Am I the only one who doesn't like barbecues ?

frogmorton
frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
edited 25. Jun 2010, 14:44 in Community Chit-chat archive
Hi Alan

good to see you.

I AM a veggie so they're not much use to me :wink:

Other people's barbecues are a bit smelly too aren't they?

Think maybe things can get a bit noisy too and too much booze can be consumed resulting in neighbour disputes.....

We tend to eat al fresco, but more salady type stuffs.

Love

Toni xx

Comments

  • ninakang
    ninakang Member Posts: 1,367
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I lurve BBQs! We should make the most of what little summer we have and spend as much of it outside as possible, hence cooking and eating food out there too!

    My brother has an industrial steel BBQ with two ovens and gas rings and grill. It's basically a kitchen in his garden and he cooks lovely food on it. Including veggie burgers for vegetarians.

    They have a bad press but it's often the few that spoil it for the many.

    Nx
  • ninakang
    ninakang Member Posts: 1,367
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    A BBQ is the sun! Hot coals, undercooked food, children running around, adults drinking and GOD FORBID smoking!
    And worst of all, adults with camera's wanting to take pictures of young children. Bloody 'eck the 'elf and safety and PC Brigade would have a field day, not forgetting the risk of some twerp demanding compensation because he singed his lip on a hot sausage. Arrrrrrrgh! The whole lot of them drive me mad! So much so I feel another story coming on!

    Good to see you back Rehab - it's about bl00dy time!

    Nx
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Alan,

    I am another veggie... hey we don't just eat cold food you know :lol::lol::lol: I do mean quoin roast and very nice white stews for winter. Del knows the most amazing veggie recipes and so man suitable for winter but with out that stodge the meat ones I remember having :D

    BBQ are sort of boring to me, I never really liked them but do have them from time to time as other people do. If I have to cook meat I cook it first and then just burn it to taste :lol::lol::lol: Cris x

    hey rehab you forgot the crying kids cus the dogs have stolen their food :lol::lol::lol: xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yep Alan

    Lots of different veggie soups and stews. You can get textured vegetable protein as Cris says and do your onw curries, lasagne and almost anything to be honest.

    You could try it out - say a couple of days a week and see how you go on.

    OH yes and you can EVEN get VEGGIE BURGERS for the barbecue :lol:

    Love

    Toni xx
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    There now, me and the OH thought we were the only ones who loathed barbies.....both the food and the smell of them! We would do anything to avoid going to one and now that we have moved, we don't have to, 'cos no one knows us!

    If we get any invitations, I will have to be 'poorly' again!

    Annie
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,280
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    count me in dont like them either.....we love to eat outside in summer, so we just cook indoors make up a salad and off we go....no burnt sausages :roll:
    Barbara x
    Love
    Barbara
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Fire

    Fire and beer.

    More beer

    and fire.

    Men things.

    ********************************************

    Salad

    Cut rolls

    Pasta salad

    Wine

    desserts

    plates

    Sauces

    kebab preperation

    Washing up

    Bringing of more supplies

    WOMEN things

    Love

    Toni xx
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Forgot the meat and women (wimmen)

    and probably bits of blown up cows guts to kick around.....

    yeah.... d025.gif
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    love b b q when i do them not to keen when people put the food on to soon then it burns always do chicken brests wrappen in foil plenty of jacket potatoes or new ones salad and sweetcorn sausages are a must and cider in this house
    val
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Am on me way Val.......

    the cider swung it :wink:

    Love

    Toni xx
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    (Wistfully) I used to be partial to a drop of cider, too.........was brought up on farmhouse scrumpy. I could do some cyber cider (not easy to say) maybe......

    Annie
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    annie_mial wrote:
    (Wistfully) I used to be partial to a drop of cider, too.........was brought up on farmhouse scrumpy. I could do some cyber cider (not easy to say) maybe......

    Annie

    annie so was i on the way back from weymouth we used to stop at pub and have cider shandys they were great was only little thought we were so grown up
    val
  • rondetto
    rondetto Member Posts: 2,526
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    First things first, I am not really into greasy food, and have been to some barbecues that have nearly finnished me off with food poisoning.
    I cannot for the life of me see the point in eating some horrendous
    sausage that has been burnt to a cinder, but horrible in the middle.
    Then theres the burgers, same thing really, I think it's just to keep the kids happy, because to be honnest with you, no-one with any sense would go out of there way to eat one.
    Wow, I can feel myself going all veggie after this thread, all I'm saying is, if were honnest with ourselves barbecues are all hype, and thats it for me this summer , it's a barbacue free zone for me, at least I'll survive a trip to the D rop In Centre.
    What do you think ? Alanmancunian

    I hate, detest, loathe barbecues. go and live in Australia If you want to stink the street out with the fumes of rotting meat. :shock:
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    i love the socialising side but havent been able to attend any for a few years cos of my son. Nobody invites us now cos we turned so many invites down over the years.
    But why does the barbie-man always wear a silly apron with some naked body parts on the front?

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tkachev wrote:
    i love the socialising side but havent been able to attend any for a few years cos of my son. Nobody invites us now cos we turned so many invites down over the years.
    But why does the barbie-man always wear a silly apron with some naked body parts on the front?

    Elizabeth

    the men in this house to buisy watching football to cook so do it my self and no apron with naked body parts were prob birthday present off some one who could not think of what to get lol
    val
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,336
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    tkachev wrote:
    i love the socialising side but havent been able to attend any for a few years cos of my son. Nobody invites us now cos we turned so many invites down over the years.
    But why does the barbie-man always wear a silly apron with some naked body parts on the front?

    Elizabeth

    I'd forgotten about those aprons Elizabeth :lol::lol:

    dont they look like eejuts :wink:

    Love

    Toni xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    A man who's like putty ain't much use. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • oneday
    oneday Member Posts: 1,434
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    another long thread...too tired to read but guess theres many like moi....
    dont like the smell of others bbqs, their fumes,stinking rottin food,air stinking....well its cargengic, cant spell, v tired, but it is rubbish..........an inconsdierate.
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yep hate them I mean uncooked burnt on the outside meat what's all that about!?, mine went to the tip 5 years ago, now if I get the urge to eat o natural I take my dinner out and sit on me picnic table.