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

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

EPIC WIN! :-D

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.

0 and 1 ahould be good enough for any programmer. ;-)

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

OMG I MUST EAT THIS.

[venta.livejournal.com]

OK, he failed to count accurately up to 10 ;)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think you must.

[lnr]

+1 - hell, +10 - I *want* this!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Lots of people don't get that excited about bacon, despite internet people banging on about it, making T-shirts, etc.
Prosciutto crudo is much nicer, if we're limiting ourselves to things one can do with a pig.

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's not just the internet. Even in the dim and distant, people would claim that the smell of bacon sandwiches was the downfall of vegetarians everywhere. I never really got it. I'd really rather not be vegetarian, but if had to be then bacon would be a long way down the list of things I'd miss.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Here be woolly mammoths.

[zotz]

I've never understood the bacon thing. I quite liked it back when I still ate meat, but I haven't particularly missed it since and I don't offhand remember any other vegetarian mention it. Opal Fruits, yes, but the current version is vegetarian again so I'm sorted.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I really like the smell of bacon. I really don't much like the texture and thus don't bother eating it (and in burgers it's always soggy which is about the least appetising it can be).

Luckily for me, well-cooked gammon steaks smell just the same (well, close enough), and lardons/pancetta are a good addition to most dishes without the risk of nasty soggy bacon rinds...

[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 :)

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

I had to look up the Maiden Over on the map; despite living in Reading for years, I'm not well acquainted with darkest Earley! It's too far from my office for a Friday lunchtime, so you needn't worry. If we're feeling sufficiently degenerate, we tend to head in the opposite direction, to the Swan at Three Mile Cross.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I'm vegetarian and I really don't like the smell of cooking bacon.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I do quite like those supposedly-bacon-flavoured little chippings of soya though. I used to sprinkle them on many things.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I do (did) like bacon very much, and still find the smell appealing. But I'm made of sterner stuff than to be downfalled by such things :-p..

(hmm, that was meant to be drool, not sure it works very well)