Welcome to my unexpected Christmas special.
I didn’t intend to review my work Christmas dinner – it doesn’t
really count as a Sunday roast despite having most of the ingredients, however
this was something else.
Generally I loathe these types of gatherings – they seem
like something a cruel government would inflict on its citizens as punishment,
however I actually like a couple of my colleagues, there was gravy on offer, it
was free and included some free drinks.
It being a Hilton, I was expecting the lovely Paris to be DJing, sadly
there was not even a hologram of her DJing. Perhaps
our Christmas party budget does not stretch to £500,000 for the DJ.
Anyway, I straightened my hair, filled up my new hip flask
with vodka and I was reddehtegurrrr, as we say in ‘Ull. By the way, it is a city in the north of
England. No, it isn’t near Newcastle.
The starter was pate.
I have to gurrrr back up north in 10 days so I thought best to reduce my
risk of being beaten up and declined to eat it.
Otherwise I’ll be accused of being a Cockney again. Urrrrgh yuv lost yurrr akkscent,
yurrahCockneh.
The main meal arrived.
This I can eat. Though whether I
should have done is another question.
The sprouts were anaemic-looking green balls which one
imagines could have been excreted by Dale Winton after a particularly long
greens-only diet.
Carrots. It is hard
to do carrots wrong and they were mass-cooked and microwaved in standard format.
Parsnips. Uncooked. At least they were defrosted.
Was there any chance perhaps of some nice, crispy roast
potatoes? Ho Ho Ho. 3 small soggy items with a rough edge, kind of like a fine sandpaper.
And finally, the piece de resistance – the turkey. Now turkey can be dry when cooked but this
was extra dry. I didn’t taste any turkey
and can only assume that it was some recycled cardboard reformed and injected
with turkey stem cells. MacDonalds
chicken nuggets have a closer resemblance to meat than this turkey did.
You may also have noticed some gooey thing on top of the
processed things. I couldn’t quite
decide what this was – imagine stuffing, but in a jelly texture that tastes of
bacon.
The gravy, sorry, I mean shiny brown water, was invisible when my
dinner arrived. However they had a gravy
boat especially for me so I could drown my reformed manufactures. Interestingly, the remaining gravy in said
gravy boat actually had some consistency to it an hour later.
Now I have had a worse meal before. A group of us went to Island Bar many years
ago and some food was actually still frozen upon arrival. At least this dinner was defrosted and
microwaved. Not sure when it was
microwaved as I do not recall any particular warmth.
When I was at university, I did once just complete the name
section on an exam paper to see if I got a mark for it. I didn’t.
In a similar kind of way, I feel that the Hilton hotel does
deserve at least some credit for not serving frozen food and also not giving me
food poisoning. Not quite a whole point
though.
So I give it a 0.8 out of 10.
I did enjoy the bread roll.
And yes I did get chucked out of university. Voluntarily.
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