The Pudding Box - NOT a Tasteem Review
This visit to "The Pudding Box" which is an independent small family-run coffee shop in Accrington, Lancashire was just 4 days before the first UK lockdown on the 12th March 2020.
Why have these images been sitting around on my hard drive for almost a year? Well, this was also about the time of the STEEM/HIVE divorce and the end of @tasteem.
I didn’t know what to do with them. Should I ditch the memories and images or wait until @tasteem returns?
It never did and as @nathen007 is getting homesick again and wanting to see British food, I thought I had better post this before the memory flows out of my head forever.
We are nearly a year on and I seriously doubt "The Pudding Box" is ever going to re-open. I should try and contact the very gracious owners and send this review to them.
As I recall there was no real menu besides coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and a selection of cakes. We were passing by after visiting the Job Centre of all places and decided an Ad Hoc visit was on the cards.
We also knew this fucking lockdown was about to be imparted onto the country and it might be some time before we could get out again.
The Cake
Big slabs all around and I preferred the Victoria Sponge as it's a little wetter with that buttermilk cream both inside and decorating the top.
That’s not to say the Ginger cake was bad, but it could have benefitted from a little more moisture.
This is why we have a good old cup of tea with cake. Just look at that.., ‘this is real pot and from BC’ - that's 'Before Covid'. It may be a while before ceramic cups are once again available to use on our lips if ever.
It wasn’t exactly busy inside and @bingbabe had to show off as usual. I got the impression the owners were delighted to see us and starved of business.
The location of “The Pudding Box” is not exactly central and I fear the chains may be taking away a lot of business from these kinds of independents.
The record title is apt for the surrounding but Peters & Lee? They were fucking awful and I was just a boy when this one was in the UK top 40. Now that tune is humming away in my mind... grrr...
When I get the chance (which may be next month according to Boris) I will visit “The Pudding Box” again, just to see if it’s still in existence.
If not, I can always utilise my ‘other hobby’ for some alternative memories.
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Looks blummin marvelous. I hope it survived the Covid. I would have gotten the viccy sponge too. I'm a sucker for buttercream!
I do like that term, BC: Before Covid, lol!! :0D
Me too, they were struggling then.. now..? Are these the last ever pics of that coffee shop in existence?
BC - it's going to catch on... I'm sure!
Let's make it catch on!!!
I know a few good places up my way just shut up shop. I am going they reopen but it doesn't look likely
How about Bear-Man's beer shop? Surely he's coming back?
Dunno. All closed and even the home deliveries he was doing ended roundabouts last August. I have been quite bereft!!
No small coincidence my beer posts stopped!!
They sell cans of colourful beer cans at Tesco! I keep looking at them and almost get a hangover doing so. I'll stick with the Tobermory Whisky, Pina Colada in a can or Tripel Kartel!
Ha, I've tried quite a lot of them. Not a lot of them are good.
I am quite fond of Pina colada in a can and a wee whisky or two!!
Not here, at least as meaning Before Covid. Here, BC means British Columbia and nothing else.
.. I can imagine it does, BC is going to catch on.. I can feel it in my bones !WINE
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Oops, I meant to add. What happened to Tasteem? Did they just stop? Stay with steem?
They packed up and left. Justin Sun removed their delegation as well as many others (like busy.org) and left them powerless. They did a test post on HIVE and then buggered off forever!
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Ah, that's right. I forgot about all the delegations getting pulled. Seems like so long ago!
That's probably why they turned the record into a cake holder! This looks like a really cool place. I miss Tasteem too. This community where you posted is pretty active though and it should get some eyeballs here.
Nothing worse than a dry cake. I know people hate the word moist, but probably not as much as I hate a dry cake.
LOL, yes, it's not worthy of spinning up.. and never was!
Is it...? I was looking for somewhere suitable and this community looked bouyant. It's been almost a year, I am out of touch writing food reviews.
Yeah, I have posted stuff in here before. I think OCD curates them so lots of people post in here hoping to snag one of those big upvotes.
Bleh... I don't post for that reason. It's more to retain the memories I have. Speaking of which... 2 more food posts to come.. all pre-covid. May as well use them. You not got any old ones stashed away?
No, I blew through all of mine. I know you don't care about that, I was explaining why I think the community is more active than some others.
I remember the FOODIE token from STEEM. It's on hive.engine, that's good enough for me! We still need a @tasteem again. The site is down and gone.
@waivio is a possibility but they seem to be just Vancouver and is a referrals site that @grampo runs (and reminded me yesterday that it is still 'a thing' :) This place will now be closed down as are most of the world's restaurants I would think.
Yeah, that doesn't help. Sort of like how the SPORTS community went a bit dead when sports were shut down.
knowing you don't post for that reason is why we voted on it either way even though it was a bit higher than the usual posts we aim for. ;)
Thanks, I always appreciate the support. Keep it going!
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😂 This is golden!
LOL, it's old.. I have to badger @katharsisdrill to change it from Steemin' to Hivin' a while ago... 😀
😂 I didn't even mind the whole post. Sorry. I jumped directly into the comments. This is awesome! Nice post! 🙈
Made me laugh, the bidbotophant was better.. but sadly obsolete now.
I miss going to cafes and other places :( Hope we can start that again this year. Must be so tough for small businesses.
So do we, like big time! You know we like eating out.., thus the dearth of reviews!
I think people may go crazy when things open again. Just hope that doesn't lead to new outbreaks.
I have no doubts that the cases will go up again, it's a good test for the vaccine. We will all be ill at home but but our lives will not be threatened anymore (or so they tell us).
What are implications for returning to work. If your employer makes you unnecessarily work from the office and you get COVID. Are they going to be liable for your illness due to their BC (Before COVID) attitudes? It's going to be interesting...
I think a lot of workplaces will adapt as they have found people can work from home, but some will force workers to go back. We shall see.
I definitely miss Tasteem. HIVE needs something like that!
It does, but here will do for now!
I'm glad you finally posted via the Foodie Community.
In fact, I am thinking of holding a weekly contest with a little HIVE reward from the HIVE liquid post the contest announcement, and also using OCD support while this community is still in the OCD Incubation program. So, posts in this community have the opportunity to get support from OCD.
I don't know if the weekly contest with the topic combination of cooking and restaurant review will run well. Any idea?
Anyway, I miss old-fashioned milk tea. After reading your post maybe I should go to search for milk tea :)
It's a case of having nothing to post, we can't do anything here due to lockdown. As I said in the post, this is old material. I will add the other 2 reviews I have soon, neither are particularity positive ones though.. I was always scathing of bad places!
It may well be more cooking for the moment, I know some countries are lockdown free, Europe for the most part is not. !WINE
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Honestly, I have more reviews from last year but not yet post. Sometimes yeah, I have too much stuff to post :D
Agree, lockdown makes everyone increasing in cooking skill :D
Thanks for continuing to make Hive awesome.
Spineless clueless Johnson has a lot to answer for, but I guess he is just the mouthpiece for the puppet masters.
Let’s hope that these small businesses across England and Wales survive, we all need to ditch the corporates like starfuckingbucks, Costa etc. Keep our local economies growing
It is technically a food seller so might be open right now, as all those others you mention are. I might take a look this weekend. Oh... to sit down inside and just have a drink....
Totally agree with that sentiment
I like the design of the place. Who would have thought that drinking out of a ceramic cup would be now considered a biological danger? I hope the would reopen it looks so cosy and welcoming
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It did not cross my mind at the time, and we had no idea of the dire times ahead. It's all new.. this lockdown stuff. !WINE
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Fate of business everywhere, no bail outs on offer to help, just shut a country down like that.... wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am! Hope it is still there.
Yes, something like that, I am lucky to be no-where near the retail or hospitality industries. They have not had a good time here. You can take my large and final swig of today's !WINE.
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Excellent Mom & Pop stores all going down the drain with this debacle, shut downs like this are the most extreme I have ever heard of crippling to everyone.
Will enjoy that @WINE later try forget the stupidity we currently living through 🙃
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I am enjoying the fact that I don't remember that Peters and Lee song! If I remember, that Phillips label was synonymous with crap music!
I'm not sure how tea shops like this actually survive under normal circumstances. The rent and rates they must pay and having such a small choice of fayre! You have to sell a lot of tea and cakes each day!
AS for the pandemic, In Pontefract, there are loads of tea shops and small privately run cafes and god knows how they're going to survive having to pay the bills whilst having zero income, it will be extremely depressing? interesting to see what the chancellor does at the next budget.
All together now.....Wellllllllcome Home, Wellllcome......
Welcome Home was also a big pile of shit. I don't care if Peter's was blind and wore shades like the Blues Brothers, and Lee (albeit... quite tasty) was the adoring woman.., their sound sucked!!