the moron at salad factory
has warmed up my pasta salad. this is not what i asked him to do when i asked for it to be served cold. and he has put the wrong dressing on it. for a £10 salad, this is UNacceptable.

and our fire alarm is broken. you cannot imagine a more annoying or intrusive or repetitive announcement. over and over and over again, "attention please. attention please." ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

don't get a job. you'll have to deal with this sort of shite.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:11, 8 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Never mind the competence or otherwise of the staff,
I'd have said £10 for a salad was unacceptable.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

costly saladpiss.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

charging a tenner for a salad is unacceptable, full stop
unless it's sterlet caviar and truffle oil on foie gras shavings.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

Frugal minds...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

ah well, you pay per ingredient
so it's my own fault for chucking in: peppers, onions, mushrooms, cucumber, sweetcorn, mixed beans, cucumber, chilli and feta cheese as well as the pasta! thought i'd try and hit the 5 a day in one go...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

All the same
For that much money I'd expect a large enough mass of salad that it could be used as an effective cosh.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

fucking hell.
the only ingredient in that is feta cheese (and I suppose pasta)

the rest falls solidly under the heading of what I would call "the fucking salad in the first place"

I suppose they charge you £1.50 for the bowl if you refuse to carry it back in your hands, too?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

He might be able to afford a £10 fucking salad though.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:14, Reply)

sweary saladpiss. the best kind.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:15, Reply)

I'm now quite intrigued to see what proportion of b3tans
are more concerned by the actions of this moron at Salad Factory, compared to the proportion that are flabbergasted that swipey has just paid £10 for a salad...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:16, Reply)

i've just realised that included a diet coke
so technically it was more like a £9 salad.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

They charged £1 for a diet coke?
*narrows eyes*
Bottle or can?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

it's a can...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

*facepalms*

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

what??
that's pretty average, surely?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

Yes
If you live on the bloody moon.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

I object to paying more than 60p for a can
so, no. Some places charge more than this, however I simply refuse to buy from there.
Cans should be 50p and chocolate bars should be 40p or less. FOREVER.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

For a bottle, perhaps, but not a can!
I guess it depends where you buy it from - I think there is even substantial regional variation across London. Even in South Ken I know I could get a can of diet coke for a little over half that.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

i've never really thought about it
just hand over the cash!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:27, Reply)

Having spent my first four years in Central London as a skint undergraduate
I've kept a very watchful eye on prices - taking the price of a pint, naturally, as my reference point - and even though I've noticed things increase, I think £1 is a disgusting price for a can of coke, even in this day and age.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

You can probably buy a 6-pack in your local supermarket
for about £2.50. Carry a can to work every day - simple.

Oh, and maybe make your own salad and save yourself 50 sheets a week.

Holy shit.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

i can't do this for two reasons
(i) i never ever know in the morning what i am going to want for lunch; and

(ii) that would require organisation, it's as much as i can do to get myself into work in a co-ordinating outfit each day. it would also mean i needed to keep food in the fridge and i don't because i am out most nights and forget to eat it and it goes off. my fridges are just full of evian, diet coke and booze (which i never forget to consume for some reason)!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

That's a very defeatist attitude
Though I shall hazard a guess that you're earning enough that it needn't worry you.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

well the more serious answer is that
i often don't finish work til gone midnight when the shops are shut, and yeah, i do get paid for working those sort of hours, which is the quid pro quo!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:39, Reply)

quo can!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Haha!

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:43, Reply)

me too
in 1996 i saw a coke machine at st pauls that was £1 a can, and i nearly fainted - they were about £0.30p at home.

that same machine is about £2.50 now i think.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

Just spotted this
looks like the divide is pretty clear
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

you'd have to pay more than a tenner for that

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

[something about an overpriced salad]

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:17, Reply)

£10 for some bloody pasta salad?!
It's not like it can even be unicorn and panda flavour, as you don't eat meat!
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:18, Reply)

i think i have been working in the city too long
as £10 for a salad/soup/sandwich lunch (inc a drink) seems v normal to me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:20, Reply)

It's utterly bloody absurd is what it is.

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:22, Reply)

Agreed
the salad ingredients must be about a pounds-worth at most.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:24, Reply)

hmmmmm
on fri, i had a falafel wrap which comes with 2 deli salads, that was £9.95. POD does boxes of stuff that are about £7 each - nope, it is pretty usual around here!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

Usual does not exclude bonkers barking mad

(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:26, Reply)

've just never given this any thought before
the only alternative would be sainsburys up on holborn, but then i can't choose what i want in my salad!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Do you remember a thread from a few weeks ago
Where for whatever reason we discussed the idea of opening a pub in the city where we could make a mint charging normally unjustifiable prices of alpha-male-city-boy types for crap lager? Sounds like we wouldn't have been the first...
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I think there is a market for a proper London cider house.
Get all the City boys leathered on pints of rough and charge them a fortune for the privilege.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

Holy cow, batman!
Maybe we still should - we could charge an astronomical amount by my reckoning and it would still be less than these wankers swipe buys her lunch from...
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:33, Reply)

You know, I reckon
we could even go out of our way to make it the most expensive pub in the area, and eventually they'd start drinking there because of its overpriced reputation just to prove to their colleagues that their credit cards could handle it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

Also
salad isn't food. Salad is what food eats.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

not if you skived the gym last night
a mountain of vegetables with a few pieces of fusilli and a few lumps of feta cheese is as good as it gets!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I can smash out your teeth and jaw if you like?
that's currently yielding me 5lbs a week loss. And I don't even have much more spare.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:32, Reply)

Well you shouldn't have skived going to the gym.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:36, Reply)

i know
i lay awake worrying about that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

You'll have to do twice as much work there this evening.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:45, Reply)

You shouldn't tease
you'll give her a complex make her complex worse
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:46, Reply)

Do you reckon?
I secretly think that Swipe enjoyes going to the gym.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

I like this ^^
And also

Glasgow Salad = Chips
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:28, Reply)

Did you not point it out to him?
Or only notice later? If it's on your way it'd be worth pointing it out, making a salad can hardly be difficult, even I can do it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:19, Reply)

i only noticed when i got the lid off
and it was covered in condensation. this is not normal for pasta salads in my book.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:23, Reply)

eugh definitely not

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:25, Reply)

You should put in the staff suggestion box
'I suggest we move offices so we are within walking distance of a Harvester pub, it'll save me upwards of fifty quid a week'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:21, Reply)

Or "just buy your food from a place that isn't so mired in ponce it actually has people convinced that a tenner for some lettuce is acceptable"
Admittedly I haven't lived in london for nearly 5 years now, but it used to amuse me that there was a Benjys and a Pret next door to each other on Goodge St. You paid twice as much for the same sandwich in Pret and the only single thing you got extra was a smug sense of Guardian-reading superiority. That wasn't worth the £1500 difference in the course of my PhD, in my book
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:30, Reply)

now here i do have to disagree
i loathe benjys, and its successor after it went under and rebranded (BJ's or PJ's or something?) because i find the bread is dry and there is too much bread and not enough filling.

i did use the uxbridge one for breakfast toast sometimes though when i worked out there. it's haute-cuisine in uxbridge, is that place.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:38, Reply)

I haven't actually eaten in Benjys since my PhD
which was 15 years ago, more or less. It was fine when it started, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:41, Reply)

they were the first company to give their leftovers to the homeless
i liked that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:47, Reply)

yeah .... then Pret started banging on about it much louder
that rather annoyed me, when Benjys had been quietly doing it and not making a big scene about it. Because then they all had to stop after Pret made such a big thing about it that Environmental Health started questioning about whether it was "safe"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:53, Reply)

Loloololo, look at everyone having a go cus you spent a tenner on lunch.
Don't you know you can grow all the seeds and uquipment for like £9.99 and in 2 seasons time you could make your own?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:04, Reply)

Gonz
it's more that you can buy the same thing in a supermarket for £1.99.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Now much is rent on a kitchen and staff is it now days in central London?
I'm not saying that isn't silly money to spend on a salad, just that she is a big girl and can spend it on what she wants.

I bet my weekly £25-30 sushi meal costs them not much more than a fiver, but I like it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:39, Reply)