I fear the cafe at lunch time

My co-workers were describing a chip buttie yesterday    and it did NOT sound appetizing to me at all. 

Untoasted white bread, butter and chips?   

The idea of tuna on a potato, and tuna with sweet corn just grosses me out.

I thought it just sounded gross, too, but I tried it the other night and it was lush.  Though I still prefer beans and cheese, or beans with barbecue chicken or pork or something. Or beans, cheese, and bacon. Beans!  In fact, I would eat any of those things the OP mentioned for lunch. Is that bad? 

All that sounds lovely to me.   

Hehe... ok, so I'm not the only one... 

I love tuna and sweetcorn or tuna and sweetcorn on a jacket.

I'm not big on the cold topping for jacket potatoes. My jacket potato guy used to do the most amazing beef and onion filling but he sadly discontinued that a month or so ago.

What I don't like is seeing vinegar on everything. Bleh. I like S&V crisps and stuff but dousing everything you're eating in vinegar makes me gip. Jon does that. Just the smell is nasty. I have a friend who takes a bottle of vinegar with her every time we go out for lunch, even when we go out for chinese and she floods her food in it. Nasty.

"sausage, bacon, mushroom, egg baguette with mayo" - coworker gets this from the cafe

I hate to say this but that sounds really nice. I'd try it!




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I'm not big on the cold topping for jacket potatoes. My jacket potato guy used to do the most amazing beef and onion filling but he sadly discontinued that a month or so ago.

What I don't like is seeing vinegar on everything. Bleh. I like S&V crisps and stuff but dousing everything you're eating in vinegar makes me gip. Jon does that. Just the smell is nasty. I have a friend who takes a bottle of vinegar with her every time we go out for lunch, even when we go out for chinese and she floods her food in it. Nasty.

"sausage, bacon, mushroom, egg baguette with mayo" - coworker gets this from the cafe[/i]

I hate to say this but that sounds really nice. I'd try it!

Yeah, I'm not down with vinegar. It smells like feet.  And I have tried it, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to me, other than it makes my fish and chips soggy. Gross.

I love vinegar on things but walking around with your own dressing in a bag is a bit much.

The only thing the OP posted that I would regularly eat for lunch is probably the tuna and sweetcorn, but that is just because I'm not heavily into red meat I would eat the English breakfast or the pie only on a rare occasion and I wouldn't usually put meat on a jacket potato- beans, cheese, tuna, coleslaw, prawns are all OK.

There is a vegetarian shop near where I work that sells quiches, samosas, bajis, etc. so I sometimes have those for lunch.

On the weekend I might go to the pasty shop around the corner and get a ciabatta with seafood on it or something similar.

My co-workers were describing a chip buttie yesterday    and it did NOT sound appetizing to me at all. 

Untoasted white bread, butter and chips?   

Don't knock it till you try it!  They're comfort food at the 10 out of 10 rating level!!!

My co-workers were describing a chip buttie yesterday    and it did NOT sound appetizing to me at all. 

Untoasted white bread, butter and chips?   

I was just going to mention this!  A friend of mine takes it one step further and adds curry sauce to it.

The problem I have is that I like a lot of the foods individually, but not all mixed together. I love tuna, but not on potatoes and not with corn.  And, I have to say, I like my chips plain lol.  The cafeteria where I used to work might as well have had a sign saying "What miscellaneous stuff would you like to have thrown on top of your chips today?"  The oddest one I remember was something called "spicy Mexican Beef."  It was chips, then plain ground beef, then some sort of orange sauce (I think it was perhaps salsa mixed with something else) and then a bit of grated cheddar cheese which was only about half melted.

Yet, everyone here that I know is grossed out by peanut butter and jelly!

I love vinegar on things but walking around with your own dressing in a bag is a bit much.

She's a funny lady. She's also the pickiest eater I've ever seen in my life and has only a handful of things she'll eat.

Yet, everyone here that I know is grossed out by peanut butter and jelly!

LOL. Yeah! They have no idea what they're missing. Jon always shakes his head when I have a P&J sandwich but he will take a bite or two from it. Others always think it sounds nasty and won't try it.

I have to say, most of the things that I thought sounded gross when I moved here are actually very tasty when you give them a shot. I think marmaladejar has it right in saying 'don't knock it until you try it'. (although I don't like chip buttys. Too much stodge.)

"sausage, bacon, mushroom, egg baguette with mayo" - coworker gets this from the cafe

I think I'd like this.

Don't knock it till you try it!  They're comfort food at the 10 out of 10 rating level!!!

Totally. Mmmmm. I could eat one for breakfast right now - that's how good they are.


And I have to say, I don't really understand what's weird about any of those foods, Colleen... They all sound good to me?

I think that for some of those Brits who haven't seen a PB&J sandwich, they think "peanut butter and jelly" sandwich means a "peanut butter and jello" sandwich, since the word "jelly" in the UK means "jello" in the US.

(Peanut butter and jam means the same in both.)

Also, UK peanut butter does not usually taste the same as US peanut butter. UK peanut butter is pretty horrible, in my opinion.

And I have to say, I don't really understand what's weird about any of those foods, Colleen...

Me too. I wouldn't usually eat the heavy, meaty meals myself but they all seem normal to me.

UK peanut butter is pretty horrible, in my opinion.

sweetpeach, I like the Whole Earth brand - either crunchy or smooth, but it has minimal ingredients & with no sugar added.  In the US, I ate the Smuckers no sugar added stuff, and the Whole Earth one is reasonably similar.  I've heard that Sunpat is pretty awful stuff though.

Although I have been surprised at the places where I occasionally see something like Skippy or Jif turn up.  I was at the Asian Supermarket here in Leeds on Friday, and they were selling tiny jars of either Skippy or Jif (can't remember which one) - which I thought was strange for it being an Asian Supermarket!

I think that for some of those Brits who haven't seen a PB&J sandwich, they think "peanut butter and jelly" sandwich means a "peanut butter and jello" sandwich, since the word "jelly" in the UK means "jello" in the US.

No, we know what it means. And it still sounds horrible. 

No, we know what it means. And it still sounds horrible. 

Why?