So you basically don't microwave, or you throw away, everything other than the patty - which you wrap up and zap, or in other words you're essentially steaming it. Not much of a defence of the concept of a "microwave burger", is it?
Foolish foodies duped into thinking Greggs salads are posh nosh
Food snobs have been tricked into saying they like Greggs after the British high-street pasty biz went undercover at a London festival. Visitors to the Foodies Festival were fooled into thinking "Gregory And Gregory" was the latest purveyor of gourmet salads by posh signage and smart aprons, complete with geometric leaf logo …
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Thursday 31st May 2018 23:57 GMT John Brown (no body)
"So you basically don't microwave, or you throw away, everything other than the patty - which you wrap up and zap, or in other words you're essentially steaming it. Not much of a defence of the concept of a "microwave burger", is it?"
I was thinkig pretty much the same. If your putting the grill on anyway (you don't toast burger buns in a pop-up toaster, you only toast the one side) then you might as well grill the burger too and be done with it. It's not going to take much longer.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 19:29 GMT Jason Bloomberg
People will eat any old shit if you present it the right way, how else does anyone explain rustlers microwave burgers?
I quite like Rustler's, pack of 8, cook-in-the-oven burgers. But I wouldn't eat one of their bun things which rotates in a microwave if you tried to pay me.
I'm eagerly waiting to see what 'shit in a sarnie' we will get thanks to our trade deal with America. I'm sure Greggs will embrace Grits and Gumbo with a Spray Cheese topping and a side of Chicken Feet.
Mine's the one with the sick-bag in the pocket.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 15:58 GMT JDX
Re: Greggs the pie shop
Really? I can't imagine any small-medium sized town doesn't have a baker and a butcher. It might be a trendy baker but round here even the larger villages still have traditional butchers. And we have greengrocers. Outdoor markets are also popular though again a bit more trendy; farm shops are also pretty au fait these days.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 16:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Greggs the pie shop
"I can't imagine any small-medium sized town doesn't have a baker and a butcher."
Town south of Watford - pop. 80,000. One butcher in the indoor market a few times a week. His fillet steak is half the price of that in the Waitrose. He even trims off any fat before weighing it.
We also have a decent bakery shop - although they have given up their shop where you could watch them icing wedding cakes. Nowadays they don't even do a very moist rich fruit cake base - only sponge.
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Friday 1st June 2018 10:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Greggs the pie shop
I didn't say we didn't have a local butcher/baker/greengrocers. We do,
But they have much less selection than Sainsburys (and the quality isn't any better).
Say what you will about immigrant communities, they certainly have added variety *back* to the high street. If I want mutton - which I sometimes do - the local butcher is "you what mate ? Mutton ? I've have to put an order in ....". Any Halal butcher it's "how much would you like ?".
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Friday 1st June 2018 00:07 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: No coffee I bet
"The competition for shitty coffee at a high price is incredibly strong:: basically most places use beans that are not suitably roasted."
I suspect most people don't actually like coffee but feel that ever since "Friends" popularised the coffee shop where all the cool kids hang out, they have to be seen drinking the stuff, hence all the weak milky and syrup flavoured concoctions on offer at stupidly high prices. Rather like the customers of "Gregory and Gregory" in the video.
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Friday 1st June 2018 10:03 GMT JimmyPage
Re:beans that are not suitably roasted.
Ealing Broadway (well, just round the corner, near Haven Green) - "Importers". A real coffee/tea shop (pissed all over Whittards). They used to roast the beans in the window. A copper drum over a heater. The smell was divine. Add that to freshly baked bread (possibly with a hint of oregano) ......
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Saturday 2nd June 2018 08:10 GMT Glenturret Single Malt
Re: Re:beans that are not suitably roasted.
Years ago, when living in Malaysia, my wife occasionally bought fresh coffee beans and roasted them herself. The smell of roasting coffee was fine in the later stages of the process but, during the initial stages of heating, a lot of very unpleasant smelling substances were released. Fortunately, as is common in the tropics, much cooking could be done outside.
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Friday 1st June 2018 13:46 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: No coffee I bet
Even most of the posh coffee places serve shit coffee. NO! I do not want an americano! If I want espresso, I'm man enough to drink it without it being watered down. But if I want coffee, then I don't want something that's been over-roasted so that it makes good espresso, as that means it makes shit coffee. Get me something light or medium roasted and use a filter of some description. Surely it's not that difficult?
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Friday 1st June 2018 16:24 GMT Terry 6
Re: No coffee I bet
There are a lot of people who have been persuaded that strong coffee means bitter dark roasted coffee, as opposed to coffee that has sufficient strong flavoured, Arabica beans,. It's a way of selling less for more. Providing an insipid amount of coffee with a lot of carbonised coffee oils to make it taste of more. Just not of morecoffee. Even espresso ( it was expresso when I was a lad btw) needs a reasonably high ratio of coffee bean to water to be strong. Not just dark roasted.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 21:23 GMT FozzyBear
Re: the queue to punch this guy...
Yep from the whole article it was that wankers comment that got me. Though I was thinking more along the line of forced sterilisation to ensure his defective genes cannot pollute the gene pool. A punching queue does bring an immediate sense of satisfaction.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 15:59 GMT Charlie Clark
Re: Wait a minute
I think it might have been someone working for SugaRape magazine.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 21:56 GMT Franco
Re: Wait a minute
When I was a student at the University of Strathclyde I walked through the Italian Centre in Glasgow's Merchant City every morning from the train station.
On a board outside the chip shop "Today's special, Fromage Frites"
I have to disagree with the chap slagging Gregg's coffee too, it's not great but price to taste ratio it's pretty good compared to most of the high street chains and when you're paying £2.25 or so for the coffee and a pastry or a doughnut it's pretty hard to complain.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 15:49 GMT Milton
"explain rustlers microwave burgers?"
" ... how else does anyone explain rustlers microwave burgers?"
Well, think about that. You'd much sooner try to explain one than actually ... eat ... it.
My overriding curiosity is this, though: who on earth—really, who—actually buys that grotesque filth?
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Thursday 31st May 2018 16:53 GMT DJO
Re: "explain rustlers microwave burgers?"
My overriding curiosity is this, though: who on earth—really, who—actually buys that grotesque filth?
I've never actually tried one, they could be ambrosia of the gods for all I know but instinct tells me not to find out.
We all need some mystery in our lives.
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Thursday 31st May 2018 17:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "explain rustlers microwave burgers?"
I eat them sometimes.
Then again I'll eat anything as I think my previous posts on here have probably shown. Soy burgers to Crocodile burgers to post pub yorkshire pudding pizza honourable mentions.
In my defence, at least 10 years of my life I've been a student.
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Friday 1st June 2018 00:13 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: "explain rustlers microwave burgers?"
"My overriding curiosity is this, though: who on earth—really, who—actually buys that grotesque filth?"
Probably the same people who do their entire weekly/monthly shop in Farmfoods and Iceland and think 4 microwave meals at 10+ minutes each is quicker than spending 20 minutes making a cheaper better meal for four with decent ingredients.
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