Cost of living squeeze in 2022, 23 & 24 (Vol. 2)
Discussion
croyde said:
Sometimes it's an actual RAC bloke with a uniform and he salutes you 
then you'll be ok, but usually it's some scruffy Herbert with a dirty van who just tuts and does bugger all.
Do they still do the nice metal badge that you afix to your chrome front bumper?
I've been helped out of a hole by the RAC multiple times. Never had a wrongun. Flat batteries, two flat tires at once, nothing very serious but a pain in the hole if you had to sort it yourself. I've watched while they phone around local garages and in one case got one to stay open past closing time while I was towed there. then you'll be ok, but usually it's some scruffy Herbert with a dirty van who just tuts and does bugger all.Do they still do the nice metal badge that you afix to your chrome front bumper?
I'm sure there are some bad at their job but thankfully I haven't encountered them. In my experience they're decent people getting on with the day job. I even have had good conversations with the call centres although do get annoyed at the upsell when I'm told my policy doesn't cover that. Things like the automatic 40% discount annoy me, just price things honestly.
okgo said:
They have been in London. Every street dug up for fibre!
I’ve got it, 1gb service. It’s been great!
Internet speeds are getting so fast it's hard to know what to do with them. Although working from home I do notice upload speeds aren't always so great.I’ve got it, 1gb service. It’s been great!
I regularly VPN onto customer sites, many of them are telcos, and my home internet is often faster than their bloody network for file transfers.
I am sure its been said before on here many times but i can not believe the price of a sunday roast at these pub restaurant type places.
Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy b
d like me would want.
So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy b
d like me would want. So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
m3jappa said:
I am sure its been said before on here many times but i can not believe the price of a sunday roast at these pub restaurant type places.
Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy bd like me would want.
So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
That seems very expensive. We enjoy a nice carvery and the average price around here (Suffolk) is around £15/£16. We even know of a couple of pubs that still only charge £11.95 for a carvery.Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy b
d like me would want. So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
eccles said:
That seems very expensive. We enjoy a nice carvery and the average price around here (Suffolk) is around £15/£16. We even know of a couple of pubs that still only charge £11.95 for a carvery.
Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
In Leeds it’s £25+ for a Sunday roast these days. Same in South Hampshire where I also spend a fair bit of time. Seems to be the new standard. Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
m3jappa said:
I am sure its been said before on here many times but i can not believe the price of a sunday roast at these pub restaurant type places.
Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy bd like me would want.
So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
On a recent trip to the Cotswolds we ended up in a Brewers Fayre most nights as it seemed the most value for money and the food and service were far superior to the grub in the posh hotel bar we were staying in.Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy b
d like me would want. So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
Most pubs round here, SW London, charge £18 for burger and chips FFS.
ETA
There's a local pub that we took my mum to for a Sunday Roast. 2021 and they were charging £25 back then.
The food arrived and no roast potatoes!!!
They were an extra, at around £4.
Add the £7 pint and £12 medium glass of house red and that's why I can say I've probably been to a pub about 7 times in the past 3 years.
Edited by croyde on Sunday 28th April 08:43
eccles said:
m3jappa said:
I am sure its been said before on here many times but i can not believe the price of a sunday roast at these pub restaurant type places.
Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy bd like me would want.
So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
That seems very expensive. We enjoy a nice carvery and the average price around here (Suffolk) is around £15/£16. We even know of a couple of pubs that still only charge £11.95 for a carvery.Very nice i'm sure but your looking around £25-35 a head at a couple of places round here and thats not including any drinks or the inevitable sides a greedy b
d like me would want. So a meal for a family of 4 is £100 plus. 4 people having a roast and a couple of drinks each must be pushing £200 at one of the places.
These places are rammed, one which i drive past most days is rammed most of the time.
Perhaps retired people with a bit of £ wanting a nice meal, in fact all the people who recommend these places are retired and pretty comfortable so i suppose thats the target audience.
Maybe i am deluded, it just seems an awful lot of money for what is a pretty regular type of meal.
Either way, no wonder the toby carvery is always full to the brim as while the food might not be quite as well presented its still ok and you get a mountain of sides for about half the price.
Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
Most of the people I see in carveries (I’m aware of a very good one, won’t mention it too many might turn up) are pensioners and they don’t have that kind of money. I’d be annoyed if they asked for 15.
Can’t stop the father in law trying to give money to me. I keep saying I don’t need it but makes him feel better to put a few quid in the jar so to speak, I can’t criticise him for wanting to do that. We do the odd carvery when I can’t be arsed cooking.
If you want cheap, edible, food for home, go to Iceland. I find their quality excellent.
I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
Rufus Stone said:
If you want cheap, edible, food for home, go to Iceland. I find their quality excellent.
I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
I can sense the Okgo reply forming now I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
Rufus Stone said:
If you want cheap, edible, food for home, go to Iceland. I find their quality excellent.
I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
I have never been to an Iceland. Looking forward to a little explore on my next day off I had one of these for lunch in the week, £1. I kid you not, had I been charged £9.99 in Zizzi, or similar, I would not have been disappointed.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-tomato-chicken...
Sad isn't it, my days off tend to be walks to different Supermarkets.
Exercise and processed foods, what could go wrong
Fusion777 said:
I can sense the Okgo reply forming now
Mums shop at Iceland 
Pub grub has got expensive, rare we go out as a family of 3 and get much change from £75. My wife has stopped drinking which has saved us a significant sum of cash given the price of a half decent crisp white wine in pubs!
Shnozz said:
eccles said:
That seems very expensive. We enjoy a nice carvery and the average price around here (Suffolk) is around £15/£16. We even know of a couple of pubs that still only charge £11.95 for a carvery.
Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
In Leeds it’s £25+ for a Sunday roast these days. Same in South Hampshire where I also spend a fair bit of time. Seems to be the new standard. Yes you can go to a 'foody' pub and pay £25, but it's not usually any better than a run of the mill type of pub.
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