To be shocked at what I saw at a Toby Carvery?

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I went to a Toby Carvery the other day. I had two types of meat, a Yorkshire pudding, veg and gravy. I had a good sized portion, ate it all and didn't feel the need to go up again. I'm quite smug that I know how much to put on my plate without wasting it.

However, I could see the gravy/sauce table from where I was sitting and saw a few very overweight young people, late teens/early 20's with 3 - yes 3 Yorkshire puddings on their plates, a mound of veg and ladling on bucketfuls of gravy.

Surely this is not normal and they were just greedy.

I could easily eat 3 yorkshires at the Carvery... Unfortunately while there my DD decides she will eat only them so I end up giving her mine...

(Misses the point)

As an aside... Our Toby Carvery is fancy.. Victoria Beckham goes there. It was in the paper (and she's very thin!!)

Being miserable is nothing to do with being fat or thin

I think we all know miserable people regardless of fatness and thinness

I fancy a Toby carvery now!

This thread is obviously a made up story aimed at mocking a 'common' eatery and all who eat there.

You can not get 3 yorkshires at a Toby carvery so stop telling porkies!

Goldenyellow posted a pic upthread, that iis how big the yorkshires are at Toby, one is enough really, two at a push, as you have so many other things on offer.

I like to use my yorkshire as a bowl for my peas. saves on plate room.

I've been fat and miserable, and thin and miser able. I'm now medium and miserable.

I think this whole thread is an ad for Toby C. It'll be all over the underground - quotes from MN/glowing accolades of their yorkshires.

Shall we angle for a Toby discount?

I refuse to beleive this is a real story-3 yorkshires given to one person? No chance.
Reveal the name of the Toby involved op
(kids always steal mine so I'm left with none)

This is my local Toby Carvery...

Nothing like a bain Marie full of piss to kill a thread.

My (fed up, concerned, not always so unkind) parents told me I look like I've just come out of a concentration camp last week, and I recently went to a carvery, a Toby's, then an independent the next day. Reading all the mean and judgemental posts on here just makes me want to hide away and never eat in public ever again. Why why why do people have to comment on what others are eating? What do they get out of it? Do they care that they can hurt people's feelings to the extent that they are not only upset but it changes the way they live their life, the feeling of freedom to go about they world as they please?

Ok, fine, perhaps I and others should not let others' comments affect us, but, why do the comments have to be made in the first place? Just, what is the bloomin' point?

I'm struggling to understand why a carvery wouldn't be delighted to let customers fill up on cheap yorkshire puddings instead of relatively more expensive meat.

YY , Yorkie Puddings cost pence , much cheaper than slices of meat.
My DS is bony thin and always manages to procure a load of YP but he'll go up a couple of times, not all at once.

They give you a measured amount of meat, and then you help yourself to the rest. You can't have seconds of meat, but can of the other stuff, I think.

They also do a vegetarian carvery, which is everything except the meat. One would hope that the roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings are not cooked in animal fat, but beef dripping is the traditional norm.

Obviously the amount of Yorkshire puddings you are allowed is a matter of considerable debate. .

Heh, I was imagining a monkey knife fight at the very least from the thread title.

yum, yorkshire puddings.

(Pictish while I agree with everything you said, please don't say 'coloured people'. I know you probably meant no harm but it's quite an offensive term. Not to derail the thread, but I thought it was worth pointing out so you know for the future!)

ha ha

OP

Come to the carvery with me. My carer get the large option (large YP or 3 small and then blags extra) and then goes back for seconds.

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece

But I have been there and now I think, wtf, I'm not a bad person and I can lose weight, judgy fuckers can't stop being nasty

Now that I've read the whole thread and seen that the YPs are huge then I am making it my mission to go to a Toby Carvery this summer! Either the one in my town or when we go away for a couple of days next month.

The latter would be ideal actually, we will hopefully have DSCs with us so up to 8 people to feed - and we all love roasts. In fact we will be staying at a Premier Inn so we can fill up on the buffet breakfast and then get by on very little til dinner :o

Off to look at the restaurant locator for TC.

I love the Pizza Hut buffet too, it's brilliant. One of our Xmas traditions is a cinema trip followed by PH buffet for 8.

Ooh. There's a TC 1.2 miles from the hotel. That's dinner sorted then :o

i was going to comment but then I just can't be arsed.

What's it got to do with you?

Zombie thread

Zombie, zombie zombie zombie, ZOMBIE!

Surely to god we're not so hard up for content that we need to go rummaging for 2 year old threads to bitch about?

Hope that this doesn't make you fat.

I remember this first time round.

I've never been to a Toby.

Now I want a bloody Toby Carvery...and I'm in AUSTRALIA!!!

My own roast isn't the same. I like TC...so to all those snobs, I don't care!