Tesco Cafe

Yesterday, I took our van for a service at Carlisle and decided to wait whilst it was being done, its a 3.5hr job so I went to the Tesco superstore for a bite to eat at their Cafe arriving at 11am.

I quickly viewed their menu then ordered their "All Day Breakfast".

"Sorry Sir, you cannot order that until 11.30am"

"Pardon" I said.

"You cannot order the all day breakfast, until...breakfasts are finished at 11.30"

"But it IS a breakfast" I said.

"Yes but you cannot order it until breakfast are finished" she said and pointed to the list of breakfasts.

So I had to order a different breakfast rather than my preferred choice for an "All Day Breakfast", that is neither served at breakfast or is even all day.

The world has gone completely bonkers!

Perhaps the dish could be better served with a different name.

"The part day breakfast served after breakfast in the afternoon only"

Steve...

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one and that I was not in some surrealistic state or stupor.

I would not normally bother but I have emailed Tesco to ask for an explanation and sent my suggestion for the new dish name. I can't wait to see how they flannel this one.

Probably something like "Our Cafes are maintained by outside caterers and they set the menus etc etc flannel flannel"

Steve...

 

Complain online to Tesco C.S. and they'll probably send you a £5 gift card.

P.S. You can get a microwaveable Tesco All Day Breakfast in a box Tesco All Day Breakfast 350G - Groceries - Tesco Groceries

Cor, all this for £1.50!

Ingredients:
Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce, Omelette, Hash Brown, Cooked Pork Sausage (9%), Smoked Back Bacon Rasher (8%), Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce contains: Tomato Purée, Haricot Beans, Water, Sugar, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Glucose, Fructose, Paprika, White Pepper, Smoked Paprika, Fennel, Onion Extract, Flavouring, Garlic Extract, Omelette contains: Egg, Whole Milk, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, White Pepper, Hash Brown contains: Potato, Sunflower Oil, Onion, Dried Potato, Potato Starch, Pea Fibre, Salt, Onion Powder, White Pepper, Dextrose, Flavouring, Turmeric, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Cooked Pork Sausage contains: Pork, Water, Pork Rind, Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Potato Starch, Pork Fat, Salt, Wheat Protein, Rapeseed Oil, Dextrose, Beef Collagen Casing, Spices, Spice Extracts, Smoked Back Bacon Rasher contains: Pork, Water, Salt, Preservatives (Potassium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite), Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate)

 

Back in the days when they used to do a vegetarian first eleven i'd usually leave the omlettes till last. One morning, after trenchin me way thru toast, beans, eggs, hash browns, veggie sausages and tomatoes, I cut into the omlette only to find it had ham in it.

Took it back to the counter expecting indifference, but the girl serving was a veggie too, she was horrified and refunded the cost and gave me another breakfast

 

Hopefully a ham free one this time....

Steve...

 

A veggie friend of mine found a piece of ham in his specifically veggie jacket spud topping. He literally exploded with fury. Literally leaping from his seat, he did actually briefly take off, and then ran full sprint back to the shop to vehemently express his disapproval.

We all laughed.

 

Vegetarian option 'full English breakfasts' are normally far worse value for money than the meaty versions, many establishments want to replace all the meaty ingredients (plus removing some non-meat stuff!) with a single veggie sausage! But occasionally I encounter an enlightened pub B&B/hotel who understand that being vegetarian doesn't mean you want a breakfast about half the normal size.

 

Idont eat much meat, but not really for vegetarian reasons, mainly because I dont like it, so the so called all day breakfast, that every one seems to love, is not something I'd ever get in a lather about.
I do eat some meat but avoid it like the plague in restaurants and cafes, as to my mind it's never properly cooked.
I guess they are trying to save energy, by just warming it up.

 

Researchers found that the taste of bacon was the last meaty taste vegetarians forgot. I've not eaten meat (except fish) for over 30 years and still remember what Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Pigeon, Pheasant, Rabbit, Beef, Lamb, Pork, Ham and Bacon tasted like. Only had Goat once at a West Indian wedding, but would probably still recognise it.

 

This reminds me of an amusing quote I once read somewhere.

If God didn't want us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

I think that's a fair point

 

Think the meat trade had something to do with the present version of the bible, last version lists all the things man shall have dominion over, but then goes on to say "the herb shall be thy meat."

Might have been written by a Rastafari