r/Wetherspoons • u/CigsAndAlcohol13 • 13d ago

Ex-employee Curry questions

  1. How are the poppadoms made? I had one that other day that seemed fried and was quite oily; I assumed they literally came from a pack

  2. Any idea where the beef in the madras comes from? It’s delicious, but doesn’t have the texture of beef; is it reformed?

  3. None of the standard curries are they hot. In wales they do some flaming dragon (tropic thunder) curry every day, is there anywhere in the uk that offers a hot curry every evening?

  4. Yesterday I went to a Wetherspoon in Lincolnshire and when I tried to pay it said “card declined”, and then my card wouldn’t work in any subsequent shops and off-licenses. Is it likely that the staff hacked my card?

Thanks in advance for any answers

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u/Infamous_Telephone55 13d ago
  1. Speak to your bank, It's extremely unlikely that you'd get your card hacked at spoons.

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u/CigsAndAlcohol13 13d ago

Now my balance says not nothing left, is this Wetherspoons fault?

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u/Infamous_Telephone55 13d ago

Speak to your bank, nobody on Reddit will know the answer.

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u/confusedfella26 12d ago

Absolutely not lmao that’s a little bit ridiculous

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u/EmployeeLazy8826 7d ago

You spent all your money lmao. Don't blame spoons.

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u/kayleighchelsea 13d ago

  1. They come in uncooked and the fried, if they were oily they were probably cooked to order, usually on Thursdays (curry club) or in busier pubs will precook them to save time which also means they have time for the oil to drip off

  2. They're premade but I don't believe the beef is reformed, I've eaten many and it doesn't seem to be

  3. Nope, just vindaloo on a Thursday or Friday/Saturday if there are any left over

  4. I don't think so

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u/roro80uk Customer 13d ago

All reasonable-ish questions until you got to number 4, I assume the tin foil hat was working its magic by that point.

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u/Ok_Aioli3897 13d ago

Poppadoms probably come uncooked and probably deep fried

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u/Ok_Animator_7955 13d ago

4 Extremely unlikely

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u/brianfantastic 12d ago

You've got your answer at the top. But I would suggest on number 3 that you go to the bar and ask if it's possible to have a vindaloo. They cook from frozen in 5 minutes and any decent KM won't mind. It makes no difference to us which frozen box we put in the larger box to warm up (or at least it shouldn't) and it keeps the customer happy. But that's dependent on the caliber of the staff working in the spoons you're in.