This is a $2,000 plate of jerk pork from M-10 in Vineyard Town.
Yes, that is a ramekin.
Yes, those are two very sad bammy.
Yes, that was really all of it.
The end is nigh.
4-5 likkle fatty fool fool piece a swine āseasonedā in what tasted like some form of American corn-syrup based bottled BBQ sauce.
Glad a nuh me pay fi it. Wasnāt my tab. If a me, one rass bag a claaat woulda cuss, but since me haffi maintain a level a decorum I held my tongue.
Mannn itās crazy some places you can get a $250 box lunch other places that same meal is $1500. Stay out of the vacation areas and things are reasonable priced. The crazy part is the food and service takes hours in the restaurants, not to mention over priced and the servers are rude. In ochi they sell pina colada for 1,500 š
If a 5 bills mebbe me woulda say āArite gimme 4 portion thenā cah maybe 2k for 4x the amount wouldnāt be too bad, but honestly it tasted shit and wasnāt even close to ājerkā. It was like what someone whoās never been to Jamaica or eaten Jamaican cuisine would think is ājerk porkā.
You know, Iāve never actually bought lettuce here. Iām not crazy about it anyway (barely any nutritional value) but itās one of those things I simply refuse to pay good money for.
I bet it was the most expensive thing on the plate fi tru š¤£
There is more to this than the economy. This is the restaurant and the brand they have built themselves. They can get away selling that at that price because of how they are talked about. but if you go to like Murphy's in Clarendon that is just as good a restaurant you can get jerk anything half the price and better tasting.
Cost of living is more expensive in Kingston and very inflated.
Agreed.
Itās brand name recognition. Same way Boston Jerk Centre is ātheā place everyone gravitates towards, despite being overrated and overpriced for years now.
Gloriaās in Port Royal and Downtown same thing.
Mi remember before covid mi used to buy fries and chicken a Gloria's fi 1200,nuff food so it worth it,tell me why mi call fi order and dem ago say 2500? Mi just say okay and hang up
Me bun out Gloriaās from way back. I used to take out one likkle motor boat wid a bredrin a mine from Port Royal to go catch snapper, and the fishermen there get ZERO support from Gloriaās. All their fish is provided by Rainforest, who import it from Costa Rica and other countries - barely anything, if anything at all, from Rainforest is locally-caught. The fact that Gloriaās is literally feet away from the local fishermen and they refuse to support the town is disgusting to me.
But thatās ābusinessā, right? It would cost them more to buy the fish thatās right on their doorstep than to buy it from dutty Rainforest.
So pay more then. The prices they charge youād think they werenāt paying pennies for their fish, but they are. Cyah stand Gloriaās - and itās average AF, too.
Rant over. Sorry, where were we?
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That's more expensive than in the states. The scammers must be making nuff money because only they must be buying it. Regular people can't let their hard-earned money go so.
$2,000 can buy me a whole big piece a swine that (should, but likely wouldnāt cah me craven an nah nuh self control) lasts a few meals.
I think when people come here with the USD they tend to think āfuck it, Iām on vacationā or āthis is a business expenseā, so they donāt mind. Iām just glad a nuh me pay di bill. I meanā¦I simply *wouldnāt* have paid for this if a me receive di bill. Brite yf.
In Mobay 1 pound of jerk pork was $3200 but in Green Island it was.$1600 per pound. I forgot the price but at the jerk center near the hardware store in Negril very expensive too. The picture below is from green island
https://preview.redd.it/7x7wxw2zw3ra1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f48ae3201941d9369163d3b44e8ac15eb1355e5
Quarter pound of pork is 8 bills upwards most places in town, and you get maybe 5-6 little bites - itās barely anything. So yeah, a full pound of pork would work out the same as the Mobay price youāve mentioned.
I wish that pic showed more of the pork itself - I feel like Iām looking at an aforementioned pet peeve of mine; inedible garnishes. Is anyone really eating a huge piece of raw onion or pepper like that? I love pepper, and I probably consume even more pepper than that when I eat pork, but not in massive chunks. It just seems like a waste. š
Japhenia puts the peppers and onions on there more for presentation I think. I actually saute a little and eat both but do also at times eat raw. She also includes small containers of hot and mild jerk sauce on the side if you ask.I looked for a better pic but don't have one.
Mek a did me,mi lay wait the chef and ask fi the rest a the bammy cause bammy come inna circle and last time mi check that nuh=360 ,this hace me heated and a nuh me ,mi feel like fi theif off 2 Tyre off a him car and sell it fo buy the bammy
Itās a shame - it used to be really good enuh. Only a couple weeks ago I recommended it to someone who wanted a chill spot in town.
Unfortunately my opinion was based on M-10 about a decade ago. Itās massively gone downhill.
I was just thinking that I hadn't been to M-10 in a few years, and it might be good to go back and check it out. Thanks for saving me $2k and a trip to Vinyard Town.
Yup. I often make the depressing mistake of converting to GBP in my head when buying anything here.
Ā£11 for a plate that size is upper-class London fancy restaurant prices - at least the food, even if it likkle bit, would taste good.
I donāt know what the fuck it is with restaurants on island where they feel like they have to put every fucking thing in a ramekin. Them must believe it look fancy? I donāt even know what to say.
Itās the belief that itās what the so-called āfirst worldā does because the chefs saw a book or TV show from 1988 and ran with it.
Itās the same mentality that gives us those *wonderful* plate decorations like a full scotch bonnet pepper, half an onion, or a whole sprig of thyme on a plate - shit that nobody will possibly eat.
Itās like being stuck in a time warp.
We nuh haffi reach nowhere suh. Just need to celebrate the cuisine in its natural way without (badly) trying to imitate some faux European microwave cookbook nonsense.
I mean, I'm being facetious. We're still way too closed minded as a country as far as food goes. The other day I was browsing the Instagram profile of a new Italian restaurant in Kingston and there were comments on there saying "there's no local food" and that the place doesn't "cater to locals". No fucking kidding, you dunce - it's an Italian restaurant serving Italian food and you gonna come on their page and complain seh you can't get oxtail or ackee and saltfish? Bredda.
Very closed-minded, unfortunately. But itās a lack of exposure thatās to blame. For Europeans itās so easy to access things like French and Italian cuisine because itās a $150 flight away, not to mention the countless different restaurants likely in their home countries. A large number of Jamaicans have barely even left their communities, never mind parishes, so other countries are an alien concept.
Some Jamaicans, a minority, will have access to travel and likely go to the U.S. and eat spaghetti & meatballs at fucking Olive Garden and think theyāve eaten āItalian foodā. An even smaller minority may have been lucky enough to travel further afield and experience more.
Iāll never forget being in Denham Town a few months ago and speaking to a woman about the cost of yam and other provisions in places like Liguanea, and she said āwah dat? Which place name suh?ā. Itās literally a 10-15 minute drive from downtown, yet she had absolutely no idea - hadnāt even heard of it. Thatās a *frightening* lack of exposure.
Whilst thereās a good reason why some Jamaicans have a āclosed-mindedā approach to food, what does irk me a little is the pushback to even *try* something new - thatās strange to me.
But yeah, thereās definitely a lot of privilege involved in being open-minded about food, and Iām included in that bracket of privilege. Not something I take for granted.
My fighting days are over.
That being said, I did *feel* like I wanted to light smaddi up. And by ālight them upā I mean actually set fire to the chefā¦
This is a $2,000 plate of jerk pork from M-10 in Vineyard Town. Yes, that is a ramekin. Yes, those are two very sad bammy. Yes, that was really all of it. The end is nigh.
Street Food Saturday's crawled so they could run. Clearly.
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Oh my god you did not just say that ššššššššš
ššš They would have to give me back my money. A joke ting.
BUMBBBBBACLATTTTT
4-5 likkle fatty fool fool piece a swine āseasonedā in what tasted like some form of American corn-syrup based bottled BBQ sauce. Glad a nuh me pay fi it. Wasnāt my tab. If a me, one rass bag a claaat woulda cuss, but since me haffi maintain a level a decorum I held my tongue.
Shoulda dash it on chef's face and call em a pussyclat
The way things are these days, I generally avoid cussing *anyone*. Jamaica stay different a 2023.
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Not even in 1990s Zimbabwean money (where they had a 50 trillion dollar bill) - literally not worth the paper it was printed on.
You strait clowning this thread. š¤£
Jesus wept
Shortest verse in The Bible, and yes He did indeed weep at this. His tears added to the seasoning of the thimbleful of pork.
Thatās half a bammy š
Itās half of a very underfried sad bammy that had abusive bammy parents and get bag juice alone fi di fus 10 year a life.
Mannn itās crazy some places you can get a $250 box lunch other places that same meal is $1500. Stay out of the vacation areas and things are reasonable priced. The crazy part is the food and service takes hours in the restaurants, not to mention over priced and the servers are rude. In ochi they sell pina colada for 1,500 š
We šš¼need šš¼to šš¼do šš¼better šš¼
Must be buying leftovers for $250
And minister a finance a chat a bagga fuckry bout economy return to precovid bs.
Covid is to blame for *everything*. Surely we all know that by now? 
LMAO I was saying before you clicked I hoped this didn't come to more then $500.
If a 5 bills mebbe me woulda say āArite gimme 4 portion thenā cah maybe 2k for 4x the amount wouldnāt be too bad, but honestly it tasted shit and wasnāt even close to ājerkā. It was like what someone whoās never been to Jamaica or eaten Jamaican cuisine would think is ājerk porkā.
They definitely baked it and not jerk it š
Lettuce expensive baaad
You know, Iāve never actually bought lettuce here. Iām not crazy about it anyway (barely any nutritional value) but itās one of those things I simply refuse to pay good money for. I bet it was the most expensive thing on the plate fi tru š¤£
Jesus a look pon that and a seh at least him did have nuff more to work with to feed the multitude
There is more to this than the economy. This is the restaurant and the brand they have built themselves. They can get away selling that at that price because of how they are talked about. but if you go to like Murphy's in Clarendon that is just as good a restaurant you can get jerk anything half the price and better tasting. Cost of living is more expensive in Kingston and very inflated.
Agreed. Itās brand name recognition. Same way Boston Jerk Centre is ātheā place everyone gravitates towards, despite being overrated and overpriced for years now. Gloriaās in Port Royal and Downtown same thing.
Mi remember before covid mi used to buy fries and chicken a Gloria's fi 1200,nuff food so it worth it,tell me why mi call fi order and dem ago say 2500? Mi just say okay and hang up
Me bun out Gloriaās from way back. I used to take out one likkle motor boat wid a bredrin a mine from Port Royal to go catch snapper, and the fishermen there get ZERO support from Gloriaās. All their fish is provided by Rainforest, who import it from Costa Rica and other countries - barely anything, if anything at all, from Rainforest is locally-caught. The fact that Gloriaās is literally feet away from the local fishermen and they refuse to support the town is disgusting to me. But thatās ābusinessā, right? It would cost them more to buy the fish thatās right on their doorstep than to buy it from dutty Rainforest. So pay more then. The prices they charge youād think they werenāt paying pennies for their fish, but they are. Cyah stand Gloriaās - and itās average AF, too. Rant over. Sorry, where were we? š«„š«„š«„š«„š«„š«„š«„š«„
A should a me
That's more expensive than in the states. The scammers must be making nuff money because only they must be buying it. Regular people can't let their hard-earned money go so.
$2,000 can buy me a whole big piece a swine that (should, but likely wouldnāt cah me craven an nah nuh self control) lasts a few meals. I think when people come here with the USD they tend to think āfuck it, Iām on vacationā or āthis is a business expenseā, so they donāt mind. Iām just glad a nuh me pay di bill. I meanā¦I simply *wouldnāt* have paid for this if a me receive di bill. Brite yf.
Thatās a ramekin for likeā¦ dipping sauce š this plate mad disrespectful. So sorry.
Nuh haffi apologise pan smaddi else behalf, but bless you same way zeen š„¹šš¼ It really is disrespectful on a different level š¤£
I noticed how stingy they are with the bammy last time I was there, give half or 3/4 for 500$.
Box food, road side
That's a chap
i dont know a jamaican who would be handed that plate and say nothing.
In Mobay 1 pound of jerk pork was $3200 but in Green Island it was.$1600 per pound. I forgot the price but at the jerk center near the hardware store in Negril very expensive too. The picture below is from green island https://preview.redd.it/7x7wxw2zw3ra1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f48ae3201941d9369163d3b44e8ac15eb1355e5
Quarter pound of pork is 8 bills upwards most places in town, and you get maybe 5-6 little bites - itās barely anything. So yeah, a full pound of pork would work out the same as the Mobay price youāve mentioned. I wish that pic showed more of the pork itself - I feel like Iām looking at an aforementioned pet peeve of mine; inedible garnishes. Is anyone really eating a huge piece of raw onion or pepper like that? I love pepper, and I probably consume even more pepper than that when I eat pork, but not in massive chunks. It just seems like a waste. š
Japhenia puts the peppers and onions on there more for presentation I think. I actually saute a little and eat both but do also at times eat raw. She also includes small containers of hot and mild jerk sauce on the side if you ask.I looked for a better pic but don't have one.
Mek a did me,mi lay wait the chef and ask fi the rest a the bammy cause bammy come inna circle and last time mi check that nuh=360 ,this hace me heated and a nuh me ,mi feel like fi theif off 2 Tyre off a him car and sell it fo buy the bammy
Creative way to complain - me rate it
Just go to a cheaper/better restairant. its not that hard.
M 10 should be -10
Itās a shame - it used to be really good enuh. Only a couple weeks ago I recommended it to someone who wanted a chill spot in town. Unfortunately my opinion was based on M-10 about a decade ago. Itās massively gone downhill.
I was just thinking that I hadn't been to M-10 in a few years, and it might be good to go back and check it out. Thanks for saving me $2k and a trip to Vinyard Town.
Yeah, donāt bother. Turd.
See this is why I buy from the jerkpan guys because...wah dis
Itās a ramekin full of crap.
I have slaw in the fridge.
Betta than this Iām sure.
And the ramekin messy.. woi mi belly.. I knew you were hungry after that..
Kmftā¦I went straight to a pan man further up Vineyard Town an buy two piece. Belly battam was weeping after this foolishness.
Omg bus muss.. that is ridiculous..pan chicken for the win.
Just go to a cheaper/better restairant. its not that hard.
That's about Ā£11 in pounds. That's a liberty, no rice or plantain, and the pork looks sad madness.
Yup. I often make the depressing mistake of converting to GBP in my head when buying anything here. Ā£11 for a plate that size is upper-class London fancy restaurant prices - at least the food, even if it likkle bit, would taste good.
I donāt know what the fuck it is with restaurants on island where they feel like they have to put every fucking thing in a ramekin. Them must believe it look fancy? I donāt even know what to say.
Itās the belief that itās what the so-called āfirst worldā does because the chefs saw a book or TV show from 1988 and ran with it. Itās the same mentality that gives us those *wonderful* plate decorations like a full scotch bonnet pepper, half an onion, or a whole sprig of thyme on a plate - shit that nobody will possibly eat. Itās like being stuck in a time warp.
Fingers crossed we soon reach the 90s, culinarily speaking
We nuh haffi reach nowhere suh. Just need to celebrate the cuisine in its natural way without (badly) trying to imitate some faux European microwave cookbook nonsense.
I mean, I'm being facetious. We're still way too closed minded as a country as far as food goes. The other day I was browsing the Instagram profile of a new Italian restaurant in Kingston and there were comments on there saying "there's no local food" and that the place doesn't "cater to locals". No fucking kidding, you dunce - it's an Italian restaurant serving Italian food and you gonna come on their page and complain seh you can't get oxtail or ackee and saltfish? Bredda.
Very closed-minded, unfortunately. But itās a lack of exposure thatās to blame. For Europeans itās so easy to access things like French and Italian cuisine because itās a $150 flight away, not to mention the countless different restaurants likely in their home countries. A large number of Jamaicans have barely even left their communities, never mind parishes, so other countries are an alien concept. Some Jamaicans, a minority, will have access to travel and likely go to the U.S. and eat spaghetti & meatballs at fucking Olive Garden and think theyāve eaten āItalian foodā. An even smaller minority may have been lucky enough to travel further afield and experience more. Iāll never forget being in Denham Town a few months ago and speaking to a woman about the cost of yam and other provisions in places like Liguanea, and she said āwah dat? Which place name suh?ā. Itās literally a 10-15 minute drive from downtown, yet she had absolutely no idea - hadnāt even heard of it. Thatās a *frightening* lack of exposure. Whilst thereās a good reason why some Jamaicans have a āclosed-mindedā approach to food, what does irk me a little is the pushback to even *try* something new - thatās strange to me. But yeah, thereās definitely a lot of privilege involved in being open-minded about food, and Iām included in that bracket of privilege. Not something I take for granted.
Naw bredda, Iād fight
My fighting days are over. That being said, I did *feel* like I wanted to light smaddi up. And by ālight them upā I mean actually set fire to the chefā¦
Dem did think say you a 5 years old?
DWL...is like a pikni portion fi tru.
Is bammy u buy and beg yo friend peace a pork talk the truth
Lmaoooooā¦bredda I wish enuh