Vidalia Onion is good this thick, but usually only in a burger. It’s a very sweet variety, though the sweetness and flavor have declined as it’s become more available I feel. At least where I buy them.
Funny. We Iranians almost always eat raw onions alongside food, but everyone in the west seems to hate them unless it's dripping with 6 liters of frying oil
Brit here, but we put any style of onion on and in anything, raw onion, fried onion, pickled onion, caramelized onion or onion chutney, take your pick.
You say that now but that sounds exactly like every fucker I've ever heard with a hangover saying "Jaysus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends I'm never touching a pint again."
As my father used to say "hunger is good sauce".
Four pints in and no dinner I'd gobble that down. GOBBLE IT. Best sandwich I've ever had at that point I'd wager.
I went camping with my dad up in Canada in early April. Completely snuggled down in my sleeping bag, hiding from the creeping cold, it was the best sleep I've had in my life. That morning I got up and had starbucks instant coffee (no cream or sugar) heated on a pot over the campfire, and a can of Hormel corned beef hash from the same fire. That was the best coffee and best breakfast ever. I'd freeze for a other night to replicate that feeling. I don't think it comes entirely from misery though, I think it comes from the inability to have anything else. The nearest town was hours away, and so that cheap coffee and canned hash was literally the best food available. There was nothing else to have, so there was nothing else to want.
Pubs aren't restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it's not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they're persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.
Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.
A measured response. Personally, I think that a lot of pubs are going to pivot that direction- Gen Z aren't big drinkers, and if the trend continues they'll need other sources of revenue than alcohol.
Yes, you're right. All these words are equal. It's a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.
The fact is that it's pretty much irrelevant what kind of establishment it is. The point is who the fuck pays for that sandwich. Your insistence on correcting them on something totally irrelevant to the point makes you a twat.
Someone might pay for that sandwich if the primary function of the establishment is the consumption of alcohol (as it is in a pub) and not the serving of quality meals (as it is in a restaurant).
In a pub, especially if it's the type of place where some real serious drinking occurs, the primary function of the a method of filling a stomach and absorbing alcohol and that sandwich would probably fill the brief.
I'm not saying it looks like a good sandwich, but it's a practical one. A real sandwich for a real alcoholic. It's definitely not the type of food you'd expect find in a restaurant. The type of place IS relevant, you chump.
There's only so many words in the English language for "a place you can get a meal at", you wanna go over em all?
And yes I've been to actual midcountry pubs, they're bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.
They're absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they're feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.
If you're in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.
At the end of the day it's a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say "it's a restaurant" that's what we mean.
I get the historical context. But you can't define a pub in a business plan in any way that won't leave me going "it's a restaurant". "It's a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!" Yeah I get it bro, it's a bar.
I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won't fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don't go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you're learning something.
That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of "restaurant" require "dining space"? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.
My point is, when Americans colloquially say "restaurant" they mean "any dining establishment". We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.
Looks drier than Ben Shaprio's wife. Jesus Christ, man... Couldn't you lube it up with some condiments or something? This criminal act you call a sandwich should come with a choking hazard label.
Even if you did though you could spice this up cut up the onions fry them up a little bit melt that cheese and that bread on a pan. boom! you got a nice grilled cheese with some grilled onions
No, exactly the same parts of Europe. Both the Dutch and the English were know for their spice trade and are known for their awful food. The rest of Europe has better food and terrorized and colonized for other reasons.
I know, my fiancée makes it at home! I'm just a tomato kinda guy. Your comment and name made me think of greasy milk. I found it really inocuous and just a bit jarring, in a funny way.
Anyways, I retorted like that because I just ate this like a week ago. Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in For Whom the Bells Toll, in 6th grade it entranced me. It's pretty baller. Bread, cheese and onion.
They understand mexicans and biting into raw onions. If I had a pot of my mother's beans, I'd be in heaven. Every now and again celebrate where you come from or enjoy simple discomforts. It's why Islam venerates pilgramages and fasting. Christians, lent. Etc.
Thanks for letting me rant, I'm gonna go buy some beans.
"A Leicester city centre pub has gone viral online on account of its humongous cheese and onion cobs. The manager of The Blue Boar pub on Millstone Lane, Jo Kearley, said they get comments “every single day” on their gargantuan size, but admits that they can’t now start making them smaller.
She said: “We don’t want to be labelled with the whole ‘shrinkflation’ thing. Our sort-of saying is that we aren’t ‘just a cob shop’, we also sell beer.”
My ancestors trail recipes are more varied than this, and half of them are just normal foods with chili poured over it. Why are you like this England actual cavemen had more varried foods, at least chop up the onion a bit more and grill the whole thing.
I'm an USAian and that was my first thought too! "Put some branston on that and it'd be an alright lunch." Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.
Not sure about the onion (prefer them pickled myself), but the rest looks fine. It's a big-ass chunk of (hopefully extra mature) cheddar and some bread and butter. Nowt wrong wi' that.
To be fair Americans are incapable of eating any food which aren't the texture of blended babyfood, so them being upset at a little texture in food isn't really that surprising.
Cheese isn't even good when it gets that thick. It takes on an unpleasant texture. And in a sandwich like that it would be ruinous to the bread. You would at least have to slice it thinner and layer it.
If this was prepared properly and with a more sane amount of onion this would be totally fine to me. I like me some raw onions sprinkled over food, adds a little zest. Definitely not a centimeter thick slice tho.
People really think Blitz-era Brits were so decadent? Look at how much cheese is on there! That's enough to give an elephant nightmares. And that's like half an onion!
Besides, London rats are a meal all in themselves. No need for fancy cheese and onion cobs when you can go to the bins behind your local and get a wriggling, squeaking meal washed down with some fresh bin juice for free.
This is at a restaurant. Someone paid money for cheese and raw onion on bread. What are we doing here?
Probably drinking first and eating secondarily
There’s not enough booze in the world to make me rawdog an onion like this.
Raw onion on a deli sandwich is great, but maybe not quite so much...
Vidalia Onion is good this thick, but usually only in a burger. It’s a very sweet variety, though the sweetness and flavor have declined as it’s become more available I feel. At least where I buy them.
This guy knows his onions
Funny. We Iranians almost always eat raw onions alongside food, but everyone in the west seems to hate them unless it's dripping with 6 liters of frying oil
I think if you tried the onions we have available to us, you'd understand.
It really depends. Raw onions are common on hot dogs, burgers, salads, and various other foods.
Wait wait wait wait. You guys put raw onion on hotdogs and burgers? Not fried onions?
Brit here, but we put any style of onion on and in anything, raw onion, fried onion, pickled onion, caramelized onion or onion chutney, take your pick.
I eat them raw as a topping/side, but I like pickled onions best.
It's not uncommon for US BBQ to be served with a side of raw sliced white onion.
The older I get the more I desire the raw onion.
By the west you mean Americans, the rest of us are fine with raw onion.
Plenty of Americans like raw onion, myself included.
American here, my grandmother would eat an onion would cut an onion with a knife like a. Apple and eat the pieces
Americans eat it as a topping on salads, burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches. Not as an entire layer of the sandwich though.
raw onions are life.
Not with alcohol, just in general
Also you'd be surprised at how many "muslims" drink and fuck and gamble and do any manner of debauchery possible
You say that now but that sounds exactly like every fucker I've ever heard with a hangover saying "Jaysus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends I'm never touching a pint again."
As my father used to say "hunger is good sauce".
Four pints in and no dinner I'd gobble that down. GOBBLE IT. Best sandwich I've ever had at that point I'd wager.
This is the truth.
I went camping with my dad up in Canada in early April. Completely snuggled down in my sleeping bag, hiding from the creeping cold, it was the best sleep I've had in my life. That morning I got up and had starbucks instant coffee (no cream or sugar) heated on a pot over the campfire, and a can of Hormel corned beef hash from the same fire. That was the best coffee and best breakfast ever. I'd freeze for a other night to replicate that feeling. I don't think it comes entirely from misery though, I think it comes from the inability to have anything else. The nearest town was hours away, and so that cheap coffee and canned hash was literally the best food available. There was nothing else to have, so there was nothing else to want.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott_onion_video
Pubs aren't restaurants. If your pub has menus on the table after 7pm it's not a pub. It might be a bar, depends how much they're persuading people a pint of shite lager should cost.
How do you feel about gastropubs?
Not normally my thing, but these places need to turn a profit during the less prime time drinking hours. I wish they had a specific bar for cocktails and another bar for beer though, to get the amateurs out the way.
A measured response. Personally, I think that a lot of pubs are going to pivot that direction- Gen Z aren't big drinkers, and if the trend continues they'll need other sources of revenue than alcohol.
Which bar would get all the amateurs?
Left deliberately vague for comedic effect
I can't wait until you find out what wine is.
That's a pub not a restaurant
Is it a place where you can exchange money for food while you sit down at a table? Semantics.
Yes, you're right. All these words are equal. It's a pizzaria. A caffeteria maybe. Some might call it a bistro. Or a cafe. Perhaps a coffee shop or a burger joint. Quibbling over distinctions here would be semantics.
Well, yes. If you shop around you are able to find the same kind of food on some place using any one of those names.
It's almost like these different words to differentiate between the locations that offer varying services, you nonce.
It's like that was my original point or something you twerp
The fact is that it's pretty much irrelevant what kind of establishment it is. The point is who the fuck pays for that sandwich. Your insistence on correcting them on something totally irrelevant to the point makes you a twat.
Someone might pay for that sandwich if the primary function of the establishment is the consumption of alcohol (as it is in a pub) and not the serving of quality meals (as it is in a restaurant).
In a pub, especially if it's the type of place where some real serious drinking occurs, the primary function of the a method of filling a stomach and absorbing alcohol and that sandwich would probably fill the brief.
I'm not saying it looks like a good sandwich, but it's a practical one. A real sandwich for a real alcoholic. It's definitely not the type of food you'd expect find in a restaurant. The type of place IS relevant, you chump.
This whole thread feels like that food court argument from Mall Rats, and I'm here for it.
So then replace the word restaurant with pub then, doesn't change the message.
It's the same damn thing
There's only so many words in the English language for "a place you can get a meal at", you wanna go over em all?
And yes I've been to actual midcountry pubs, they're bars with good dining space usually situated in a village so people can walk there. They often have playgrounds, fuckin, somehow.
Gotta put the kids somewhere
They're absolutely not. A pub primarily sells beer, salted peanuts, and if they're feeling fancy, a bread roll with stuff in it. A restaurant sells meals with plates and cutlery and has one or two crap lagers available. A gastropub does food and beer but both are crap and are twice as expensive.
If you're in an actual real pub, have had a handful of pints, this food is perfect, and ideally costs less than half a pint.
Blah blah blah blah
At the end of the day it's a BUSINESS with a KITCHEN, a staff, and a dining area. When Americans say "it's a restaurant" that's what we mean.
I get the historical context. But you can't define a pub in a business plan in any way that won't leave me going "it's a restaurant". "It's a neighborhood social gathering place for people to drink and eat and play!" Yeah I get it bro, it's a bar.
I know bar owners on both sides of the pond, you won't fool me. In fact, i kinda hope you try. I was just in Nottingham for two weeks in November. Mfer you don't go to the Midcountry IN WINTER unless you're learning something.
Why are you translating into American?
Is a hot dog stand a restaurant?
It's a business with a kitchen, staff (1 person) and a dining area on occasion (foldable plastic chairs and tables).
That seems like an argument the courts are hearing. How does the legal definition of "restaurant" require "dining space"? Ed: tou seem to have edited since my reply. I say yes, a food truck is a restaurant.
My point is, when Americans colloquially say "restaurant" they mean "any dining establishment". We can piss and fight over semantics but what yall got are bars across from schools.
Ah, Americans. I see the misunderstanding now.
That fat slice of onion looks brutal af.
You misspelled "delicious."
No they didn't.
You must've hated spelling bees as a kid
Maybe they did hate spelling 'bees', but I bet they loves spelling 'delicious'!
Beads!?
Looks drier than Ben Shaprio's wife. Jesus Christ, man... Couldn't you lube it up with some condiments or something? This criminal act you call a sandwich should come with a choking hazard label.
I'm absolutely going to steal and search for a reason to use that first line
How's the weather where you are?
Lately? Drier than Ben Shapiro’s wife!
Appreciate the attempt but technically in a rainforest
...what's a desert climate like, tho?
As dry as ben Shapiro's wife!
It is you who do not see...
The onion is the lube, the onion is life.
The concept of putting condiments into sandwiches so that they're not dry AF hasn't made it to large parts of Europe.
We use butter. It also helps that our bread isn't absolutely disgusting.
Still dry AF dude. Europe is good at many things, sandwhiches aren't one of them. Just take the L.
My life is somewhat like the cheese section of a European supermarket. One half is moldy and the other half is not affordable for me.
You can afford the moldy stuff?!?
They're doing it for the gains.
Even if you did though you could spice this up cut up the onions fry them up a little bit melt that cheese and that bread on a pan. boom! you got a nice grilled cheese with some grilled onions
ITs A MeLt [insert spongebob chicken meme here]
Raw onion is better than fried onion(I may be alone in this though). I do agree with melting the cheese, or just add more too it. This is a travesty.
Raw onion is tasty but my tummy doesn't like it as much as I do, so I'll usually go for fried
get some garlic in there too, in for a good time.
Throw on a little sliced ribeye to garnish, just for the hell of it.
I see nothing wrong with this.
Oi u wot m8
Jus a sammich, innit?
Europe: "terrorized and colonized the world to get spices" Also Europe: "serves up absolute disgusting food like this"
What the fuck was it all for?!?!
UK isn't Europe it's just some shitty island
Shitty islands
And yet somehow food is the only place their culture falls behind.
I know what I said.
British Empire: Steals all the worlds spices
Also British Empire: Refuses to use any of them
Different parts of Europe
No, exactly the same parts of Europe. Both the Dutch and the English were know for their spice trade and are known for their awful food. The rest of Europe has better food and terrorized and colonized for other reasons.
That doesn't contradict what I said. Neither of those are a monolith.
The people doing the colonizing and using the spices and the people eating the bland food were from different parts of their countries.
Enlighten me which part of the Netherlands doesn't eat bland food ;)
The people who got rich pillaging the world weren't the ones who ate like this.
Isn't alfredo just greasy milk
Actual Alfredo has no dairy added other than cheese
I know, my fiancée makes it at home! I'm just a tomato kinda guy. Your comment and name made me think of greasy milk. I found it really inocuous and just a bit jarring, in a funny way.
Anyways, I retorted like that because I just ate this like a week ago. Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in For Whom the Bells Toll, in 6th grade it entranced me. It's pretty baller. Bread, cheese and onion.
They understand mexicans and biting into raw onions. If I had a pot of my mother's beans, I'd be in heaven. Every now and again celebrate where you come from or enjoy simple discomforts. It's why Islam venerates pilgramages and fasting. Christians, lent. Etc.
Thanks for letting me rant, I'm gonna go buy some beans.
Edit. Am boiling beans
Doesn't it have cream?
And butter.
Slap in some mayo and it looks like a pretty decent lunch. 🤷
What, no mustard? ☹️
Ya man, a bit of mustard and I'd crush this sandwich
Throw it in a grill and it's much better.
It wants to be Cuban pressed
Yeah, I don't know what those grills with lid that grill it from both sides are called.
Hardly matters what you use, panini press, a skillet with a weighted thing on top, even waffle iron will do.
that is what i was thinking, you grill it, melt the cheese and sautee the onion a bit and it would be fantastic. same ingredients, not much work.
3am munchies joined the chat
Is there a reason they couldn't heat any of that up?
Blitz Blackout?
Use the heat from the burning rumble outside? I swear I worry about that lot.
They probably don’t have an oven. It’s a pub.
They dont have ovens in pub? Like They don't serve food?
It’s where you go to drink. They might have some pork scratchings or crisps behind the bar. Pubs with kitchens are a fairly recent phenomenon.
Oh didn't know that.
Just the good people of the Blur Boar Pub doing god's work, steadily battling shrinkflation one cob at a time. https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-pub-goes-viral-gargantuan-9596401
"A Leicester city centre pub has gone viral online on account of its humongous cheese and onion cobs. The manager of The Blue Boar pub on Millstone Lane, Jo Kearley, said they get comments “every single day” on their gargantuan size, but admits that they can’t now start making them smaller. She said: “We don’t want to be labelled with the whole ‘shrinkflation’ thing. Our sort-of saying is that we aren’t ‘just a cob shop’, we also sell beer.”
My ancestors trail recipes are more varied than this, and half of them are just normal foods with chili poured over it. Why are you like this England actual cavemen had more varried foods, at least chop up the onion a bit more and grill the whole thing.
"americans have no sense of taste"
No one was putting that much cheese on a ploughman's during the war.
that looks amazing, imma make one tonight
But with red onion.
omfg I forgot that I was gonna do this and I didn't go the the heb
also, red onion is good, yellow onion is good, white onion is good, all different but all good.
Came here to say this!
i'm a liar and I didn't make the sammich. I forgot this was the plan and I got rum instead.
Understandable. Can't argue either way. I'm over 50, both choices might kill me and I completely approve.
I dunno... that looks like a nice simple sandwich.
I absolutely love a good ploughman's and the lack of effort in this one feels like a personal insult towards me
Where's the pickle?!
A question for the ages... Or is it?
I'm an USAian and that was my first thought too! "Put some branston on that and it'd be an alright lunch." Seriously though, at least put some mayo on there or something, my mouth is dry just looking at it.
That's the surprise
This picture disgusts me so much that I desperately wish I could never see it again.
A bowel contraction sandwich. Thick cut. Kills men over 50. I salute you.
If it's a nice bread and cheese, it's fucking amazing with a cup of tea.
Cheese and onion. They go well together.
Imagining what the texture of that would feel like while eating it upsets me.
Not sure about the onion (prefer them pickled myself), but the rest looks fine. It's a big-ass chunk of (hopefully extra mature) cheddar and some bread and butter. Nowt wrong wi' that.
To be fair Americans are incapable of eating any food which aren't the texture of blended babyfood, so them being upset at a little texture in food isn't really that surprising.
Tell that to the T-bone and bleu cheese salad I just polished off.
Jesus Christ, shots fired over here
That's what I was thinking. Fresh onion is a little to crisp. I'd go with pickled onion or maybe a thin layer of diced shallots.
Onion a little thick but fine I'll give you that but the cheese??? Good Lord man!
Cheese isn't even good when it gets that thick. It takes on an unpleasant texture. And in a sandwich like that it would be ruinous to the bread. You would at least have to slice it thinner and layer it.
The worst part of the sandwich is how much butter they put on the bread .
Well as long as we're yucking other people's yum...
People will mock this and then eat some peanut butter 🤢
Don't try to normalize this abomination. The preparation is as bad as the ingredients.
If this was prepared properly and with a more sane amount of onion this would be totally fine to me. I like me some raw onions sprinkled over food, adds a little zest. Definitely not a centimeter thick slice tho.
Alright. You got me.
What uhh.... Whatcha got against peanut butter?
People really think Blitz-era Brits were so decadent? Look at how much cheese is on there! That's enough to give an elephant nightmares. And that's like half an onion!
Besides, London rats are a meal all in themselves. No need for fancy cheese and onion cobs when you can go to the bins behind your local and get a wriggling, squeaking meal washed down with some fresh bin juice for free.
bruh
Brother. Churchill is dead, brother.
Churchill is dead is a sentence that always will bring me joy. Fucking genocide ass removed.
Are you referring to the Indian famine? Or something else?
Yes, also for being part of an occupying force, and an all round piece of shit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/4/1/churchills-policies-to-blame-for-1943-bengal-famine-study