That a Scotch egg is not a substantial meal

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Nonsense from a government minister.

Surely a simple test is that you spend more on food than alcohol (or any other drink)?

Bloody hell. On your test I'd be having to buy caviar.

Surely a simple test is that you spend more on food than alcohol (or any other drink

I know a lot of people who will definitely send more on alcohol than food when having a 3 course meal

Erm. No.

Say pub fish and chips, or steak pie & chips. Could be about a tenner or so.

Three pints of beer would cost more than that by some margin!

Well the ‘substantial’ bit is totally relative.

Anyway in our local a scotch egg is nearly the size of a bowling ball. They are honestly massive 😂

I guess you have to put a salad on the side.

I can only assume his local do an ostrich egg scotch egg.

Also I saw this article earlier and now I'd bloody love a freshly made scotch eg, the yoke still runny as you cut into it. Maybe to be fancy one with a layer of black pudding in it too. Mmmmmmm.

A Scotch egg with some salad and whatnot is adequate for a lunch, and since lunch is a main meal, that makes it substantial in my book.

They just don't want people going into a pub and ordering a plate of chips between them which sits there being picked at while they get pissed.

What!! on average around here a main course in a pub is about £14-16, and a bottle of house wine is more than that!

Needs chips with it.
I was reading about a pub that's started serving £3 scampi and chips so they can stay open and give drinkers something inexpensive they can buy. Encouraging people to buy food they don't want should help with the obesity crisis.

Something you can hold in one hand is a snack. If you need a plate to hold all the bits together, it's a meal.

The work canteen (RIP) used to do a haggis scotch egg with mashed spuds or chips and the veg of the day. It was definitely a substantial meal.

Yeah, price isn't a sensible basis. But there's certainly excessive confusion and it seems like even the government doesn't know what its own law is.

I think the better way to express the intention the law is that establishments must operate like a restaurant or cafe. So sit-down meals, and it's alcohol with a meal not a snack with alcohol. But I guess that would be hard to write into law.

Apparently the "substantial meal" thing is an extension of existing laws about when a 16/17 yo can legally drink in a restaurant.

@MarchionessofActon

Well the ‘substantial’ bit is totally relative.

Anyway in our local a scotch egg is nearly the size of a bowling ball. They are honestly massive 😂

It's those American chickens. Huge they are 😂

@MereDintofPandiculation

Something you can hold in one hand is a snack. If you need a plate to hold all the bits together, it's a meal.

So a burger is a snack? or a meat pie?

Why does nowhere round here do scotch eggs? Think I need to get a petition going.

@MarchionessofActon

Well the ‘substantial’ bit is totally relative.

Anyway in our local a scotch egg is nearly the size of a bowling ball. They are honestly massive 😂

Then someone's got their sausage meat to egg ratio all wrong. Can't be having that.

Depends, we used to get scotch eggs from a local farmshop and they definitely counted as substantial. Oh how I miss them now I have moved house

Encouraging people to buy food they don't want should help with the obesity crisis

If the Chief Medical Officer gave a shit about the obesity crisis, Lockdowns and the closures of gyms would not be happening,

All I can now think of is this from the UK version of The Office.

@EBearhug

The work canteen (RIP) used to do a haggis scotch egg with mashed spuds or chips and the veg of the day. It was definitely a substantial meal.

I actually hate you a little bit for mentioning this food of the gods and offering no way for me to get it,

Dear MIL RIP used to make scotch eggs, I could have suggested this... I miss her.

Who eats a meat pie with their hands?

oh a pasty I suppose, that's not a pie though

@Derelictwreck how small is the burger you eat with one hand? I even need two hands to comfortably eat a McDonald’s 99p burger and they’re not that big....

So many threads like this recently! It's such a hard one. I agree it's harsher than a break up to say "I really don't have space in my life for you" but equally friendships can be quite draining sometimes and you do end up thinking that you at least want to reduce the amount of space that some are taking up.