Whats the best dinner/lunch meal you've ever had?

Free buffet at work?

Something you knocked up yourself?

Something a loved one or friend made for you?

Even a meal deal you got from the Morrisons.

It all counts PaulL

Did you have to show the counter staff a pic of your kids ?

hmmm good thread.

Il have to think about this one.

No rush

Went to the Australian pub in Porthmadog 2 weeks ago and I had one of the best lunches in a long time, Antipasti, it had cornichons, peppers, olives, sunblush tomatoes, bressaola, parma ham, salami 2 types, crusty bread, brie and drizzled with olive oil, it was superb and only 5.99.

I think its probably the time I basically took a large cheese board to work.

Was after christmas and had loads of cheese left over so took a wide selection of cheeses to work:

Smoked applewood chedder
Home made crumbly goats cheese with chilli
Extra hot chedder
Feta
Think was some Boursin too

Probably more I forgot

Anyway took a load of assorted crackers and some fresh bread from Morrisons (salt and pepper buns and a cheese baguette i seem to remember)

People in the office were hinting at having some but they got fuck all and i made sure i quickly binned everything that was left.

Think I took a bottle of Appletise too which was nice.

9/10.

Unfortunately not. Payday today so just got a few extras with me tuna salad wraps like some grapes and a drink.

When our last gaffer left earlier in the yeah she brought in 2 huge slow cookers of chilli and curry, not mixed, seperate.

Naan breads, poppadoms, rice etc Everything you'd have with it.

The mrs made a cheesecake too which was a great afters. (cookie base and white chocolate main)

That was deffo in my top 5.

What were the other 4?

Works lunch in huntington - free buffet
The day i got a all chocolate kit kat
The day pre morrisons meal deal when i'd scan a large salad box as a small
The wifes birthday last week when she made a white/milk chocolate cheesecake.

Leftover takeaway is always divine after a heavy weekend

Wembley Military Pageant 1979..

Two egg banjos and a quick game of 500 a-side on the hallowed turf.

Restaurant in Bubaneshwar whose name escapes me. Walked inside from the baking sun into the cool shade, top banana decor, Nimbu pani to cool off with followed by a silver-plated chicken Mumtaz to die for. An expensive 120 rupees but worth every anna.

The time some contractors I was working with took me to a Brazilian BBQ. Can't top that for lunch IMO, BBQ'd meat brought to your table until you ask them not to.

Years ago I helped my sister out when she was doing a photoshoot in Nottingham for Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine. One of the places she had to shoot was in the top restaurant in the city centre. We got a free plate of monkfish something and it was fucken LUSH!

Had similar in Leeds a few years ago, didn`t eat for 2 days after, was stuffed but it was awesome.

Earlier this week I had, I kid you not, an Onion Bhaji Flatbread. Fucken LUSH. DAy after Great North Run...I reckon I consumed 4000 calories in the 24hrs...

Kit Kat chocolate isn't very nice these days in my opinion. Neither is Cadburys.

Correct Mr PiN, I lived in York when Rowntrees sold to Nestle. Nestle fucked up all of Rowntrees hard work. Fruit pastiles went from flavoursome with a sugar sprinkling to the fucking rubbish and much harder Nestle version with sugar sort of forming part of the jelly bit....the Rowntrees version had a definite two parts..the jelly bit with sugar on top....you could suck the sugar off the Rowntrees pastiles and leave a perfectly pastiles shaped jelly bit, you can't do that with the poor Nestle excuse for a fruit pastile.

And don't even talk to me about Nestle chocolate. Absolute dog shit.

Don't set me off about Midget Gems. Used to be firm sweet that required a degree of effort. Now just a soft, spongy lump of sugaryness.

Lion Brand ones are still hard. Other, cheaper MGs are soft as shite.

Should the black midget gem be liquorice or blackcurrant?

Really not a fan of liquorice but can accept the argument that black midget gems should be liquorice. I was always gutted when the bag was half full of black ones though....or should that be half empty of coloured ones? Suppose it depends how positive or negative you're feeling

One of the best dinners (that's lunch for non-Yorkshiremen/southerners) I have had was when I first discovered the joy that is mackerel in a spicy tomato sauce in toast

We were in the work canteen and, for some reason, Graeme Le Saux was on the table behind us. Apparently he lived near where I used to work.

I think I had an omelette and it was pretty decent. Dunno what he had.

So, there is that.

Every day at Steetley when staff could have a five course meal of soup,choice of three main meals with veg,sweet (spotted dick etc), cheese and biscuits and finally coffee or tea with a biscuit.
Cost = zero

And that was after a bacon or sausage bun at 10am for next to nothing.10p.

Best sandwich/toastie ever. FACT.

And by the way, your 'image' link thingy doesn't work.....or at least not on my machine...it just says 'image' then a link to nowt (sherv.net).

Sort it out Mr Arse

You on a commodore?

No, Spectrum 48k. With rubber keys

Oy Phil when are you in Huntingdon with work? Give me a ring if regular thing

My finest lunch hour was when i used to meet my girlfriend.

Yeah , you can't whack a good FISH PIE for lunch. This post has made me realise how may liquid lunches I used to have, wasn't big on the lunch thing at work, always been a 2 meals a day man myself, breakfast and then tea after work.

When I worked in Seaham, in the middle of nowhere, not a pub for miles, there used to be a van used to be permanently parked outside were I worked , that sold curries ,chillies, cheeseburgers , bacon rolls etc, the curry and chips were to die for, and cheap as well , so that's mine.

Mixed grill stotty cake.

You have a crumbly goat? Where do you keep it ?

Remember at school in the sixties at dinner time often used go to the old civic restaurant at the side of the market in Lynn Street with my mate whose dad was the manager, plate of chips covered in gravy and slice of bread and butter. LUSH

Used to enjoy dinners at Tunny tbh.

Usually consisted of a slice of pizza so greasy it came with a paper towel to mop some of it up and some soggy chips but was rather enjoyable.

Café round the corner from College of FE, top end of Church St. Used to go there at lunch time and frequently saw Pools players tucking into chip butties. Probably around 1981'ish.
Massive chip butties they did like.

You wouldn't stoop that low at lunchtime surely Horden.?..come on man , tell us yer having us on..

I didn't stoop

A shit load of free pizza the bosses bought one Friday when I was doing work experience at a local radio station. I well and truly had it. And took a couple more home.

A few months ago I was at a meeting hosted in a community centre in Leicester. They had Pakistani caterers and they knocked up mountains of amazing curries, samosas, bhajis, breads, rice dishes etc.

They were expecting about three times the amount of attendees, so even though I made a complete pig of meself, there was still loads left over, most of which went to the homeless centre, and the remnants I bagged up for our lass and the bairns' tea. I still dream about it to this day.

So you want to hear my finest lunch hour.
Well to be honest, all i do in my lunch hour is go sit in my car, slaughter off a tuna sandwich and furiously vape for an hour before going back into the office.

No sharpeners?

I'm a professional so no sharpeners at work, just fat vape clouds.
Now when 4 o'clock Friday afternoon rolls around, its another story - sharpeners galore.

Massive off topic but I have always wondered how people remember threads from years ago...in this case a year....it must surely have been buried deep in the Bunker annals?

Do you all have a dogs bollocks memory or do you go through page after page of threads?

My memory is absolute dogshit.....that'll be the drugs...

When I was at college day release I used to go the Chinese in Church Street (Hong Kong Garden?) for their lunch special, it was about a quid for a three course lunch way back in 1973, soup like wallpaper paste, a curried something or other and a banana fritter.

There’s a few classic threads that can get brought up easily by searching key words from it.

Type in Ricky Martin or Carlisle jacket may return n you’ll see what I mean.


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