Food Standards At Spfl Grounds (Including Hospitality)

[ChookterDon]

What would you say is the poorest excuse for food that you have ever had?

Where was it?

Also the best food you have had at an SPFL ground?

Anyone got any experience of good/bad hospo at grounds?

 

I say this as I live in Dundee, soon to be Edinburgh, and The Courier has got an article stating Dundee is the worst for food hygiene in Scotland due to the sheer number of establishments that have been given an Improvement Required notice.

Original article:

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/dundee-worst-for-food-hygiene-1.624597

 

You can search for places in areas that have these notices.

 

I CAME ACROSS THIS.....

http://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/186524/Dundee-Utd-Function-Suites/Players-Kitchen-Dundee-City

 

 

Dundee United's function suites. They have been served with a notice...anyone ever visited before?

[minijc]

Any place that sells balti pies or pizza slices are fucking ace, anywhere else is average or shit.

[Dandyesque]

Pittodrie is up there with the worst I have had, but they have had a lot more chances to get it wrong to be fair.

 

Not having pies left 5 mins after half-time is also a pretty damning indictment

[Stoney]

you would struggle to find poorer food at any sport in europe than at scottish football

[Tord31]

Aint had food at pittodrie in ages but noticed recently that we are pushing hot dogs a bit more than previously. Rds is anyway.

[tommo1903]

I went to St James Park for the Chelsea game last season. About £3.50 for a pie but it was fuckin gid.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

Best corporate in my limited experience. Ross county. Cracking bit of roast lamb if I remember right!

 

Agree on fast food. Once you've done stateside and had half a cow in a fresh baguette for $2.50 a questionable pie from a non English speaking vendor in the RDS just isn't the same. And pittodrie isn't the worst by any means.

[Stoney]

mind they used to do roast beef sannies in the rds they were ace

[tommo1903]

Pies at Pittodrie have been shit for about a year now.

[The Boofon]

Pies at Pittodrie have been shit for about a year now.

That horse meat scare fucked them up.

 

Get the pies back to containing horse meat again is what I say to this.

 

Scampi and chips in the Bon Accord pre match is the food of champions for games at Pittodrie anyway.

[dervish]

Free pies after half time at Cally, I think the lovely kind lassie fancied me. My favorite price. Couldn't get anything to wash it down with because the lazy fat bitch was too busy binning pies though.

[ebbe]

The scran at Ibrox on Saturday was horrific. I bought two cheeseburgers and they were similar to the ones at pittodrie, like they had some fat mess sitting on them all day. One bite and my mouth was like a golf bunker. My own fault I suppose for buying anything from that hovel.

[Redstar]

Pittodrie is up there with the worst I have had

The new 30p baguette married with the 20p sausage has to be an all time low...the £3.50 price tag is a further kick to the cojones...the amount of fat cunts strutting about the South Stand these days...the club are missing a massive opportunity.

[Ke1t]

Stick a proper restaurant in the RDS, a bar next to it, big screen tellies, and enormous tittied waitresses in low cut tops.

 

Am I the only cunt thinking here?

[ChutneyLove]

Billy Brick used to tell a story about one time sneaking into Pittodrie for a huns game. He had to hide in the Kenny's catering bit in the Soother from before the gates opened. It was in the away end, so he took the opportunity to scoop out a pie and have a shite in it, replacing the pie lid carefully. Billy Brick never let the truth get in the way of a good story, but I hope to fuck that one happened.

[Stoney]

The pie has had its day, certainly with the utter shit they serve at The Pitt.

 

Curry pots, that would be the way forward.

 

Jamie Oliver would sort it out.

 

I could do chilli pots and make a fortune at it i reckon

[BrianFaePerth]

Stick a proper restaurant in the RDS, a bar next to it, big screen tellies, and enormous tittied waitresses in low cut tops.

 

Am I the only cunt thinking here?

 

Think of the costs in getting decently titted women to move to Aberdeen

[Dynamo]

The steak pies are much better than the Pittodrie pies.

[Pudgie]

I've been to Utd's hospitality. Arite. Wasn't quite up to the standard of what people would have paid for but it was fine. It wouldn't look out of place on a typical dinner table in someones hoose, but like I said, food was good.

 

Septic Park is the best I've been to in a long time. Different stands for different things and a huge selection.

[muttonhumper]

Best corporate in my limited experience. Ross county.

 

Did that and Partick last season.

 

Both very decent and both pissed all over Pittodrie (very erratic/hit or miss) in terms of service.

[gla5gowdon]

Did hospitality at the Scotland game on Sunday. Rump of lamb. Yes, I had succulent lamb at Ibrox...

 

Meal was good though.

 

Good corporate mention to Partick Thistle as well.

 

Killie pies (curry and homecoming pies RIP) and I've always found the pies at Motherwell to be good.

 

Attended two baseball games this year and the food choice is absurd: noodles, sushi, pizza, hot dogs, meatball sliders, chicken wings, all the usual Yank stuff. They had a proper bratwurst stand at a few Warriors games last year and that was fine terrace chow - almost as good as the real thing.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Better scran and serve beer and Scottish football will be the richest game on the planet

[The Boofon]

Just serve beer. Nobody gives a fuck what they eat when they're half cut.

[gla5gowdon]

Beers at the game would be tremendous, clubs would make a fortune.

[Pudgie]

Beers at the game would be tremendous, clubs would make a fortune.

Beers, fruit ciders, premixed kalimotxos, chips with chilli/cheese/gravy/curry... pretty fucking simple stuff that would make a fortune and make the football seem enjoyable rather than a chore.

 

Oh, and how difficult would it be to get a fucking bank machine? I don't even know where the nearest one to Pittodrie would be?

[Dynamo]

Beers, fruit ciders, premixed kalimotxos, chips with chilli/cheese/gravy/curry... pretty fucking simple stuff that would make a fortune and make the football seem enjoyable rather than a chore.

 

Oh, and how difficult would it be to get a fucking bank machine? I don't even know where the nearest one to Pittodrie would be?

 

Tesco Garage on Kings Street.

[tommo1903]

It dispenses fivers as well, for those of you that like £5 notes.

[strachanmcgheegoal]

On yank food (no jokes ). I like that US thing of having a big food hall (like under a stand for instance) and then lease out a heap of booths with Chinese, Mexican, baked tatties all that shit. Supply and demand sorts out the shit ones and queues stop everyone going for the same thing. Simples.

 

On the cash machine thing, many moons ago I was organising a big outdoor event. I approached all banks and basically asked if they had such a thing as a cash machine on the back of a van. To say I was ridiculed is to put it mildly.

 

Now I'm not a fucking retard. It would need to be a tad more sophisticated I know. In the days of being able to shut down a fucking rig in the North Sea from a fucking iPad in westill the above does not seem like a major challenge to me. Certainly the retailers on site we're screaming for it as drunk customers in sunshine spend big as a rule.

[Pudgie]

On yank food (no jokes ). I like that US thing of having a big food hall (like under a stand for instance) and then lease out a heap of booths with Chinese, Mexican, baked tatties all that shit. Supply and demand sorts out the shit ones and queues stop everyone going for the same thing. Simples.

 

On the cash machine thing, many moons ago I was organising a big outdoor event. I approached all banks and basically asked if they had such a thing as a cash machine on the back of a van. To say I was ridiculed is to put it mildly.

 

Now I'm not a fucking retard. It would need to be a tad more sophisticated I know. In the days of being able to shut down a fucking rig in the North Sea from a fucking iPad in westill the above does not seem like a major challenge to me. Certainly the retailers on site we're screaming for it as drunk customers in sunshine spend big as a rule.

A cash machine seems like an obvious inclusion. £1 a transaction and the club would surely make a wee bit of cash. Maybe it's not as simple as we think though as I can't think of any grounds in Scotland having them. IIRC Wembley has them, not sure if it's a Scottish thing or just a fact that we're quite far behind.

 

 

But the food should just be better. A massive fuck off pot of stovies. How much would that be? Fuck ton of oatcakes, plastic forks and a paper plate. It would make a fortune!

[Stoney]

Any chance of beer at football was blown by 19 alcohol related arrests last weekend in dundee.

 

Cheers boys.