large booking at restaurant- how to split the bill?

Person_one

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

For instance - in a very different context - I've gathered hydrochloric acid (for instance) is used in the course of preparing yer standard white sugar.!!!!! Not what I would call "clean" by any manner of means then.....

You do know it occurs naturally in your stomach, don't you?

cbrown372

I can't believe that 60 years on someone is blaming their mother for non healthy eating when she fed you what was available at the time. Must ask the doc next time I visit what harm custard powder would have done me 60 years ago.

onlyroz

NewShadow wrote: »

Blue Dragon Coconut Milk Light 400Ml
Ingredients:
Water, Coconut Extract (25%), Stabiliser (E466), Antioxidant (Citric Acid)

Blue Dragon Coconut Milk
Ingredients:
Coconut Extract (56%), Water, Stabiliser (E466), Emulsifier (E435), Antioxidant (Citric Acid)

from Tesco.com

I judge the quality of coconut milk by the proportion of solids in the can - with more being better. If you use a cheap version you often find the resulting dishes to be pretty insipid. Personally I'd rather have the full-fat version and enjoy a truly tasty meal once in a while, to having an insipid watered down version and not really enjoying the meal.

onlyroz

missbiggles1 wrote: »

As for sugar, pure fruit juice can rot your teeth in exactly the same way that "unclean " fizzy drinks can, as research into tooth decay in children is now showing and many fruits are actually quite high in calories, a fact that some dieters ignore.

I have an extremely overweight friend who drinks pints and pints of fresh orange juice every day because he thinks it's healthier than (e.g.) cola. While it's true that pints and pints of cola would do you no good at all, it can't be ignored that just 250 ml of fruit juice contains about a quarter of the recommended daily sugar intake.

Pollycat

ceecee1 wrote: »

The worse thing I have ever come across did involve a large group of acquaintances.
We mostly added up our food and drink and then put that into the middle with around £2/£3 tip each.

One person announced that he was going to pay buy card, gathered up all our cash and was then overheard paying exactly the amount on the bill. He didn't leave our tips so must have pocketed that himself.

Lesson learnt - the next time we told the restaurant to take his bill on his card before we paid our cash.

The lesson he should have learned is don't stiff your friends/colleagues/acquaintances.
If I had been in the same party, I would have made it very clear in vocal tones that carried throughout the restaurant that he was a mean scumbag.
Nobody would have pocketed my tip.

onlyroz

If I'm eating out and I know that somebody else is paying I think I'd take their lead over the sorts of things to order (within the normal realms of my appetite). And so if they were tucking into lobster and fillet steak I would assume that it would be OK for me to order the same if I wanted it. However, if they went for the mushroom risotto and a soft drink I would be more hesitant about splashing out.

NewShadow

Pollycat wrote: »

was then overheard paying exactly the amount on the bill. He didn't leave our tips so must have pocketed that himself.

If I had been in the same party, I would have made it very clear in vocal tones that carried throughout the restaurant that he was a mean scumbag.
Nobody would have pocketed my tip.

I probably would have wandered up as he was paying and asked the bar person if £x had been okay as a tip as I find the percentages all very confusing, so would have just wanted to check...

moneyistooshorttomention

cbrown372 wrote: »

I can't believe that 60 years on someone is blaming their mother for non healthy eating when she fed you what was available at the time. Must ask the doc next time I visit what harm custard powder would have done me 60 years ago.

being as "precise" as I personally aim to be = nope I'm not "blaming" her. She did the best she could according to the extent of knowledge "yer average person in the street" had at that point in history.

Do get your facts straight - as opposed to trying to score a point (against me personally - yet Again! :cool:) - or get some other hobby - either will do....

missbiggles1

onlyroz wrote: »

If I'm eating out and I know that somebody else is paying I think I'd take their lead over the sorts of things to order (within the normal realms of my appetite). And so if they were tucking into lobster and fillet steak I would assume that it would be OK for me to order the same if I wanted it. However, if they went for the mushroom risotto and a soft drink I would be more hesitant about splashing out.

The restaurant we've taken people to for very special occasions has 2 set menus (and the tasting menu;)) which we used to categorise as dear and eye watering. We always planned in advance that we would each have different menus so that it would be clear to our friends that they could choose whichever they liked without worrying that they were doing the right thing.

seven-day-weekend

RE 'natural' and 'unnatural' stuff. I once read a book about depression written by a psychiatrist, in which he said that many people refused antidepressants because they were not 'natural'. He said 'you want natural? OK, you drink the petroleum and I'll drink the Coca-Cola '.