Reward Meal
When I went to school (back in the dark ages) we had 'Dinner Ladies', of course in our new PC correct world today we have 'Lunch Time Supervisors'. As I was growing up I was used to the idea of Dinner meaning the meal between breakfast and the evening thing. So the weekend had started badly, gamma and gamma-p had invited us over for dinner and offered to make a curry. Originally I had planned to see them during the day, and then go out with my friends in the evening. Then the wife reminded me that Dinner is evening and not mid day, so I could not go out with my mates and also visit my lovely child.
gamma lives in Canterbury with his girlfriend gamma-p. They are both students. gamma-p makes a really great curry. Student life is probably not much fun (although they don't actually go to the uni as the holidays have started). Their life has been made less fun as their accommodation does not have any running water any more. They have been given bottled water as compensation, but long story short, curry was off the menu. They decided that they would take myself, the wife, and delta out for a meal instead (at Lunch time, which is Dinner time, which means I could have gone out with my mates after all).
We took the drive to Canterbury, but thanks to the smelly road being shut (the one that goes past Quest or Givaudan or Bachelors or Campbell), we had to drive through Ashford town, the traffic was normal (i.e. bad), a nice drive to Canterbury itself, but then it blocked up just outside and took another 20 minutes to drive about 2 miles.
Everyone was in good sprits and we took a walk along the river into the town. A fallen tree blocked the path. At this point gamma said "that reminds me, there is a tree blocking the path". We could not go under the tree, we could not go over the tree, we could not go around the tree, so we went through the tree.
Once into the town we made the walk to the West Gate Inn pub for lunner. We did go in, so it isn't a complete failure, but the pub was very busy and no empty table for five (except in the smoking area), the general feeling was that we should go somewhere else. I should state as this point that I am happy to still count this pub towards my target, as it seems I have been here before with a college from work and some business colleges from Germany, and we did have a drink. It counts, OK. We left via the back passage (oh err).
After much debate we decided we wanted Fish and Chips and we walked back into town and found 'Maria's Coffee Lounge'. It was not busy, but you still have to go to the front to place your order and there are no menus at the table. gamma and gamma-p went up to order. Given that everyone wanted Fish and Chips, of course we all ended up with something different. Chicken and Chips, Sausage Sandwich and Chips and I had the cheese omelette. (i am sorry, but the omelette was very poor, the cheese had no taste). The toilets have a code you have to enter, but if you push hard you can just go in. I don't think they made us feel very welcome to be honest and I now know why it wasn't busy.
The rest of the day was pretty normal for us, a trip to PoundLand (waggon wheels, thank you), a nice walk back and some good conversation, and then we went back home taking gamma's washing home with us.
delta was keen to get home as he had a plan for the 'ultimate burger', he was inspired from a Crusty Kob that he bought a few weeks back from the co-op. His idea was to build a super burger (hand made using mince beef and onion), slice the kob in half and make it into a burger (adding cheese). So for the evening we put this plan into action. the wife suggested slicing the bread twice and putting bacon into the top layer. Safe to say the burger was very good, and it reminded me of a Victoria Sponge. His new invention is now called the Victorious Burger.
Thank you gamma and gamma-p for having us and paying for lunch.
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