Lots of people don't get that excited about bacon, despite internet people banging on about it, making T-shirts, etc. Prosciutto crudo is much nicer, if we're limiting ourselves to things one can do with a pig.
It's not just the internet. Even in the dim and distant, people would claim that the smell of bacon sandwiches was the downfall of vegetarians everywhere. I never really got it. I'd really rather not be vegetarian, but if had to be then bacon would be a long way down the list of things I'd miss.
I've never understood the bacon thing. I quite liked it back when I still ate meat, but I haven't particularly missed it since and I don't offhand remember any other vegetarian mention it. Opal Fruits, yes, but the current version is vegetarian again so I'm sorted.
Um... actually, I don't know. They always have decent beer, thus I don't look for cider.
I have to say, in general I wouldn't say it was a particularly fabulous pub that's worth visiting (the food is generally decent rather than outstanding). It just happens to be the second-closest pub to the office (and the most closest keeps very bad beer). What I most appreciated today was their general obligingness and being capable of adding foods they already serve anyway to other foods, rather than a chain-pub response of "that's not on the menu".
(Actually in the bad-beer pub I do drink Strongbow for preference. At least it never said it was anything other that fizzy chemical crap. As opposed to Gaymers, say, which is all high-falutin' and still tastes terrible.)
I had to look up the Maiden Over on the map; despite living in Reading for years, I'm not well acquainted with darkest Earley! It's too far from my office for a Friday lunchtime, so you needn't worry. If we're feeling sufficiently degenerate, we tend to head in the opposite direction, to the Swan at Three Mile Cross.
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Although it has just been demonstrated that a pint of Fat Cat has rendered one of my colleagues unable to count accurately up to 2.
0 and 1 ahould be good enough for any programmer. ;-)
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Prosciutto crudo is much nicer, if we're limiting ourselves to things one can do with a pig.
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Oh. Oh my.
Shame it's in Reading.
Did they have any decent cider on? Website only mentions Strongbow (ick).
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I have to say, in general I wouldn't say it was a particularly fabulous pub that's worth visiting (the food is generally decent rather than outstanding). It just happens to be the second-closest pub to the office (and the most closest keeps very bad beer). What I most appreciated today was their general obligingness and being capable of adding foods they already serve anyway to other foods, rather than a chain-pub response of "that's not on the menu".
(Actually in the bad-beer pub I do drink Strongbow for preference. At least it never said it was anything other that fizzy chemical crap. As opposed to Gaymers, say, which is all high-falutin' and still tastes terrible.)
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My local near work (Barrel & Horn) has Aspalls and usually at least one scrumpy cider on tap. Last week it was the lovely (but lethal) Tumbledown.
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