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I like a good chopped steak burger in a bun with fat yellow chips or a hot beef baguette with onion gravy. Simple stuff but lovely if done well and with decent ingredients.

What do you like to snaffle whilst out for a beery lunch with some mates?


 
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Putting solids in a hydraulic system?

Madness.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 1:59 pm
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burger and chips
pie and chips
fish and chips


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 1:59 pm
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CFH - you don't eat whilst dehors sur le piss?


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:02 pm
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Tapas is where it's at - dates wrapped in bacon is a particular favourite of mine. If we're keeping it traditional, a big bowl of whitebait and tartare sauce for dipping takes some beating.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:02 pm
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Steak and Onion Baguette always goes down well


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:03 pm
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Burger / Lasagne / Fish and Chips

or

Gourmet Burger / Gourmet Lasagne / Gourmet Fish and Chips

depending on whether the pub is a bit up themselves or not ๐Ÿ™‚

It seems all the pubs in the UK have one menu. Its nice when you find something a bit different. We ride over to a pub near Killie that does a Full Scottish Breakfast with pigs face roulade and quails eggs - verrry nice.


 
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Tapas is where it's at

When I lived in St Helens a Tapas Bar opened a few weeks before I left, having never tried Tapas before I thought I'd give it a go, I'd need to get meself all sophisticated and cultured as I was moving to the Birmingham megalopolis. In St Helens it seemed 'Tapas' meant a big wobbly paper plate overflowing with hotpot and pickled red cabbage. ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:07 pm
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Steak & onion baguette theortically would be an ideal pub meal for me. In reality, the steak comes out in massive chunks and I end up left with soggy bread....

Steak & ale pie always goes down well, a large burger, perhaps some kind of chicken pasta or a mushroom risotto.....

Yum.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:08 pm
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I can't do Food AND Booze at the same time.

I'm either out for a meal, or out on't piss. Not both.

Mixing them has disastrous consequences for me... ๐Ÿ˜ณ


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:12 pm
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Seems to be a little bit of consensus about a beef/steak and onion baguette with gravy. Usually very nice (as long as it isn't microwave heated delli counter beef).

I have to say I went in a pub after a rambling club walk (?!?!) just before X-mas locally and had their home made steak and kidney pie, chips and veg. And it really was home made too. Lovely suet pastry and the pie wasa slice cut from a big one too. Probably the best bought meal I can remember having. To be honest the gravy could have been a meal on it's own!

Whatever happened to Chicken in a basket?


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:13 pm
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Coronation Chicken bagette, and if being fat, a portion of chips with heaps of S&V to go with it.

Something about cold sandwiches and hot chips is just sooooo right.

nom nom nom nom nom ๐Ÿ˜€

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Whatever happened to Chicken in a basket?

Outlawed by the EU - even in death they need to be able to roam free ๐Ÿ™‚

A pub I went to north of Glasgow does a 'Chicken Montecristo', we wondered whether it was a vailed reference to the chicken not being free range


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:20 pm
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Gammon, Egg and Chips for me, please.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:23 pm
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Soon to be followed up by the "Chicken in an Iron Mask"?


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:24 pm
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Soup in a basket


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:27 pm
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Perfect boozy lunch - Ploughmans

Perfect boozy dinner - some form of pie. A good fish pie with cheesy mash is unbeatable in my book!


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:27 pm
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When in Scottish coastal towns, scampi,chips and peas.

It really depends on the pub as to what it is, but usually steak sandwich, Burger, Lasagne or Baked potato.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:30 pm
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Guinness.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:37 pm
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Anything at all with the words '...pie and chips' after it.

I've recently abandoned my default carnivore option, and been on a mission to find the best cheese and onion pie in the world. I am pleased to announce that its in the Major in Rammy. Which is handy ๐Ÿ˜€

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lovely home-made cheese and onion pie

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Posted : 28/02/2012 2:37 pm
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Fish stew with garlic & chilli aloli and crusty bread nom nom nom


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:39 pm
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Deep fried Camembert/brie/St Marcin with crusty bread and cranberry sauce.

It's iCompliant dont you know.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:41 pm
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Or Lancashire tapas. Basically a big bowl of different ickle sausages, with a mustard mayo dip. And chips. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:44 pm
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Chilli.
With bread, not rice.


 
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Putting solids in a hydraulic system?

Madness.

Post O' tha week, that'n....


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 2:52 pm
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Putting solids in a hydraulic system?

Madness.

Now I know why my local doesn't do food ๐Ÿ™„


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:00 pm
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I remember when the giant Yorkshire pudding was en vogue (90s). Our local used to offer them with various fillings. I'd have one top full of spicy chilli with a portion of chips and a side of cheesy garlic bread. Nomstering 'ell that was good.

I'm going to build my own reincarnation of it and drink 16 cans of stella to re-create those magic times!

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bag of spicy nuts. High calorific content relative to size = more room for booze ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:17 pm
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Hobgoblin. I'm sure that counts as food. Maybe some salted peanuts as a side order.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:18 pm
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A Pint of Ale and a pack of Walkers Salt n Vinegar crisps.

Consistency.
The bar staff and resident chef can't screw the order up.

๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:21 pm
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big bowl of different [u][b]ickle[/b][/u] sausages

JHFC


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:25 pm
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I'm surprised no-ones mentioned the best post-beer food yet. Surely the perfect accompaniment to 12 pints of wife-beater, shortly before you have a fight with a bloke called Baz in the taxi rank.....

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Chilli sauce? Yeah, mate..... everything on!


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 3:27 pm
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Obviously.....
Cumberland Sausage* ,chips ,peas & fried egg. With a pint of Cumberland ale thank you very much.
(*sausage ideally from Haighs)


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 4:49 pm
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More faves - a good club sandwich and a tuna melt; tuna, onion and melted cheese on a toasted baguette


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 5:09 pm
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Scampi and fries if properly prepared is yummy, however most pubs use monkfish tails as a substitute.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 6:08 pm
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Steak sarny, chunky chips, onion relish. Happy days.


 
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@Bunnyhop, they used to many many years ago but monkfish is more money than scampi.

It's a Dozen oysters or a crab po'boy for me.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 6:16 pm
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christ I feel hungry now :'(


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 6:19 pm
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I had some nice smoked olives while on holiday recently.

Back in Blighty: Pie n chips.

EDIT: Cheese and fish?!


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 6:24 pm
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@Bunnyhop, they used to many many years ago but monkfish is more money than scampi.
Very interesting and good to know.


 
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Very partial to traditional ham, egg and chips - with a pint of ale...

Ham preferably carved from the bone ๐Ÿ˜›

Fond memories going back to late teens and ham, egg and chips in the Royal Oak (IIRC?), Hatherleigh, Devon. The ham was hanging above the bar and it was a question of a few good slices straight off and onto the plate...

... thinking back, mid-late 80s, pre- smoking ban, the pork should have been well preserved ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
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I can't do Food AND Booze at the same time.
I'm either out for a meal, or out on't piss. Not both.

+1

I do, however, eat like a madman once soused, and have been known to need the help of 2 kebab compasses to navigate my way home.


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 8:32 pm
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all day breakfast??? I know that they have chips which makes them wrong but sometimes you get a proper fryup


 
Posted : 28/02/2012 10:25 pm
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Beery lunch? - nope
Eating food in pubs? - nope
...hmmm - not much help there I'm afraid.


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 1:26 am
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Pie or burger and chips.
Turkey/bacon club sandwich with chips.
Mixed grill (with chips).


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 1:44 am
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however most pubs use monkfish tails as a substitute

Back in the day, yes, but not now. Most pub scampi is formed from the shitty scraps, and formed with some other guff.


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 3:25 am
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Welsh rarebit or a good thick tasty burger


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 3:32 am
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Pie and beans!

Pie red hot on the ootside and stain cauld in the middle, smothered in luke warm beans!


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 11:56 am
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and have been known to need the help of 2 kebab compasses to navigate my way home

๐Ÿ˜† I've never heard that expression before. That's quality!!!


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 11:59 am
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Steak and ale pie, chips and pint of ale.


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 12:02 pm
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Hunters chicken, or a BBQ chicken melt for me, Chicken, Bacon, Cheese and BBQ sauce, Lovely!


 
Posted : 29/02/2012 12:48 pm
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I think, in honour of DrP, we need to find a pub that can take on his wonderous creation.

Imagine a Sunday lunchtime hair-of-the-dog? A full English breakfast pie, with chips and a pint. Frankly, I can't think of anything better than that


 
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Buffalo wings served with blue cheese sauce.


 
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