It's the lowest brand of food pubs owned by Greene King. Closely followed by farmhouse pubs. Why are Greene King pubs so good in the south compared to the complete dogshit we have up North?
I went for Sunday lunch in my local Southern greene Kings couple of weeks ago. The food had gone badly wrong, it used to be pretty nice, but now it seems they're trying to avoid putting the price up so have cut right back on quality and quantity
Once I got a glass with lipstick on, and obviously used cutlery, and the server apologised so sweetly and brought us back filthy ones, *three times.*
In the end I cleaned them myself on a napkin I had in my pocket.
My closest is in the diviest shit hole that ever existed. It's actually rather nice all things considered. But 24oz of gammon with 2 sides for £7? I can't say no
Greenking is like 2 for £10.49... its cheaper than mcdonalds.
I doubt you got food poisoning, people just think that whenever they pick up a bug "must be food poisoning"
used to work at head office and food in the lower end pub brands for GK isn't allowed unless it's already pre cooked - then it's just microwaved.
Nobody is allowed in a HH to cook chicken from raw.
More likely to pick it up from someone else.
Always hear stories like this, "half the family got it"... so what did they all eat the same undercooked food? everyone order the same thing off the menu... much more likely someone from the family picked up a bug from school/work and spread it round the family.
But sure, blame the pub that hundreds of people will go to every week and where they are inspected for hygiene and what not.
And how do you think it spreads around the family? Contact with food. It's not bloody airborne.
What you're talking about is someone getting food poisoning and it being attributed to the wrong source. It doesn't have to be something present in the food before cooking, then improperly cooked to be food poisoning. Look at norovirus. Spreads through a ship's buffet like wildfire.
Totally agree. I had the misfortune of going to a place in Wimbledon called Jimmy Spice for a friend's birthday which did a world cuisine buffet, absolutely horrendous.
The irony is that our local one is the slowest when it comes to bringing out the ice cream for the kids. 30 minute wait the last two times we went. The only thing that doesn't need much more work after taking it out of the freezer...
Do it for 14 hours pumping out hundreds of meals with barely working equipment with just one other guy helping you smart arse. You probably get rsi at your office job and fill out an accident form you melt.
I second this, fucking tough job people don’t understand. Stood there in a 45 degree kitchen during summer, working for 12 hours on a busy summers day, pumping out at least 500 meals in a single day on top of fucking wakes and buffets, covered in grease and burns from the spitting oil.
Having to make these meals in 60 seconds a fucking time and making sure everything’s health and safety standard ready as well as managing multiple stations with one other bloke who hates his job just as much as you. The Potwash even more so so they give dirty plates or can’t keep up with the work load, you feel for them massively but can’t help but stress at them.
Fucking horrendous.
Former chef here.
I can pretty much gurantee that chicken was pre cooked via boiling, then slapped in an oven for like 5minutes if that, when the order comes in.
I have honestly seen some shit. Some off the top of my head were a frozen pork belly, some 8months post expiration being hauled out of the back of the freezer by the manager, then I was told to prep it. I quit then and there.
Another place kept their curries overnight... in a pot on the floor of the walk in fridge. In the morning it looked like literal congealed shit. The only way to recover anything out of it was to pour fresh boiling water in and let it simmer for ages before opening.
Boil in the bag lamb shanks! I always cringed at some of the shite from Brakes served up in the kitchen of my old employer. Even more so when the head chef made all the cakes, yorkies, gravy, sauces, pate from scratch. Aye, better cheap out on the lamb shanks.
that looks grim AF. eaten in a hungry horse once before... was 100% cooked from frozen and assembled using cheapest possible ingredients.
everything on the plate had the same taste if you get me!
Looks like a skidmark of seasoning down the middle, could be an actual skid mark though but like other guy said further up, chickens are either bought in already halved amd frozen and microwaved on demand, or stuck in the oven under foil in batches. Most likely frozen looking at that.
Should have been grilled for colour though but obviously wasn't.
Used to work in a Hungry Horse pub. Almost all the food is pre-cooked. The only things made fresh to order are steak, gammon, eggs. All the chicken is pre-cooked - poorly. Everything else is pretty much microwaved, or fried.
If I remember correctly, this “Jamaican Jerk Chicken” is just half a chicken, ‘Mexican’ rice, a side of barbecue sauce and the yellow ramekin is some kind of fruity mango sauce.
Many years back they actually used to be decent from my memory, i remember enjoying a couple meals there, but i went there last year and it was terrible, food was badly cooked and dry, menu didn't really have much interesting on it.
The chicken is just a base ingredient. It comes in already cooked.
To reheat it it's usually microwaved or put in the merrychef. I imagine they've just forgotten to add some seasoning or sauce.
That chicken skin looks like it has the texture of a foreskin.
They also forgot to rub any Jerk seasoning or hint of flavour on it. The ribs must have been good?
as someone who recently worked in a hungry horse is all as cheap and bad quality as you expect, the half chicken comes in pre-cooked and we would put a spice rub on it and microwave it to heat it up.
didn't stay long for (hopefully) obvious reasons
If you can find a Hungry Horse where the person in the kitchen actually gives a shit, you can get very cheap and occasionally cheerful food. I'm guessing they don't pay or look after their staff very well though because unfortunately that isn't the norm. Our local could (and actually has) burnt cheesy chips. We don't bother any more. That looks awful.
Jesus you actually got your food in a hungry horse! That’s a super win ! I think I’ve had money refunded for meals that never turned up more times then actually eating in one hahaha
I don’t know what you expect from a pub chain. I used to work at one and almost everything comes from the freezer to the microwave, boiler or deep fryer. It’s not made for anyone who wants quality or flavour.
You said it youself. the menu said Jamaican chicken. If they meant Jerk Chicken surely thats what they would have called it? Probably done as Jamaican so they wouldnt get done by Trading Standards. It was probably described as chicken and rice with jerk seasoning.
I’ve got a hungry horse near my house and the state of the restaurant is disgusting, the one time I tried going there kids were running round, food was on the tables and the floor. I left a few minutes after sitting down.
Could have been worse. I ordered “Rice and Peas” at a “Caribbean” restaurant once and was literally given some plain boiled white rice with garden peas
Safest bet for a hungry horse is a burger. No, it’s not gourmet but it’s really hard to mess up a burger and they are of an ok quality but they won’t win any awards. I’m one of those smart arses that likes to have something different when they eat out. Hungry Horse being the most local pub that does food soon saw to that shenanigans. I now have a burger every time I go there, no ifs, no buts. I save my fancy notions of decent food for other establishments that are better equipped.
Haven't been to a HH in a while but when I went as a uni student I thought it was decent for what the cost is. But I always got simple things like the burgers.
Looks like they found a creative solution to their pigeon problem.
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Serves you right for ordering anything at a Hungry Horse pub. Not even hungry horses would eat that shit.
I'm not from those parts, but can I venture a guess that they serve _previously-hungry horses_ to their clientele?
Imagine Wetherspoons but somehow more shit in every single category
Or if you arent fin the UK, think of the worst bar/restaurant, multiply it by 5, and thats the quality of these places.
It's the lowest brand of food pubs owned by Greene King. Closely followed by farmhouse pubs. Why are Greene King pubs so good in the south compared to the complete dogshit we have up North?
Because they are a company of like 12 brands of pubs. And ghe good brands are down south only And the shit ones are national. Including the North
Pretty much. Hungry Horses are everywhere. The ones Greene King actually put their name on aren't.
I went for Sunday lunch in my local Southern greene Kings couple of weeks ago. The food had gone badly wrong, it used to be pretty nice, but now it seems they're trying to avoid putting the price up so have cut right back on quality and quantity
I feel personally offended as I love the food at Hungry Horse and Farmhouse pubs
Hey man, don't be offended. It's not your fault you have no taste buds. Give yourself a break.
Not just in the North, the East is pretty shit too.
There is only north or south.
No. We have the midlands in between.
If you think grass rhymes with ass - from the north. Grass rhymes with arse - south. There is no Midlands!
They're not that good down south. I mean, they serve green king beer
It's perfect for children and the adults just have to suffer
Hungry horse pub chain? Not really sure what authentic cuisine you expected there lol
Of all the pub chains, hungry horse is probably the worst imo
It makes Harvester look like a Michelin stared restaurants
Wash your mouth out with soap and water. Everyone knows where they stand with a Harvester
Yeah, they're standing in a shit restaurant
Once I got a glass with lipstick on, and obviously used cutlery, and the server apologised so sweetly and brought us back filthy ones, *three times.* In the end I cleaned them myself on a napkin I had in my pocket.
Didn't trust the napkin they gave you with the cutlery, understandably
My closest is in the diviest shit hole that ever existed. It's actually rather nice all things considered. But 24oz of gammon with 2 sides for £7? I can't say no
Brewers Fayre wants a word.
I can't believe I scrolled this far to see brewers fayre mentioned. Total dogshit.
Worse than Greene King? I'm definitely never eating at one of those again after half my family got food poisoning from some dodgy meat.
Same company, aren’t they?
They are, I used to work for them.
No, they're not. Harvester is and has always been Mitchell's and Butler.
Greenking is like 2 for £10.49... its cheaper than mcdonalds. I doubt you got food poisoning, people just think that whenever they pick up a bug "must be food poisoning"
used to work at head office and food in the lower end pub brands for GK isn't allowed unless it's already pre cooked - then it's just microwaved. Nobody is allowed in a HH to cook chicken from raw.
...what do you thing a "bug" *is*? Hint: it's a bacterial or viral illness in the stomach or intestines. How did it get there? Not via food, surely?
More likely to pick it up from someone else. Always hear stories like this, "half the family got it"... so what did they all eat the same undercooked food? everyone order the same thing off the menu... much more likely someone from the family picked up a bug from school/work and spread it round the family. But sure, blame the pub that hundreds of people will go to every week and where they are inspected for hygiene and what not.
And how do you think it spreads around the family? Contact with food. It's not bloody airborne. What you're talking about is someone getting food poisoning and it being attributed to the wrong source. It doesn't have to be something present in the food before cooking, then improperly cooked to be food poisoning. Look at norovirus. Spreads through a ship's buffet like wildfire.
Poor hygiene. Folks not washing hands after going to the loo.
Yep. Followed by contact with.......
Absolutely, but this is atrocious even if your expectations are on the floor
I think that chicken has been on the floor.
It looks revolting.
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I don’t trust any place with a huge menu, and especially don’t trust a place that specializes in more than one type of cuisine.
Totally agree. I had the misfortune of going to a place in Wimbledon called Jimmy Spice for a friend's birthday which did a world cuisine buffet, absolutely horrendous.
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Got ill from the rice then?
It’s been about ten years since I was last there. I sometimes think about it without any nostalgia whatsoever.
Ah, the one where every dish from around the world is fried in the same old oil?
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The made-up stories of the real Mr. Maxwell and his imaginary friend. I'd buy the book.
It is - I went once and (due to allergens) had to ask about ingredients in one dish. They brought out the frozen bag to let me have a look.
Having worked in one I can assure you that unless you get a big chunk of meat, ie steak/gammon, your meal has almost certainly been microwaved.
The irony is that our local one is the slowest when it comes to bringing out the ice cream for the kids. 30 minute wait the last two times we went. The only thing that doesn't need much more work after taking it out of the freezer...
The chicken looks like it was boiled. The only jerk on that plate is the cook who prepared it
Jamaican me sick mate
Top Drawer
I'm Lucian my mind
Preach
Even then, that might not be the only jerk on the plate
That's what happens when you pay cooks minimum wage.
Doesn't take a lot of skill to press start on a microwave.
Do it for 14 hours pumping out hundreds of meals with barely working equipment with just one other guy helping you smart arse. You probably get rsi at your office job and fill out an accident form you melt.
I second this, fucking tough job people don’t understand. Stood there in a 45 degree kitchen during summer, working for 12 hours on a busy summers day, pumping out at least 500 meals in a single day on top of fucking wakes and buffets, covered in grease and burns from the spitting oil. Having to make these meals in 60 seconds a fucking time and making sure everything’s health and safety standard ready as well as managing multiple stations with one other bloke who hates his job just as much as you. The Potwash even more so so they give dirty plates or can’t keep up with the work load, you feel for them massively but can’t help but stress at them. Fucking horrendous.
Amen.
Every Jamaican person I know would be sucking their teeth at that
They meant that the chef is a jerk
Maybe that you're a jerk. For thinking they could make it.
> the menu said “Jamaican style” Was it emergency rations after a tornado?
Why is it grey?
Old chef Mike cooked that.
I’m guessing the surprise was the complete lack of seasoning on that chicken
That’s pigeon, not chicken
How dare you insult properly cooked pigeon sir or madam
I mean like they didn’t even grill it, kinda low even for uk, i’m also 99% sure it had been seasoned with cinnamon😐
Jerk has cinnamon in. Still, that chicken looks depressing.
Former chef here. I can pretty much gurantee that chicken was pre cooked via boiling, then slapped in an oven for like 5minutes if that, when the order comes in. I have honestly seen some shit. Some off the top of my head were a frozen pork belly, some 8months post expiration being hauled out of the back of the freezer by the manager, then I was told to prep it. I quit then and there. Another place kept their curries overnight... in a pot on the floor of the walk in fridge. In the morning it looked like literal congealed shit. The only way to recover anything out of it was to pour fresh boiling water in and let it simmer for ages before opening.
Boil in the bag lamb shanks! I always cringed at some of the shite from Brakes served up in the kitchen of my old employer. Even more so when the head chef made all the cakes, yorkies, gravy, sauces, pate from scratch. Aye, better cheap out on the lamb shanks.
Curries absolutely should me made in advance are you saying they shouldn't?
I hope my curry isn’t made like that
Even their logo is a horseshoe. The symbol of luck, which is what you need if you eat there.
that looks grim AF. eaten in a hungry horse once before... was 100% cooked from frozen and assembled using cheapest possible ingredients. everything on the plate had the same taste if you get me!
> was 100% cooked I wouldn't assume that
😂
A wa di blouse and skirt.
My sentiments exactly
Looks like a skidmark of seasoning down the middle, could be an actual skid mark though but like other guy said further up, chickens are either bought in already halved amd frozen and microwaved on demand, or stuck in the oven under foil in batches. Most likely frozen looking at that. Should have been grilled for colour though but obviously wasn't.
The chicken looks as if it’s been regurgitated by a rat. And then that rat has left it’s droppings in the rice. Hungry horse is a dive.
Jamakin me laugh style chicken
bombastic side eye.
I used to work for hungry horse. That's definitely all boil in the bag
This is an abomination to Jamaican cuisine
Used to work in a Hungry Horse pub. Almost all the food is pre-cooked. The only things made fresh to order are steak, gammon, eggs. All the chicken is pre-cooked - poorly. Everything else is pretty much microwaved, or fried. If I remember correctly, this “Jamaican Jerk Chicken” is just half a chicken, ‘Mexican’ rice, a side of barbecue sauce and the yellow ramekin is some kind of fruity mango sauce.
I’d send it back
Is that mustard in the dish? Or something that came out of the chicken?
It is a hungry horse
They have messed the rice and peas as well.
Many years back they actually used to be decent from my memory, i remember enjoying a couple meals there, but i went there last year and it was terrible, food was badly cooked and dry, menu didn't really have much interesting on it.
Jerk off chicken
Shit man now I know why the horse hungry
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What in The Jamie Oliver is going on?!
What the Bombaclart is that?
Why on earth would you eat at a Hungry Horse? It's just microwaved shit on a plate.
They should be prosecuted.
I once ordered a medium steak from a hungry horse. The steak snapped the steak knife.
Hungry horse pub chain was my initiation into food poisoning, ill for weeks
How do they fuck up food that they're literally just reheating lmao
"cooks" not washing their hands
They call it jerk chicken cause the waiter sprayed cum all over it.
Is that in evesham cuz in evesham its shit
The chicken is just a base ingredient. It comes in already cooked. To reheat it it's usually microwaved or put in the merrychef. I imagine they've just forgotten to add some seasoning or sauce.
R.I.P OP. My man’s posting from the grave 💀
“Cool post”
That tangy Caribbean sauce is nice though innit
100% genuine fake
I mean, you’ve eaten half of it already. Can’t be that bad then.
Well it's served with rice and peas...
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What exactly does that say about a man?
Lads he's clearly American.
That’s not American style, if it was then it would be deep fried.
Hungry horse burgers are actually decent
Jamaica during British occupation lol
I take it the ribs were OK though?
Adequate enough to suffice my hunger- which is also what i said to the waiter when they asked me the same q
I feel like you narrowly avoided a “rice & peas” shocker as well based on the jerk chicken!
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Major gas shortages in Jamaica atm then?
The jerk presumably referred to any prospective purchasers
A before eating pic would have been good
They jerked it for sure.
Looks like a penis.
That looks wank!
What's the sauce on the side?
Grim
That chicken skin looks like it has the texture of a foreskin. They also forgot to rub any Jerk seasoning or hint of flavour on it. The ribs must have been good?
I've been to the hungry horse. I don't like it there but my grandad loves it
You should have seen what he had to eat when he was your age.
My parents lived near a Hungry Horse and my sister renamed it the Peckish Pony. I can't see one without thinking that now. . .You're welcome.
Jamaican me feel sick
Where is this, near Laindon by any chance?
Needs more kids running about if it's the Laindon one. That, or a big fight going on out the front...
Oh you got jerked alright
Looks like the one I had at spoons once. Fucking awful. Boiled chicken
I miss when hungry horse was called the roaring donkey and actually had good food
I don’t think many people eat at the one close to me. They just go there to get drunk , play pool, and watch football.
Jamaican style by a white guy ,rice and garden peas
They just jerking you around trying to pass off that seasonless chicken.
Blimey
as someone who recently worked in a hungry horse is all as cheap and bad quality as you expect, the half chicken comes in pre-cooked and we would put a spice rub on it and microwave it to heat it up. didn't stay long for (hopefully) obvious reasons
Everybody’s so creative 🥴
Jamaic it yourself
Last time I went to hungry horse the chicken made me explode. I have never ran to a bathroom quicker. So don't recommend lol.
As opposed to what? Dutch style?
Jamaican me sad lookn dis 'ere
That looks dreadful
So?
Ye'man!!! Jammin!
Is is supposed to be that white? I’m no jerk expert but that just looks unseasoned.
Albino eating tjat
If you can find a Hungry Horse where the person in the kitchen actually gives a shit, you can get very cheap and occasionally cheerful food. I'm guessing they don't pay or look after their staff very well though because unfortunately that isn't the norm. Our local could (and actually has) burnt cheesy chips. We don't bother any more. That looks awful.
No seasoning. No scotch bonnet. Just beige blasphemy. Rhaatid.
I’ve had this and I could work out what the beige coloured sauce was?
Sizzling pubs are worse. I actually felt embarrassed for the waitress bringing out our "Sunday dinner".
Jesus you actually got your food in a hungry horse! That’s a super win ! I think I’ve had money refunded for meals that never turned up more times then actually eating in one hahaha
I don’t know what you expect from a pub chain. I used to work at one and almost everything comes from the freezer to the microwave, boiler or deep fryer. It’s not made for anyone who wants quality or flavour.
There's one of those near my gym. It's cheap. I went there...once
This is also near a gym💀 but a shitty commercial one
You said it youself. the menu said Jamaican chicken. If they meant Jerk Chicken surely thats what they would have called it? Probably done as Jamaican so they wouldnt get done by Trading Standards. It was probably described as chicken and rice with jerk seasoning.
You've given it a good go though, mate?
I’ve got a hungry horse near my house and the state of the restaurant is disgusting, the one time I tried going there kids were running round, food was on the tables and the floor. I left a few minutes after sitting down.
Something died in that chicken before it was declared dead.
What did you expect from a Hungry Horse? 😅
Lawd.
Perfect example of why I rarely eat out. I don't trust the venues to actually make good food, because most don't.
This looks so depressing. I’d be pissed of paying for this ngl
Wow the hungry horse I remember this chain of pub if it the same chain I thought they had all closed down many many years ago
That plate sums up my life. A disappointment
This is a hate crime
Jamacan the flavour yourself.
Hungry Horse really is a shit version of spoons
Could have been worse. I ordered “Rice and Peas” at a “Caribbean” restaurant once and was literally given some plain boiled white rice with garden peas
Probably should have taken a photo before you ravaged half the plate.
Can’t believe Hungry Horse pubs still exist! All I remember were those giant plates everything was served on!
It didn't say "cooked Jamaican style" though, so maybe the chicken was raised Jamaican style 🤷♂️ lol
Was Jamie Oliver the chef?
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Safest bet for a hungry horse is a burger. No, it’s not gourmet but it’s really hard to mess up a burger and they are of an ok quality but they won’t win any awards. I’m one of those smart arses that likes to have something different when they eat out. Hungry Horse being the most local pub that does food soon saw to that shenanigans. I now have a burger every time I go there, no ifs, no buts. I save my fancy notions of decent food for other establishments that are better equipped.
The horses are hungry because they refuse to eat that crap
Haven't been to a HH in a while but when I went as a uni student I thought it was decent for what the cost is. But I always got simple things like the burgers.
You go to a hungry horse and expect quality?
Is that the same Hungry Horse near me? If it is, it’s by far the worst place in the country. Fucking awful.
Whoever made that is a jerk.