Unpopular Opinions You Hold

[bovril]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's funny actually, quite a popular meme photo that gets trolled on a lot and has popped up a few times on reddit as "let's all laugh at British food" is from a pub in Leicester. I think it might be the Blue Boar? 

 

And it's a cheese and onion cob, actually really quite a good looking one. It's got a generous slab of cheese in, either red Leicester or cheddar and it looks like a really decent quality crusty cob. 

 

I think the idea to them that the bread and the cheese might actually both be genuinely nice in their own right as well as fresh and not just plastic nonsense is really alien to them. 

 

Plus, I mean guys, it's a ****ing bar snack. 

 

I have to admit I found that one a bit much. Think it was the teeth marks in the cheese. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's funny actually, quite a popular meme photo that gets trolled on a lot and has popped up a few times on reddit as "let's all laugh at British food" is from a pub in Leicester. I think it might be the Blue Boar? 

 

And it's a cheese and onion cob, actually really quite a good looking one. It's got a generous slab of cheese in, either red Leicester or cheddar and it looks like a really decent quality crusty cob. 

 

I think the idea to them that the bread and the cheese might actually both be genuinely nice in their own right as well as fresh and not just plastic nonsense is really alien to them. 

 

Plus, I mean guys, it's a ****ing bar snack. 

 

This just reminded me... American cheese

[Finnegan]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

I have to admit I found that one a bit much. Think it was the teeth marks in the cheese. 

 

I'm assuming the pub didn't put them there in fairness. 

 

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I'm assuming the pub didn't put them there in fairness. 

 

That much cheese I assumed it was a communal sandwich that got passed around the group. 

[Finnegan]

7 minutes ago, bovril said:

That much cheese I assumed it was a communal sandwich that got passed around the group. 

 

I will admit it wouldn't have been to my taste but I do know people that love cheese and would smash that. 

 

I stand by the point, though, nothing wrong with simple food as a snack and it looked like quality ingredients. 

 

[worthosoriginals]

2 hours ago, Finnegan said:

 

Most of the pelters come from Americans on the internet. They in turn just copy the French, with no sense of their own actual self awareness. 

 

If they had any self awareness they'd realise the irony. America comfortably has the worst food of any country I've ever visited, it's horrendous. 

 

When you say this to them they immediately start getting outraged by any number of things, either banging on about some amazing migrant cuisine you can get there (whilst dismissing British claims to it's own migrant foods, like the vast majority of curries eaten in the west), the number of amazing restaurants they have there (with chefs trained in France, just like the fine dining we have here) or as a last resort they'll start screeching about BBQ as if they're the only nation on the planet that's ever cooked meat outside and it's somehow sophisticated? 

 

All of which is missing the point tbh. Restaurants are irrelevant, every major country in the world these days has great places to eat and many of them all sorts of multicultural cuisine from all sorts of different cultures. It's just not a brag for them any more like it might have been decades ago. 

 

When I say they have the worst food I'm talking about what the average family is actually buying from the supermarket and eating at home. I'm talking about the convenient food, their fast food, their day to day snacks. It's absolutely appalling. 

 

It's OK boasting that your country has "freedom" but when that means your farmers and food manufacturers have the "freedom" to bend you over because you have no regulation at all to protect the consumer, I'm not sure that's the kind of freedom you want to celebrate. 

 

Everything is rammed full of sugar, salt, preservatives and **** knows what else. Even just their bread is disgusting, it's like eating cake. It's produce for a country that has free health care and, oops. 

 

Makes you wonder why the majority of them are so slim.....if you're eating junk food from a bucket is your diet worse than  that of a farmyard animal? 

American diet and politics mostly here, the political bit is on its way.

 

[FoyleFox]

3 hours ago, worthosoriginals said:

Makes you wonder why the majority of them are so slim.....if you're eating junk food from a bucket is your diet worse than  that of a farmyard animal? 

American diet and politics mostly here, the political bit is on its way.

 

They're not. Half of the population live on kale and are slim. The other half, not so much...

[ozleicester]

Foodies and their infestation of every discussion are the most boring human beings on the planet...slightly edging out "coffee heads"

Edited Monday at 23:40 by ozleicester

[The Bear]

8 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Foodies and their infestation of every discussion are the most boring human beings on the planet...slightly edging out "coffee heads"

Vegans. 

 

I couldn't imagine a worse experience than a vegan discussion group. 

[lcfc278]

8 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Foodies and their infestation of every discussion are the most boring human beings on the planet...slightly edging out "coffee heads"

Haha spot on. There's definitely a growing trend of people that have made 'liking coffee' their whole personality. That and smoking meat for 12 hours.

[Chris_OGrady]

I feel like in America because most of their food and produce is so bad, that you actually get some of the best stuff in the world, because there's such a push back against it from a small minority. Same with beer over there, their macro lager is abysmal, but their independent scene is probs the best in the world. 

 

You have to work very hard at it because the majority of stuff is atrocious, but the top 10% of stuff is some of the best in the world. 

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, Chris_OGrady said:

I feel like in America because most of their food and produce is so bad, that you actually get some of the best stuff in the world, because there's such a push back against it from a small minority. Same with beer over there, their macro lager is abysmal, but their independent scene is probs the best in the world. 

 

You have to work very hard at it because the majority of stuff is atrocious, but the top 10% of stuff is some of the best in the world. 

Same with a lot of other goods and services over there. 

 

If you can pay a premium for the top 10%, it's world class. The other 90% is gutter quality. 

[lcfcell]

The majority of UK comedians you see on quiz / panel shows etc are really not funny and don’t think they have been for a while. Not sure if it’s that unpopular of an opinion to be fair though. 
 

Or I’m just a miserable bastard. 

[slymunn]

17 minutes ago, lcfcell said:

The majority of UK comedians you see on quiz / panel shows etc are really not funny and don’t think they have been for a while. Not sure if it’s that unpopular of an opinion to be fair though. 
 

Or I’m just a miserable bastard. 

I feel like these shows are pretty similar to watching certain football programmes now, in the sense its a few people having a laugh about a topic. 

It doesn't help as because they do the rounds they can only repeat the same jokes so much, as the shows are semi scripted. They don't get enough time to do a big routine, so unless they are great at one liners there isn't enough time to build the jokes overall. There is a lot more care on shows to not be too offensive, which waters down so much of what can be joked about.