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Bored of that now.
Have you all read this yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-19817457
Or have you lived it?

What do you guys think of all you can eat, I think they're generally disapointing and you tend to subsidise fatties, that said I've been to two good ones before and it's nice to know the exact price.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:33, 171 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
Sympathy reply to myself

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:38, Reply)
I've been to a couple of good ones
Many moons ago I went to La Maison d'Atilla in Brussels with a load of mates. I think they made a loss on that day, there was free beer and wine ON TAP at every table. I got very, very drunk.
There's a Chinese at the top of the Parade in Leamington that's worth a visit too, they don't skimp on the variety of food and it's pretty good.
Mind you, my brother*, his accountant** and 'Big Dave'*** were asked to leave an all you can eat in Bristol once. They refused and were persuaded to leave by being given their money back!

* A big lad with an appetite to match.
** Legless Ron - he has no legs from the knees down - not a fast eater but relentless.
*** A very large man - when he was a pro diver he had to have his diving suits custom-made.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:42, Reply)
There used to be an alright all you can eat pizza place in Brighton that I used to go to with my girlfriend.
I don't think I was much above nine and a half stone at that point though, so I don't think I was too much of a threat to them when I tried to get my money's worth.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:46, Reply)
I recall that I went to a fairly decent one with Wicca'd Witch and Amorous Badger (In cambridge? I think?)
I found it amazing. So much yummy food! We don't have many of those "all you can eat" places here.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:46, Reply)
There used to be a fucking brilliant Spanish/Mexican one round the back of Belsize Pk Station.
It was £4.95 (showing my age here). I must have gone there 20 times before it closed.

Or should I say 'was closed down by health inspectors'. Yes I should.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:46, Reply)
I'm amazed you didn't get food poisoning.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:47, Reply)
I'm too tough for that shit.
No uncooked chicken left on a hot plate for hours on end could take down THE MONTSTER.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:49, Reply)
I've been taken down by sundried tomatoes.
very distressing.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:55, Reply)
That was a placenta

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:55, Reply)
so that explains the rubberiness and the iron taste...

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:56, Reply)
Ewwwwww

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:56, Reply)
I disgusted myself a little.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:57, Reply)
Must have been the accent
I guess you asked for "a portion "?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:07, Reply)
*applause*

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)
or polenta?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:10, Reply)
Yeah I think the place I mentioned was only three or four quid.
This was in the mid-90s though.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:50, Reply)
There's a couple of good ones near us
one's Chinese only, the other does all sorts. Both are pretty good.
I find generally you eat too much because you're trying to get your money's worth, which means if you go at lunch the afternoon consists of zzzzzzzzzzzz....
All you can eat pizza is truly nom, though.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:48, Reply)
The story isn't complete with a full picture of both of the customers
We need to see if they're enormous LOLFatties. This will help us to decide here I think.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:48, Reply)
They are fat cunts.
Morning, Revvo.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:49, Reply)
That's certainly how I imagine them.
Morning Montsters.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:50, Reply)
I was in Orlando this summer and some of the all-you-can-eat places are actually very good
Golden Corral probably being the pic of the bunch. Saturday night was a fucking riot, but that aside, the food was excellent.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:50, Reply)
There is this place in Barnet when I was growing up where I think it was about a fiver for as much pizza as you can eat.
It was called Pizza Hut, right by the sainsburies, and Alister and Julien once ate 18 slices each in one sitting. I must see if that place is still around, I think it was a chain 'cus I've seen another one but I can't think where.

I once heard the big difference between the UK and US is that in the US they have "All you can eat" and in the UK they have "All you'd like to eat".
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:50, Reply)
I've seen one where the sign read 'eat as much as you can' which I thought was grotesque.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:55, Reply)
Gluttony is my favorite of sin, sad at 28, I know.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:03, Reply)
I love most of them apart from gambling.
And theft of artistic content from the internet, obv.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)
There was a good one in Portsmouth,
that i think is still there. Half price at lunch time too, i put on so much weight.
Generally, I don't really like them, but they have their time and place.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:52, Reply)
My brother worked at Fatty Arbuckles in Southsea when he was at the art college.
It was a fucking dump.

SO WAS FATTY ARBUCKLES!!!!!!!!
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:56, Reply)
Southsea is a proper fucking dump,
We used to go to a little bar by the station for some ropey rock night, it was appalling.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 10:58, Reply)
I once saw some sick in the street on a Sunday morning in Southsea,
which was like a rugby ball. Fucking weird, fucking revolting.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:00, Reply)
i answered you about the glasses thing in the last thread,
it's another one of those times where i'm going to have pay out for new stuff, because a man i've never met, or spoken to, or in fact, has ever run a pub, or possibly even been in one, suddenly wants to do something responsible, but only to save his own neck a hefty fine. It really winds me up, as for ages, we got free glasses from companies, nice branded ones, but now, they're fucking expensive.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:04, Reply)
I will be happy to take a bunch of those off your hands.
Don't want any swapsies like, but I'll have one of each.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:09, Reply)
we've got peroni, heineken, kozel, red stripe, urquell, Franziskaner, leffe.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:10, Reply)
Drop me a gaz when you have to get rid
and I'll come up on pub quiz night and shout at you for stealing all my ideas.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:11, Reply)
sounds good to me.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:14, Reply)
one of my mates just said that I remind him of Kenny Everett.
Some of our mannerisms are the same apparently.

:'(
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:00, Reply)
I'm sure he meant it in the best possible taste.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:02, Reply)
well, he said that the guy in the drama reminded him of me.
But why let facts stand in the way of self deprecating comedy?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:03, Reply)
I worry about adam from man vs food.
he really doesn't look healthy these days.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:00, Reply)
Is food winning then?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:01, Reply)
it's going to piss barbeque sauce on his grave.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:04, Reply)
He's looking alright now, he pilled on the pounds but since he stopped doing those challanges and getting other people to do them, he's only double the size he was when he started this.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:04, Reply)
he done one where he was running.
proper looked like he was going to have a heart attack.
the fat cunt.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:05, Reply)
He's not really a fat cunt though
If you didn't know he does these challanges, you'd guess he is a normal medium sized guy.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:06, Reply)
for an american perhaps.
he's a proper chubbo, has two big wobbly chins.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:07, Reply)
I'd say Guy Fairry looks worst.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)
yeah but that don't mean adam ain't a chubster.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:09, Reply)
He's a really good chef though.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:10, Reply)
Half the time I really like him and then other half of the time I hate him.
This new guy is a fucking dick: www.foodnetwork.co.uk/tv-shows/fresh-food-fast-with-emeril.html
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:38, Reply)
That was hilarious.
He ran about 100 yards and twisted his ankle, the fuckin chub-nut.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:06, Reply)
yeah "twisted his ankle"
I think that scene was faked so the fat cunt didn't look like such a fat unfit cunt on the telly.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)
Twisted his bowel more like.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:13, Reply)
I've got evens on him suffering either a massive coronary
or an impacted colon before he's fifty.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:15, Reply)
You spend your weekends hanging about near his house with an ice tray
in case it's the latter.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:19, Reply)
he's going to die young.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:05, Reply)
He looks like he sweats mustard.
I watched one episode of that programme and had to turn it off. Watching people gorging themselves is repulsive.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:06, Reply)
I saw a trailer for his new one last night and he was not looking good.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:05, Reply)
whats the new one.?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:08, Reply)
Adam Richman's Amazing Eats

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:11, Reply)
"eats" is not a noun.
Fucking American cunts.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:12, Reply)
he fucking speaks with his mouth full an all.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:16, Reply)
Ugh.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:20, Reply)
And I suspect him of, shall we say, 'Abrahamic origins' too.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:20, Reply)
You suspect everybody of some kind of ethnicity

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:22, Reply)
He should be forced to wear a yellow star when broadcasting, to clear up any confusion.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, Reply)
He does seem like quite a nice chap.
Pretty funny at times, too.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:28, Reply)
Still, you wouldn't want him touching your dinner.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, Reply)
What, he's a Smurf?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:22, Reply)
You're good today

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:22, Reply)
Every so often.......

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, Reply)
What is so amazing about these "eats"

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:13, Reply)
I also hate the "word" eatery.
So much that it sets my teeth on edge hearing it.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:24, Reply)
eatery

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:25, Reply)
IT'S NOT EVEN A WORD

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)
Check my sig bitch

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, Reply)
2.0

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, Reply)
EATERY EATERY EATERY

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)
I'd like to say that I expected better of you
but I didn't.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, Reply)
I dislike it intensely too.
EATERY is up there with 'The French' in my HATE BOOK.

No offence.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:30, Reply)
I'll tell you another word I hate, too.
Tasty.

Ugh.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:32, Reply)
I'm OK with that one. How weird is that?
*seinfeld*
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:33, Reply)
What about LUNCHEONETTE?
Is that better or worse than EATERY?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, Reply)
'Dinette' is a shitty word, too.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:33, Reply)
Luncheonette?
I've never even heard of that. As a rule though, I don't approve of words ending in "ette" to denote a smaller than usual version. Kitchenette, for example. It's still a fucking kitchen.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:33, Reply)
Neither had I, until I googled EATERY a second ago.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:34, Reply)
How about using a serviette at an eatery?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:36, Reply)
Now that word I DETEST.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:46, Reply)
Anybody that uses that word in anger is a cunt. Fact.
No trial. No appeal.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:36, Reply)
EEEEEAAATERYYYYYY

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, Reply)
You're the same boy you used to be

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:37, Reply)
First series
www.zackthemacgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/character_big_68329-150x150.jpg
More recent
clatl.com/binary/a73b/1288900320-richmanauthorphoto-credit_petermurphy.jpg
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:09, Reply)
When you put his name into google 'Adam Richman dead' is 2nd top

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:12, Reply)
Morning! (just about)
You may find it hard to believe, but I have never been asked to leave any eating establishment.

I've been to a couple of those buffet places, and they're generally not bad, but the choice of dishes is very poor. If you're in a group of three or four, you might as well go to a real chinese/indian/pizza restaurant and all get something different. You can share a bit of everyone's, so the effect is much the same - and you know it'll be cooked fresh for you, too.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:17, Reply)
hi.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:23, Reply)
Fuck that.
Anything ordered by me is mine.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:33, Reply)
On my brothers stag do, we went to an all you can eat Chinese, was £19 a head
Only, rather than it being a buffet, they brought fresh things out on request. Our table went through a crispy duck, they asked if we wanted another, we agreed, and had another within the next couple of minutes. The services was superb, the food was fantastic, and having Kirin Ichiban on tap simply topped it all off.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:23, Reply)
where can I unsubscribe from your newsletter?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:25, Reply)
You should see his LiveJournal.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)
upvoting this!

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:31, Reply)
Surely it takes more than a couple of minutes to freshly cook crispy duck?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:25, Reply)
Crispy duck is pre-cooked and just rewarmed for service
You can see them hanging up in the Chinese cafe on Gosford street - nearly opposite the Beer Engine.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, Reply)
Thanks, I might give that a miss.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:37, Reply)
It's almost like they may do some preparation beforehand or something?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:45, Reply)
Chinese chefs are clearly more efficient than Pakistani ones.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:53, Reply)
That is the best draught lager on earth, in my expert opinion.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)
Bleh

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:26, Reply)
He's obviously never had Fosters

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:28, Reply)
I would say Kirin is on the low end of premium lagers, but way above fosters/carling et al.
My local eatery serves Kirin and Grolsch, I prefer Grolsch.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, Reply)
I drink cans of Grolsch and will happily drink it in pubs,
but would choose Kirin or Peroni over it given the choice.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:32, Reply)
Castlemaine XXXX for me.
Strewth!
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:34, Reply)
They have to put XXXX on the pumps
cos it would be illegal to put the real name of PISS.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:40, Reply)
BOLLOCKS!!

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:37, Reply)
No, it's true.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:40, Reply)
I know,
i just get bored hearing about every cunts opinion on beer.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:40, Reply)
I would imagine you might.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:41, Reply)
How much would you pay for a crate of my homebrew to sell in your pub?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:41, Reply)
I was goign to say something mean
but then I remembered that his pub is in Oxford, so there probably are people who'd pay to drink beer brewed from a Wilkinson's kit in your kitchen. In fact, they'd probably claim to know all about the microbrewery and wax lyrical on how it's so much nicer than the big brewery mass produced stuff even as they're slopping it down their fucking chunky-knit cardigans.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:44, Reply)
exactly this

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:45, Reply)
I hate people, Winders.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:48, Reply)
I'm sure the feeling's mutual

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:49, Reply)
My beer and ciders are both pretty good, I wouldn't send them back in a pub.
And they cost me 40p a pint ish.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:48, Reply)
Do you have to save some of each batch
to seed the next batch? Or am I thinking about those weird cake things? It's definitely something to do with yeast...
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:50, Reply)
You can do that with yeast, but I tend to just use new yeast sachets because they're only 20p-£1

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:54, Reply)
So how do you get a consistent taste with each batch?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:58, Reply)
The secret ingredient is...
Love.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:59, Reply)
Well first, I don't, I tend to try different beers out all the time.
but second, the brewing yeast packets are labeled with the strains on, so you just make a note of the strain you used when you're making something, and then reuse it.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
Fair enough.
You know, I made some skittles vodka last year for xmas. It's still in the fridge now. I expect it tastes like paint stripper.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:03, Reply)
That's thrush

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:55, Reply)
first crate you give me free,
if it sells, we can talk about price.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:44, Reply)
I'd have to think of a name and do labels and stuff wouldn't I?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:46, Reply)
I could help you design labels
You know, if you didn't mind them being shit...
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:47, Reply)
not really,
if you're a small enough producer the rules are pretty slack. just needs highest point alcohol percentage, allergy info and that's it I think.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:50, Reply)
omg, that reminds me of the the chinese they had in north cyprus.
It was the best chinese I've ever had, fucking loved it there, it was a rare treat but fucking stunning, it was one of my favorite things about north cyprus.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:42, Reply)
Went to the Birmingham branch of this place for my birthday
www.rodiziorico.com/

We were sweating grease by the end of it. I quite fancy giving a London one a try.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:32, Reply)
I went to one in the west end that was like that,
and was rather disappointed in it.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:35, Reply)
Notting Hill?
Hmmm, I might just go back to Buen Ayre then.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:39, Reply)
Nah it was in 'theatreland' somewhere. 'Bout a block from Trafalgar Square

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:41, Reply)
There's something like that up here.
Did yours do the chicken hearts?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:36, Reply)
Yes, odd but tasty

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:38, Reply)
You know what I hate? Toby Caveries.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:42, Reply)
I'm not a fan of Tobys, but I am a fan of a good carvery.
Follow anyone over 70 on a sunday and you'll find a good one.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:43, Reply)
I do like a good carvery.
are you allowed to have one if it's not sunday?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:44, Reply)
Yes, there's a 7 day a week one near us
but they have extra things on the Sunday.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:48, Reply)
WOW!

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:52, Reply)
Now THAT'S not something you hear about every day.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
Thank fuck.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
I'm quite keen
dunno if there's one near me now though. *off to google maps*
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:06, Reply)
I don't really like roast dinners, it seems like going to the cinema to watch an eppisode of FRIENDS.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:56, Reply)
Carveries in general are shit.
They bring back horrific memories of boarding school Sunday dinners.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:46, Reply)
I too hate how they're franchising pot-holing.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:47, Reply)
Sounds like a professional golfer.

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:50, Reply)
I've got a Double Decker

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:54, Reply)
This surely merits a thread of its own?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
Is it like china in your hand?

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
Yeah
well I'VE GOT A GOLD-EN TIII-CKET.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:00, Reply)
started a new one

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:02, Reply)

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