London Ninja

For Thanksgiving, because I’m not in the United States, I went to lunch at the Old Ship with some coworkers. It is a very traditional pub, full of ales and beer and old British dudes that take down pints for lunch.

What I ordered was:
Steak, mushroom, onion sandwich: 5.50
Chips: 2.50

Total price: £8.

Pretty pricey lunch in the US for that price. You would expect a decent sandwich. A good half hour later, I received my lunch. Now, I’m not expecting lightly seared kobe beef on top of mango chutney but what I got was:
1. white bread (3 pieces in a club sandwich way)
2. lettuce
3. tomato
4. cucumber
5. chopped up steak – no seasoning

I was pleasantly surprised, actually. That is, surprised that the food even arrived at all. And surprised the chopped up steak resembled any edible kind of substance at all. The good thing is that the sandwich fixings (lettuce, tomato, cucumber) was duplicated next to the sandwich to be the “salad”. GhettoFab. The sandwich was under a section called “Hot Fill”. I recommended they rename it to “Crap Fill”.(yeah, I came up with that all on my own)

May this be a lesson to those who think they can eat at any pub and get good “pub grub”. Traditional British food is crap any way you cut it…consider yourself warned if you’re in London.