You just tell 'em lies, lies

[venta]

Today, as per usual for a Friday, the degenerate end of the office hived off to the pub for lunch.

I ordered a burger. Please could I not have bacon[*] in it?

Sure, said the barman, the bacon wasn't compulsory. Did I want something else in it instead?

Like what?

"We...ll. Mushrooms?" he improvised. "Or an egg? Or black pudding?"

"Really?" I asked, bouncing gently up and down. "I could have black pudding in my burger?"

Apparently yes, if I wanted.

I wanted.

Black pudding in a cheese burger is awesome.

Accordingly, for being friendly and willing to improvise and serving Rebellion's Fat Cat[**], this week's Designated Hero of the Week is The Maiden Over.


[*] I don't dislike bacon. I just don't get as excited about it as everyone else. And I don't think it belongs in my burgers.
[**] Although it has just been demonstrated that a pint of Fat Cat has rendered one of my colleagues unable to count accurately up to 2.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Black pudding on a burger.

Oh. Oh my.

Shame it's in Reading.

Did they have any decent cider on? Website only mentions Strongbow (ick).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Um... actually, I don't know. They always have decent beer, thus I don't look for cider.

I have to say, in general I wouldn't say it was a particularly fabulous pub that's worth visiting (the food is generally decent rather than outstanding). It just happens to be the second-closest pub to the office (and the most closest keeps very bad beer). What I most appreciated today was their general obligingness and being capable of adding foods they already serve anyway to other foods, rather than a chain-pub response of "that's not on the menu".

(Actually in the bad-beer pub I do drink Strongbow for preference. At least it never said it was anything other that fizzy chemical crap. As opposed to Gaymers, say, which is all high-falutin' and still tastes terrible.)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I find Gaymers manages to be simultaneously too sweet and too sharp, which I'm not quite sure how they manage.

My local near work (Barrel & Horn) has Aspalls and usually at least one scrumpy cider on tap. Last week it was the lovely (but lethal) Tumbledown.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Lovely-but-lethal is one of the reasons I mostly drink nice cider only in the privcay of my own home :)