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Food Review: Ranking Wetherspoon’s Christmas menu at new Waterloo pub
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Dec 21, 2024
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that JD Wetherspoon is a national institution. It’s even earned itself a shiny nickname: Spoons. But would you consider having your Christmas lunch there? City AM visited Wetherspoon’s new Lion & The Unicorn pub at Waterloo Station to rank the entire festive menu. The twist? We had no idea which dish was coming next. Read City AM’s Wetherspoons debate here 👇 https://www.cityam.com/the-debate-wetherspoon-source-pride-shame/ Get more of City AM 👇 🌐 http://www.cityam.com X(formerly Twitter): http://twitter.com/CityAM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cityam Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/city_am LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/cityam
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how do they keep getting
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better I just don't know have we been
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here before it's a Nuance menu have we
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always been here I did describe this
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weather spoons as purgatory and now I
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feel like I'm in a Purgatory of burgers
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I am not enjoying
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this they literally do not pay me enough
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to be doing this hi I'm Steve Denine I
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am from City we are here to review the
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weather Springs Christmas menu we are
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going to be testing six different dishes
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and ranking them from one to six I am
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here with Chris Big D D and the one and
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only Anna Maloney this is my crack team
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of City eaters and we are going to have
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some fun today we're hyped are you hyped
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very hyped
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yeah
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oo okay so this looks like the main
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event this looks like a Christmas dinner
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we're starting up strong so we don't
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know what we're eating here although I
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am pretty confident that is just a
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Christmas dinner that is a Christmas
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dinner what is the meat the meat looks I
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think there's slices of turkey
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underneath cubes of I would say pnip
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healthy amount of gravy mashed potato
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over roast is quite aor very nicely laid
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out on the plate I'm quite easy to
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please uh I don't have a very refined
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palette this is fantastic to me so
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you're perfect for this Chris what about
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you what's your relationship with spoons
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I have a complex relationship with
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spoons so I think like uh like many
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people do I can't say I've been for a
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while it's first time in this new meas
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spoons so we are in the new meas spoons
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at watero which opened recently and I've
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heard such great things about oh
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no great things but that's why the
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carpet's that color you know so that it
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obscures all the things you I can't see
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the turkeyy is actually very good I
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think it's all very good
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okay controversial but no York of
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pudding which I think personally should
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be a staple of the Christmas dinner that
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is a controversial opinion though so I'd
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be a little disappointed also no Sprouts
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which I'm grateful for but I think
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should be that Sprout should be that no
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no
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doubt I think this could be a number two
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for me I think this is solid I I think
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it's going to be up there I'm going to
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go I'm going to go number two as well I
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don't want to get the top spot away too
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yeah it's difficult without knowing what
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else is coming I think that is the
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premise of the game yeah so I'm going to
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go three okay I think there's more to
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come we have to come to a collective
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decision this is why I'm here to make
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things difficult are we able to
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negotiate you up to two Chris I think
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this will be difficult to beat the
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potato is actually really quite nice
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it's all right quite
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delicious we haven't added in the um
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crry sauce yet I have I'm not I'm not
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really a big cranberry sauce really do
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you hate Christmas or something how St
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it's too sweet again but although I
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think it would be difficult to beat you
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know I think that there is more to come
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this is number two y
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ooh okay is that is that Bri to make it
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faster like Brie and halumi to make it
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Mediterranean I it this is like
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sculptural it is yeah I kind of wanted
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to get my phone out to take a picture I
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as the big cheese will carve the big
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cheese
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thank any early thoughts on a Christmas
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Burger we Christmas sandwiches a
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Christmas Burger SE natural I feel like
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it's Christmas is rather than Christmas
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e to elaborate on
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that it has Brie on it okay so who wants
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mashed Burger how could I say
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no I'm going to get that
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in that's okay
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m in a way that breed just tastes nice M
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that tastes quite nice
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personally re the consistency
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differences between the the meat you
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know and the Brie the Bri is a bit cold
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it's troubling for you is it it is
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troubling I would argue the halumi Is
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Not Great quite
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rubbery
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no no tell us what you think I just
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disagree Steve I think it's
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delicious would order again will order
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again I would order this over the
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Christmas dinner actually so I guess
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this is number one I'm not sure I would
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this is another Hill I will die on so
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I'm willing to put this as number one
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too okay what about E I think this has
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to be be lower it's be lower worse than
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the Christmas dinner I do okay I would
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put it four I do not think it's going to
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get better than this to be fair we've
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been surprised You' been surprised twice
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already so I'm willing to maybe consider
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it as a free we've already misordered it
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no this is what I've been saying all
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along so would you actually gun to your
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head you're in weather spoons christas
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day you would go for the Christmas
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dinner over this i' take the gun to the
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head I'm taking a leadership role in
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this is this a mutiny the jury is sing
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the jewy is squabbling I think we're
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going to put it at threee it's too early
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to put one in
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one oh my God thank God we have not
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given the top spot away crry thereo oh
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wow so before I taste it I am
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trepidacious about the butter fried
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chicken with the stuffing that feels
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like like two different things which
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should not be on the same bun ask no
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questions see I think this works much
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better than the Bree Burger I have to
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say I actually do prer it to the bre
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Burger so I'm happy Chris pulled us back
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there cuz this could be a top Contender
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for me this is this is not the spons
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experience Steve since your review
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they've up their game but it sounds like
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we're in agreement this is the number
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one spot what if the next one's really
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quick I think we should ask that every
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time I think we should put it in number
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five just in case look at the trend Anna
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look at the trend
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the true the next dish is going to be
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amazing I know it is I'm not anti B A
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Christmas Burger but I can't see it my
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number one well I think number one I
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can't believe the big cheese has gone
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three what's done is done Chris so we're
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putting it in at four we're putting it
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in at four despite it being the best one
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so far we one yeah you you really think
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the Christmas dinner was better than
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this I
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do well I mean I just I can't get inside
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the head of someone that would think
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that no I can't get inside the head of
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somebody who who hates spoons as much as
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you do you know you I've been very
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pleasantly prer this I think this has
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been pretty pretty great so yeah number
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four I would polish that off if that's
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left at the end I'm going back to
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that and now we have
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the
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burger the burger the burger this to me
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looks like it's going to be a combo of
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the big cheese and the the buttermilk
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chicken I and I for one I'm happy with
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that I did describe this weather spoons
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as purgatory and now I feel like I'm in
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a Purgatory of burgers no have we always
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been eating the burgers this is heaven I
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think it might be the best of the
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burgers so far I have the same issue
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which I had with the previous Bree
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Burger which is a BRI in it you don't
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like I do actually quite like Brie I
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just I've never had it in a burger
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before and I don't I actually I actually
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had a brie sandwich the other day and I
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enjoyed it very much it just doesn't
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quite work for
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me I think the warmth of a burger
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doesn't quite work with the Bri in the
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same way that the coldness of a sandwich
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does it's not a problem for me yeah I
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actually think we went in too high with
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the Christmas dinner cuz I've enjoyed
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all the bat so what have we got left
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we've got one five and six mhm here's a
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five for me sure
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the extra cheesy cheese pizza
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okay I'm not getting
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Christmas okay got to try and eat this
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gracefully look everything's a
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hit to cheese the pizza it's delicious
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no I do not like whatever
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is this what is this
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Brie no oh there's um there's blue
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cheese on it
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m I love blue cheese I mean I love blue
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cheese but and that's festive that's
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saying Christmas
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Pizza I don't feel that this is nearly
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Christmas in Christmas is a state of
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mind Steve and I'm in it I can't help
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that you're scre um no this is U this is
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six for
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me I think I agree M well we'll have to
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put it as six but it just goes to show
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the quality I can't really taste the
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blue cheese that
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strongly but I know it's there I'm kind
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of still compulsively eating it
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though there I don't think I actually am
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enjoying
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[Applause]
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it o
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okay well we can I can just take a
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little bit
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just go just go I'm going to use my
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handsies hands cookies and ice
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cream it's delicious number
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one I really like that it's very sweet
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it's very very sweet I'm not really sure
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what Blondie is I thought you had a
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sweet Teo I do but only for
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meat but I guess it's number one so it
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is definitely number one for me
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deservedly so this has no Christmas
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element whatsoever zero I do think sweet
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things in general are quite christmy
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though not Christmasy at all don't
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really like it number one that would be
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number one and let's have a little
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cheers cheers to our winner cheers
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Christmas Winer one it tastes like a
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chocolate orange that's got a z that
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tastes quite Christmasy it tastes like
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someone has spilled their orange juice
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in an espresso Mar quite strong it is it
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is strong they're not scried on the AL
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I'm actually going off it the more I
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drink and yet rapidly rapidly going off
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it I think I'd rather a jug of wooo a
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jug of what what a wooo what's in a wooo
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don't know isn't that one the cocktail
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was that one the spoons
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Classics a jug of wooo for the
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lady the lady we're locked in this is
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number one I hate the espresso Martini I
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hate espresso Martin yeah it's it's
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revolting yeah it's not great
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so we have come to the end of our
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ranking let's have a quick recap about
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where we put things well this was number
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one by default I think we're all a
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little bit unsure about that number two
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is Christmas dinner number two is
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Christmas dinner also in incorrect I
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believe then we've got an amalgamation
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of burgers through 3 to five I believe
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the burgers were quite similar they were
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they were chicken you got a choice
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between a chicken burger and a breed
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Burger the delicious cheesy pizza
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unfortunately had to come in the last
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spot someone has to on to the bonus
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round the bonus round
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yeah my head is too
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big I've always thought that about you
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Chris yeah my mother will be so
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proud oh that was strong and believe it
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or not after an afternoon of burgers I
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believe it's another burger oh but it's
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got It's got a sort of really
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gloopy cranberry sauce on
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it I am not enjoying this how much this
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do we have to eat have to guess what it
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is fortunately the hat is blocking the
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tears that are currently coming down
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streaming down my face it just tastes
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like a cranberry sauce Burger is there a
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meat
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[Applause]
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involved oh it's not just a normal
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Burger is it it's is this vegan no it's
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vegan well that that explains it
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all very very bad regrets I have a few
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I'm very sorry for the vegans the moral
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High Ground tastes good though
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it's definitely the worst of the burgers
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it's the worst of everything by long
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shot I would wrate that below the number
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one ice cream just don't order that no
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avoid avoid
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avoid Merry Christmas Merry
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Christmas so will you both be coming
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back to weather spoons this Christmas
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and for future Christmases I hope so
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every year get me in Christmas day yep I
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agree same same for me I can't wait to
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eat the spoons tasting Manu all over
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again
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Christmas and every Christmas I won't
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see
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that I didn't hate it but neither has it
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won me over to spend the Christmas day
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here and cheers to that cheers to that
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Merry Christmas Merry Christmas
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