To find the obsession with Toby Carvery baffling?

I've just discovered Toby carvery and I love it . I've been by myself twice this month . It's healthy fast food, if you choose the vegetables rather than all the roasties and cauliflower cheese

We had a good one at the bottom of the road from my old house (it's now a Miller and Carter steakhouse-might be a bit revealing to say that in the Midlands but yes it's the one on the big roundabout known locally as starting with a F!) and I liked it, it was nice and their veggie options I had as I'm veggie but for a chain that specialises in meat it was good. We even had a meal there on the day we relocated before we left. As to screaming kids, I never saw many but we never went on weekend daytimes. I think it depends upon the area. Having said that I'm talking about 9 years ago we last went there(we even ate there when visiting twice)so maybe it has changed overall. I'd eat there again though if the veggie options are still there.

I knew it Bab. Tarra a bit 🤣

I never said I live in any of those places, I just said I've seen it. I don't live somewhere rough. I've lived in various places round the UK and spent the past decade working across a large chunk of country. The middle/upper class place I lived was just vile, so snotty and up themselves. I like working class places the most. But there's a big difference between decent normal working class and rough scuttsville where the screaming sweary families who travel to my nearest Toby live.

Besides, where I live is nice because my relatives all live round here.

That's true, but it's no different any other chain. Beefeater 'chefs' were lovingly referred to as microwave technicians when I worked there. Sometimes you just want to go somewhere the food is consistent, predictable and you know everyone will find something they like on the menu.

My local one is excellent. I go there every other month, or so.
No screaming kids, stale (or fresh!) farts, just great food each time.
What i also enjoy, is that i can be done in half an hour. I don’t like all the waiting around in regular restaurants.

I’m rarely hungry enough to have dessert, but I do like their individual apple pies, and a coffee, combo.

You must live in a rough area. I never see this in my local town. (It's 3.5 miles from my little village.) It is a middle class/upper middle class town though, with several villages within 3-5 miles that are middle class/upper middle class/upper class. So unlike you, I never see this weird behaviour. Have you thought about moving somewhere a bit nicer @FarmGirl78 ?

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My local is trialing unlimited carvery. 3 trips up has been my limit.

My eldest loves it, mainly because they serve Mac and Cheese with it😱. DH likes a roast so he’s OK with it apart from the queuing. He also and thinks it should be served in unlimited portions😂. A roast isn’t my favourite thing to order eating out, because I can do one at home.

Carveries are much healthier than the ultra processed crap you get in the fast food chains like MacDonalds

Haha, thank you, duly noted! Maybe I'd best not go. I'd need a lift and it would take several hours to get there so I'd be already on edge by the time I queued up for my turkey and pork and gammon.

Out of interest are those three meats ok? Tender? I don't like beef but hate anything chewy or fatty. Like most people I guess!

Obsession by whom?

I also don’t like to go to country pubs with their own take on a Sunday roast because they’re mainly patronised by arseholes who think they are special.

They are ok for a quick Sunday roast. I have one near me and go occasionally. It’s got its market

but its breakfasts are good value. Surprisingly they have great unlimited coffee.

Is there a general, country-wide obsession with TC? Not heard of that.

I look forward to a Toby Carvery when I go back to the UK, there is a lovely one near my family and all age groups enjoy it. Went to a local “posh” pub last time for a roast and it was £25 for nothing much.

I’m wealthy, no one in our family would swear at their kids in public and I have never worn pyjamas to eat out, still enjoy a carvery. HTH, OP.

None of the chains cook everything from scratch on site, they go for the cheapest possible preprepared option from the wholesaler, that enables them to also have cheap staff.. I was once told, at breakfast, I could have fried eggs not poached, because they had run out of poached eggs, apparently they come wrapped in plastic and just need to be warmed up, because it saves paying the salary of somebody who knows how to poach an egg, God knows what I would have got if I'd asked for a boiled egg!

Not obsessed but we do call in occasionally, usually on the way back from a trip when there isn’t time to cook. Nearest one to the airport is great. Our local one serves decent portions of meat and unlimited veg for less than £12 on Saturdays, quality of the veg is ‘fair’ but the meat and trimmings are good; it’s hard to get in without booking in advance. I agree the glasses are always dirty though.

But ah wor a Brummie!!

Give over. You'll be saying you've never seen anyone in Tesco in slippers and a onesie next! You really didn't know that happens? You never been in a hotel and there's always that one family queuing up for breakfast buffet in their jimjams? There's always 2 teenage daughters, one more grumpier than the other one.

You're thinking of Wetherspoons. Many of them have microwaved stuff. Tobey carveries don't.

Awww I luv a Brummie I do. 😘

The only chef the have is Chef Ping, it all arrives precooked and frozen, then is left for hours to dry out and become inedible.

PLEASE tell me this is a piss taking joke post. 😂 NO-ONE goes to a carvery in their pyjamas! And all sullen-looking obese people.

WTAF?! 😂

Definitely. I wur a Yamyam, I wor Brummie! Lived just up Sedgley Bonk ah did.

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The stale fart smell would put me off. I only go to Carveries where the farts smell fresh.

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