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.

My dad used to eat loads at these places. If I am honest I did find it greedy and a bit gluttonous: my dad wasn't overweight, though.

www.tobycarvery.co.uk/nationalsearch/

Randall mainly in South Wales.

Oh, yes, an the biggest eater in our family is also the slimmest. Man that guy can eat, but he retains a really gorgeous physique for a 48 year old. Doesn't share our dodgy gene pool though - he is an inlaw.

Worra so sad

You think one yorkshire per person is standard?

You are missing out. They are rhe best bit of the meal!

Never been to one. They sound great.

Ooh, there's one in Chester!
I might pop over there, sounds like it would be worth it for the shock value alone

Probably the same group as the one I saw who had two massively obese teenagers who were each having one of the massive desserts that are intended for sharing.

OP, you should see my ds1- 19 and his mates at the Pizza Hut all you can eat lunchtime buffet.

Your hair would stand on end.

Fact!

One Yorkshire per person? Thank God I've never been to a Toby Carvery then! I'd feel cheated.

Oh and yes OP, YABU, but I think you know that.

Are you my mother??

She told me the other day she couldn't stand going out with her partner again after seeing how much food he put on his plate at a carvery. It embarrassed her THAT much. How ridiculous.

I'm overweight a bit and I'd have 4 Yorkshires. Do I give a fuck? No. Have to get my money's worth :)

I might see you there Randall, I'm overweight and I love Yorkshire puddings so you'll never spot me.

Yorkshires are probably a bit more healthy than roast potatoes or cauli cheese.

Gosh Pipkins
You must be so easily shocked

However must you cope with events in the news if people's menu choices disturb you so much?

I'm a bit of a chunker myself, and I would totally get my money's worth out of a carvery!
Would I give a toss about what other diners thought of my plate? Nope!

Would I be interested in what's on other people's plates? Nope!

Mind your own business OP, seriously. Next time take a book.

Where else can you get 4 meat roast with Yorkshire pudding and unlimited veg for £5.99 (mon-sat) unlimited coke/lemonade for £2-£3

Three Yorkshire puddings?

No-one got fat on a pile of veg and Yorkshire puddings, surely?

I could eat 3 Yorkshires no probs

Yabu for going Toby Carvery

Can I stare please, Sauv?
I might sneak a photo.
'Slightly overweight gal in yorkie-eating shocker'
The Chronicle would lap that shit up

(If I really can eat my body weight in cauliflower cheese, Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes I'm definitely there)

at the Toby Carvery snobbery. It's only a roast dinner FFS and a lot less grim than most other chain restaurant or fast food outlets.

The Yorkshire puds are massive btw, if you had more than two, there wouldn't be room for any other food on the plate.

I must have a smaller appetite than most, because despite having my allocated meat and single Yorkshire, which I leave most of, no stuffing, one roast pot and a decent amount if veg, I am stuffed and there is no way I could contemplate a pudding.

I bet the ops actually overweight themselves. It's the sort of comment a 'slightly' ow person would make imo to justify themselves

genuine slim people care a lot less about stuff like this.

Randall - my ex was obsessed with Toby's so we used visit quite a few but that was our 'local'

We would have a carvery, play the it box and drink wine to forget my pitiful existence

And the most unreasonable thing about this thread is the use of 'yorkie puds'

All this for £5.99?
Actual unrestricted access to roast potatoes for less than a Burger King?
No bloody wonder people stock up!

YAallBU because now I reeeeeeeeaaaallly want a big pile of Yorkshire puddings and gravy and there are none to be had. Humph.