Years ago when I worked over the river in Gateshead, there was a burger van near where I worked called “Big Baps”. Never got anything from it, but the name always put a smile on my face.
There's a burger place near my mum called the Bap Cave, it looks seriously dodgy, i won't use it :D
With a name like that, must be aimed at the white van, Sun reading fellows we see in carparks at lunchtime. :)
I think it is judging by the people i see using it. It's next door to a builder's yard so they probably use it as well.
Years ago when I worked over the river in Gateshead, there was a burger van near where I worked called “Big Baps”. Never got anything from it, but the name always put a smile on my face.
There's a burger place near my mum called the Bap Cave, it looks seriously dodgy, i won't use it :D
With a name like that, must be aimed at the white van, Sun reading fellows we see in carparks at lunchtime. :)
I think it is judging by the people i see using it. It's next door to a builder's yard so they probably use it as well.
* may contain up to and exceeding 100% pig's snouts and goat hooves.
CMOTD was known to skillfully wield a rusty knife on any and all lifeforms. In fact, he was so quick to the draw, that most unsuspecting lifeforms encountering his blade, never had a chance to tighten their sphincter nor blink an eye. And more often than not, after said encounter, both were missing and would show up, in slightly altered form in various incarnations of soups or stews. All sold by, and courtesy of, CMOTD.
Rustlers are a bit crap, but I used to like Eatwell Hot Dogs, and burgers. But I think Rustlers bought them out, as Rustlers seemed to appear almost immediately, right after Eatwell vanished.
Yeah Rustlers burgers to me actually taste like they most certainly are mechanically reclaimed meat scraps, mixed with some kind of cereal, or grain based filler, and then formed into something that resembles a burger.
Those boiled Westlers burgers you used to get from burger vans are more realistic burgers than the Rustlers ones, and the Westlers ones are actually made using pork, and chicken, they don't contain any beef at all :))
The presence of things like Rustlers burgers, hot dogs and the like is really starting to annoy me. Didn't Lockdown v1.0 last April teach us anything, that we don't actually need all this highly processed crap that's wrapped in excessive amounts of plastic packaging that goes straight to landfill? Call me a lefty who wants to lick St. Greta's nipples if you must, because it might sound like a rant that comes straight from her camp, but you could equally call me a righty who's determined to Make Britain Wholesome Again™ when such utter malnutritional* bilge is rejected in favour of good old fashioned home cooking the way it used to be in The Good Old Days™ that's intrinsically healthier unless it came from something like "Auld Morag McTavish's Pure Braw Glasgow Recipe Book" where everything is infused with half a bottle of Wreck The Hoose Juice and served with the other half. I assure you, I do not have any skin in either of those two political games, I'm elsewhere entirely.
On the same note, we could so easily have got shot of all the electronic junk that's destined for landfill the moment it's cut out of its non-recyclable plastic blister pack. You know, those POPStations that come from pound shops that are little more than a Game & Watch repackaged to look like the latest trendy console that dupes misinformed and.or outright gullible people into thinking they've got the sale of the century, and even if it doesn't end up in the bin the same day, it's not built to last. I'd say pretty much anything that's been knocked out for peanuts, sold for little more and is designed to break very quickly so that the Consoomers can keep Consooming (and, of course, Don't Ask Questions) should be rejected out of hand. Think of this - we're all familiar with the +2, +3, and many other Amstrad products - they were never designed with long-term use in mind, but still look like a cross between Rolls-Royce and Miele for longevity in comparison to this bargain-basement junk that's nailed together haphazardly in Chinese sweatshops and then shipped out to the rest of the world's equivalents of Poundland.
But, come the end of Lockdown v1.0, and even as it looks like we're approaching Lockdown v4.0 (with only about five to ten more years of this left to go, if we're lucky), the Rustlers junk (and, say, the Quicksters clones at... one of Aldi or Lidl, I forget which, I haven't been to either since mid-July last year) and the instant e-waste is still very, very much with us.
One person, of course, would be devastated by the loss of it all - Stuart Ashen. But I'm sure he'd soon find something to review in front of his manky brown sofa.
You're right - they are processed junk but i like 'em, i don't eat them very much though.
It's the kind of food you would find at the back of a cupboard after the nuclear holocaust.
When I used to travel (you know in the beforetime) around the country side (The States). When I refueled I would make it a point to actually try out the hotdogs/burgers/wraps/whathaveyou from the rollers/heating lamps at the local gas stations. I'm a bit of a trash can when it comes to junk food like that but I'm still alive and/or kicking. And actually do have a taste for that sort of junk. But I only did it a few times a year, and never caused me bathroom issues.
So far, I'd say Kwik Trip or Super America (or whatever they are called now) have the "best" fare. Casey's has the best pizza.
I actually have tried to cook as much as possible since quite a young age, and I'm one of those kids at school who hated the home economics classes, couldn't stand needlework, and textiles, but cookery class I genuinely enjoyed. Now don't get me wrong I do occasionally partake in fast food, or microwaveable junk. But for at least 20 years possibly even 30, I've made a conscious effort not to. I have definitely benefitted from it as well. From how much I still smoke, and drink, and how much other vile crap I stuffed into my body during the 90's, and early "naughties" (Ergh! I hate referring to the first decade of this century as that, but at least it's indentifiable), by rights now I should look like I'm about 105.
But I'm still in moderately good shape, and that I put down to the fact that I've minimised as much crap in my diet as possible. I don't add salt to anything, even if a recipe calls for it, and the only thing I do salt is chips, or french fries or whatever you want to call them these days. To not put salt and vinegar, or to a lesser degree salt and pepper if that's your thing on chips is sacrilege (Unless you're a sweaty, then I'll accept "Salt n' Sauce" as a viable alternative :)) )!
When I'm not drinking beer, or my truly unhealthy vice Dr. Pepper, all I drink is water, and when I do drink beer I drink good beer with real ingredients, made by people who actually give a sh*t about the craft, and not some shite that's been produced almost on a daily basis in giant metal vats. I actually think my choice of drinking good beer, has also helped me stay a little healthier than if I was downing something like 8 cans of Fosters, or Budweiser, or some other similar Pisswasser instead.
I still try to walk places if I can, although it's really not easy to do that in America, when the nearest store is 2 or 3 miles away, but I've started just going for walks again recently, even if it's just down to the end of the road turn around, and back to the house. I bought a bike near the end of last year I think, and I've ridden it around quite a bit, although a 42 year old on a BMX probably looks a bit weird these days, but I just tell myself, a lot of pro BMX riders are way older me than me, and still going strong.
Also I really don't eat a great deal of red meat, or pork for that matter, if it wasn't for bacon, and carnitas....Oh tasty, tasty carnitas, I could cut pork from my diet altogether. I actually don't like roast pork, pork steaks, or pork chops anyway. Funnily enough though even though I say that the bacon I put on the burgers I made the other night was the first time I'd eaten bacon in months. I'll maybe have a steak if I go to a restaurant, but I don't really eat them at home, I think that's psychological maybe, as eating steak your grandparents, or aunts or whoever made them when you were a kid usually meant chowing down on something that resembled a Dr. Martin boot for about 3 and a half hours, and not a delicious tender hunk of beef! Anyway not a huge fan, and in the last few decades I've found roast beef no matter how tasty it is, or how you cook it always seems a bit of a disappointment really, I look forward to the gravy more than the meat itself. My one red meat thing would be lamb though not beef. I love lamb, or even mutton, and I'd rather eat that than beef any day, but it's so f*cking expensive here in the USA that I feel like any dish containing it has to almost be justified. I use chicken for most of my meat based curries, because lamb makes me feel like I almost have to like I said justify using it for such a dish. That's why I often make Keema Curry using ground/minced lamb because it's cheaper than buying lamb as a piece of actual meat. Although lamb Keema is delicious, so I don't feel too bad making that other than say a lamb madras, or vindaloo, infact sometimes I prefer Keema.
I've also made conscious efforts to recycle as much as I can, for a very, very, long time, but these days it's annoying, a lot of recycling places no longer take glass, why the f*ck not? Glass compared to oil based plastics, and synthetics, or ore based metals, all which have to be syphoned or dug up to refine comes from sand, which is practiacally free in comparison. Now I understand if a lot of these places using those things just focused on glass there'd be no beaches left, and sand stone quarries everywhere, but still glass can be heated and reformed almost infinitely. Plastic loses small amounts of itself during recycling to the point where if you kept recycling the same piece there'd be nothing left eventually, and metals especially aluminium cans pick up impurities. From what I understand the ring pull on a can is made of an alloy, and even if you pull the ring pull off 90% of the time the piece that attaches it to the can remains, so when it's recycled it causes impurities. I mean remember back in the day when you still got milk delivered, the dairy would take your empties, sterilise, and reuse them, now milk mostly comes in plastic bottles, or foil lined cardboard cartons, not good really.
As for such things as mass produced throw away tech, I have noticed it's in decline now, at least from bigger companies. I think that is actually down to online backlash about tech being cheaply produced, easily breakable, and becoming outdated too quickly. I've noticed a lot of products now do seem to last longer, and be more durable, but it's the chargers, heaphones, accessories that drop to bits, snap, wear away, or just fail that seems to be on the rise now. I genuinely think that is because of the backlash for tech being throw away, that a lot of companies have taken onboard that people are really beginning to notice, and have now lowered the quality of the bits n' pieces you plug into them on a daily basis. About a month ago I opened up a brand new pair of Apple headphones, they'd been sitting on my desk for ages, and my old headphones looked like a swarm of locusts had mistaken them for a field full of corn, so I opened up the Apple headphones, and started using them. It took 3 days for the sound to start cutting out on the right ear, coincidence? Possibly? Or poor manufacturing designed to recoup the revenue they've lost from making their products more durable? Chargers, and headphones, and things like that cost at least $20 for semi-decent ones, usually more, and I think they've been designed to break because of the backlash on throw away tech.
Of course the Chinese companies producing Pandora's Box, and Plug n' play consoles aren't going to stop, the only thing that the consumer can do is be smart and not buy an obvious piece of crap designed for a quick fix. You're better off downloading emulators to your PC, or investing the money in a Raspberry Pi set up. Of course not everyone wants to do that, so it'll keep happening unfortunately.
OK ewgf would be proud of this post if he was still here, and I think I'm done? :))
Holy sh*t! Must be bad food night tonight! I'm literally making Canadian Ramen Noodles tonight, even though I should've just went to bed hours ago! The brand is Mr. Noodles, and I'm expecting them to be just as crap as they sound!
I almost made real food, but when I realised just how late it was I was like NO I'm going to look in the cupboard and find the worst possible thing to eat that I can, and make it.....Mr. Noodles won :))
EDIT: Oh jeez! They are bloody awful as well! Nope! They're going down the bog.....right now, and no doubt what I injested from them tomorrow as well! Yuck! Should've just gone to bed....
I'm beginning to wonder if I should start posting Dr. Jim's Cookbook Experiments here. There's bound to be something for everyone, even the nut-chewers.
A fancy version of what my wife calls Hey Stacks. Rice, beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers cucumber, spinach, lettuce, corn chips and not shown salsa and mock cheese sauce soon to be poured over. Generally, you just pile it on your plate, but I decided to go for a fancier presentation.
I just used a whole packet of dumpling mix (enough for 8 dumplings) to make one extra large dumpling, and put chopped up chillies and onion in it.
A bit stodgy, but delicious.
Be careful, I will remind you of my cautionary tale of mixing up Smash mashed potato mix at 'slightly' the wrong consistency. I got very heavy guts, and next day it was like passing a bloody cannon ball, almost needing a doctors visit.
Inspired by the recent influx of burger pictures, I had this idea after I brought (!) home a few rolls I had bought (!) as part of today's shopping.
Just a bunch of poor man's hamburgers, but they were quite nice. Of course, not a patch on the ones posted by Sokurah et al, but then mine cost only pennies to make (the rolls were sold as a batch of 6 for 80 euro cents, as they were on a special discount today). I added ketchup, mayo, garlic sauce, chester slices, cut up mini meatballs as a makeshift patty plus a few slices of cucumber.
In years to come I'm going to bring the rights to this thread! Everybody will be like I wish I'd purchased more food items so I could also have huge shares from bringing my goods to the table ;)
Inspired by the recent influx of burger pictures, I had this idea after I brought (!) home a few rolls I had bought (!) as part of today's shopping.
Just a bunch of poor man's hamburgers, but they were quite nice. Of course, not a patch on the ones posted by Sokurah et al, but then mine cost only pennies to make (the rolls were sold as a batch of 6 for 80 euro cents, as they were on a special discount today). I added ketchup, mayo, garlic sauce, chester slices, cut up mini meatballs as a makeshift patty plus a few slices of cucumber.
Yeah Rustlers burgers to me actually taste like they most certainly are mechanically reclaimed meat scraps, mixed with some kind of cereal, or grain based filler, and then formed into something that resembles a burger.
Those boiled Westlers burgers you used to get from burger vans are more realistic burgers than the Rustlers ones, and the Westlers ones are actually made using pork, and chicken, they don't contain any beef at all :))
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I think it is judging by the people i see using it. It's next door to a builder's yard so they probably use it as well.
* may contain up to and exceeding 100% pig's snouts and goat hooves.
Those boiled Westlers burgers you used to get from burger vans are more realistic burgers than the Rustlers ones, and the Westlers ones are actually made using pork, and chicken, they don't contain any beef at all :))
On the same note, we could so easily have got shot of all the electronic junk that's destined for landfill the moment it's cut out of its non-recyclable plastic blister pack. You know, those POPStations that come from pound shops that are little more than a Game & Watch repackaged to look like the latest trendy console that dupes misinformed and.or outright gullible people into thinking they've got the sale of the century, and even if it doesn't end up in the bin the same day, it's not built to last. I'd say pretty much anything that's been knocked out for peanuts, sold for little more and is designed to break very quickly so that the Consoomers can keep Consooming (and, of course, Don't Ask Questions) should be rejected out of hand. Think of this - we're all familiar with the +2, +3, and many other Amstrad products - they were never designed with long-term use in mind, but still look like a cross between Rolls-Royce and Miele for longevity in comparison to this bargain-basement junk that's nailed together haphazardly in Chinese sweatshops and then shipped out to the rest of the world's equivalents of Poundland.
But, come the end of Lockdown v1.0, and even as it looks like we're approaching Lockdown v4.0 (with only about five to ten more years of this left to go, if we're lucky), the Rustlers junk (and, say, the Quicksters clones at... one of Aldi or Lidl, I forget which, I haven't been to either since mid-July last year) and the instant e-waste is still very, very much with us.
One person, of course, would be devastated by the loss of it all - Stuart Ashen. But I'm sure he'd soon find something to review in front of his manky brown sofa.
* Is that a word? It is now.
It's the kind of food you would find at the back of a cupboard after the nuclear holocaust.
So far, I'd say Kwik Trip or Super America (or whatever they are called now) have the "best" fare. Casey's has the best pizza.
But I'm still in moderately good shape, and that I put down to the fact that I've minimised as much crap in my diet as possible. I don't add salt to anything, even if a recipe calls for it, and the only thing I do salt is chips, or french fries or whatever you want to call them these days. To not put salt and vinegar, or to a lesser degree salt and pepper if that's your thing on chips is sacrilege (Unless you're a sweaty, then I'll accept "Salt n' Sauce" as a viable alternative :)) )!
When I'm not drinking beer, or my truly unhealthy vice Dr. Pepper, all I drink is water, and when I do drink beer I drink good beer with real ingredients, made by people who actually give a sh*t about the craft, and not some shite that's been produced almost on a daily basis in giant metal vats. I actually think my choice of drinking good beer, has also helped me stay a little healthier than if I was downing something like 8 cans of Fosters, or Budweiser, or some other similar Pisswasser instead.
I still try to walk places if I can, although it's really not easy to do that in America, when the nearest store is 2 or 3 miles away, but I've started just going for walks again recently, even if it's just down to the end of the road turn around, and back to the house. I bought a bike near the end of last year I think, and I've ridden it around quite a bit, although a 42 year old on a BMX probably looks a bit weird these days, but I just tell myself, a lot of pro BMX riders are way older me than me, and still going strong.
Also I really don't eat a great deal of red meat, or pork for that matter, if it wasn't for bacon, and carnitas....Oh tasty, tasty carnitas, I could cut pork from my diet altogether. I actually don't like roast pork, pork steaks, or pork chops anyway. Funnily enough though even though I say that the bacon I put on the burgers I made the other night was the first time I'd eaten bacon in months. I'll maybe have a steak if I go to a restaurant, but I don't really eat them at home, I think that's psychological maybe, as eating steak your grandparents, or aunts or whoever made them when you were a kid usually meant chowing down on something that resembled a Dr. Martin boot for about 3 and a half hours, and not a delicious tender hunk of beef! Anyway not a huge fan, and in the last few decades I've found roast beef no matter how tasty it is, or how you cook it always seems a bit of a disappointment really, I look forward to the gravy more than the meat itself. My one red meat thing would be lamb though not beef. I love lamb, or even mutton, and I'd rather eat that than beef any day, but it's so f*cking expensive here in the USA that I feel like any dish containing it has to almost be justified. I use chicken for most of my meat based curries, because lamb makes me feel like I almost have to like I said justify using it for such a dish. That's why I often make Keema Curry using ground/minced lamb because it's cheaper than buying lamb as a piece of actual meat. Although lamb Keema is delicious, so I don't feel too bad making that other than say a lamb madras, or vindaloo, infact sometimes I prefer Keema.
I've also made conscious efforts to recycle as much as I can, for a very, very, long time, but these days it's annoying, a lot of recycling places no longer take glass, why the f*ck not? Glass compared to oil based plastics, and synthetics, or ore based metals, all which have to be syphoned or dug up to refine comes from sand, which is practiacally free in comparison. Now I understand if a lot of these places using those things just focused on glass there'd be no beaches left, and sand stone quarries everywhere, but still glass can be heated and reformed almost infinitely. Plastic loses small amounts of itself during recycling to the point where if you kept recycling the same piece there'd be nothing left eventually, and metals especially aluminium cans pick up impurities. From what I understand the ring pull on a can is made of an alloy, and even if you pull the ring pull off 90% of the time the piece that attaches it to the can remains, so when it's recycled it causes impurities. I mean remember back in the day when you still got milk delivered, the dairy would take your empties, sterilise, and reuse them, now milk mostly comes in plastic bottles, or foil lined cardboard cartons, not good really.
As for such things as mass produced throw away tech, I have noticed it's in decline now, at least from bigger companies. I think that is actually down to online backlash about tech being cheaply produced, easily breakable, and becoming outdated too quickly. I've noticed a lot of products now do seem to last longer, and be more durable, but it's the chargers, heaphones, accessories that drop to bits, snap, wear away, or just fail that seems to be on the rise now. I genuinely think that is because of the backlash for tech being throw away, that a lot of companies have taken onboard that people are really beginning to notice, and have now lowered the quality of the bits n' pieces you plug into them on a daily basis. About a month ago I opened up a brand new pair of Apple headphones, they'd been sitting on my desk for ages, and my old headphones looked like a swarm of locusts had mistaken them for a field full of corn, so I opened up the Apple headphones, and started using them. It took 3 days for the sound to start cutting out on the right ear, coincidence? Possibly? Or poor manufacturing designed to recoup the revenue they've lost from making their products more durable? Chargers, and headphones, and things like that cost at least $20 for semi-decent ones, usually more, and I think they've been designed to break because of the backlash on throw away tech.
Of course the Chinese companies producing Pandora's Box, and Plug n' play consoles aren't going to stop, the only thing that the consumer can do is be smart and not buy an obvious piece of crap designed for a quick fix. You're better off downloading emulators to your PC, or investing the money in a Raspberry Pi set up. Of course not everyone wants to do that, so it'll keep happening unfortunately.
OK ewgf would be proud of this post if he was still here, and I think I'm done? :))
EDIT: Oh, wait ... I got that the wrong way around ... Dr. Pusher Pimple.
A bit stodgy, but delicious.
I almost made real food, but when I realised just how late it was I was like NO I'm going to look in the cupboard and find the worst possible thing to eat that I can, and make it.....Mr. Noodles won :))
EDIT: Oh jeez! They are bloody awful as well! Nope! They're going down the bog.....right now, and no doubt what I injested from them tomorrow as well! Yuck! Should've just gone to bed....
https://i.imgur.com/d69wfYV.jpeg
A fancy version of what my wife calls Hey Stacks. Rice, beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers cucumber, spinach, lettuce, corn chips and not shown salsa and mock cheese sauce soon to be poured over. Generally, you just pile it on your plate, but I decided to go for a fancier presentation.
Be careful, I will remind you of my cautionary tale of mixing up Smash mashed potato mix at 'slightly' the wrong consistency. I got very heavy guts, and next day it was like passing a bloody cannon ball, almost needing a doctors visit.
Just a bunch of poor man's hamburgers, but they were quite nice. Of course, not a patch on the ones posted by Sokurah et al, but then mine cost only pennies to make (the rolls were sold as a batch of 6 for 80 euro cents, as they were on a special discount today). I added ketchup, mayo, garlic sauce, chester slices, cut up mini meatballs as a makeshift patty plus a few slices of cucumber.
Buying them works better though! :))
Especially in the past tense....
Nice, a souvenir plate from a Toto concert.
Wait - BOILED burgers? :))