Crap food

[shorehamview]

A while ago Linz had a go at the the price for a pint at the Lane.

She didn't mention the bare faced cheek of the buggers charging £2.80 for a cold hot-dog. (A cold-dog?) There is no way on earth it goes from red-hot to merely luke warm in the two minutes maximum it took me to get to my seat. And what on earth are those baguette things all about? Chewier than the cardboard boxes they come in.
If they advertised them truthfully they'd struggle to give them away to starving people, never mind charge nearly three quid for them.

And why do the brain donors on the bar need a calculator to add up the cost of one lager and one coke? Then still give me too much change, the arse.

 

[Bladesman]

Well the food and drink at the ground has always been shite.

 

[silverfox]

We had a dirty Woodseats kebab(horse?) when we got home!



:gallop:

 

[happyhippy]

The 'food' has always been appalling, but let's face it, we're talking about a football ground here, not the bloody Fat Duck at Bray.

As for change, I always used to head for one woman on the South Stand when she was serving, as no matter what I ordered, if I gave her a fiver, I'd usually get between £10 and £15 change. Mercenary it may have been, but I'm going to be paid to drink 'beer', I'll manfully grasp the nettle.

Three pints of bitter and three pints of lager. Fiver tendered; about £13 back. Now it's in-house, I'd feel guilty.

 

[S64 Blade]

I had a pie earlier, it fell apart, so i had to pick all the meat out with my hands - very messy! Not worth 2.40!

 

[Sensiblade]

I never buy food in the ground, it's always been crap and I have better things (Beer, but not the crap in the ground).
Don't you live just across the street Shorehamview? Why not bring your own from home?

 

[Robbie]

It's very rare I buy food from the ground, sometimes I am tempted by the pies covered in ketchup though.

And occasionaly like at the Ricoh they have pie and pint offers, so I might have one of them.

 

[TonyAgana]

Aged 16 I did a season working on John Street. I swear to god the food hygiene appalled me and I would only ever buy chips from the ground now. I'm surprised to hear the hot dogs would be cold though as, once boiled, they're kept in the "heated cupboard" for a couple of hours - unless they'd turned it down to save leccy.

What should maybe concern you a little more about the dogs though is that when I worked there (1996/97 season) it wasn't uncommon for Saturday's left-overs to reappear for the Tuesday night fixture.

 

[rotherhamblade]

i had a pie was a beauty

 

[happyhippy]

Aged 16 I did a season working on John Street. I swear to god the food hygiene appalled me and I would only ever buy chips from the ground now. I'm surprised to hear the hot dogs would be cold though as, once boiled, they're kept in the "heated cupboard" for a couple of hours - unless they'd turned it down to save leccy.

What should maybe concern you a little more about the dogs though is that when I worked there (1996/97 season) it wasn't uncommon for Saturday's left-overs to reappear for the Tuesday night fixture.

That really wouldn't surprise me. I always used to take a bit of pack up for chief brat when she was younger, and do the same with middle brat and youngest brat, on the rare occasions they want to come along (Daddy Power still needs to kick in ). Why anyone would want to eat food from a football ground befuddles me.

I know it's easier when you've got kids to take on night matches, cos you have to think about it more, and you don't (necessarily) go to the pub first, but the 'still' hot sausage and egg sarnie, double wrapped in foil for the heat, that doesn't cost the equivalent of a barrel of money on a pissing down Tuesday at home to Stockport is something to be beheld! Especially if you have Russian Cola while they eat!

I'm buggered on a warm Saturday when I want an early pint though. I could never do the flask thing though.

 

[JJ Sefton]

 

[stringjunior]

Thanks WalthamstowBlade

 

[BettingBlade]

Christ £2.80 for a pie. Them were the days

 

[Flumps]

Pokes it's head out once in a while this. No one wants it. Couple years ago Sainsburys were selling bags of BBQ crickets and out of sheer curiosity I bought them to try. They weren't nice, not disgusting either, so much flavouring disguised what I assume would have been a rough tasting cricket. The main barrier was being very aware of what you're eating.

Give me a tough bun and processed horse any day

 

[Jon Bon II]

Those little grey aliens that people see in and around UFO's, aren't really aliens. They're us from the future.

S'reyt that.

 

[cahill]

The 'food' has always been appalling, but let's face it, we're talking about a football ground here, not the bloody Fat Duck at Bray.

As for change, I always used to head for one woman on the South Stand when she was serving, as no matter what I ordered, if I gave her a fiver, I'd usually get between £10 and £15 change. Mercenary it may have been, but I'm going to be paid to drink 'beer', I'll manfully grasp the nettle.

Three pints of bitter and three pints of lager. Fiver tendered; about £13 back. Now it's in-house, I'd feel guilty.

Hope your gains weren’t deducted from the lasses wages mr Hippy

 

[ThatJa]

Food? We get food at the lane?!

 

[Snowflake]

It's very rare I buy food from the ground, sometimes I am tempted by the pies covered in ketchup though.

And occasionaly like at the Ricoh they have pie and pint offers, so I might have one of them.

Try the up market food wagon at Reading. They even have a separate table for condiments !

 

[wavy-blade]

The original post was 15 years ago , now that’s scary

 

[BigBed]

How much is a pint of maggots now, just out of interest??

 

[Linz]

The original post was 15 years ago , now that’s scary

Indeed, and happyhippy is no longer with us.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Nom nom nom.