There has never been a decent dish involving a pineapple.
Like gammon and pineapple, or scampi, the indignities suffered by this decent dish are too raw, too recent.
Despite similar ingredients, I'm disappointed by the results – in the grand scheme of things, this is a decent dish, but the robustly savoury slow-cooked version is a hard act to follow.
However, even after the ship was stocked up with provisions in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a later entry (mid-outbreak) noted: "There are tons of meat etc wasted just for the want of cooking into a decent dish… but the muck we get to eat does not tempt any one to eat".
A barbecue runs throughout the summer weekends, and the pub serves decent gastropub dishes, as well as hosting beer festivals and theatre nights (360 Victoria Park Rd, E9; mains from £7.95).
On the other hand, you will get tasty potatoes, whether boiled, roasted, or fried (the boiled ones will surprise you with their flavor), or a decent rice dish.
Stir, the hotel's retro-chic restaurant and bar, serves decent globally inspired dishes like cumin-infused chicken strips and Peking duck.
Then the raucous summer boaters leave the place to gentler locals, who come in for decent, moderately priced dishes or, on weekends, for a few hours of live jazz or blues.
In a town taken by the more obvious charms of pork belly, a decent black pudding dish can be difficult to find.
