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This is at a restaurant. Someone paid money for cheese and raw onion on bread. What are we doing here?
Probably drinking first and eating secondarily
There’s not enough booze in the world to make me rawdog an onion like this.
Raw onion on a deli sandwich is great, but maybe not quite so much…
Vidalia Onion is good this thick, but usually only in a burger. It’s a very sweet variety, though the sweetness and flavor have declined as it’s become more available I feel. At least where I buy them.
You say that now but that sounds exactly like every fucker I’ve ever heard with a hangover saying “Jaysus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends I’m never touching a pint again.”
As my father used to say “hunger is good sauce”.
Four pints in and no dinner I’d gobble that down. GOBBLE IT. Best sandwich I’ve ever had at that point I’d wager.
This is the truth.
As my father used to say “hunger is good sauce”.
I went camping with my dad up in Canada in early April. Completely snuggled down in my sleeping bag, hiding from the creeping cold, it was the best sleep I’ve had in my life. That morning I got up and had starbucks instant coffee (no cream or sugar) heated on a pot over the campfire, and a can of Hormel corned beef hash from the same fire. That was the best coffee and best breakfast ever. I’d freeze for a other night to replicate that feeling. I don’t think it comes entirely from misery though, I think it comes from the inability to have anything else. The nearest town was hours away, and so that cheap coffee and canned hash was literally the best food available. There was nothing else to have, so there was nothing else to want.
Pubs aren’t restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it’s not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they’re persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.
How do you feel about gastropubs?
Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.
A measured response. Personally, I think that a lot of pubs are going to pivot that direction- Gen Z aren’t big drinkers, and if the trend continues they’ll need other sources of revenue than alcohol.
I can’t wait until you find out what wine is.
That’s a pub not a restaurant
Is it a place where you can exchange money for food while you sit down at a table? Semantics.
Yes, you’re right. All these words are equal. It’s a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.
Well, yes. If you shop around you are able to find the same kind of food on some place using any one of those names.
This whole thread feels like that food court argument from Mall Rats, and I’m here for it.
It’s the same damn thing
There’s only so many words in the English language for “a place you can get a meal at”, you wanna go over em all?
And yes I’ve been to actual midcountry pubs, they’re bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.
Gotta put the kids somewhere
They’re absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they’re feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.
If you’re in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.
Blah blah blah blah
At the end of the day it’s a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say “it’s a restaurant” that’s what we mean.
I get the historical context. But you can’t define a pub in a business plan in any way that won’t leave me going “it’s a restaurant”. “It’s a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!” Yeah I get it bro, it’s a bar.
I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won’t fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don’t go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you’re learning something.
Why are you translating into American?
Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?
It’s a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).
That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of “restaurant” require “dining space”? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.
My point is, when Americans colloquially say “restaurant” they mean “any dining establishment”. We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.
Ah, Americans. I see the misunderstanding now.
So then replace the word restaurant with pub then, doesn’t change the message.
That fat slice of onion looks brutal af.
You misspelled “delicious.”
No they didn’t.
Looks drier than Ben Shaprio’s wife. Jesus Christ, man… Couldn’t you lube it up with some condiments or something? This criminal act you call a sandwich should come with a choking hazard label.
It is you who do not see…
The onion is the lube, the onion is life.
The concept of putting condiments into sandwiches so that they’re not dry AF hasn’t made it to large parts of Europe.
I think they’re trying to catch some shiny Eevee or something.
My life is somewhat like the cheese section of a European supermarket. One half is moldy and the other half is not affordable for me.
You can afford the moldy stuff?!?
Europe: “terrorized and colonized the world to get spices” Also Europe: “serves up absolute disgusting food like this”
What the fuck was it all for?!?!
UK isn’t Europe it’s just some shitty island
British Empire: Steals all the worlds spices
Also British Empire: Refuses to use any of them
Different parts of Europe
No, exactly the same parts of Europe. Both the Dutch and the English were know for their spice trade and are known for their awful food. The rest of Europe has better food and terrorized and colonized for other reasons.
That doesn’t contradict what I said. Neither of those are a monolith.
The people doing the colonizing and using the spices and the people eating the bland food were from different parts of their countries.
Enlighten me which part of the Netherlands doesn’t eat bland food ;)
I see nothing wrong with this.
Even if you did though you could spice this up cut up the onions fry them up a little bit melt that cheese and that bread on a pan. boom! you got a nice grilled cheese with some grilled onions
Raw onion is better than fried onion(I may be alone in this though). I do agree with melting the cheese, or just add more too it. This is a travesty.
Raw onion is tasty but my tummy doesn’t like it as much as I do, so I’ll usually go for fried
get some garlic in there too, in for a good time.
Throw on a little sliced ribeye to garnish, just for the hell of it.
Slap in some mayo and it looks like a pretty decent lunch. 🤷
What, no mustard? ☹️
Just the good people of the Blur Boar Pub doing god’s work, steadily battling shrinkflation one cob at a time. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-pub-goes-viral-gargantuan-9596401
"A Leicester city centre pub has gone viral online on account of its humongous cheese and onion cobs. The manager of The Blue Boar pub on Millstone Lane, Jo Kearley, said they get comments “every single day” on their gargantuan size, but admits that they can’t now start making them smaller. She said: “We don’t want to be labelled with the whole ‘shrinkflation’ thing. Our sort-of saying is that we aren’t ‘just a cob shop’, we also sell beer.”
3am munchies joined the chat
No one was putting that much cheese on a ploughman’s during the war.
My ancestors trail recipes are more varied than this, and half of them are just normal foods with chili poured over it. Why are you like this England actual cavemen had more varried foods, at least chop up the onion a bit more and grill the whole thing.
that looks amazing, imma make one tonight
But with red onion.
omfg I forgot that I was gonna do this and I didn’t go the the heb
also, red onion is good, yellow onion is good, white onion is good, all different but all good.
Came here to say this!
i’m a liar and I didn’t make the sammich. I forgot this was the plan and I got rum instead.
I dunno… that looks like a nice simple sandwich.
Where’s the pickle?!
I’m an USAian and that was my first thought too! “Put some branston on that and it’d be an alright lunch.” Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.
A question for the ages… Or is it?
That’s the surprise
