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went to the Britannia pub on Friday dinnertime for the carvery, not a bad price at £3.25....but the food is utter crap

we went to get our meat and the chef literally cut a huge wedge of beef and a huge wedge of pork and just dumped it on our plates(we are talking doorstep sizes)

ok, yes its fine if you like your meat to be presented to you like your a caveman, but i dont, he didnt even 'slice' it

anyone else been and had great lumps of meat stuck on their plates?

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Do you not like a big meaty mouthful? ;)

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not that bloody meaty no, i'm not used to things nearly making me gag

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We don't go to the Britannia because the kids menu is rubbish. :(

Chicken nuggets, fish fingers etc.......they don't eat that rubbish at home so why would they want it when they go out? :confused:

I find these types of kids menus really insulting.

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What exactly are you complaining about , the fact that you were given too much meat or the fact it should have been cut up smaller so you could eat it?
Either way seems petty to me since you had cutlery and ( I assume )opposable thumbs to hold a knife with and
cut said meat into manageable chunks.....:eek:

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Here here. Lazy springs to mind and never pleased too.

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I think it is a little unfair to say flashy is being lazy because she likes thin slices of meat as opposed to big chunks. It sounds like the chef could not be bothered to slice the meat correctly. I like a thickish slice but prefer not to have big chucks to hack up myself. Especially when I am eating out.

Do none of you have any food preferences or will you eat anything thrown at you?

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agree with neil, the whole point of going out fer a meal is- they are serving YOU.n you are paying fer the privelge, i would have shoved it back in his hand n said cut that properly. still if some will put up with owt.:rolleyes:

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for £3.25 I wouldn't be expecting any michelin stars , are we to expect white linen table service for that price, you pay for dog food , you get dog food ;)

Whats the going price at the local chippy for steak pudding , chips and peas with a fish on top , for a take out ...just curious;)

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I think the idea with these places is that they make most of their money on the drink. Even if that is not the case no one will be going back if the food is naff so they won't make any money.

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i expect it not to be slap dash crap

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well you obviously have a bigger appetite than me Lindsay and are obviously able to stuff more in your mouth than i am, i expect things to be well presented as they usually are at other carvery's

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ok , whats the price at the local chip shop for a take out , Steak pudding , chips and peas with a fish on top ? , can someone let me know ...and how this compares with the price at the eating establishment in question ........just curious ;) :D

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Fish £2 Chips £1:10 Peas 60p not sure of steak pudding sorry

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The thing is the Brit has gone downhill fast over the recent years( I used to work there and was proud of the quality we got it to). I assumed the special offers it was running was because someone was trying to turn it round from its bad reputation of late. In order to do this you need to be good value but of decent quality in both food and service.

Untill I hear differently I'll give it a miss.

I'm not fond of carvary's TBH anyway

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i think they have lowered the price recently Ian, they have the likes of The Redcap and The Duke and Gamecock to contend with on the carvery front

i see certain members of accyweb have failed to see my point in this thread, yet again i thank you Ian for pointing out things that are valid opinions on visiting places, certain people like picking at my threads and following my around this site just to try and make me look a fool

this thread was designed to give people a heads up, not so people could pick out bad points about me

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I understand what Lindsay is on about Flashy .. you have the facility to cut up your own meat as desired, however, I myself, find that food tastes different if cut in a different way ... probably I could be a bit quirky but find that :-

• Tomatoes don't taste the same if cut into segments rather than slices
• Melon balls appear to be more juicy than segments.
• Love oranges sliced so you can stretch it out, rather than putting a whole piece in your mouth.
• Full chicken breast doesn't taste as good as sliced chicken breast.

Lots of other things I am sure .. strange, could be just me ?

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Steak puds mick £1-20/50

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Brings an all new meaning to "how would you like your beef sir" just take the horns off and arse:D

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This is just an example of the couldn't care less attitude of a lot of employees today. The price of the food is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, the point is it should be served up properly. It takes no longer to slice meat correctly than lobbing a chunk off, just smacks of laziness

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well said Bernie

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Its the service that i`d be annoyed with...........just because something is cheap does`nt mean the service has to be poor...

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exactly pipples

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Sycamore Farm in Lowerhouse(near Rosegrove) does a cracking carvery...according to the missus who lunches out there on regular ocassions. not as cheap as some but never the less great. It is a really popular place with an excellent childrens area, we went the day after Boxing Day and the wait for a table was nearly 2hrs ( we did`nt bother) and they were lining up on the car park as we left........maybe the credit crunch hadn`t hit Burnley then........:rolleyes: and i`m sure if you ask them nicely they will carve the meat to match the size of your gob!!!!

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I agree. Who wants to be faced with a whole cow for their dinner?

Why can't they serve meat in manageable slices? :confused:

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thanx for the advice about the carvery in Burnley, its nice to know other people can give us 'thicko's' a heads up about a decent restaurant :D

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Here ya go.....Sycamore Farm pub restaurant, Empire Way, Burnley - Welcome.

hope this isn`t classed as a thread wander........:rolleyes:

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nah, its along the same lines :)

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A good chef would have an idea of the thickness of a piece of meat that would suit most people's tastes without complaint ... just lack of training too.

A better chef would ask if you wanted it 'thick or thin' .. mind you, would have loved to know what Flashy's reply to this question would be ... :D

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didn't think the chef carved it? thought it was just some low paid oik.:confused: plus the chefs at them places are usually busy microwaving. lol

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it was a youngish lad that was serving it

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We dont need to when you do it so well yourself.

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was talking to my other sister about this last night and she went up with her hubby and the kids, they got exactly the same and weren't impressed either

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Britan Pub as never been the same since owd Jim (or was bill) had it, flag floors with sawdust and if you asked for a bag of crisps he'd look at the strange and just say, tha comes in here furt thale not thi bloody dinner:D

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Bill was his lad that lived in the cottages and used to come in each night for a half.

I used to enjoy working there and I think we got it to a good standard. food was good quality and reasonable price. Ale was on top form ( even the head brewer from the brewery used to tell me I kept a cracking pint). In the end I was poached by Whitbread by an area manager who used to come in for his lunch and offered me a job there and then.

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In that case they were both called Bill Ian, remember young Bill when his dad was still behind the bar, he lead him a dogs life, young Bill used to set of walking just to get out of the way

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The name was Jem (Jim) Whewell.

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Everyone in ossy knows his name he was the best Landlord here and his son who we called little BILL who sadly passed away a few years ago was one of the kindest blokes i have ever known he had a flair for gardening grew everything you could imagine and kept a lot of us well stocked with stuff everyone who knew him never had a bad word for him not many about that you can say that about brilliant bloke sadly missed by lots from ossy i am sure of that.

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Did he live in one of the Britannia cottages bondi, seen to remember him living there when his dad left the pub

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yep, he used to come in the pub each night when I was there. as you said he was ace at gardening.

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yes he did live in them cottages and i think its still empty dont think he had any relations so dont know whats happening to it.

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are you from ossy do i know you

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It would really help if you said who you were posing the question to:D

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Won't be me John.........I've been 'fingered' already. :)

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Nowt to do with you he replied by pm so obviousley dont want anyone to know who he is but i do

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Arnt you the lucky one

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If it was me then pretty much everyone on here I think knows who I am. I've never made a secret of it.

:D

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There you go John he has come on to say who he is.
No offence but i do value peoples privacy .

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Then don't be such a nosy sod.:D who loves ya babe?:p

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And i Love you really only winding you up:dummy:

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Well why put it on the open forum then:confused:

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Thinking the same myself Jaysay, you ask a simple question and get a rude reply? don't doubt a lot of us were wondering.
Why put that on if you didn't expect people to ask:confused: Should have pmed the person in the first place. :)

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I am very sorry about that please accept my apology wont do it again .

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That's not the MB I know....tell them to 'Sod Off' :tongueout

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are you on about he brit on nutall.st?

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no, on about the Britannia pub over the tops of Ossy

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Think the best you'll get in the way of food on Nuttall Street is a bag of Cheese and Onion:D

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I ended up at the Brit today,due to the Redcap been closed "Technical Diffs" it said. Not having time to go over the grane road,to the duke, I called in here.
Walked in and it smelt beautiful,got a beer and waited to order...time to order...2 x carvery, hostess says " no carvery we only open 2hrs during the day, to much waste" okay we settle for fish and chips.

this comes 10mins later,it looked good whole hearty plate,consisting of 1/2 plate of fish 1/4 plate chips and a 1/4 plate mushy peas....ummmmmmmmmmmm

well 2 bites in and the fish is cold on the inside,so went for the peas. Again they were cold, well luke warm, the chips HOT, it was 1pm so even if the food was cooked for 12pm surly they could of kept it warm for a hour??? well upon being asked if I was happy I said no and explained...the reply was do I want something else to which I declined. At that moment my guest also stated his food wasn't cooked, and as the waitress came walking by told her to remove his food. After a chat, and a beer for me coke for him. Waitress appears will a bill £3.50." I have only charged you for 1 meal" she says...due to my guest paying and me not being able to say something...I say now AVOID AT ALL COST..2pm we left,never to return

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oh dear....

what a shame, once a great place to eat has fallen so far.

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Oh how times change.. when I lived in Accy only posh people had cars so any pub you visited was on foot.. I remember walking up t'Shoulder n Mutton.. took me and my mate 4 hours through fields n snow....got there and it was full of bikers.... I'll never forgive my mate cos the first song he put on the jukebox was "Ben" by Micheal Jackson..talk about strange looks.:D

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4 hours Mancie to get to the shoulder, was that back in 1947 went the snow was up to the roof tops:D

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went last week to sycamore farm
yea it 2 pound more than them 3.50 carveries but its worth it,great beef.excellent