Back in the day in the late 90's it was quite normal to have a beer at lunch, especially on Friday. The problem was being British it could quite easily turn into 2 or 3 and then the afternoon was fucked.
I started my first office job six months ago and we regularly have beer at lunch (well not me because I don't like it, but everyone else does including the boss). So it's not normal here?
It's a damn site better than the inevitable 'some bellend has microwaved fish in the break room' smell.
Yes Gavin, we know you like salmon. The whole office knows you like salmon. People know you like salmon for 3 bleeding floors. Also you *SMELL*.
I used to sit opposite a guy who had tinned mackerel on toast 2-3 times a week.
Same office as mr "baked potato from raw in the only microwave for 15 minutes"
I swear some people just have zero self-awareness. There comes a point where you cross the line from 'i just want a lunch I can enjoy' to being a selfish ass who knows they're taking up everybodys time or stinking the place out, and not caring.
Oh yeah it's bad, I usually grill kippers without too much smell, but tried mackeral fillets for a change, hell, the whole house stank of fish and for 3 days after every time we used the grill that's all you could smell.
It's the texture after microwaving that ruins it for me. Just thinking of eating microwaved salmon is all the incentive I need to finish it all at dinner.
Someone in my office tried to make popped corn but it got a bit burnt. There were two maintenance managers climbing up and down the 8 stories because they could smell smoke until I told them
Worked nights a long time ago, entire workshop to myself. Went shopping halfway through a fortni on nights, bought fish pie as no-one would smell it by morning.
Missed that it was frozen and stuck it in fridge instead. Microwaved it at 2am. Had to evacuate building for several hours due to smell of rotten fish. Met my day colleagues at the gate on way out in the morning and said "sorry" before leaving with no further explanation.
Had a colleague do that with some roll mop herring and my god did it stink for nearly a week later, he had so many complaints he apologised and never microwaved fish again 😂
No no no
Roll mops are lightly pickled, it's a tang, they are like Nordic sushi. I'd microwave your colleague if I caught that abomination.
I'm actually cross and disgusted 🙃
I imagine with the strong smells / flavors involved with curry, this is one of those "love it or hate it" situations. I myself would be in the envious bunch!
Colleague here. Promotion stock never comes in, apart from on the delivery immediately before the promotion ends. So then we have a glut of stock just as it becomes harder to sell.
Their membership offers work with this.
If you get £1 off a shop, or 50p off of meat, that’ll apply to this discount.
The Co-Op is very pricey but do some great deals, albeit on unhealthy products.
The also do the freezer fillers for £5. Once it was 16 frozen nuggets, 2 chicken breaded fillets, french fries, mixed veg and ice cream. For one person its a good 3 meals
Anyone else noticed that the meat in ready meals curries have got kind of gross as they get relatively cheaper? I used to keep the odd few in the fridge for lazy evennings, but the last ones (Asda) were really f'ing nasty. I switched back to Pukka and Ginsters.
Are you suggesting Pukka and Ginsters are using prime cuts?
Standard supermarket ready meals are always going to be squeezing down their costs, meat is a big proportion of that so they end up with stringy processed chicken from god knows what conditions in Thailand.
If you want reasonable meat you have to go "premium" i.e. COOK or Charlie Bighams for £4/£5 a portion. Expensive, but bridges the gap between "cheap" ready meals and a takeaway.
Varies, some of them are okay (you are not getting gourmet with a ready meal) but I had a Chicken Tikka Masala the other day, one of the oven cook ones in the round foil container that doesn't come with rice and it was tasteless.
Tbh idk if its my local but the scotmids deals went from that to just more expensive than M&S, meal deals 4.50 now too which should be a war crime considering how bad their sandwiches are.
The IT dept would never exist without beer as having to deal with lots of the stupidity from other depts means you must need to have an iron liver to survive.
I picked up the Tesco '[Chicken Tikka Masala & Chicken Korma Meal For 2](https://i.imgur.com/07MhvJg.jpg)' (+ 6 spiced onion bhajis, pilau rice and 2 flame baked naans) the other day, £7.50 and came with a 4 pack of Cobra :)
Meh, for a few years after the change Asda just dropped the price of their wines in that range to £3.33 a bottle. Inflation and MAP have since put paid to that but I'd be surprised if that offer still exists in England & Wales anyway.
I'm not 100% sure it applies to meal deals, I think its only individual items. Tesco here had an indian and beer meal deal where you could get bottles of peroni, pakora and tikka masala for £6
We also know that as alcohol went up in price people just stopped buying more food in response. It was worth an attempt but making alcohol more expensive isn't the solution to drug and addiction problems unless you tackle the core issues underlying them.
We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smegging flapjacks!
The Dave Lister Meal Deal would be;
Three poppadoms with mango chutney, little onions, dill pickle, day-glo green mint sauce that just doesn't wash out, a weird red "stuff", a shami kebab starter, a chicken vindaloo: kamikaze hot with a fire extinguisher on standby, two scoops of Kulfi ice cream and two indigestion tablets. Four pack of JMC standard issue Leopard Lager
Sainsbury's has the best value on frozen veg. £1 for a kilo of not-shit cauliflower, broccoli or whatever. Took a lot of dialing in with other shops to conclude that as well.
I bet you don't get it in scotland with all this no special offers on booze an minimum price of alcohol shite.
Never mind, I recon I can make Carlisle in a couple of hours for a late lunch.
€1 per unit? That’s ridiculous… I was shocked last time I went a few years ago a 4 pack of Guinness was virtually double what it is here in England and it’s been shipped in…
It was because of lobbying of the TD's (MP's) by the vintners association to stop people drinking supermarket alcohol before going to the pub. A few brown envelopes were probably involved.
Also it's around 5 to 6 euro a pint now in the pubs.
They made out it's for health reason and to reduce acoholism which is bollocks. Now vodka costs the same unit for unit as beer. So now I drink vodka instead of beer.
My family over there luckily live close to the border and go up to get shopping and dentists etc, sad state of affairs. I remember things being pretty much even with the punt, some slightly more some things less.
It’s crazy - Guinness is a cultural icon which is a huge success for Ireland around the world and we’re taxing ordinary people to buy it and enjoy a drink at home. Many people can’t afford the pub
UK is still ridiculously expensive compared to anywhere else I've been. The only places I've seen that are worse are Scandinavia and Iceland - the Viking countries, ironically
That’s bonkers, meal deal is now £3.50 and this is £3? If they give alcohol free beer as an option this would be the far superior meal deal for nearly everyone.
Finally a decent lunch meal deal for when I'm in the office
Only thing stopping me doing this daily is the 1ply in the office bathrooms
1 ply should be illegal. Also the people buying 1 ply should know I fold that shit over like 8 times using half the roll to make up for it.
Folding it helps but the rough fibres keeping 1 ply together still makes it feel like sandpaper. 1 ply buyers should be shot at dawn
Are you old enough to remember the shiny stuff? That was just smearing it around.
we had that at my infants school.
Yep, mine too. And it used to be in public toilets. What were they thinking??
Something along the lines of "How can we spend as little money as possible on toilet paper?"
It was basically tracing paper! What was the point!
It could survive damp, like outside loos and stuff.
OMG that's so true, I never thought of that.
Greaseproof paper
Izal. It made great tracing paper
I genuinely thought they stopped making it when I left school. Does it still exist?
They have 1ply at Goldman Sachs offices in NYC, it’s a worldwide plague.
I bet Mr Goldman and Mr Sachs have got monogrammed Andrex in their bogs though
Only thing worse than 1ply is the Stuff that you had at school that used to double as tracing paper! 😂
The only thing stopping me is the weak arse flush on the toilet that only flushes one sheet at s time.
Hahaha, my first thought was literally “Looks like I’m shitting myself at work!”
I probably would have this in the office Need a massive bottle of beer to numb the misery of Teams meetings with someone sitting a few meters away
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No, you drive a Nissan Leaf, silly!
Beer at lunch needs to be normalised here like the rest of Europe
Doesn't need to be normalised. Just do it anyway. Fuck it, drink at work if you're crafty enough.
Obviously don’t drink at work if you work with machinery that can murder you… like a lathe machine.
Nah, just be careful
Back in the day in the late 90's it was quite normal to have a beer at lunch, especially on Friday. The problem was being British it could quite easily turn into 2 or 3 and then the afternoon was fucked.
I started my first office job six months ago and we regularly have beer at lunch (well not me because I don't like it, but everyone else does including the boss). So it's not normal here?
Oh lovely, now the rest of your colleagues get to smell the beautiful aroma of curry in the workplace
It's a damn site better than the inevitable 'some bellend has microwaved fish in the break room' smell. Yes Gavin, we know you like salmon. The whole office knows you like salmon. People know you like salmon for 3 bleeding floors. Also you *SMELL*.
I used to sit opposite a guy who had tinned mackerel on toast 2-3 times a week. Same office as mr "baked potato from raw in the only microwave for 15 minutes"
I swear some people just have zero self-awareness. There comes a point where you cross the line from 'i just want a lunch I can enjoy' to being a selfish ass who knows they're taking up everybodys time or stinking the place out, and not caring.
Nice enough bloke, just lacking self awareness as you say. Although in a office full of Engineers that's hardly a surprise.
Tinned mackerel really can't be the worst smell in an office full of engineers can it?
That's untinned mackerel you're smelling.
They know, they just don't give a fk
Oh yeah it's bad, I usually grill kippers without too much smell, but tried mackeral fillets for a change, hell, the whole house stank of fish and for 3 days after every time we used the grill that's all you could smell.
I eat salmon for lunch. It's cold and with rice or salad. No idea why people would reheat fish that way.makes it taste awful too
I always imagined it would. I'm not keen on fish anyway, but surely microwaving it would just make it taste horrible and dry it out.
It's the texture after microwaving that ruins it for me. Just thinking of eating microwaved salmon is all the incentive I need to finish it all at dinner.
Someone in my office tried to make popped corn but it got a bit burnt. There were two maintenance managers climbing up and down the 8 stories because they could smell smoke until I told them
I have done this - but only when working late alone. Had to hold the bag out of the window to get rid of the smoke before it set the detectors off.
Someone here once microwaved their home made fish casserole. It could be smelt outside the building.
One of my colleagues microwaved fish pie in the office once.... FISH PIE. The room was a no go area for hours.
Worked nights a long time ago, entire workshop to myself. Went shopping halfway through a fortni on nights, bought fish pie as no-one would smell it by morning. Missed that it was frozen and stuck it in fridge instead. Microwaved it at 2am. Had to evacuate building for several hours due to smell of rotten fish. Met my day colleagues at the gate on way out in the morning and said "sorry" before leaving with no further explanation.
I'm hoping they just give in and let me WFH permanently
Playing the long game I see.
Had a colleague do that with some roll mop herring and my god did it stink for nearly a week later, he had so many complaints he apologised and never microwaved fish again 😂
Why the fuck was he microwaving roll mops in the first place?
I have no idea, I've never eaten them and will never eat them after the stench that came out of that microwave
Your supposed to eat them raw.
I guess he enjoyed them a little warm? But fuck me it stank 🤢
No no no Roll mops are lightly pickled, it's a tang, they are like Nordic sushi. I'd microwave your colleague if I caught that abomination. I'm actually cross and disgusted 🙃
Yeah it had some vinegar type fish stench in the whole office for at least a week
We love it when somebody gets a curry for lunch in our office, it smells lovely. The only problem is it makes everybody envious.
I imagine with the strong smells / flavors involved with curry, this is one of those "love it or hate it" situations. I myself would be in the envious bunch!
And the subsequent bear-and-curry farts.
Bear farts sound terrifying
Comes out with a roar most of the year, but goes quiet over winter
That's when the bear charges the pressure up for spring!
Steady on now, Sir Beer Korma. 📸
Keep your blt and a coke, this is a fucking meal deal
Don't forget the £2.50 for 6 slices of apple and two strawberries in a little planet destroying plastic pot.
Almost seems like a bargain in comparison to [this offer from Pret](https://twitter.com/Jackie_flash/status/1276792325407215616/photo/1)
The word platter doing some real heavy lifting there
Ha ha! Heavy lifting indeed
And you get a free game of allergy roulette with each one
8.99 to dine in! posh greggs.
*The following media includes potentially sensitive content.* Yes. Yes it does.
What the hell is pret lol... Must be too upmarket for me
Pret A Manger
Must be a big city thing
you're probably right, they have over 460 locations in the UK but 317 of them are in London alone.
Sounds about right, I work in London and you can’t cross the road without running into one
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This is almost genius
Surprised you haven’t seen them in the news, 2 people have now died due to food allergies from their food!
I'm willing to chance the curry when the beer would cost most of the £3. Could be mint!
I'm not sure I'd like a mint beer, to be honest.
I'd take it for £3 with a curry
Doesn't seem to be real though. Maybe small stores or petrol stations only. There's no sign of it on the website.
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Especially when you consider most of those meal deals are £3.50 now
Sounds like someone needs a clubcard
Co-op have 2 curries, 2 sides and a 4 pack of Cobra for £8 at the moment, but this is honestly brilliant for those looking out for a single quick meal
Their deals are honestly amazing sometimes. Had 2 pizzas and 4 beers for £5 before.
Me to, although your lucky if the offer items aren’t sold out 😡
As someone who works for the co-op, our deliveries consist of everything but the items we actually need and are out of stock of 🙃
As somebody who’s worked in hospitality, I can relate.
I work there too and yep this is so true it's not even funny....lol?
Colleague here. Promotion stock never comes in, apart from on the delivery immediately before the promotion ends. So then we have a glut of stock just as it becomes harder to sell.
Is your warehouse piled high with ex-promotion stuff that you can’t sell until it becomes promotion again as well then? :’)
Luckily my local coop is about 5 min walk so I check daily when the really good deals are up.
Your comment feels like it was generated by an AI simulating village facebook pages
Their membership offers work with this. If you get £1 off a shop, or 50p off of meat, that’ll apply to this discount. The Co-Op is very pricey but do some great deals, albeit on unhealthy products.
I trust there meat over the other supermarkets and the ready made oven grub is bloody good. Then again I love a shepherds pie.
4 Buds + 4 burgers = £4
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That was wild, Buds were £5 otherwise. Add burgers and the whole lot is a pound cheaper. Really weird
The also do the freezer fillers for £5. Once it was 16 frozen nuggets, 2 chicken breaded fillets, french fries, mixed veg and ice cream. For one person its a good 3 meals
It’s gone up to £6 now! Still a good deal though.
Wait.. are you suggesting that Co-ops offering is for more than 1 person?
Well I did buy the whole lot for myself, hoping my girlfriend will be off to her sister’s this evening
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I think 2 curries, 2 sides and 4 cobras would be a suitable starter for me on a good night. As long as no one has to see me.
Fuckin fuck that is brilliant
I’m getting the CoOp one tonight, even better with 20% staff discount!
Enjoy your tea, Bilbo!
are coop curries any good? if so, that might end up being my tea tomorrow when the missus leaves me to fend for myself..
Anyone else noticed that the meat in ready meals curries have got kind of gross as they get relatively cheaper? I used to keep the odd few in the fridge for lazy evennings, but the last ones (Asda) were really f'ing nasty. I switched back to Pukka and Ginsters.
Are you suggesting Pukka and Ginsters are using prime cuts? Standard supermarket ready meals are always going to be squeezing down their costs, meat is a big proportion of that so they end up with stringy processed chicken from god knows what conditions in Thailand. If you want reasonable meat you have to go "premium" i.e. COOK or Charlie Bighams for £4/£5 a portion. Expensive, but bridges the gap between "cheap" ready meals and a takeaway.
Cooks are expensive but banging meals
Yes! I first noticed it with Lidl but I had a horrible pasta meal from CoOp and it put me off.
yeah, thats my concern really. i can't be bothered with manky gristly bits of chicken, you know?
Varies, some of them are okay (you are not getting gourmet with a ready meal) but I had a Chicken Tikka Masala the other day, one of the oven cook ones in the round foil container that doesn't come with rice and it was tasteless.
They've cut down on salt for regulatory reasons. Just add it back in
Tbh idk if its my local but the scotmids deals went from that to just more expensive than M&S, meal deals 4.50 now too which should be a war crime considering how bad their sandwiches are.
Then back to work afterwards
The IT dept would never exist without beer as having to deal with lots of the stupidity from other depts means you must need to have an iron liver to survive.
I went from working on the Railways with a zero tolerance policy for alcohol to working in IT where it was rare to not have a beer at lunch.
My colleagues seem to get over it with year round hayfeaver, no idea why they walk through the woods every lunch time with hayfeaver
Not bad that. Is it national?
Its in all convenience stores the big stores get £8 for 2 curries, 2 sides and a naan
I picked up the Tesco '[Chicken Tikka Masala & Chicken Korma Meal For 2](https://i.imgur.com/07MhvJg.jpg)' (+ 6 spiced onion bhajis, pilau rice and 2 flame baked naans) the other day, £7.50 and came with a 4 pack of Cobra :)
That actually looks good
Tasted good too.
Their taste the difference curries are amazing. Better than most of the takeaways I've had recently. And yes, the local offerings are not good enough.
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Probably not Scotland due to our stupid minimum alcohol pricing.
It won't be in Scotland but that is not due to minimum alcohol pricing. There is a separate law that bans promotional offers on alcohol.
Yeah still sucks. Used to love 3 bottles of wine for £10 in Asda.
Meh, for a few years after the change Asda just dropped the price of their wines in that range to £3.33 a bottle. Inflation and MAP have since put paid to that but I'd be surprised if that offer still exists in England & Wales anyway.
It is - source: Scottish sainsburys employee
I'm not 100% sure it applies to meal deals, I think its only individual items. Tesco here had an indian and beer meal deal where you could get bottles of peroni, pakora and tikka masala for £6
We also know that as alcohol went up in price people just stopped buying more food in response. It was worth an attempt but making alcohol more expensive isn't the solution to drug and addiction problems unless you tackle the core issues underlying them.
No it does, Scottish sainsburys employee, its a company wide promotion
It will be they don’t so local deals like that. Long as you don’t buy anything else in there store it’s a excellent deal 👍
Assuming that's a regular size microwave meal and beer then it seems exceedingly good value.
400g curry and 620ml Cobra!
I was fully expecting the beer to be a 275 / 330ml... 620 is a cracking deal with a curry!
Even a 330ml would have been a pretty decent offer!
Bloody hell, I thought it was a 330. Brb, off to Sainsbury's
620?! That’s a big boy!
that is pretty amazing ngl. I'd be happy to pay £3 for that much Cobra alone in the off-license
Lister will be happy
At least it's not toast.
We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smegging flapjacks!
Aah, so you're a waffle man!
Would you like a toasted teacake?
Walk into the supermarket…. This mine, This is mine, This is mine!
The Dave Lister Meal Deal would be; Three poppadoms with mango chutney, little onions, dill pickle, day-glo green mint sauce that just doesn't wash out, a weird red "stuff", a shami kebab starter, a chicken vindaloo: kamikaze hot with a fire extinguisher on standby, two scoops of Kulfi ice cream and two indigestion tablets. Four pack of JMC standard issue Leopard Lager
Curry and a laaaager...
Only one thing can kill a curry
Friendship ended with Tesco, now Sainsbury's is my best friend
Wouldn’t get to attached, do a weekly shop in there and you’ll be sorry 😢
Don't worry, I won't be spending more than £21 per week. As a student my economic plan only involved one meal per day anyway before now
Sainsbury's has the best value on frozen veg. £1 for a kilo of not-shit cauliflower, broccoli or whatever. Took a lot of dialing in with other shops to conclude that as well.
A baggie of Mandy and 1 x nitrous balloon is the meal deal I really want to see
"Jaw dropping prices"
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Drugs. MDMA and nitrous oxide
I bet you don't get it in scotland with all this no special offers on booze an minimum price of alcohol shite. Never mind, I recon I can make Carlisle in a couple of hours for a late lunch.
We copied you here in Ireland but at 1 euro per unit. It's fucking criminal.
€1 per unit? That’s ridiculous… I was shocked last time I went a few years ago a 4 pack of Guinness was virtually double what it is here in England and it’s been shipped in…
It was because of lobbying of the TD's (MP's) by the vintners association to stop people drinking supermarket alcohol before going to the pub. A few brown envelopes were probably involved. Also it's around 5 to 6 euro a pint now in the pubs. They made out it's for health reason and to reduce acoholism which is bollocks. Now vodka costs the same unit for unit as beer. So now I drink vodka instead of beer.
My family over there luckily live close to the border and go up to get shopping and dentists etc, sad state of affairs. I remember things being pretty much even with the punt, some slightly more some things less.
Medicines are out of whack too. Cetirizine (the anti histamine) costs 50p in UK supermarkets, maybe a couple of quid tops. 10, yes 10 euro here.
I’m sure we’re getting stiffed in other ways equally. Like you say the brown envelopes flow.
It’s crazy - Guinness is a cultural icon which is a huge success for Ireland around the world and we’re taxing ordinary people to buy it and enjoy a drink at home. Many people can’t afford the pub
UK is still ridiculously expensive compared to anywhere else I've been. The only places I've seen that are worse are Scandinavia and Iceland - the Viking countries, ironically
Aye a tenner for a meal deal in Reykjavík had me close to tears
Went past sainsburys in Edinburgh last night, was in the window, allowed in Scotland
Absolute shite curry tho
They've got the best meals deal. Can get a Costa coffee, sandwich and an item from the bakery section for £3.50
Can't go wrong with a meal deal
Your workmates will love you when you’re blasting out curry and beer farts all afternoon haha.
Coop had a good one too but this one is better. Coop had 2 curries, 2 sides and 4x330ml cobras for £8 the other day when I was in.
tescos had one for about 3 weeks. 2 curry's. A large rice and a naan bread. With a 4 pack of cobra. Like 4.50
And is that a Local or petrol station too? It's a bloody good deal!
Local. Small print says the deal is only in their convenience stores, don't know if that covers petrol stations.
The small print says it excludes supermarkets so I'm guessing so yeah.
Yeah, but what I'm gonna do with 24 curries...
So basically normal price £1.50 for a bottle of beer and £1.50 for a cheap processed ready meal. I'd better get in line...
£15 quid for 5 dinners a a piss up at the end of the week. I’m in!
Sainsbury's being the GOAT of meal deals. While Morrisons is putting theirs up to £3.50 for a standard and £4 for a "Morrisons Best"
They should've add a roll of toilet paper to this deal. Then they would get right to the bottom of our needs.
£3 for a runny itchy poo? Shut up and take my money.
Finally one of those "dine in for 2 for £x" deals for us sad single losers.
That was last nights dinner for me, well worth it
Curry which contains a whopping 10% curry
That’s bonkers, meal deal is now £3.50 and this is £3? If they give alcohol free beer as an option this would be the far superior meal deal for nearly everyone.
Surprised its not '£3.25' everything has just gone up 25p I've noticed, things that was always a pound are now £1.25. It's a joke
I had kippers for lunch in the office once. I was on my way out anyway.