sausage sandwich with mustard. I'll take that over some pretentious thing with ten ingredients anyday. What is pretentious about pastrami, cheese, pickle and chilli? FFS! You can be terribly pretentious sometimes tho T. I remember you going on about a LEMON once, Sicilian thing that cost £2 or something, but OH THE AROMA |
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Nov 25, 2020 8:53:11 GMT
" no it was £3.50 and it was from Kos ACTUALLY"
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 25, 2020 8:54:42 GMT
I buy mail order pastrami and salt beef.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Nov 25, 2020 8:58:15 GMT
Really? I wonder about the freshness of stuff like that when it's posted.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 25, 2020 9:01:29 GMT
vacuum packed n all that. I just need that hit man, I just NEED THAT HIT.
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Post by tory on Nov 25, 2020 9:02:57 GMT
What is pretentious about pastrami, cheese, pickle and chilli? FFS! You can be terribly pretentious sometimes tho T. I remember you going on about a LEMON once, Sicilian thing that cost £2 or something, but OH THE AROMA If you'd smelt the lemon, maybe you'd feel the same thing "J". |
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Post by tory on Nov 25, 2020 9:10:19 GMT
Being married to someone who cooks to a professional standard and works closely with chefs and food producers, I've learned a lot about food over the last decade.
I'm not a cook and can't cook particularly well (Apart from say 10 dishes or so), but it has given me an insight into things that I was absolutely clueless about beforehand. Most food you get in supermarkets isn't particularly great sadly. Meat will have most likely gone through an industrial process for example, and the access to seasonal fruit and vegetables means that a lot of the time you'll be buying imported stuff, again, that just won't taste the same.
Food, sadly in some respects, should be expensive. So a Lemon imported from Sicily should be £2 so that the farmer that grows it should get a decent fee for it to be transported to me.
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Nov 25, 2020 9:26:57 GMT
You can be terribly pretentious sometimes tho T. I remember you going on about a LEMON once, Sicilian thing that cost £2 or something, but OH THE AROMA If you'd smelt the lemon, maybe you'd feel the same thing "J".  Affectionate term rejected with a sneer. Ho hum. |
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Post by tory on Nov 25, 2020 9:30:10 GMT
Sorry, I really don't like being called T.
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