To find the obsession with Toby Carvery baffling?

[Kaykay90]

I went on Sunday and won’t be returning. Tiny portion of meat, kids running riot and it smelt like stale farts.

Anyone else struggle to see the appeal?

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

@FarmGirl78 Wow, you must live in a really scummy area!

Being veggie I wouldn't go for the carvery, but it was the breakfast option for somewhere we were staying like a Travelodge.

I rarely complain in an eating place but this was disgusting. The supposedly clean plates had food remnants dried on them - and this was almost all of them. We struggled to find a clean plate. Same with the glasses.

I will never eat in one again

I think my mistake is when I come out of my town I turn right down the dual carriageway, towards a VERY scutty town, and the Toby is midway between. I need to turn start turning left. Its all relative isn't it? People further left who are even posher are probably distraught when they turn right from their own town and end up in mine 🤣🤣

How to say you are from the West Midlands without saying you are from the West Midlands 🤣

Not for me, but I can see the appeal be it a Toby carvery or another chain. Especially if you or any one of those with you are choosy in what vegetables you will eat.

Ahh that's very interesting! I don't live in the West Mids, and I'm not even from there, but I did live there for 12 years. I still have a bit of an accent now and again. My heart still remains there so I love that you picked up on it. Is it the word "scutters" that gave it away? 🤣

Yes 😊 I lived in Birmingham for a bit but was told scutters is very much a Wolverhampton thing. ( is that true?)

It’s just an adults maccys isn’t it? Not meant to be anything special

@Kaykay90 · Today 17:01

We are going to stick to our country pubs for a home cooked roast in the future. Yes, you pay a premium but it’s worth it IMO - and also helps with regulating the clientele.

😂 Take it easy Hyacinth. 😆

This. ^ I think @Kaykay90 must live in an area that's not as nice as where many others of us live (who have nice Tobey Carveries.)

@FrankSinatraonToast

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

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

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?! 😂

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.

Awww I luv a Brummie I do. 😘

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

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.

But ah wor a Brummie!!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Obsession by whom?