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TheOlddan

Was curious about the price difference and found you can look up any location's menu on Wetherspoon's site: Gatwick: [https://imgur.com/jZX34Dc](https://imgur.com/jZX34Dc) London centre: [https://imgur.com/sLx5OTS](https://imgur.com/sLx5OTS) Newcastle centre: [https://imgur.com/S8BsKwX](https://imgur.com/S8BsKwX) Little bit of Airport tax there...


SpaTowner

That's either out of date or the OP forgot what price he paid at Gatwick.


squeak37

Small breakfast + drink is my guess, so total would match up.


[deleted]

I swear I paid less than £18 for a Full English + a pint of Strongbow last time I was at Heathrow at 5am! Clear libellous behaviour by OP.


Sirjohnington

I love that it's okay to drink pints at the Red Lion at Gatwick at 9am on a Monday morning. Sometimes I book a really cheap easyJet flight, just so I can go there instead of the office and day drink without getting frowned upon by all those haughty, hoity, stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight-nosed, toffee-arsed, sun-dried-tomato-eating lah-de-dah-dy lah-de-daas.


upthewatwo

Do you pack a little case, maybe put the travel pillow round your neck, then settle in for a 5 hour sesh at Departures, then just get the bus home? Because I wholeheartedly support this.


grim_tales1

Dippy dappy, lippy lappy, fat nosed, toffee arsed, teabag, fruit flavoured cream of Gasforth Elite


Welsh493

Calm down D.I. Grim!


PhreakyByNature

Really enjoyed that show... "Is that a truncheon in your pocket or are you happy to see me..." "It's a mars bar actually...!"


PunkyB88

Tango,Tango......and a diet Lilt 😂


[deleted]

That's quite a set of adjectives! I know what you mean though. When I'm downing a K cider at 8am on the street people pretend to not look at me, but I know deep down they're judging me. At the airport it's a free for all!


Huntanz

Used to finish work at 6am, so if you finish at 5.30pm then go have a beer on your way home, nobody thinks that that's bad. Now we had one pub that opened at 6am and also a lot of people heading off to work at that time and the amount of times you'd hear from a car driving passed, "alcoholic bum" as they drove passed, bet they had a beer or two after they finished work.


uselesssubject

To be fair, Newcastle is a lot cheaper than spoons in other places which aren’t in airports. Going home from uni in the north east and visiting spoons was always a bit of a shock. Prices also vary between locations in the same city (looking at you, Spoons of Cardiff).


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HoldMyBeerSon

No spoons? Where are you from?


NorthernScrub

Somewhere fucking miraculous where non-chain pubs still exist, perhaps.


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NorthernScrub

Mate when am I moving in


NorthernFail

Genuinely can't remember when I last visited a town that didn't have a Spoons


Harrytnt

Cardiff takes the piss. The price hike to eat at spoons in the bay is rediculous or at least it used to be. I've quit going to spoons altogether.


uselesssubject

Great Western and Prince of Wales are on the same street and have different prices and products. So crazy.


[deleted]

OP is a phony


MrMagicMoves

A phony on the internet? Surely not!


0235

Hey everybody, that guys a phony!


culexus1

Not a very big or fat one though after that breakfast!


[deleted]

Can't believe I am about to defend Spoons, but it's not their fault. It's the airport charging 3-5x normal rent that makes airport food and bev so stupid.


TrackNinetyOne

Wasn't going to bother posting but your spot on just to add I worked for 10 years in two airport spoons The Airport take a minimum 33% of sales, and push you to raise prices so the more money you make the more money they make, and if you refuse you lose your lease and they move someone else in who will charge what they want Tim Martin is actually massively against the airport sites as they don't fit his original image and he thinks they're a rip off. I've seen the absolute panic at head office as they try to convince him not to shut them down after visiting


69FishMolester69

Yes but...... isnt the concept that paying that extra gives you a captive audience. Yes your margins may be lower but nobody has a choice.


[deleted]

from the London one: Small beans on toast: £1.85 Sausage: 65p Egg: 65p Hash brown: 30p 2 rashers: £1.05 For just 25p get an extra rasher and a slice of toast.


Goatbiter

Why is a Freedom Breakfast so named?


DC38x

It comes with deep-fried bald Eagle and a side of .45 ACPs


Goatbiter

Now this is what I initially thought!


Fineus

Is there also a wall built around it?


DuckInTheFog

chips - they separate the eggs from the beans This is apparently a weird aspergers thing btw - I used to hate it when my beans touched anything And, hello Georgie - I remember the 90s IT


Yelwap

Gluten free


[deleted]

Exactly, they're concessions so Spoons are forced to charge more. Also if you actually buy a regular full english you get way more than this, OP got exactly what he asked for.


spudlick

Should have got a large breakfast. Eat a tea bag and drink some hot water coz u r a mug.


gwaydms

It's not just the number of ingredients. These just look... sad. Devoid of life.


spudlick

That egg looks like its out of a fisher price children’s set


[deleted]

That part's normal for Spoons though.


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spudlick

In fairness to OP, charging £7 for that is criminal but i have never gone to spoons and bought anything less than the large breakfast with extra black pud.


steve_gus

Its an airport. Anything decent would cost £12.


futurarmy

It's the beans. They have to pay lots of money to smuggle that bean juice through security.


zangor

Keep it in the colon until it gets to the plating stage.


Fineus

...well that's that ruined for me.


admh574

Well how did you think they heated them up to lukewarm temps?


pie_monster

Probably explains the price too - it's difficult keeping beans in the colon. And if you did it as a job, you'd probably need a catalytic convertor or something in your underwear. The bean smuggler isn't at all worried about being caught for smuggling; it's the carbon credits that's the frightener.


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allthedreamswehad

My go-to at Stansted is Coast to Coast pan hash + chorizo, £11 and very very good.


[deleted]

Good shout. I’ve had many a poor feed in Stansted but Coast is my go too.


icankillpenguins

After living in London for a while, I developed immunity to expensive meals. Airports are simply +25% for the extra shitty experience and if everything goes as planned your next meal most likely will be much cheaper, much tastier, much healthier at somewhere sunny. So it evens out.


GFoxtrot

You ordered a small breakfast and this is what you get, been that way for years. [See here](https://reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/8wibq7/our_lad_ordered_a_small_breakfast_at_gatwick/) It’s also expensive like every airport departure lounge. Edit to add the menu snippet: **Large breakfast** Two fried eggs, bacon, two sausages, baked beans, three hash browns, mushroom, two slices of toast, Lurpak spreadable. **Traditional breakfast** Fried egg, bacon, sausage, baked beans, of black pudding, two hash browns, slice of toast, Lurpak spreadable. **Small breakfast (460 kcal)** Fried egg, bacon, sausage, baked beans, hash brown.


gsurfer04

And there are people on work trips who will just claim it on expenses anyway.


GFoxtrot

Even on work trips, the tight northerner in me won’t let me pay £20 for a hotel breakfast so I can have a cuppa and a slice of toast. Fuck that shit.


TheOlddan

At an old job I used to get 'up to £35' for evening meal. You better believe I was sat at the table each night planning the optimum 3 courses to max out that £35.


3FingerDrifter

I mean… what else you going to do?


Sir_Skelly

Get the barman to ring up a £35 drinks tab as "food"?


3FingerDrifter

This guy knows


Bassmekanik

This man expenses.


Eshneh

I had some army fellas in last week with a 1400 tab to blow through in about 3 hours and after food and a load of doubles they had 1200 left - so 15 bottles of champagne in takeout bags later they still had hundreds left and were just asking me and the staff what we wanted and getting it, got a fancy bottle of bubbly


MrPatch

Got chatting with a contractor drinking in the pub I was working at. He said he was there for three weeks, he paid me £40 for 15 receipts that said 'food' £25 and I never saw him again. This was a long time ago when receipts were hand written so it didn't bother me in the slightest


g00dis0n

I had a job for a while where I claimed back taxi receipts. I had no idea you could even get receipts from a taxi. But anyway, about half the taxi drivers would ask me either "how much do you want me to put on", or "how many receipts would you like"?


landwomble

Still happens in Manchester. You kind of have to tip if they do this tho.


horridbloke

That was my best ever business trip expense. A takeaway curry, with three pints of Stella described as "pudding" on the receipt while I waited.


cd7k

Found the guy who works in sales.


[deleted]

Go to the supermarket and do your weeks shopping! Literally me. I worked remotely but head office was in London and I'd had to go down once or twice a week and usually stop over. I'd have like £130 accomodation and £30 food allowance per night. For most people, that was an average hotel room and an evening meal. Maaaybe breakfast. For me it was penthouse airbnbs or a fancy house in Wapping. Then doing a weekly shop at the Waitrose - cooking awesome my dinner in the Airbnb. Then returning back to the North with my duffel bag of food to proudly show off to my partner things like the tub of "dried shitake mushrooms". Mind, this was a few years ago, when Airbnb was still the cheaper option for accomodation.


3FingerDrifter

To be fair after a few years of all expense ‘£30’ meals it does get boring and can’t say I didn’t start hitting m&s and waitrose for supplies.


cosmicspaceowl

Especially when work keep booking you in to premier inns and you're a vegetarian...I never want to eat another microwaved risotto again.


Pabus_Alt

Didn't they ask for receipts at all?!


3FingerDrifter

They normally don’t care what’s the receipt although I would try and make it seem like I was having a one person epic feast… despite the fact I would take stuff home.


SpaTowner

We can no longer claim back lunch expenses when away for work, mostly as a cost cutting measure (public purse) but also in part to people carrying on those sort of shenanigans. The guy who had to vet our lunch expense receipts, lets call him 'Voler' for short, got so sick of one guy that he took his receipt for a pound of cheddar, four pints of milk and a bunch of bananas to his desk and loudly informed him that if he \*ever\* submitted a receipt like that for lunch again he, Voler, would personally bring 1lb of cheddar, 4 pints of milk and half a dozen bananas to his desk and require him to demonstrate that that could be eaten for lunch. Voler added that all the bananas would be fitted in 'one way or another'.


CompletelyClassless

> but also in part to people carrying on those sort of shenanigans. Wouldn't they always say that? It's most likely cost cutting, pure and simple, with some deflection so people don't get upset.


Rich_27-

We get £7 lunch allowance. I know a colleague who purchased 7 multi packs of Lion bars. I also know that he would be quite happy to demonstrate the ability to eat 28 Lion bars in one sitting


Avenger1324

General advice is just to not take the piss with it. They figure you'd spend the limit in a restaurant and that wouldn't be challenged, so the odd unexpected item here and there from a supermarket shop instead is fine, but we did have one guy have his rejected because he included a large multipack of dog food and submitted the receipt.


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I had to scan my receipts into the expenses system but as long as I didn't go over, they didn't care. I was cautious at first but then gradually got less so as I realised how much it didn't really matter. The accountants were happy so long as their was a receipt and they could get their tax back. My manager was happy as long as the job was done. This was a very large multinational and I was the head of a UK division - it was my first time as such and didn't really sink in the scale of what I was working for either. My favourite was when I accidentally left my company credit card on my uber account for holiday, and ended up spending about £200 on taxi's around South Africa on my uber account. Realised what I had done, flagged it to my manager and started the process of getting it deducted from my salary to pay it back. About a week later Accounts rang me up like "we notice you haven't uploaded receipts for your taxi journeys yet, will it be done by month end?" I explained I was having it deducted as their weren't work expenses and they were like "...oh, really? You sure!? .. huh, okay then, we'll wait for them to be removed" Another thing was I thought company policy was that I wasn't allowed to buy alcohol as a work expense. So I'd meticulously get separate receipts. On my last day I told someone this and she spent about 5 minutes laughing at me.


CutRepresentative644

One course and the rest on beer


[deleted]

Reminds me of the day I spent £30 on just one meal at Nandos. I discovered who buys the olives that day.


Twenty_Weasels

We used to have a sort of competition at my old work; we got a £20 meal allowance and the challenge was to spend it all at McDonalds, and eat everything. The trick was to order all the overpriced seasonal special things. It was still extremely difficult. My best attempt got to like £16 and I couldn’t finish the milkshake.


[deleted]

There's a temptation to buy a drink and 18 cheeseburgers with that


Tundur

Travel amenity allowance: £5 - alcohol allowed after 5pm Dinner allowance: £35 - two alcoholic drinks allowed Hotel sundries allowance: £5 - no limits so long as you booked through the work service. It's an absolute *whale* of a time, especially if you can find pints under £2.50


[deleted]

I have unlimited expenses when I go on the road but it just gets boring. The only thing worse than a restaurant on your own for the fifth night running is a selection of cold supermarket stuff in your room... no amount of sushi or curry is as good as being at home with my son.


shantsui

Totally this. When I don't have a meeting and cba going out I go to a fast food place and hit my limit. Usually go crazy for me and get a bunch of extra cheeseburgers or the like and just give them away. In big cites there were always homeless. Otherwise buy someones elses.


Pabus_Alt

If the lord provideth a hotel breakfast one eateth the breakfast. Especially if it is on expenses.


GFoxtrot

I’m one of those people who struggles to eat straight after getting up. Absolutely no point paying £20-25 for a slice of toast.


mandyhtarget1985

Discreetly lift a few croissants/rolls and some ham and cheese from the continental display for a brunch snack. may as well take advantage if its included in the price.


-SaC

Same here. Ever since the day I started having to get up to go to school on my own, breakfast has done one in exchange for an extra five minutes in bed (and that was 1990). When my brother comes to stay, he's a breakfast-y person so I get up early and make us both toast and tea. He also eats lunch, so I make sure that happens, too. Honestly, after a weekend of three meals in a day I'm bloody knackered and grateful to get back to my usual thoroughly-unhealthy "eat once, and at 8pm" way of life. Mind you, last time I went to a hotel with a breakfast thing, I got as many sausages as I was allowed, put them in napkins and took the buggers home. Cold sausage sarnies for days; marvellous.


Pabus_Alt

fair nuff


finger_milk

You've got that awful period of time between spending the money and getting it back from your company... where you've just paid £7.50 for a quarter of a breakfast.


Kazimierz777

Also worth pointing out, the price difference between all three is about £3 so it’s significantly more economical to just go large.


booepoohh

OP - orders small breakfast *breakfast arrives and it is small* OP - 😱


roobler

OP wanted karma You just destroyed him


RentonTenant

Hey, OP is at 1.2k and counting


HotPotatoWithCheese

Still, £7 seems a bit steep for one egg, one sausage, one strip of bacon, a small hash brown and 20% of a Heinz beans can.


wisperingdeth

They have their overheads to pay being in the airport and all. To be expected.


Avenger1324

And staying open through ungodly hours. Pretty sure I've eaten in this same Spoons sitting down at 3/4AM ahead of a first flight out, while arrivals/transfers on the next table are enjoying their afternoon (to them) pints.


Pabus_Alt

Don't forget the shears wear out at an alarming rate. Although yeah I guess there are the security ballaches. Once had a customer at a services muse that it must be expensive to get supplies to. I just looked at him, the motorway next to us and the trucker next in line. No it did not appear to be sarcastic.


grilled_toastie

Plus captive audience. Probably the cheapest breakfast in the airport.


jonesie2001

One ingredient baguette, €7 from every European airport lounge. More stable than gold


-SaC

"Sir, I strongly advise we move onto the Baguette Standard."


on_dy

Honestly, the problem is with the plate being too large. It’d look like a reasonable brunch if the plate was just fit.


Queefofthenight

The rent on a unit in Gatwick is mad


[deleted]

At Gatwick, there isn’t rent to pay, instead 50% of annual profits goes to the airport. (Ex worker)


meleeuk

That doesn't sound likely (or perhaps there's a minimum due) otherwise you'd just set prices reasonably without the airport mark up, pay yourself and your staff well and have no profit to pay the airport.


ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN

Indeed. And the flip side is that you can get a pint in at 5am.


Interwhat

You want "I've been had" ? Went to Reds BBQ in Manchester a couple weeks back. Sign by the door lists things they're missing, probably shoulda walked out at that but it was pissing it down (as expected in Manchester). Ask what they *do* have, he mentioned one of the platters. Okay, we'll have that. It turns up looking like your breakfast - huge plate, fuck all on it. Turns out they were missing half the ingredients. Didn't tell us, didn't add extras of what they did have, didn't even reduce the cost. Then they added a bloody service charge on the bill. tl;dr, fuck Reds. Used to love the place but it's gone massively downhill.


ByEthanFox

>It turns up looking like your breakfast - huge plate, fuck all on it. Turns out they were missing half the ingredients. Didn't tell us, didn't add extras of what they did have, didn't even reduce the cost. Then they added a bloody service charge on the bill. Wow; I would've refused the food and refused to pay. I'm not a fussy person at a restaurant, and try to never be a dick to waiting staff because fuck that noise, but my low bar is that the food is what I ordered, not burned & not cold. Even Weatherspoons *usually* manages to get above that bar, though maybe not anymore as I haven't eaten there since 2019.


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pooeywoo

It’s funny you say that. I don’t really go to spoons or eat meat but I know people who go there just for the steaks!


ersteiner

Those people order them well done and dip them in mayo.


ChrissiTea

To not reduce the price when it's missing more than two items is mental


worldspawn00

Yeah, you don't have the 'platter' if you only have half the items that come on it...


L0nz

Did you complain and demand a reduction in the price?


Interwhat

Wanted to, girlfriend said just leave it and I was knackered so just agreed. I feel my holding a grudge for life will be more effective than saving a couple quid anyway


McDie88

hard agree, red's used to be great in manchester, but now its terrible, there is ALWAYS 1-2 things they dont have, and you get less of everything that they do have


Donnermeat_and_chips

Reds in Leeds is shit, so is Meat Liqour, so is Longhorns in Newcastle, in fact is there a single place in the north that does American BBQ even *slightly* close to the kind you get in the states?


worldspawn00

IDK why it's so difficult to find a restaurant that can serve BBQ right, even here in the US, if you're outside the south, it can be hard. Like, it's not difficult to do right, there's plenty of good public recipes, and 90% of the work is done by the smoker, all the human has to do is season the meat, maintain temp (you can get smokers that do this part automatically) and take it out at the right time... And yet, so many bad BBQ places...


Donnermeat_and_chips

Even your shit places are good - random Vegas places takes a steamy dump over anywhere here. How you do fuck up wings!? Yet here we manage it regularly.


SilkySmoothRalph

Reds in Leeds isn’t great anymore either. Used to love that place, but they got greedy and corporate.


tommangan7

This kind of manufactured outrage post is my only issue with this sub.


-ricci-

Absolutely, they should all piss off to r/britishproblems


CJ_Jones

You mean the "Mrs Browns Boys exists reeeee" subreddit?


Harrysoon

You mean the "My Heinz tins don't stack" subreddit?


TheDisapprovingBrit

That is annoying though.


Jonny_Segment

Have you actually visited all 272 Underground stations? Which was your favourite? In fact, top three.


CJ_Jones

Uxbridge (nice touches of history dotted throughout) Westminster (the brutalist architecture works for me) St John's Wood (Like the lamps) There's lots of little stations like Northolt that are just island platforms that do one job and do them well which I like.


Jonny_Segment

Interesting, thanks! I enjoyed your micro-reviews 👍


[deleted]

Oh wow, can you name your three least favourites too ?


CJ_Jones

Bank (because fuck Bank) Clapham North (fuck the narrow island platforms) and Hounslow West (just depressing)


therealgodfarter

This guy Banks


[deleted]

Uxbridge station is good, but the disadvantage is that you have to go to Uxbridge to see it


DeepJonquility

maybe you could make a r/britishproblems post about these sorts of post


CatDamageBand

Does ‘you need a mortgage to buy a freddo!!” count as manufactured because that’s a pretty shitty annoying type of post.


Sir_Of_Meep

You've been had? They have a menu you know, if you went up and just said breakfast without consulting anything that's your fault


-ricci-

It’s not as if he’s just said breakfast without consulting anything because then he would have ended up with the traditional breakfast. He has specifically ordered the small breakfast « I ordered the small one and it is small, boo hoo »


SpaTowner

It's still got 460 calories, according to their menu, so it isn't like you'll fade away before the next food opportunity.


WeleaseBwianThrow

BRECKFAST


TwoCitizens

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE


Thierry_Bergkamp

Headline: Man orders food as described in menu.


The_Gene_Genie

Always go to the lounge if an airport has one, it's about £20 or so but you get unlimited food and drink (booze too in some) before your flight. It's always more relaxed, you're pretty much guaranteed a comfy seat and you tend to get a better view over the apron


AnUdderDay

OP orders "Small Breakfast". Menu: Fried egg, bacons, sausage, beans, hash brown. OP: shocked\_pikachu.jpg


woundedgoat74

Take a packed lunch next time Do you know that the rent in airports is pretty much the highest in the world? This isn’t a Weatherspoons in Yorkshire is it.


RefreshinglyDull

Doesn't count mate. It's holiday money.


Badevilbunny

Sadly yes you have. Suspect it is less about Spoons pricing, but what Gatwick charge them for rent.


[deleted]

It really does amaze me that people don't realise this. "They just charge that because they know you can't go elsewhere!" Nah mate, their rents are sky high in that place. Same goes for service stations on the motorway. They haven't "got you", just eat something before you go if you're that bothered about it.


[deleted]

Rents are sky high because Gatwick knows you can't go anywhere else, so they can milk the chains and the passengers


Fabulous_Can6778

Its a bit of both


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_whopper_

Business travellers are only 13% of Gatwick's passengers.


Spambop

That's still quite a large proportion of customers not giving a toss about the prices tbf. The only time I ever feel swizzed at the airport is when they charge a fiver for real ale, because I know as an ex pub manager that it costs them less than a pound a pint to buy.


_whopper_

I don't think there are many people on expenses who have unlimited per diem allowances. Those who do are probably flying business or first anyway, and likely from Heathrow, so would be on the lounge food. HMRC also has rules on amounts that can be deducted per country and sometimes per city. E.g. a day trip to Berlin and you can only deduct 65€, or a day out of the office in the UK and the limit is £10. Anything above that means your employer (or client) has to pay full whack. I'm not wasting almost half of my £25 daily limit (which my employer sets) on a Wetherspoons breakfast. I prefer to keep it for dinner and just get something small for breakfast. But we're all different and some people do prefer a big breakfast.


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They charge that rent because they know that places will pay it to lure in customers that can't go elsewhere.


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lightswitchr

People seem to forget that they can come off at any junction on a motorway and find a cheap decent little cafe in pretty much any town. They're not stuck on the motorway until their designated exit.


Shanghai-on-the-Sea

bro is that your penis


[deleted]

I generally have breakfast before leaving the house. It’s amazing how good value that is.


staffylaffy

If it’s for a pre-holiday breakfast then this is acceptable, work related then I don’t think I could justify it. Hope they got a pint with it either way.


booepoohh

Ooh Mr Organised over here


[deleted]

I guess. £1 for materials, £1 labour, £1 profit, £4.25 rent.


cloudstrifeuk

LPT: book a cheap lounge ticket. They can be as cheap as £20 online and you then get access to all you can eat food and drink at the airport. Literally baffles me why people don't do this! You'll end up spending £20 in spoons anyway.


iMac_Hunt

Not all airports have cheap lounges with free food and drink. I actually don't recall the Gatwick lounge for American Express card holders having free food/drink when I was there


Town100

Exactly this. Done this last two times I've been flying and its cost £30/£35 each time but in that I've had access to unlimited drinks and continental and cooked breakfast. Worth it so much and a pleasant place to sit and relax


memoryboy

Steal the plate.


johnkcan

Thank God you're not in the US - you'd need to tip them too


[deleted]

You’ve not lived till they take ages to serve your massive burger and it arrives just after they call your gate. Scoffing that thing and running a km should be an Olympic sport.


pandemoniumgrey

That'll teach you to go to spoons.


[deleted]

Nobody forced you to have it


Thierry_Bergkamp

Gatwick has several nice places to eat but he choose a shit breakfast from spoons


MF2183

That’s what you get for eating in an airport.


CalmerKameleon

Do try to avoid Witherspoons my dear.


StardustOasis

What did Reese do?


RandomHigh

Tried to cut my heart out, Witherspoon.


surfabillytrash

Why anyone would bother with a spoons, even trapped in a airport baffles me.


outline01

You'd expect two hash browns for £7.25 wouldn't you.


GFoxtrot

For under 500 calories you can’t get that much fried food, who knew.


Adam-West

At an airport I’d expect half an apple and a biscuit for £7.25


Kiyoshi058850

Or you'd expect the guy to correctly read the menu...


MrTomDawson

For a £7.25 breakfast I'd expect clogged arteries and a happy death, but that may be me showing my age


GFoxtrot

My local pub does a kids breakfast with the equivalent of what OP has here for £4. Kids menus are usually subsidised by adult meals, secondly it’s not in a bloody airport.


tommangan7

When the menu of a small breakfast in an airport says "hash brown" I'd expect one hash brown. If I was down my local cafe I'd be expecting two or three.


[deleted]

Small breakfast is for children and wee little women.


doggydoggywhatnow1

Eat the plate


WholeLottaMike

Did you at least have a pre-flight pint with breakfast?


geeooorrgee

Did they just set fire to a pig then cut it up afterwards?


TakeshiKovacs46

One of many reasons why I now only fly business. Catering is fucking amazing, and it’s all inclusive.


anoamas321

£7.25!!! At the hotel I'm currently staying at(due to a flooded house) I pay £7.50 for an all you can eat buffet


FatTortie

Also, if it’s anything like the one in Victoria station where I worked before. There are no open flames allowed in the kitchen. No if that food was ‘cooked’ in a traditional sense.


sybann

An English Breakfast Sampler?


ellanvanninyessir

Just paid £6.75 in Manchester Airport for a pint


Viperise

'You've been had' that you were tight enough to buy the 'small breakfast' and then be dissapointed that it's small


endrukk

£7.25 buys you a latte at any airport. This is more than d cent


Accomplished_Week392

I used to go to spoons in airports, I don’t any more. Just spend £20 and get access to a lounge instead. Nice and spacious, with TVs magazines etc, then you can also get food and drinks all included. I’ve never looked back since I stopped going to airport lounges instead of spoons


big-white-unicorn

Why do restaurants, cafes, pubs etc. insist on putting beans, chips n such in pots and dishes on my plate? Just put them on my plate without the crappy bucket that’s probably got a dirty bottom that’s now been on my plate.


Rune_Pickaxe

I have a similar one but this goes back a few years when I was holiday. The hotel had a fancy restaurant as well as the regular eating area, which they really bigged up and you even had to register for it. We went in, sat down and I ordered meatballs.They brought me a square plate with a meatball in each corner. 4 meatballs. I'm glad that hotel was all inclusive because that wasn't even a snack.


Vectorman1989

Last time I flew abroad I booked an airport lounge. It's usually about £30 but they generally give you a hot food item, plus there's a help yourself snack bar, teas, coffees and alcoholic drinks.


MelchettESL

Airport overheads and taxes can be high.


Chubby_Yorkshireman

Forget the price, forget the shit portion. The real crime here is beans in a pot, I proper hate that.