Veggie bangers and mash - anyone said that yet? I had it in a pub recently, they'd run out of propa sausages 
but the veggie option was pretty damn good.
Carry on.
but the veggie option was pretty damn good.Carry on.
Vegetarian Meals In Pubs
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kittyP
Pluviophile
No you are right, no one had a go at badgers directly.
And I do understand that often threads evolve it to something else.
I should probably shut up too.
I am definitely too defensive coz he is my bloke and I have knowledge that others don't about the situation and that is not fair.
kittyP
Pluviophile
The last one I had there was a pretty good falafel and mushroom but it might have changed.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
That sounds good, much better than the floury potato based veggie burgers (along with Mexican variations) that are often the non-meat burger.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Veggie bangers and mash - anyone said that yet? I had it in a pub recently, they'd run out of propa sausages
Carry on.
For national sausage week, Badgers convinced the pub do do a solely bangers, mash and gravy day.
There were 3 types of meat (pork and apple, beef and venison I think) and a veggie one. Plus veggie gravey and the option of very cheesy mash too.
It fucking rocked
kittyP
Pluviophile
I take it you mean 'meat substitute rolls'? Coz there had been cheese, veggie, onion etc rolls for years.
*doffs cap to Badgers *For national sausage week, Badgers convinced the pub do do a solely bangers, mash and gravy day.
There were 3 types of meat (pork and apple, beef and venison I think) and a veggie one. Plus veggie gravey and the option of very cheesy mash too.
It fucking rocked
I hope there will be a repeat of this next time Sausage Week happens. I will gladly make the journey from Barnet to show my support
For national sausage week, Badgers convinced the pub do do a solely bangers, mash and gravy day.
There were 3 types of meat (pork and apple, beef and venison I think) and a veggie one. Plus veggie gravey and the option of very cheesy mash too.
It fucking rocked
Truly magnificent.
Especially if you leave out the sausages and have mash with peas.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Quorn do do sausage rolls, and they're quite nice.
Like Linda McCartney ones, but with nice sausages
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Both Quorn and Linda Macs do sausage rolls. Or did you mean like those but with decent pastry? As both are pretty crap imo. Some pasty chain shops sell much nicer ones with better pastry imo
as a meat eater I would be worried of being berated for being cliched for offering nut-roast as a veggie option.
Just an interesting observance (possibly only for me)
I reckon even if the options seem kitsch/ cliched, if they taste amazing customers will be happy (unless it is a gastro pub, which i guess it aint)
Also big enough portions. I hate small portions in a meal, I know it's got to be cost effective but in the long run scrimping on ingredients is never good. Once I got about 4 fat chips with a veggie burger (also the burger was made of purely mashed potato it seemed). I was fuming.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Its really odd to hear veggies calling for nut-roast.
I love it (especially badgers mums one
Just an interesting observance (possibly only for me)
There's nothing wrong with a nut roast as long as it's good and not the only option.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
This.
I think there was a time when the "nut cutlet" was the stereotypical veggie option (much like the vegetable lasagne, mushroom stroganoff, goat's cheese tart, and so on), and it will have been criticised for that. But there's not much wrong with a nicely-made (not too dry) and seasoned nut roast, if, as mr steev points out, it's not the only option.
I think that there has been, for decades, a fundamental misunderstanding about what it is to be a vegetarian, coupled with an unfortunate tendency to follow the herd. First of all, it's annoying enough to go out with your friends and listen to them poring over the menu, enjoying debating what they will have, etc., while all you have to do is run your eye quickly down, spot the (v), or at least deduce which item looks as if it probably is the vegetarian option, and make a note to check with the waiter that this is not one of those restaurants which considers prawns to be vegetables.
But what adds insult to injury is the way, as if by some complicated catering freemasonry, every venue in the land seems to opt for the same Vegetarian Option at the same time! It might not be so bad if Restaurant X's option was the vegetarian lasagne, if Restaurant Y could be relied on to punt out a goat's cheese tart, but they all seem to switch in lockstep. So the dining-out life of a vegetarian tends to be 2 years of nut cutlets, segueing during a delicious interregnum where both those and their successor, let us say the vegetarian lasagne, are available at once in different places into a long stretch of vegetarian lasagnes, and so on...
Each of these things could be delicious (but often isn't, though that's another story and one which affects non-vegetarians equally). But it's hard not to be snarky about any of them when it's been the only thing on a menu you could eat for the past six months
But there I go again, moaning on my hobbyhorse. Oops
fractionMan
Custom Title
The number of chips is inversely proportionate to how posh the pub is.
Looby
Well-Known Member
I'd expect a hulking great slab of beef with a slice of halloumi on the top. ; )
Nah, that sounds good.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Gherkin slices?
I am ditching the gherkins as a 'standard' part of the burger.
Would they go with halloumi well then?
I am not sure as I don't (and nor does 87.2% of the civilised world) eat them.
but salsa seems a better fit to me...
