Something To Natter About

[jennyjoan]

I have been to many weddings and funeral buffets - mind you more funeral buffets. As I have been waiting in the queue for the buffet - I suddenly feel strange and at the last funeral buffet it occurred to me what the problem is.

I loathe and detest queuing for food - it truly makes me feel like Oliver Twist "please Sir can I have more" - also I get vibes from the servers they sh*it themselves if they run out of food.

Also some restaurants are now serving food on a bread/cheese board - get outta here. Plates for me. Rant over.

[Gavmacp]

Oh also hate finger food. I have and always will eat a burger with a knife and fork!!

[trt]

## Also some restaurants are now serving food on a bread/cheese board - get outta here. Plates for me. ##

When I have watched the Celeb chef competition on TV, where the winners get to cook at some banquet for 200/300, they serve some of the food on ridiculous contraptions like, roof slates, woven baskets, and things that look like something from a science lab.

How can food stay warm on a cheeseboard, like jenny said? Crazy!

[Jackdaw33]

It's not just old women, Jenny. There is a man in my club, a retired builder who had his own business, a wealthy man. He only drinks half pints. If the price of a pint should be an odd number of pence he would be paying an extra ½p for a half. He therefore orders a pint but asks the barman to pour him just a half and he will come back for the other half later. Beat that for tightness!

[ummmm]

I love a good buffet but I also eat it with a knife and fork.

[Jackdaw33]

Remember back in the 60s when pubs first started selling meals? The choice was usually restricted to chicken and chips in a basket or scampi and chips in a basket. Soup in a basket was not a success.

[Gavmacp]

Food that is stacked!! What's the point you have to deconstruct to eat.

[SirOracle]

I thought that over the course of my life,socialising often in bars clubs etc,that I had seen it all Jackdaw,but your half pint one takes the prize.

Was it in the Conservative club by any chance.? ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

Actually, SirO, it was.

[SirOracle]

I was only half joking Jackdaw. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

Actually, the same bloke used to embellish this somewhat. Because all the staff were accustomed to this, he would take careful note of who served him. If there were more than one person behind the bar he would go to the other one for his other half. later he would go to the person who had originally served and make the same request. Thus he got 1 and a half pints for the price of one. This went on for some time until he was rumbled.

[SirOracle]

I take it Jackdaw that he has a pretty solitary existence in the club,sitting on his own and drinking on his own.

It takes all sorts. !!!