AIBU to resent paying £10 for a meal and getting heated frozen food?

[PricillaQueenOfTheDessert]

It's been a long and busy day so I didn't feel like cooking the chicken in the fridge, so we decided to treat ourselves to a meal out. The local pub has a good reputation for food so we went there to try one of their roasties. I was so disappointed. It was a big plate of food, but roast chicken, frozen roast potatoes and frozen peas. For £9.50 a head I at least expect proper roast potatoes and fresh veg. AIBU?

Having worked in a pub/restaurant I'd say this is par for the course in may places. The specials are usually the frozen stuff that has been in the freezer the longest and they want rid.

YANBU.

I don't mind if we're paying much less and just need to do a food as fuel stop eg when away from home, but at that price point I'd thoroughly resent it.

You need to put a review on tripadvisor.

It's not just a British thing. France is supposed to have amazing food (and often it does) but go to a cheap restaurant here and often your vegetables will come out of a tin. Tinned food doesn't have the same stigma here, but I can't get my head round it...

And I've been to pubs where everything is fresh and home made and quite delicious for around a tenner and even chicken is free range and pork outdoor reared. Being in the north might help to keep prices lower, mind.

I used to like the Spoons Sunday lunch, it was good value for six quid with a pint thrown in.

Now they coat the roast potatoes with some sort of sawdust and it's all a bit horrible. And the price has gone up.

anyway anyone who refers to roast potatoes as 'roasties' deserves what they get

This depends so much on where you are. Near me I would know that it would be crap for £9.50 unfortunately. Pub food in chain pubs is all pretty bad in my experience.

Well that's what you get for a tenner , well, near me that's what you'd get. There are an abundance of cheap pubs and carveries where I'd guess you'd pay a similar amount for the same quality of food you received today.

do a trip advisor review and warn other people. sadly there are so many pubs serving this sort of crap its not true. what gets me is garlic mushrooms as a starter. 4 or 5 pounds for half a dozen and I know they are from the cash and carry where you can buy hundreds for that cost.

Not sure what good the Trip Advisor review would do.

If the majority of the population wanted decent quality food, the likes of Frankie & Bennies, Dominoes, Crown Carveries, Subway and McDonalds etc etc etc would be no where near as successful as they are.

YANBU OP although how far 10 quid goes probably depends on where you are in the country.

I had a similar experience in Costa yesterday - was about to treat myself to my fave oatmeal cookie with my coffee but they ran out. The guy offered to go and defrost one for me. At 3 quid a pop I had always deluded myself they were freshly made...!

The in store bakery bread in must supermarkets is frozen part baked stuff too.

OP, perhaps where you are going wrong is that you can't cook a chicken in the fridge...

I'll get me coat

That's about what I'd expect for a tenner each. When you consider that is the price of your food, plus a bit for h&l, cooking, staff wages, other business costs etc etc. then the food really isn't going to be that great. Well, I mean home cooked and from fresh etc because frozen veg and potatoes isn't bad as such, just not as nice as fresh. But you get what you pay for. It's only a fiver more than a mcdonalds meal so it was never going to be fine dining.

damnit. Now I've made myself want a big mac. Curse you, OP.

a roast doesn't require lots of expensive ingredients, so i think it's a fair expectation that it's home cooked for a tenner.

certainly my excellent local does a proper sunday roast for a tenner, although the a la carte stuff is more like £12-15.

Our local is £7 and all freshly made including homemade Yorkshire puds. No idea how they make a profit as you get loads of lovely meat and veg!

Our local is all freshly made food; small menu, proper specials (usually fish). It is not cheap though. FiL insists we are mad to pay their prices; he tries to get us to go to the £4.99 carvery down the road.

I am a decent cook, if I go out for dinner I want it to be better than I could cook myself. A £4.99 plate of slop is just money down the drain.

I agree about French food too. I've been holidaying in France for 30 years. The overall standard of food has gone dramatically downhill. I think British food has actually vastly improved in that time, though locally we are probably quite spoilt for choice.

I live in the North West and I would expect a decent meal for £10 not some reheated microwave meal.

My local is like this, independent pub, lovely spot overlooking the green, lots of passing trade, nice gardens, shit food. Well, the sort of food you wouldn't mind if it was in a Two for £10 before 7pm sort of thing. But £10-£12 for food that's come straight out of Brake Bros van and into the microwave is a bit poor.

YANBU, we live in the south west and all of the pubs around us charge about a tenner a head for a brilliant home cooked roast dinner.

YANBU and it isn't just pubs. I paid a lot more than that for a meal in ASK and it was frozen shite. We all sent our meals back and complained to the manager, who just admitted it was frozen, and that it was shit.

He wrote off the bill but our Girls Night Out was tainted somewhat.

I live in the south east and can get a huge, freshly cooked roast at my local pub for £4.99 so it is dooable.

"At 3 quid a pop I had always deluded myself they were freshly made...!"

But Costa outlets don't have ovens and food prep areas.

I don't really like pub roasts, especially on a Monday as not that many people will be having them, so they have to use frozen or quick bits. It's pointless them roasting potatoes for a couple of people.

On a Sunday they might do it because everyone wants a roast dinner.