Popular Post Ghostrider Posted April 10, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 ^ Agreed! Those damn polystyrene boxes don't let things breathe or drain properly. A sheet of greaseproof and two pages of yesterday's news allowed steam to condense and be soaked up along with any excess oil and vinegar, and keep the grub warm. In the plastic you end up with the bottom layer soggy from a nasty water/oil/vinegar cocktail, and rapidly going cold - puts you off bothering with it a good bit. brian.smith, George., whalsa and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuckleJoannie Posted April 10, 2016 Report Share Posted April 10, 2016 Oh how I miss those days of fish n chips wrapped in newspaper. And you had something to read while you ate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted April 11, 2016 Report Share Posted April 11, 2016 ^ Or look at. They still had Page 3 back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 As for Da Kitchen Bakery - there might be good products there but the one thing I tried had fake chocolate rather than the real stuff, it reminded me of Scotbloc. They called it chocolate on the ingredients list, but it definitely wasn't. Put me off. I'd rather pay more and have decent ingredients. I think what you had is officially known as "brown cake". How depressing. It looks like chocolate and it just isn't.Sadly, many women think that adding more chocolate to something makes it faste better. Chocolate is generally the bit I cut off and throw away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 ^ Do you think its just the "taste" they go for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breeksy Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 As for Da Kitchen Bakery - there might be good products there but the one thing I tried had fake chocolate rather than the real stuff, it reminded me of Scotbloc. They called it chocolate on the ingredients list, but it definitely wasn't. Put me off. I'd rather pay more and have decent ingredients. I think what you had is officially known as "brown cake". How depressing. It looks like chocolate and it just isn't.Sadly, many women think that adding more chocolate to something makes it faste better. Chocolate is generally the bit I cut off and throw away. Oh god, I am NOT suggesting they add more of that god-awful fake stuff that they use. No way. Any of that is WAY too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 We went to the Moorfield Hotel in Brae the other week for lunch.Really quite a nice place.A small but reasonable menu.The burger was pretty good but the Sticky toffee pudding was the best I have ever had.The price was OK as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Sticky toffee pudding shows the lack of imagination in many restaurants. The menus are often very similar in eateries here and on the mainland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyboy Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 What putting on something that is popular and is good?It is a hotel restaurant not Heston Blumentahl. BigMouth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 Nothing at all. They are in business to sell their food. The problem for me, and perhaps I am alone, is that when you go to different restaurants you could be looking at the same dessert menu. I don't want a plate with a chocloate coated rose petal on it, a slice of apple pie would be wonderful. If I liked sticky toffee pudding i probably would be less grumpy about it, but I don't like chocolate either so the menu starts getting a bit thin. Ignore me, I probably just need some sugar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post daveh Posted May 14, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 (edited) I have never liked "gourmet cooking" in a restaurant. You tend to get a big plate with not a great deal of food piled up in the centre. I tend to have to ask for a couple of bread rolls so that I don't leave the place still hungry. I am not a huge eater but once or twice I have been to such places, paid silly prices and had to make myself a sandwich when I got home. Edited May 14, 2016 by daveh Colin, BigMouth and Frances144 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 My ideal "eating out" is going to a chippie with a sit-down... Been disappointed far to often so, you can take the rest and stuff em.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Support your local shop - a refrain I often hear. I bought an avocado from mine at the weekend, and cut it open when I got home to find it full of black areas. I am not saying that it had been hanging around the shop for a long time, but I think that it was old enough to go to school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urabug Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 (edited) I suppose it looked fine to you when you bought it,or it would have gone back on the shelf, so why would it appear any other to shop assistant who served you. Many a time fruit can appear fine until you go to use it. Bit of bad luck,probably not entirely the shops fault. Edited May 17, 2016 by Urabug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 I would normally agree. This one hadn't been mishandled, but it had to be sitting around for at least a week on the shelf past its best by date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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