Sympathetic Scots scoff-house offers hard-up Apple fanbois a discount iPhone users feeling the strain from chucking wads of cash into the Apple's cavernous maw can now get a bit of relief in the form of money off potato scones and haggis spring rolls in Aberdeen. Musa, a restaurant in Exchange Street in Aberdeen, is offering a deal just for iPhone owners - giving them 20 per cent off the bill if …
If you arrive with an HTC phone, the nice waitress who was about to show you to your table is elbowed out of the way by the head waiter trying to sell you HTC Locations Premium Navigation. The only way to get rid of him is to punch him unconscious. Your meal was plated up 2 years ago and is cold. The sauce you didn't want can only be removed if you smash the plate.
Chilli jame shouldn't be too hard to make. Like most jams it will be fruit (in this case chilli), sugar and pectin. I'd roast and skin the chilli's first just to get an added depth to the flavour. And don't forget to leave in the seeds; Only wussies deseed their chillis.
Seeds do provide heat but they also provide an earthy dirty taste that means it will taste saucy not jamy.
There are plenty of recipes around - even Nigella has a decent one. Just replace the long chillis with some decent habaneros and you've got a lovely jam sandwich.
If your kids are having their lunches borrowed by future conservative mp's then bhut jolokia makes a reasonable replacement but for flavour and not drunken penis waving good habaneros are the best. I've had some allspice smoked habaneros that were the dogs (and looked like em) but never found any outside of Jamaica, and to be honest, they may require the user to be smoked too to appreciate them fully but I still think we could re-open the bacon sandwich competition with some jam made of that!
"The deal is to compensate the fanbois for the Apple tax - the expensiveness of buying, owning or running Apple products - an expense, many argue, out of proportion to the service provided."
Good grief Anna. Restaurants compensating fanbois out of their own pockets? Really? Are you sure they aren't simply trying to promote their restaurant, rather than being good iSamaritans?
Oh and the 'expensiveness' (sic) of owning Apple products is a complete myth; as I'm sure you know. But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good Leach rant?
Reg, can you please put author names under the article titles on the homepage? Then I'll be able to filter out Anna Leach's anti-Apple drivel before getting all hot under the collar and feeling a burning need to respond. While I'm at it, I'll also be able to filter out John Leyden's catastrophically misspelled, grammatically butchered writings as well. Although he at least has interesting points to make.
"Anna is the office's official Apple fan"
at least ye have a sense of humour!
But on the story, i think they have it all wrong... Apple buyers are the ones who have more money and can afford the elite items
Its the poor bastards who have to buy the iPhone knockoffs like Android that need to get the discount, they are ones who cant afford to buy Apple kit and have to make do with el cheapo alternatives. Bless their souls, they deserve the discount much more...
What's different about only offering an iPhone app? Sounds just like the other lazy sheeple developers (cf. BBC etc) who think iOS is cool and developing for the most popular smartphone platform is too much like hard work.
That said - the restaurant sounds great and this is a good advertising ploy.
Lord Elpuss who pished on your chips?
of course it's a ploy to promote their business and it's worked they got into El Reg.
crapioca tactics like this are used all the time to get the cash till ringing, just take it for what it is and stop being so butt hurt and so serious about it.
BTW apple are shite and i-device owners suck the sweat from a dead man's balls :P
love from Scotland :)
How many of us live in Aberdeen, seems quite bizarre. Mind you i would want 20% to head into that part of town. I used to live in that general area, so have experience of head-stuck-in-bin-man, i had issue an attitude adjustment after one of the castlegate dunks gave my then girlfriend some hassle. (She is not my girlfriend any more, she is now wife - before anyone thinks otherwise :D)
When I used to visit my nan in Aberdeen I seem to remember the best thing to eat when the temperature was low - and I was there when the paper said "Aberdeen sizzles at sixty six" so any day really - was what she called a 'rowie' but is, I believe, also known as a buttery. Its like a croissant for someone who actually wants to eat at breakfast time.
They might have wanted to try regular advertising first, though. I live in Aberdeen and I've never heard of this place. Not that I'll be trying it now - finding the advert before the restauarant, to me it feels more like a 25% surcharge for not being an Apple owner.
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