WTF Food

[DanaC]

@UG.....you glaze scones?

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Perry, just go to a subway and get a proper sandwich. The sandwiches Brits really like aren't the ones you get in shops. They really are an anaemic version. The proper British Butty is a 'doorstep'. Very thick bread, with thick fillings.

Subway is disgusting, though I do get their meatball sub occasionally. I wouldn't touch their lunch meat for anything.

I'm not just talking about those prepacked horrors that American's never see outside of vending machines. Even the mom & pop sandwich shops here serve anemic sandwiches: enormous amount of bread with nothing in between.

Originally Posted by monster

I hear you Perry, although I do enjoy sandwiches with only one or two things in them so you can really taste them -just a hell of a lot more than you get in the limp cardboard triangles. Here is seems compulsory that every sandwich comes with lettuce, tomato and cheese, and whilst I know you can leave all those things out, it then feels like you're not getting your money's worth. How do the prices of Subway sandwiches there compare to the triangles in plastic boxes? In fact was is the price of a 6" sub? And what's the price of a cheeseburger in McDonalds in the UK? I've been wondering these things.

I like simple sandwiches, too. One of my favorite things is pastrami and swiss on rye bread with mustard. Simple, simple, simple.

I almost always get my sandwiches vegetable-free. If I'm buying a sandwich the only way I'm getting my money's worth is to get it the way I'll enjoy it most.

Triangle sandwiches are usually between £1.10 and £3, unless you go to a "fancier" place. I think you can find them for more than £3.00 at places like Starbucks and Pret a manger. A 6" sub at Subway is between £2 and £3. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's in 6 years or so. But I know from the ads I've seen that you can get a single cheeseburger on the £1 menu; I don't know what a quarter pounder or the like costs. I'll have to go look, now that I'm curious.

I try to avoid American chains, but their food is actually much better here than in America...

A large Pizza Hut pizza is about £12. A burger at TGI Friday's is about £8, and comes with really friggen good fries. The prices at pubs with edible food are similar, but I can't afford that very frequently.

Besides the fact that triangle sandwiches and 6" subs aren't enough to sate me, for 50p more I can go next door and get a small kabob that will fill me up for hours, even if it makes me a tad ill.

That said, there are a lot of things I love here when it comes to food. Cadbury, Milka, certain brands and flavors of ready meals, Gregg's lemon muffins (75p, up from 70p), the huge variety of crisps in ungodly flavors, really good chips if you search for them, the staggering amount of Polish, Middle Eastern and Indian restaurants.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

@UG.....you glaze scones?

Some flavors, not all. Starbucks has a maple-nut scone with the maple-ness in a glaze on top. Their cinnamon scone puts the cinnamon in the scone proper. Miscellaneous berry offerings show up; usually blueberry or cranberry. Pumpkin around October. I vaguely remember an eggnog-flavored somethingorother for the winter, but I'll need another look at it to remember if it was... aw shucks, I think that was a latte. Good, though.