New First offering, from 31 March 2019 [general discussion]
Mar 29, 2019, 11:14 am
#166
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Otherwise surely quality is the key, not the write up.
Mar 29, 2019, 11:24 am
#168
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I cannot remember the last time I had an outstanding main in F but I have had outstanding starters and puddings. With separate sides, if the catering levels permit, I may well prefer two starters, a side and no main.
Mar 29, 2019, 4:48 pm
#169
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Could quite happily spend the flight quaffing some of this, first discovered this wine back in the eighties wandering round the wine departments of French Hypermarkets during camping holidays in France. A copy of A Bootful of Wine also helped plus watching what the locals bought.
Mar 29, 2019, 5:24 pm
#171
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Neither of the two options above is ideal, but if I had been the copywriter I may well have picked the first.
Mar 29, 2019, 5:55 pm
#172
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Is that hot-smoked and served cold? Or just hot?
Mar 29, 2019, 9:03 pm
#174
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And you would have been incorrect. Deconstructing the first, "free range" modifies "scrambled" and "scrambled" modifies "eggs." And it is for that very reason that I suggest that the meaning is anything but clear; although, as you say, we know what they meant. But that's more of a comment on increasingly lax language usage and standards than it is on the correctness of the grammar.
Mar 29, 2019, 10:49 pm
#175
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Couple of menus from new F. The BA122 DOHA -> LHR seems a little uninspiring.
BA065 LHR-NBO Menu.pdf
BA122_DOH_LHR_Menu.pdf
BA065 LHR-NBO Menu.pdf
BA122_DOH_LHR_Menu.pdf
Mar 30, 2019, 1:45 am
#177
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What I’d like to see above all of these improvements is reliability. There’s almost always very noticable failures in the soft product in F. Like last night on BA28 they served the British fizz (and as it’s not hard to taste/sniff the difference) I was told ”we cannot do anything, LPGS was not loaded”. Alrighty then, maybe you could have told us that prior trying to pass that piss as a Champagne.
Mar 30, 2019, 2:02 am
#178
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And you would have been incorrect. Deconstructing the first, "free range" modifies "scrambled" and "scrambled" modifies "eggs." And it is for that very reason that I suggest that the meaning is anything but clear; although, as you say, we know what they meant. But that's more of a comment on increasingly lax language usage and standards than it is on the correctness of the grammar.
Had the dish instead been e.g. ‘Two eggs, cooked to your liking’ then of course putting ‘free range’ at the start would clearly be incorrect (no speaker would say ‘free range two eggs’) but there’s certainly room for argument with the line above.
Also, your assertion that ‘the meaning is anything but clear; although, as you say, we know what they meant’ is oxymoronic. If we all actually know what they meant then the meaning is, in fact, clear - even if there is an alternative grammatical interpretation.
Why I’m bothering typing this from a stunning beach in El Nido I have no idea.
Last edited by Ldnn1; Mar 30, 2019 at 2:15 am
Mar 30, 2019, 3:34 am
#180
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