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| 621.1 | Things are bad!!! | WIZZER::YOUNG | The bug is mightier than the fix. | Mon Mar 15 1993 16:28 | 5 |
| Where's the gravy???
I had to have custurd with my chips today - never again!
65% less choice for 35% more price - Wot a bargain.
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| 621.2 | Time to hit the chocolate machine I think! | COMICS::SUMMERFIELD | Walk on sunny side other side wet | Mon Mar 15 1993 16:41 | 11 |
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What happened to cheap (edible!) snacks? The sarnies
are few and plain, no jacket tatties and the proper
meals are *really* expensive! (Us I.T.s have to watch
the pennies!). Apparently only people with 'special
requirements' now qualify for omlettes!
Oh, well, gives me a good excuse to have loads of
chocolate for lunch!! ;o)
Spotty of Basingstoke.
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| 621.3 | mmmm... | COMICS::PEWTER | | Mon Mar 15 1993 16:59 | 14 |
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I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, you know early days
yet and all that... but I have a nasty suspicion that this is it. The
shape of lunch times to come. I sampled the mince with yorkshire pud
( yes that famous old english meal ..???) And found both elements
tasteless and the corrugated carrot doing a good impression of
corrugated cardboard. Oh come on, it's a joke right?? Claire Rock
is gong to come running round with a red nose on in a minute shouting
'ha ha, got you...' ....please Claire??
Karen
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| 621.4 | Me Hungry. | KERNEL::BROWNLOWH | Hilary Brownlow, VMS support, UK | Mon Mar 15 1993 17:03 | 11 |
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winge winge,
There's no hot water thingy!!! I had tea made with hot water that had
be standing in a coffee jug.....guess what the tea tasted of! Yuk
They haven't got my vote.
Hils
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| 621.5 | Sick man | COMICS::SUMMERFIELD | Walk on sunny side other side wet | Mon Mar 15 1993 19:03 | 13 |
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BTW, Mark really *did* have custard with his chips!
I was witness!
He's warped!
Spotty.
(PS - He did say afterwards that it didn't taste too
good! Mind you, I don't know if he was talking about
the chips, the custard or just the combination!)
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| 621.6 | | KERNEL::SMITHERSJ | Living on the culinary edge.... | Mon Mar 15 1993 19:09 | 6 |
| Hmmmmm, custard sounds much nicer than Mark's original sauce for
his chips in 621.1...
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| 621.7 | | EBYGUM::WATTERSONP | another day another bill | Mon Mar 15 1993 20:19 | 5 |
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I presume these are different to Gardener merchant - the caterers up
here in sunny Warrington ?
Paul
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| 621.8 | Erm....? | WIZZER::MACLEAN | A Pure Dear In a Wicked World | Mon Mar 15 1993 20:32 | 6 |
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....Anyone know if B.E.T. stand for BARELY EDIBLE TUCK then ???
The public have a right to know!!
Curious of Comm.s ....../ ;-)
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| 621.9 | Typo???? I think NOT | WIZZER::YOUNG | The bug is mightier than the fix. | Mon Mar 15 1993 20:36 | 4 |
| RE: .6
That wasn't so much an incorrect spelling as a comment on my general feeling
about the offerings today.
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| 621.10 | Re: BET Caterers | QUABBI::"les@uvo.dec.com" | | Tue Mar 16 1993 11:21 | 27 |
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Hmmm ... most of the unix people yesterday took one look at the canteen fare
and headed for the GL or Burger King (the GL's looking like a better and
better place to get lunch).
Okay ... it was day 1. They've had their chance to make a good impression
and blew it. Lets just hope that they get better! I hope everyone complaining
in this conference have put pen to those catering survey forms (those are
the red ones which don't contain a selection from 1 to 7 on them, not
the white ones which do) and LET THE CANTEEN KNOW!!!
Does anyone really know why we changed from halliday? They never really
knew that chips should have some taste ... but the minted lamb pie was
excellent (and so were the other pies). I hope BET bring back the old cook.
BTW: Mark ... I knew you were warped, but ... Custard and chips???
..Les...
"Who actually quite liked halliday's ... it was better than Gardner Merchant!"
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|Les Carleton (Digital Equipment Corp) / "The Software Lifeguard"
|Digital Services (CSC/UK Unix Group) / Tel: +44 (256) 488351
|"Opinions? Mine ... not DEC's" / Internet: les@uvo.dec.com
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"Open Standards ... Free Software ... Live free or Fry!"
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| 621.11 | Never eat there but... | KERNEL::MORGANI | Just when you thought it was safe... | Tue Mar 16 1993 11:56 | 9 |
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I never eat in the cafe me sn, but I must say the coffee is ground....
it must be it tastes of mud!
curious of Blasingsmoke
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| 621.12 | heard a rumour.. | KERNEL::LEYLANDS | Sharon Leyland | Tue Mar 16 1993 14:32 | 4 |
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Arn't BET the people who facilities/PM&S work for????
Sharon
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| 621.14 | New to Notes & DEC | WR2FOR::SMITH_ST | | Fri Mar 19 1993 01:23 | 7 |
| Les, been fumbling my way through these notes files....not really
knowing what I'm doing and came across this Basingstoke file. Anyway, I
noticed your message was feed via some gateway, did the original
message come from a BBS system in England, and is that the number at
the bottome of your message?
Stu...Looking for Football scores in CA.
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| 621.15 | Re: BET Caterers | QUABBI::"les@uvo.dec.com" | | Fri Mar 19 1993 10:31 | 37 |
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In article <621.14-930318-222249@worldwide.basingstoke>, smith_st@wr2for.enet.dec.com writes:
|> Les, been fumbling my way through these notes files....not really
|> knowing what I'm doing and came across this Basingstoke file. Anyway, I
|> noticed your message was feed via some gateway, did the original
|> message come from a BBS system in England, and is that the number at
|> the bottome of your message?
Well sortof. I post via the notes-news gateway, a system which allows people
who use USEnet news (which is a store-and-forward notes-style conferencing
thingy) to read notes and post into notesconferences.
I find the access times for news are so much quicker than notes that I
can scan many more conferences than normal (I also get access to external
newsgroups which tend to be more lively and wierd than internal stuff).
If you're interested .. check out upsar::news-backbone, there'll be an
explanation of the gateway in there & if you're into the newsreading
software try ufp::xrn (for Unix) or clo::vnews (for VMS).There's about
6000 newsgroups.
|> Stu...Looking for Football scores in CA.
Real football or American Football?
..Les...
PS: If you feel this is in the wrong place could a friendly moderator please
move it for me. Thanks.
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|Les Carleton (Digital Equipment Corp) / "The Software Lifeguard"
|Digital Services (CSC/UK Unix Group) / Tel: +44 (256) 488351
|"Opinions? Mine ... not DEC's" / Internet: les@uvo.dec.com
+-----------------------------------+
"Open Standards ... Free Software ... Live free or Fry!"
[posted by Notes-News gateway]
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| 621.16 | It looks better, but it tastes like ... | KERNEL::BAYLISD | Filth Daemon from Hell | Tue Mar 23 1993 17:57 | 11 |
| Is it me, or is the food just as bad now as it was when BET started?
I've tried to be patient, but so far have seen no improvement. No
that's a lie, it does look better, it just doesn't taste any better!.
The pie today had too much salt in it, and the carrots only looked like
carrots.
Dave,
(Unimpressed, despite having given them the chance !!).
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| 621.17 | Re: BET Caterers | QUABBI::"les@uvo.dec.com" | | Wed Mar 24 1993 12:21 | 21 |
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In article <621.16-930323-145703@worldwide.basingstoke>, baylisd@kernel.enet.dec.com (Filth Daemon from Hell) writes:
|> The pie today had too much salt in it, and the carrots only looked like
|> carrots.
The chips are better than Hallidays ... at least they have some taste, but
i'm not impressed by the dishwater they're serving as gravy!
On the plus side ... the breakfasts are a lot better, there always seems to be
bacon and sozzys around when I go down there (its nice to have danishs
available too (but not for the waistline :-)).
..Les...
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|Les Carleton (Digital Equipment Corp) / "The Software Lifeguard"
|Digital Services (CSC/UK Unix Group) / Tel: +44 (256) 488351
|"Opinions? Mine ... not DEC's" / Internet: les@uvo.dec.com
+-----------------------------------+
"Open Standards ... Free Software ... Live free or Fry!"
[posted by Notes-News gateway]
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| 621.19 | my 2p | KERNEL::LEYLANDS | Sharon Leyland | Thu Mar 25 1993 19:39 | 12 |
| re: last
I've also noticed that the vegetables do not have the "guts" boiled
out of them now...they are actually crispy - much nicer IMO - probably
not to everyone's taste though!
On the whole I think the food tastes a lot better but the portions have
shrunk considerably which makes the price increase even more
unreasonable - unfortunately the better taste does not make up for
this!
Sharon (who prefers value for her money!!!)
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| 621.20 | Re: BET Caterers | QUABBI::"les@uvo.dec.com" | | Fri Mar 26 1993 12:31 | 21 |
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In article <621.18-930325-133450@worldwide.basingstoke>, coffeyj@kernel.enet.dec.com (Jim Rose (&Torture King) Fan Club) writes:
|>I'll be having breakfasts instead of lunches soon...
I think I already am (at least i'm down to mid=afternoon sandwiches and
breakfast.
|>Oh and I'll agree with Dave about the look of some things too - the vegetables
|>really do look like vegetables nowadays.
Shame they taste like salt pills.
..Les...
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|Les Carleton (Digital Equipment Corp) / "The Software Lifeguard"
|Digital Services (CSC/UK Unix Group) / Tel: +44 (256) 488351
|"Opinions? Mine ... not DEC's" / Internet: les@uvo.dec.com
+-----------------------------------+
"Open Standards ... Free Software ... Live free or Fry!"
[posted by Notes-News gateway]
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| 621.21 | coffee... | BEANO::PEWTER | | Thu Apr 01 1993 20:58 | 10 |
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They have changed the coffee to something cheaper and nastier. And
take a close look at the little cartons of 'cream'. It is actually
a glucose syrup and vegetable fat mixture. Mmm, lovely in coffee..pah.
Apparently these are cheaper. So why has the coffee gone up??
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