The Cape of Good Hope pub

[MtB]

3 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:

Gastro = Ghastly.

 

Yes. Frozen food from 6336 Ltd Or Brake Bros microwaved by unskilled bar spods, rather than cooked from scratch using real ingredients by a proper chef.

[Chris John]

10 hours ago, Highwayman999 said:

I thought the pub in Yelvertoft was long gone?

Nope alive and well

 

https://www.knightleyarms.co.uk

[Belle]

3 minutes ago, Chris John said:

Nope alive and well

 

https://www.knightleyarms.co.uk

Great news, thanks for letting us know 😀

[Ray T]

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Edited October 23, 2022 by Ray T

[Annie cariad]

In there yesterday great lunch and beer . Good atmosphere chatting to couple of locals 

[Captain Pegg]

3 hours ago, Ray T said:

It has improved since these days!

 

 

 

Also in 1955.

 

 

1911 census entry. Publican Thomas Neal was my great grandfather's cousin. Be careful what you insinuate.

 

[Jon57]

2 hours ago, Annie cariad said:

In there yesterday great lunch and beer . Good atmosphere chatting to couple of locals 

Hope your still not on alcohol free beer.😬😬👍

[IanD]

13 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Yes. Frozen food from 6336 Ltd Or Brake Bros microwaved by unskilled bar spods, rather than cooked from scratch using real ingredients by a proper chef.

Have you actually eaten in the Cape?

 

We did -- admittedly several years ago -- and the food was pretty good, certainly not what you describe.

 

The beer was also good, Wye Valley and another IIRC 🙂

[Athy]

14 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Yes. Frozen food from 6336 Ltd Or Brake Bros microwaved by unskilled bar spods,

"Cordon Ping" as I've heard it called.

6336 sounds as if it ought to be a Toots s & The Maytals record.

 

Our memory of drinking and eating at the Cape is very positive, a well run place, and you can moor right outside it - but that's from over a decade ago.

 

And finally: are "spods" your own invention?

[Rob-M]

We had a good Sunday roast in the Cape a couple of years ago.

Many moons ago, when I finished school, me and a friend took mun and dad's boat for a couple of weeks but stayed moored outside the Cape for four days as the locks were going to close so we didn't bother going through them.

[MtB]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

"Cordon Ping" as I've heard it called.

6336 sounds as if it ought to be a Toots s & The Maytals record.

 

Our memory of drinking and eating at the Cape is very positive, a well run place, and you can moor right outside it - but that's from over a decade ago.

 

And finally: are "spods" your own invention?

 

 

I did. Spods are everywhere once you start noticing. Teenagers or early 20-somethings doing jobs that used to be done by grown ups. E.g. behind the bar in a pub, policemen, shopkeepers. All doing their best with limited knowledge and experience and often looking faintly bewildered at the situation they find themselves in. 

 

Well I didn't actually invent them, God did that. But I invented that name for them.

 

And I got the name of the microwave meal company wrong, it's 3663 Ltd. And to IanD yes I have eaten in The Cape, and yes it was recognisably Cordon Ping. Nothing wrong with Cordon Ping at all, it's just that like spods it's easily recognisable once you start noticing it everywhere.

[IanD]

14 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

I did. Spods are everywhere once you start noticing. Teenagers or early 20-somethings doing jobs that used to be done by grown ups. E.g. behind the bar in a pub, policemen, shopkeepers. All doing their best with limited knowledge and experience and often looking faintly bewildered at the situation they find themselves in. 

 

Well I didn't actually invent them, God did that. But I invented that name for them.

 

And I got the name of the microwave meal company wrong, it's 3663 Ltd. And to IanD yes I have eaten in The Cape, and yes it was recognisably Cordon Ping. Nothing wrong with Cordon Ping at all, it's just that like spods it's easily recognisable once you start noticing it everywhere.

 

You're way out of date, they changed their name to Bidvest 3663 in 2014, then Bidvest Foodservice in 2015, then Bidfood in 2016... 😉

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFS_Group

 

Whether the Cape uses them is another question; not saying you're wrong, but some of the things on the menu when we were there didn't look like the kind of things Bidfood do -- at least, not "ready meals". And not *everything* was pretty good, one dish in particular was disappointing... 😞

 

Also note that a lot of Bidfood stuff is not precooked microwave meals, it's recipe and ingredient supply -- basically, cutting down on the time and effort (=money) needed to source ingredients for a particular recipe that is still actually cooked by the chef.

Edited October 22, 2022 by IanD

[Rob-M]

3 hours ago, Athy said:

Finally: are "spods" your own invention?

Spod is a term we use meaning "Single point of dependency" for when you have one person who knows how to do something which happens a lot in the IT industry.

[GUMPY]

18 hours ago, Goliath said:

I could go through Blisworth Tunnel to the Boat?

🤷‍♀️

It’s still got the original bar for drinking?

Proper bit of history to show him. 

 

I wouldn't bother its not been the same since Jack died

 

[Ray T]

5 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

 

1911 census entry. Publican Thomas Neal was my great grandfather's cousin. Be careful what you insinuate.

 

 

I wasn't insinuating anything. 

Edited October 22, 2022 by Ray T

[Athy]

2 hours ago, MtB said:

 

 

 

 

And I got the name of the microwave meal company wrong, it's 3663 Ltd

I believe that Brake lost his Brother a while ago, too.

[alias]

1 hour ago, Rob-M said:

Spod is a term we use meaning "Single point of dependency" for when you have one person who knows how to do something which happens a lot in the IT industry.

 

Sadly some of those spods eventually turn into spofs.

[MtB]

1 minute ago, alias said:

 

Sadly some of those spods eventually turn into spofs.

 

 

Indeed. One of the high-tech thermal store boilers I specialise in mending has a very clever multi-layer PCB. About five years ago the manufacturer abruptly discontinued the model and in particular, announced the PCB was obsolete and unavailable to anyone needing a replacement. 

 

Being on good terms with one of the techie bods there, he confided in me that Harry who designed and programmed the board nd generally supervided its production had been made redundant, and when they realised no-one else in the company could do it they had to axe the whole product. (I may have some details wrong, but Harry understandably told them to shove it when they asked him to come back!) 

[Cheshire cat]

32 minutes ago, alias said:

 

Sadly some of those spods eventually turn into spofs.

SPOD isn't an IT term. SPOF however is internationally recognised.

[Rob-M]

8 minutes ago, Cheshire cat said:

SPOD isn't an IT term. SPOF however is internationally recognised.

SPOD has been used in all the IT departments I've worked in over the last 30 years.  I've been a SPOD myself several times and had to train others to make sure someone else could cover particular areas of expertise.

[Captain Pegg]

5 hours ago, Ray T said:

I wasn't insinuating anything. 

 

It wasn't meant to be a serious comment.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

On 21/10/2022 at 20:48, Captain Pegg said:

Proper boozers are generally found in towns and cities so probably Rugby has one.

 

What’s wrong with Plan A i.e. The Cape?

It’s a long haul just for the pub, so unless it stood out as something different or notably unique in some way or other then I won’t bother.

I remember not being too fond of the canal through Leamington and Warwick but was thinking to go that way because me mate ain’t been along there.

I think we’ll head the other way and have a pint in the Boat at Stoke Bruerne. I understand there’s a good curry house there, and I haven’t seen the museum since it’s been revamped. I reckon he’d enjoy all that.
Then it leaves me in a good spot to head off and explore parts of the system I haven’t been before (stoppages and weather permitting).

Cheers 

 

 

[Big Bob W]

On 22/10/2022 at 15:40, MtB said:

And I got the name of the microwave meal company wrong, it's 3663 Ltd

3663 were a customer of ours years back. Before that they were Booker Food Services. Could not understand the significance of 3663 as a name, until one of their directors pointed out 3663 spells out FOOD on a phone dial!

[Tonka]

19 minutes ago, Big Bob W said:

3663 were a customer of ours years back. Before that they were Booker Food Services. Could not understand the significance of 3663 as a name, until one of their directors pointed out 3663 spells out FOOD on a phone dial!

Or DOOF

[Cheshire cat]

Despite describing it as food led earlier in the thread unless things have changed since Covid the Cape is streets ahead of the Boat both in terms of Ale and customer service. I was very disappointed with my last visit. The curry house next to the museum was good though.