On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Neil Williams wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:58:12 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On the subject of flying to Billund, though, i'm going on wednesday
evening, from Gatwick, with an airline on which i am informed the food
is unspeakable. Does anyone have any recommendations for places to eat
at Gatwick?

Depends what you want to eat. There are in the various bits of Gatwick
a few Wetherspoons-style pubs that provide acceptable food for
acceptable money, which tend to be where I end up.

Okay, thanks, will give those a look. I'm usually leery of food from
plastic pubs like those, but if you've eaten there and think they're okay,
i'll rise above my prejudice.

On the acceptability of money front, the company will flipping well be
paying for it, since they're the ones dispatching me to the wastes of
Denmark, so price is no object.

tom

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Most people lose their talent at puberty. I lost mine in my early
twenties. I began to think of children not as immature adults, but of
adults as atrophied children. -- Keith Johnstone

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:12:43 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Okay, thanks, will give those a look. I'm usually leery of food from
plastic pubs like those, but if you've eaten there and think they're okay,
i'll rise above my prejudice.

To be fair, I find Wetherspoons food acceptable in general. If you
don't, you probably won't like those either.

I see it on the same sort of level as McD's etc, except you get a
better choice and a proper plate/cutlery[1]/glass etc.

[1] Obviously you'll get a rounded knife airside.

On the acceptability of money front, the company will flipping well be
paying for it, since they're the ones dispatching me to the wastes of
Denmark, so price is no object.

If your expenses budget is generous, I imagine you can do a lot better
than the Spoons-a-likes, but I don't go to Gatwick any more often than
I can avoid, so I don't have a lot of experience of those. I've eaten
in the landside Spoons-a-like in whichever terminal it is easyJet use,
FWIW, and it was fine by my standards .

(For those who fly from Luton, the "Est Cafe" is far better than the
self service greasy spoon, and doesn't cost much more...)

Neil
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Neil Williams wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:12:43 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Okay, thanks, will give those a look. I'm usually leery of food from
plastic pubs like those, but if you've eaten there and think they're okay,
i'll rise above my prejudice.

To be fair, I find Wetherspoons food acceptable in general. If you
don't, you probably won't like those either.

I can't remember the last time i ate in a Wetherspoons, actually, so i
have no idea if i'd like these places or not.

tom

--
Vive la chimie, en particulier, et la connaissance en general. --
Herve This

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
rth.li...
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Neil Williams wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:12:43 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Okay, thanks, will give those a look. I'm usually leery of food from
plastic pubs like those, but if you've eaten there and think they're
okay,
i'll rise above my prejudice.

To be fair, I find Wetherspoons food acceptable in general. If you
don't, you probably won't like those either.

I can't remember the last time i ate in a Wetherspoons, actually, so i
have no idea if i'd like these places or not.

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

And I'm told that applies to absolutely everything that they offer

tim

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, tim.... wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
rth.li...
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Neil Williams wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:12:43 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Okay, thanks, will give those a look. I'm usually leery of food from
plastic pubs like those, but if you've eaten there and think they're
okay, i'll rise above my prejudice.

To be fair, I find Wetherspoons food acceptable in general. If you
don't, you probably won't like those either.

I can't remember the last time i ate in a Wetherspoons, actually, so i
have no idea if i'd like these places or not.

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

And I'm told that applies to absolutely everything that they offer

I understand this is true of a distressing amount of food at 'proper'
restaurants too.

Still, i have no beef with central cooking. I'd much rather have food
centrally cooked by skilled technicians working to a tight process and
then microwaved by an overworked teenage bar wench/knave, than food
prepared from scratch by said wench/knave. Never forget: potato waffles
are made in a factory, and those are the very acme of food.

I wonder if i should just pack a steak and my old laptop which gets very,
very hot when overworked.

tom

--
Work alone does not suffice: the efforts must be intelligent. -- Charles
B. Rogers

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:45:52 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, tim.... wrote:

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

And I'm told that applies to absolutely everything that they offer

I understand this is true of a distressing amount of food at 'proper'
restaurants too.


It is apparently true of restaurants owned by Gordon Ramsay and
several other celebrity chefs. So it isn't just pubs.

"Bruce" wrote in message

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:45:52 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, tim.... wrote:

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

And I'm told that applies to absolutely everything that they offer

I understand this is true of a distressing amount of food at 'proper'
restaurants too.


It is apparently true of restaurants owned by Gordon Ramsay and
several other celebrity chefs. So it isn't just pubs.

Only in Gordon's gastropubs, which don't have large kitchens on-site. He
has his own large central kitchen to pre-prepare some of the food for
the said gastropubs. The processes used are the same as would happen in
the local kitchens if they were large enough.

But this still didn't save the Devonshire in Chiswick, which was always
empty whenever I visited it (not helped by being close to a much better,
Michelin-starred restaurant, which is also cheaper).
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23850446-gordon-ramsay-forced-to-shut-gastro-pub-at-wrong-end-of-street-in-chiswick.do

I've also noticed trays being carried across the road from Heston's
back-up kitchen in Bray to his Hinds Head pub, but not to the Fat Duck.
I suspect that the three Michelin stars might be at risk if the Fat Duck
didn't cook everything on-site, but the kitchen across the road is used
to research new dishes.

In message , tim....
writes

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

That is true of most restaurants - either you eat food that has been
hanging around warm for hours, or it is reheated (usually microwaved)
from chilled. Very few people have the time or patience to wait for the
hour or more that it takes to cook most dishes from totally fresh.
--
Paul Terry

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:57:36PM +0100, Paul Terry wrote:
In message , tim....
writes
Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.
That is true of most restaurants - either you eat food that has been
hanging around warm for hours, or it is reheated (usually microwaved)
from chilled. Very few people have the time or patience to wait for the
hour or more that it takes to cook most dishes from totally fresh.

It doesn't take anything like an hour to cook most dishes from scratch.

But in any case, there's nothing wrong with having *some* things
pre-prepared so that you can either just heat them up and serve, or do
just the last step or two in preparing them to order.

I'm quite happy for my soup to be prepared in advance, or my prawns to
be cooked in advance and then just have the last few moments of
preparation to order. What I'm *not* happy for is for my steak to be
cooked in advance and then re-heated, like what happens in Wetherspoons.

--
David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing

Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a
feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:43:09 +0100, "tim...."
wrote:

Wetherspoons food is centrally cooked and supplied to each outlet in
"cooked-chilled" form to be reheated as required.

And I'm told that applies to absolutely everything that they offer

It does, to be fair, mean the end product is quite consistent, however
hopeless the staff.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK
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