Food & Drink at VP

Wow that’s even more humbug than my comment

 

Kids like it (matchday food) and its part of the experience for them. I suppose if you go in a group of adults the drinking, similarly, is part of the matchday experience for many - esp those who pay extra to go in the suites.

Some days you just want a little top up don’t you. I normally take my kids into Tesco near the ground beforehand to keep costs down but every now and then they’ll ask for a pie or burger and I don’t see any harm in that. Don’t drink at the ground but understand why others do. A nice cold pint should be available - or at least a bottle.

I know some fans whinge about the beer being carling or carlsberg etc - often those real ale types who think they are connoisseurs and try and convert you into drinking their expensive filth - but these teabars have to cater for the majority and the weaker 4 % lagers are better received by the majority.

people can have their £6 cans of IPA when they get home.

 

I bet you buy your entire wardrobe from charity shops and gumtree.

 

What a legend

 

There's a right snobbery amongst the real ale mob sometimes. If you don't want to drink or eat a ground then, as Ricky Gervais alludes to with his guitar lessons scenario, simply move on, it's not for you. But just as it is with other leisure based entertainment industries, it is important to a huge number of sporting clubs and their respective fans. If it wasn't it simply wouldn't exist as a service. And for that service to give optimum profit for its members it needs to be a service that appeals to the majority of fans, usually a service run by minimum wage staff. I expect Ryan and his staff will have looked at all avenues when it comes to food and beverage, what we have on offer will be a product of those staff discussions.

 

What nonsense. The vast majority of real ale drinkers drink standard bitters, blonde ales, IPAs etc most of the time. These are no more expensive than standard lagers. Pubs like the Corn Dolly, New Beehive, Fanny's etc sell draught real ales at less than £3-50 a pint. Good bottles from the likes of Taylor's, Marston's, Sam Smith's, Saltaire Brewery, Greene King, Bass, Courage, Wells, Shepard Neame, and many more besides, are widely available from supermarkets at 4 for £6. Of course you can pay ridiculous prices for excessively strong, trendy 'craft ales' from small independent breweries if you must, but it's entirely unnecessary to do so to drink decent beer.
Personally, I've never seen the attraction of standing in a sterile concrete aircraft hanger to drink beer before a match, or at half time, regardless of what beer is served. I'd much rather do so in the comfort of a pub. But there's no reason why the club couldn't stock a couple of reasonable bottled non lager beers and sell them at similar price to the Carling.

 

They don’t have much space in those fridges do they.

 

A quick one on the subject of beer, I've been working at a guys house who brews his own beer and lager. As good as anything I've tasted from the likes of Saltaire brewery, the helles lager was cracking. Proper geeky stuff that brewing lark though, like a laboratory with all the testing equipment in the cellar. He actually complained about some bottles of Saltaire lager last week, they sent him 8 bottles as way of an apology after the three bottles he had bought all looked completely different after being poured despite being the same lager.

 

My granddaughter went to the flicks on Friday I couldn't believe they charged £12, Godfather 1 was the last time I went to the pictures, it will have to be a special occasion before I go again at those prices .

 

You've met him then.

 

My wife's cousin brews his own versions of spirits. The JD he brews is a perfect recreation.

 

Come on Bronco, you dont get shoes like those @Bigrod wears on gumtree.

 

Is that the guys house you said you'd finish in a few days but it turned out to be a fortnight ?.

 

Edited for accuracy

 

Was the catering situation any better last night?

 

I had what was sold to me as a Cheeseburger last night and it tasted like it had been attached to the soles of my shoe while walking up Midland Road. It was dry and tasteless.
Will try the pies next time and report back.

 

I had a bottle of coke zero, due to running late and whilst it tasted like... Coke zero.. It left a lump in my throat at £2.30

 

I had a cup if tea half the size of what they used to be at £2.30

 

I had a couple of pints and a balti pie , my son had a hot dog and the other had a burger.

Personally think the kiosks are a massive improvement, the staff are miles better than before few teething problems to start off with but yesterday seemed miles better then sat with a few extra kiosks open .