Harvesters vs. Beefeaters: FITE!

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Which is better/worse? And whatever happened to Bernis?

― MarkH, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

prompted by the Snob-o-meter test of course.

― MarkH, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been to BOTH! Harvesters are best because of their technologickal adverts of wonder!!! LOOK! as the chef tosses up some sweetcorn from his PAN in the air!! MARVEL! as it FREEZES! GASP! as some super scientific 3D technology SPINS AROUND the corn on the cob so you can see all angles of its Harvester goodness!! And the final moment of inserting the gravy boat on the platter, what a climax. And their paté starter = very nice hem-hem.

My memories of a Beefeater are my dad complaining about his Ploughmans Lunch and me and my stepmother sitting outside miserably waiting for him and not speaking on the entire way home. It seemed to be hours we were waiting...

― Sarah, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NB, the Harvester advert has in the past, reduced me to tears of amusement.

― Sarah, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Harvester has that advert where the mum takes her daughter there to explain the Facts of Life, doesn't it? I find it SOOOOO disturbing.

― Archel, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know that one... it rings a vague bell! But it will never replace 'Have You Been to a Harvester' in my Harvester advert affections. Ooh and the sound effects of 'sizzling pan fried goodness'. Wowsers.

― Sarah, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You could track me & my brother's growing up (sorry about the grammar & stuff) according to what we were allowed to eat at the Beefeater (or was it a Berni?) when taken out by my grandparents.

E.g. youngest = sharing the prawn cocktail & steak dinner. Then progression to a 4oz steak (do they exist? Anyway the smallest one). Then 6oz. Then 8oz. Then I gave up but my brother battled manfully on to tackle the 12oz while I tried to assert my maturity by umming and ahhing over rump vs sirloin.

Now of course I would choose SCAMPI. Do they do scampi?

― Emma, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never been to a Beefeater, or a Berni, or an Angus Steak House. But Harvester do nie honey and mustard salad dressing at the salad bar. And blue cheese. And Ceasar. So harvester for the salad dressing. Yum.

― Anna, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I mourn the passing of the Berni Inn. Ah the Scampi & Chips were exactly the kind of thing other nations talked about when they said our food was crap. But to me as a youngster there was nothing more exotic that Tartare Sauce in a china pot by the salad garnish (its a garnish - its not for eating - as my mum would say).

― Pete, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The other thing I do when I feel miserable (apart from going to Primark) is go to WIMPY or SPUD-U-LIKE which I am always amazed still exist in trendy Brighton. More 'great' British gastronomic institutions. (I don't actually EAT at them, just look at them and remember my childhood.)

― Archel, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WIMPY = CLASSIC. (If just for the Bender).

― Pete, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bender = classic++ "Bite my shiny metal ass!" however both harvester and Beefeater and ANY IN FACT bloody themed chain joints are all CRAP, this includes bloody Chicago's and all its satanic ilk. i ring up to say "well we might be coming for lunch, but could i just enquire if you'd do a vegetarian option but leave out the cheese/milky sauce/sour cream on one of your dishes?" they reply "sorry madam all our food is pre-made and frozen, we only heat it up". MM NICE QUALITY i'm sure you'll agree. feckers. infact all of the above can bite MY shiny metal ass.

― katie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never been to any of the above mentioned, except Wimpy. Although, come to think on it, I once went into Beefeater to use their loos BUT I DIDN"T EAT ANYTHING AND LEFT QUICKLY. I thought it was new potatoes that are in the Harvester advert, Sarah? Do Little Chefs exist in places other than laybys?

― alix, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

harvesters sonned by wite bears in beefeaters beef

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 2 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

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