Unexpected eating experiences

In the '70s used to love “Alice’s” just across the road from “The Cricketers” in Carlton Place. It was one of the first home made burger places in the city…played good music too…great place to meet up and go onto other places in town. Cheap and cheerful with brightly painted furniture…affordable house wine served in a Giraffe. :lou_lol:

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Cool @lifeintheslowlane

Giraffes’ were still well posh in late '70s early '80’s when I went out for a meal at the Pizza place in Dibden Purlieu with my first proper girlfriend - think it was called Capers. Closed down only recently.

It was a time of faux-sophistication, especially when Simon’s Wine Bar opened just down the road from Alice’s in the mid '70s. Quaffining Liebfraumilch, Piesporter Michelsberg or a cheeky White Zinfandel, TBH anything that sounded relatively foreign.

Thanks too to Berni Inns that would serve up a Prawn Cocktail, Steak, Chips & Peas and Black Forest Gateau for around £2.50 in the late '60s. If you thought you were in with a good chance you’d push the boat out and buy a bottle of White Hirondel too.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you youngsters are here today courtesy of a bottle of Hirondel. :lou_wink_2:

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Add Black Tower and Blue Nun to that list @lifeintheslowlane

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You forgot Black Forest Gateaux

Seriously underrated & something I could eat right now!

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I once squirted a pouch of apple jam into my mouth thinking it was apple juice. It was an unexpected and unwelcome experience.

There are many questions around why @gavstar

but, how?

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I was a big fan of Alice’s!

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Where the fuck is Alice

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My story begins 5 years ago, me and my mate were driving out to Greece to work for the summer, I had made it as far as the ferry before I decided to become violently unwell with food poisoning. My mate took over sole driving responsibilities as I was a bit delirious, and our journey was made quite a lot longer by me needing to stop every 45 mins or so to empty myself. Some time the next day as we were about to leave france and enter Italy I am starting to feel better and feel the need to hydrate, so whilst my mate is filling up on petrol I buy the only thing I think my stomach will tolerate, a small pouch of ‘apple juice’, like the pouches lucozade sport used to come in. As we rejoin the motorway I proclaim to my mate that ‘I am so looking forward to this’ as I squeeze almost an entire pouch of thick apple jam into my mouth. I did not feel hydrated. As I tell my ‘mate’ what I have done and how disgusting it was and how disappointed I am he almost has an asthma attack from laughing so hard.

I guess the moral of the story is don’t trust the french.

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I didn’t :lou_surprised: …to quote my earlier post…

Thanks too to Berni Inns that would serve up a Prawn Cocktail, Steak, Chips & Peas and Black Forest Gateau for around £2.50 in the late '60s. If you thought you were in with a good chance you’d push the boat out and buy a bottle of White Hirondel too.

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There used to be a place in Liverpool before they moved call Eureka, it was proper genuine family run Greek food, all the family worked there, in a run down 60’sshopping parade, people used to come from all over to eat there, now they’ve moved its nowhere near as authentic nor as good, shame.

My wife has just said they had to go as they knocked down said delapidated shopping arcade.

l’histoire du stupide homme anglais et ses poches de pomme.

And to think I was going to let you touch my groin.

We’d have probably both been covered in apple sauce.

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I bow to your superior ‘‘wisdom’’ Beltch, maybe as you’re such an expert in french ‘‘culture’’ you could explain to me why anyone would need to buy apple jam at a motorway petrol station that it is needed to be stocked in such abundance? Serious question no trolls please.

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Christina’s restaurant in East Street.

Famous for their liver and bacon featuring a pound and a quarter of pig’s liver, loads of bacon, a mountain of chips and the most amazingly irony-rich onion gravy.

Many years ago when I was promoted to the board of a Southampton based software company I was taken here by the company owner for liver and bacon.

Didn’t even get a choice what to eat. It was a visit to Christina’s for liver and bacon. It was like the ceremony to become a made man in the Mafia.

I passed the test and we went as a board 3 or 4 times a year from then on. Always for liver and bacon and we always had to clean our plates.

That sounds fucking superb. I just love pig’s liver. Is this place still going?

I hated that dish as a kid. May explain why I stopped eating meat aged 11. Having flash backs of awful meat based dishes in the 70s and 80s.

Yuk I don’t eat organs either…although I do eat flesh…with fava beans and a little Chianti. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Haven’t been for probably 10+ years and I did hear that it had changed hands. Google says it’s still there though .