Bottled Fosters in the Upper Trinity ....

[Surrey Villain]

My first pint in the Holte was Heineken but it tasted like it had been in the barrel since May.  Serves me right for getting there early!

[gervilla]

I like beer, make that most beers.
Australia has some of the best beers I have ever tasted.
Fosters does not fit into either of these categories.
It is rank.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Australians don't like it either

[gervilla]

Australians don't like it either

Yup, they have some seriously good beers over there. I'm not surprised they don't drink that piss.

[Caiphus]

We keep our good beer for ourselves and export that crap, yet you lot still drink it by the olympic-size swimming pool.

[Ad@m]

On the subject of shoddy offerings by the kiosks at the ground I asked for my usual chip butty yesterday (a snack I've appreciated for years at the ground) to be told they don't do them anymore.

They have baps for the burgers and they still sell chips.  But they no longer serve chips in baps.

If someone can explain the logic in that they're a better man than me!

[Dave Cooper please]

Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.

[Ad@m]

Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.

It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.

[dave.woodhall]

Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.

It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.

I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.

[eamonn]

On the subject of shoddy offerings by the kiosks at the ground I asked for my usual chip butty yesterday (a snack I've appreciated for years at the ground) to be told they don't do them anymore.

They have baps for the burgers and they still sell chips.  But they no longer serve chips in baps.

If someone can explain the logic in that they're a better man than me!

Carb-overload. They're thinking about your arteries.

[Ad@m]

Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.

It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.

I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.

I can but it would be nice if the club served what the fans wanted.  We are customers after all.

[Dave Cooper please]

It would indeed. But surely by now you realise that it's not going to happen, and even if it did you are going to pay a stupid price for it!
Maybe if people weren't so willing to buy the overpriced shite they serve they would have a think about it and do something decent at a good price, but the queues never seem to get any smaller.

[DeKuip]

So long as people are prepared to be ripped off for a bottle of warm piss they will continue to sell it. The only way to get them to provide decent refreshments at a fair price is by eating and drinking elsewhere.
It never ceases to amaze me that people pay a small fortune to watch the game then miss the last ten minutes of the first half so they can queue up to buy such crap food and over-priced beer.
Admittedly I'm from the generation when dining inside the ground meant being lucky enough to get a Wagon Wheel before they sold out at 2 o'clock - or standing by the bloke who was generous with his murray mints or Fishermans Friends.

[rutski]

wanted to buy my lad a coke at half time in the lower holte, waited for 10 mins and didnt get near the front, then went back to watch the game. Ridiculous

[Clampy]

Given the fantastic choice of tasty and cheap food from all the various outlets in the vicinity of Villa Park and the fact that there are several pubs within walking distance (one or two of them are even decent), anyone who eats or drinks inside the ground deserves to be ripped off.

It's difficult to get to the pub at half time.

I'm sure you can go two hours without beer.

You'd be surprised how many people go down to get a beer 10 minutes before half time. I don't get it personally.

Talking of rip-offs, i bought a can of coke from one of those burger vans under the bridge by the church and stood waiting for my change from my £1 coin which i did'nt get.