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>> No. 5883 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 5:52 pm
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Why do a lot of people seem to rave about Nando's?

My friends think I'm a freak because I very rarely eat Subway or Nando's; as far I can tell it's just, not especially good quality, grilled chicken that has been marinated in peri-peri sauce. Am I missing something here?
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>> No. 5884 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 5:56 pm
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Can't comment on Nando's but loads of my mates love Subway, I can't understand why. In an area with loads of great local sandwich shops, they still visit subway regularly...
>> No. 5885 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 8:09 pm
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>>5883
Nandos feels like a proper restaurant, but is as predictable (and consistent) as a McDonald's. I.e. you get the ease of eating fast food without the "stigma" of eating fast food. Add in that it's not especially expensive and you're onto a winner, even if their actual food is not great.

As for Subway... no idea.
>> No. 5886 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 8:18 pm
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>>5883
Nando's is shit. It's regular fast food with a ton of capsaicin added as an afterthought. Uninspiring food for uninspiring people.

Subway is ok in my books though. Nothing to write home about but still one of the rare sources of healthy fast food.
>> No. 5887 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 8:53 pm
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>>5886
>Healthy.
Lad.
>> No. 5888 Anonymous
6th April 2011
Wednesday 11:42 pm
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Nando's isn't especially great, but there's not much you can do wrong with sticking chicken and chillies together in some pitta bread. I don't mind eating there if people want to, even though I can never help thinking how easily I could have just made the same meal at home in the time it took to go to the restaurant.

Subway is just proper shit, though. Their ingredients are horrendously low quality.
>> No. 5889 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 1:28 am
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Nandos is very poor by any stretch of the imagination. The meat is horrible and the chips are uninspiring. It is incredibly bland and largely popular with boring people. Pino Grigio at an office get-together sort of thing, junior management women with that school secretary look about them. Grey suit trousers. They might even say stuff like "dead classy" and keep dead twigs in a white vase near their TV. They like Dido.

Anyway fuck Nandos. A friend of mine worked there and basically told me never to eat any of the chicken. That kind of accolade made my mind up. Even Wetherspoons is better than Nandos, in that you can actually order something reasonably nice from a menu. You can see into the kitchen in one of the Spoonses in my hometown, and that's pretty reassuring.

Anyway Spoons isn't great but it's better than Nandos. But why would you bother going to either when every town in the country has a better, cheaper option?

>>5886

Oh mate no it isn't healthy though is it come on now
>> No. 5891 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 10:23 am
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>>5889
>t is incredibly bland and largely popular with boring people. Pino Grigio at an office get-together sort of thing, junior management women with that school secretary look about them. Grey suit trousers. They might even say stuff like "dead classy" and keep dead twigs in a white vase near their TV. They like Dido.

You just described my girlfriends mother. This is going in the Christmas card this year.
>> No. 5892 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 10:24 am
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>>5889
I thought Spoons did all there food in those horrible frozen bags and just microwaved it?
>> No. 5895 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 1:56 pm
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I've heard of Subway but not these others. Oh well.
>> No. 5897 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 2:31 pm
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>Nandos is very poor by any stretch of the imagination. The meat is horrible and the chips are uninspiring.

I can't see that the meat is that bad. It's just fresh A-grade chicken which has been flame grilled and doused in hot sauce. It's hardly inspiring, but it's not objectively bad either. To criticise simply prepared fresh food like that but praise over-processed shit like Wetherspoon's is weird.
>> No. 5898 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 2:50 pm
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>>5897

It isn't fresh, simply prepared or indeed "grade A". The chickens they use are battery farmed and usually class B. It's covered in artificial sauces which are bland yet full of flavour enhancers (rather than actual ingredients) resulting in a terrible mess of nasty textures and greasy seasoning. Whether you agree with the ethics of intensive farming or not, it produces a much lower grade of meat. If you're used to bad meat, then Nandos probably doesn't taste that different, but it really is low grade stuff.

While Spoons is a far cry from fine dining, it has a more interesting menu with better ingredients. The beef is Farm-Assured, they bother to use Maris Piper spuds, the sausages are free from crap, the eggs are free range, the fish is sustainably caught... It's still Spoons, the puddings are still microwaved and the curries come from a tub, but it's better quality food than Nandos for a fraction of the price.
>> No. 5899 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 2:51 pm
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But they have bottomless drinks at Nandos!
>> No. 5900 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 3:13 pm
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>>5899

Of cheap syrup mixed with flat soda water coming out of dirty lines.
>> No. 5901 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 4:32 pm
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>>5898

Look, I don't mean to be argumentative, but you're just wrong by the source I looked at prior to making the previous post.

http://www.theprintworks.com/the_place/venues/nandos/

So it's fresh, A-grade chicken marinated for 24 hours and grilled to order. What now?
>> No. 5902 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 4:41 pm
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>>5895

You've never heard of Wetherspoons? What manner of cave have you been living in? They sell cheap beer and passable grub, it's my temple. They steaks are the only thing I'll eat mind you because I know they grill them fresh.

What about Yates or Sizzling? Note: Yates is balls.
>> No. 5904 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 4:47 pm
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>>5885

Not especially expensive?! Lad, it's about £14 for a beer, shitty bit of chicken and a fistful of chips. I've only been to Nandos once and can happily say I'll never return. When I dine out, I like to be so full that I feel sick afterwards... Nandos wouldn't fill the stomach of a starving Ethiopian.
>> No. 5905 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 4:57 pm
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>>5901

Lad, the website for an entertainment complex in Manchester isn't a valid source of information.

For starters, "A-grade" actually doesn't mean anything. I can legitimately bludgeon a chaffinch to death and sell it as "A-grade". In the UK we have a meat class system - Class A and Class B. It isn't even particularly relevant.

The fact that it's been marinated for 24 hours doesn't change the quality of the chicken. It arguably masks the taste and texture of mediocre meat, but it isn't a refined cooking technique and definitely doesn't merit the prices.

If you don't mean to be argumentative, why are you voraciously defending a mediocre institution with non-facts derived from extraneous sources? I suggest you reassess your allegiance and stop eating at terrible restaurants.

>>5902

The Spoons steaks are pretty reasonable. They aren't generally the best examples of their cuts, but they stand up to basic inspection and tick all their respective boxes. I've often wondered why the steak sauces are advertised as "suitable for vegetarians" though.
>> No. 5906 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 5:15 pm
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>>5904
Less than £15 quid for a meal out in a restaurant-type place featuring semi-table service is what I consider "not especially expensive". Whether it's value for money is different question entirely and in that regard I'd agree.

> Nandos wouldn't fill the stomach of a starving Ethiopian.
I disagree. The "half a chicken with two sides" is reasonably filling (for me, at least, and at a touch over 15st I'm not exactly a minimalist when it comes to eating).

Anyway, it's not like I'm recommending the place, but it's so thoroughly bland, average and uninspired that it's hard to actually find something to genuinely dislike about it. I don't get the rave either, but I find the almost visceral hatred some people have of the place equally baffling.
>> No. 5907 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 5:22 pm
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>>5906

No visceral hatred, lad, just a scathing disregard for a bad product. Maybe we just have higher standards than you.
>> No. 5908 Anonymous
7th April 2011
Thursday 5:30 pm
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>>5907
> Maybe we just have higher standards than you.
Must be it.
>> No. 5912 Anonymous
8th April 2011
Friday 5:26 am
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I'm going to be controversially un-edgy and say that I like Nandos. If a mate of mine said let's go to Nandos I would not recoil in disgust. I have bottles of Peri Peri sauce in my fridge and I use them on my own chickens.

inb4 cretinous inchworm or whatever the latest forced meme of the day is

Incidentally this is what Nandos say about their chicken on their website. Notably there is no mention of what class they may be.
Currently, Nando’s uses barn-reared chickens. Our whole chickens are sourced from the UK and supplied to us fresh by Faccenda and Freemans of Newent, who supply our halal chickens.
A small percentage of our chicken breast fillets are sourced from Holland and Germany as demand for this product outweighs supply in the UK. We do not purchase battery reared chickens or any manufactured chicken product.
We insist on the highest standards of hygiene and quality from our suppliers, who comply with the ACP (Assured Chicken Production) industry standards. Our barn-reared chickens are housed in deep littered, well-ventilated barns and have constant access to food and water. They are fed non-GM feed and are free from antibiotic growth promoters.
As part of a continuous process of reviewing all aspects of our supply to make certain our products are properly and ethically sourced. We are also actively looking at RSPCA Freedom Foods and Free Range chicken.
Nando’s prides itself in offering great tasting food at great value. Chicken welfare is of utmost importance however we also need to consider the price our customers are willing to pay.

>> No. 5913 Anonymous
8th April 2011
Friday 6:03 am
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It tastes quite nice but is quite expensive for the portion sizes. I cannot muster any more enthusiasm for the topic than that. It's alright, nothing more, nothing less.

Buying their marinade from the shops allows me to enjoy a heartier portion for less money, though, so I'd rather do that sometimes than go to the place.
>> No. 5917 Anonymous
8th April 2011
Friday 1:33 pm
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I've not been in a long time, but Nando's fillet burger and chips is probably the best meal I've ever eaten. Bunch of poncy Frenchies in this thread. Some of you will probably suspect me of attempting to troll, but I'm dead serious.
>> No. 5920 Anonymous
9th April 2011
Saturday 1:51 pm
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Nandos have got really stingy with their portions, when they first started over here it was actually quite good value, not any more.

I remember going into a Nandos in Croydon about 8 years ago and being the only white person in there :/
>> No. 5921 Anonymous
9th April 2011
Saturday 7:42 pm
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>>5920

Racist
>> No. 5987 Anonymous
13th April 2011
Wednesday 10:33 am
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>>5891
>keep dead twigs in a white vase near their TV
My girlfriend's mum actually has this. Are we dating the same woman?

>>5912
I shall join you and fester in un-edgy-ness. Yes, I could cook similar at home, but what you really pay for is for someone to cook and clean for you, as well as the food itself. Good place to go if you want to get out the house but don't have too much money to spend. I usually go for the mash rather than chips though, I must admit. And from experience it seems that some places are better than others so maybe I'm just lucky/ all of you are unlucky.

I'd place it in the same league as places like Bella Italia or Pizza Express, rather than Maccy Dees. Stuff you could do yourself, but they just do it a little bit better, and isn't made by deep fast frying chunks of offal.
>> No. 5989 Anonymous
13th April 2011
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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>>5987
But Bella Italia is shite and you could do it better yourself.
>> No. 5990 Anonymous
13th April 2011
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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>>5989
I don't know, haven't been there for years, was just the first thing that came to my head.
>> No. 7103 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 9:09 pm
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HUNGRY Ross Dance bit into a Nando's chicken wrap — and found he was chomping on a live FROG. The horrified diner managed to spit out the 4in-long animal, but fears he may have already eaten one of its legs.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3968219/Hoppy-Meal.html

He looks hopping mad.
>> No. 7104 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>5912
>barn-reared chickens
Doesn't really mean anything.

>We do not purchase battery reared chickens
This would depend on whose definition of "battery farm" you use.

>ACP (Assured Chicken Production) industry standards
Industries can invent their own standards for anything and then stick a nice shiny label on the packaging. Only independent standards are worth anything.

>We are also actively looking at RSPCA Freedom Foods and Free Range chicken.
And I'm actively looking at buying a Ferrari but it's not going to happen any time soon.
>> No. 7105 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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I think we've essentially established that Nando's is mediocre at best, that their constant waffling about quality means precisely fuck all, and that their target demographic is the dull, semi-chavvy, dead-twigs-in-a-vase brigade.
>> No. 7106 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 10:15 pm
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>>7105
Are you telling me that Are Ross in >>7103 is part of the 'dull, semi-chavvy, dead-twigs-in-a-vase brigade'?
>> No. 7107 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 10:22 pm
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>>7106

He can barely adjust his face to make a recognisable expression. He's an accounts manager and he has a wife called Karen. The amount of potpourri and dead twigs in his (mostly white, tan and beige) sitting room is probably enormous. Karen probably says stuff like "dead classy" and I bet this is the most interesting thing that will happen in their entire lives.
>> No. 7109 Anonymous
30th November 2011
Wednesday 10:39 pm
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>>7107

I giggled.
>> No. 7111 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 12:27 am
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>>7104
>Doesn't really mean anything.
>depend on whose definition of "battery farm" you use

So let me get this straight, you're saying that the words 'barn-reared' and 'battery-reared' do not mean what they say they mean? Explain yourself. Do you think Nando's wouldn't be done for misleading customers if they were happy to advertise that they do not purchase battery hens when in fact they do?
>> No. 7112 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 12:38 am
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>>7111

Most battery farming is done in barns. All chickens are barn reared, whether they're confined in cages or not.

Now, I'm not him and I don't think they're outright lying, but they're not telling the truth either, and their chicken is not free-range Class A like they're eager to imply it is with their "barn-raised A-grade" talk.
>> No. 7113 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 1:03 am
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>>7112
But they said their chicken is not battery, so your syllogism is bollocks.

They are implying their chicken is free range by stating it's barn-raised? Are you mental or something?
>> No. 7115 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 1:09 am
7115 ARE YOU MENTAL OR SOMETHING?????
>>7113

Hahaha

Just passed this post in * and found that sentence completely representative of the bollocks chatted on .gs

>They are implying their chicken is free range by stating it's barn-raised? Are you mental or something?
>> No. 7116 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 1:10 am
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>>7114

Herring? Like the fish? Are you MENTAL or something?
>> No. 7117 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 1:17 am
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>>7113
When they say that their chicken is not battery they use the technical definition of battery, but the public generally think battery farming is just anything involving cages. So what they say is completely true, but misleading at the same time.

Also, their assertion that they don't use battery farming is a red herring anyway.
-It will actually be illegal to use battery farms from next year, so they don't really have a choice about this.
-and battery farming is mainly only used for eggs, the only way a battery farmed chicken would ever end up on your plate will be as a processed lump of meat covered in batter.

>>7111
The ASA is ineffectual enough as it is when it comes to punishing companies for complete lies. When companies write things like this about their products, everything they say can be argued as being entirely true, but they rely on the ignorance of the public to make them think it means something else.
>> No. 7124 Anonymous
1st December 2011
Thursday 7:09 pm
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>>7113

>They are implying their chicken is free range by stating it's barn-raised?

Of course they are.
>> No. 7135 Anonymous
3rd December 2011
Saturday 3:59 am
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>>7115
Chat is an intransitive verb, fuck you.
>> No. 8688 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 12:19 pm
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My friends dragged me to Nandos yesterday, it just strikes me as a slightly more upmarket KFC but mainly for people incapable of properly seasoning their own cooking.

I wish I'd bought shares a few years back, mind. They must have skyrocketed.
>> No. 8689 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 1:51 pm
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>>5902
I know someone who worked at spoons. The steaks are green before they are cooked. Also they treat staff like shit.

Never been to a Nando's but I'm a Subway fan. You get the convenience of fast food but less grease than Burger King or Macdonald's. And I like how you can actually choose exactly what goes on your sub. I'm sure the ingredients aren't super top notch but no fast food ever will be.
>> No. 8690 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 2:00 pm
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Are you by any chance friends with a number of "LADs"?

If so, this is why.
They are mental for eating that crap.
>> No. 8691 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 2:03 pm
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>>8690
I was first introduced to Nandos by a friend I met at university, who wasn't exactly a LAD, but decidedly working class. I was horrified that I was supposed to eat chicken with my hands, having been raised by middle-class parents to always respect proper table etiquette. It didn't even taste good.
>> No. 8692 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 2:50 pm
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>>8689
Can't you get that at any sandwich shop?
>> No. 8693 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 3:08 pm
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>>5987

>I'd place it in the same league as places like Bella Italia or Pizza Express, rather than Maccy Dees. Stuff you could do yourself, but they just do it a little bit better

Bella Italia, Zizzi, Nandos and especially Pizza Express all fall into a class of eatery I call "mediocre food for mediocre people". The culinary equivalent of an All-Bar-One.

If I'm paying twice the price of what it'd cost to produce at home, I expect a meal that's twice as good - and in these places you simply don't receive it.
>> No. 8694 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 4:10 pm
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Not that I'm really complaining that someone took the time to look for a related thread before posting, but this thread is almost 2 years old.

I remember posting in it, but it was so long ago that I no longer recognise which post might be mine. Still, I've not been to Nandos yet and I noticed one in Stirling. Seeing this thread again has put me right off again, so probably worked out best.
>> No. 8695 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 4:19 pm
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I've been once. Never again.

Thankfully it seems the place is so fucking popular now there's an hour or two to wait to eat there, so I never have to face it even if my idiot friends want it. "Oh no but we're hungry now, that's a shame we'll have to go somewhere that actually sells food"
>> No. 8696 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 4:24 pm
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I have been to a Halal nandos. I don't mind nandos, I don't know why everyone is up in arms about it.
>> No. 8697 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 4:37 pm
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>>8696

Food snobbery is a socially acceptable form of cuntery?

Still, I agree with them for the most part. I really like chicken, cook it all the time. The stories I hear do not endear the place to me.
>> No. 8698 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 6:54 pm
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>>8697
>Food snobbery is a socially acceptable form of cuntery
How dare you post this on /nom/. Fuck you.
>> No. 8699 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 7:27 pm
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>>8694
I wouldn't have been arsed to trawl through all the pages in the hope the thread still existed. It's a good job we have the catalogue. I didn't realise the thread was so old, though. I sort of enjoy reading (or guessing which ones are) my old posts.
>> No. 8700 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 7:27 pm
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>>8698

Now, now. I'm implicit in it, but that doesn't mean I don't recognise it for what it is.

I'm the guy who replies in disgust everytime someone posts about putting milk in their tea. Are you trying to insinuate, regardless of wether or not I'm right or wrong, I'm not a cunt?
>> No. 8701 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>8699
>I didn't realise the thread was so old, though.
Yeah, it's not like each post has a timestamp telling you when it was posted, is it?
>> No. 8702 Anonymous
10th February 2013
Sunday 8:40 pm
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>>8701
I meant before I clicked on the thread in the catalogue, silly sausage.
>> No. 8703 Anonymous
11th February 2013
Monday 9:35 am
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I'd honestly rather eat at Maccy D's since unlike Nando's I can't cook it at home cheaper, better, and without the company of twig-bothering HR staff. Blumenthal himself would struggle to recreate the ethereal, sponge-like burgers in question.

There's something quite sad about people seeing a place like Nando's as aspirational. It reminds me of reading about some poorer, Asian countries where eating KFC is treated as a formal night out.
>> No. 8704 Anonymous
11th February 2013
Monday 6:26 pm
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>>8703
McDonald's does nothing for me. The fries taste like warm, salty paper and the burgers are incredibly bland and tasteless.

At least at Burger King the burgers taste meaty, even if it is horse.
>> No. 8705 Anonymous
11th February 2013
Monday 6:39 pm
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>>8692
Well I don't know of a great number of independant sandwich shops where I live. So given a choice between Subway or Maccy's, I'll easily choose Subway.
>> No. 8706 Anonymous
11th February 2013
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>8705
If I've read /sentry/ right (probably not) then you're from Hull. If you're in town then go to Trinity Market, there's a couple of sandwich stalls that don't look like much but offer cracking sandwiches.
>> No. 8712 Anonymous
12th February 2013
Tuesday 11:58 pm
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I posted >>5912 two years ago and thought I'd check if Nando's policy had changed. It's nearly identical, except that they've removed the bit about getting chicken breasts from Holland and Germany (even though they still qualify all the chicken they source from Britain being "whole") and, suspiciously, the part about the chickens being "fed non-GM feed and are free from antibiotic growth promoters". Hmmmmm.
>> No. 8760 Anonymous
14th February 2013
Thursday 11:33 pm
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>>8706
Never been to Hull in my life I'm afraid. Problem with where I am is it's full of tourists, so really easy to get ripped off with them if you're not careful.
>> No. 8818 Anonymous
15th February 2013
Friday 10:57 am
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I like Nando's. I have no delusions as to what it is, but that's pretty tasty food for not a lot of money.
>> No. 8848 Anonymous
17th February 2013
Sunday 9:47 pm
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>>8706
Ahh Freshco, next to that barmy Italian guy selling home made pizzas and pasta! They offer good scotch eggs.
Do you remember Skeltons selling cheesy scotch eggs, with a layer of cheese between the meat and egg?
>> No. 8849 Anonymous
17th February 2013
Sunday 9:49 pm
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>>8706
Has the pizza bloke fucked off for good? The sandwich stall next to him is amazing, I'm assuming it's one of the ones you're on about. Newland Carvery is also great for a carvery-in-a-sandwich.
>> No. 8878 Anonymous
19th February 2013
Tuesday 7:02 pm
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>>8849
I can't say I've seen him in a while. Last time I was in Newland Carvery the woman there kept offering me meat to try, afterwards I barely had room for the sandwich I'd bought. I've also heard that there's a sandwich shop about 100 yards down Hessle Road that's very generous with the fillings they give you and I still need to try Olive Garden on Prinny Ave.
>> No. 8886 Anonymous
19th February 2013
Tuesday 10:48 pm
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Since we're talking about nice independent places do any of you know anywhere good outside the Arndale Market in Manchester?
>> No. 9193 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 6:44 pm
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>>8878
>I still need to try Olive Garden on Prinny Ave.

Had a Mediterranean Melt from Olive Tree today. Ruddy gorgeous. No wonder the Subway down there is always dead.
>> No. 9194 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 8:27 pm
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>>5902

The food at spoons isn't passable. The mash is hydrated powder and the meat (even the 'steaks' 'pork chops' and bacon) is microwaved, reformed and barely hit for humans.

Theres a reason you can get a hot meat and 2 veg meal and a pint for 5 quid...
>> No. 9195 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 8:32 pm
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>>9194
n1 m9. dat 25 month old post dont no wots hit it.
>> No. 9196 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 9:22 pm
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>>9194

This is demonstrably false, lad. I worked there, you're a complete berk.

Ask down your local about how they cook their stuff and what produce they use, you'll get a demo. Their meat isn't reformed in anyway.
>> No. 9197 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 11:47 pm
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>>9194
Careful with that axe, Eugene
>> No. 9198 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 12:00 am
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>>9193
Sad to think that on one of our fanciest avenues the best food place is a sandwich shop, isn't it? Bar a few which are obviously wank before you even go in I've eaten everywhere down Prinny Ave and nowt's impressed me that much. A mate of mine was a chef at Boar's Nest and the owner packed up and moved to South Cave, his comment being "people come down here to get pissed, I'm not going to get taken seriously as a restaurant down here".

On the topic of delightful indie establishments, though, have any of you hullfa.gs been to English Muse for a nice coffee yet? It's not bad. More and more coffee shops popping up, it's good to see.
>> No. 9199 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 3:54 am
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>>9196

I can second this. Furthermore, especially considering what you pay for it, their meat is actually surprisingly good quality.

And the mash is brought in frozen, not dehydrated.
>> No. 9200 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 6:08 am
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>>9198
My favourite down there is Thai House. Laundry is alright, but I found the service quite poor.

Aside from Raj Pavilion I reckon the best places are around town; Lion & Key, Garbo's, Wilson on the marina does a fantastic gammon and chips and if you can afford it then the food at 1884 is exquisite. I've also heard good things about Swadh on the old Hedon Road.

I've never heard of English Muse, it sounds like the kind of place you'd get down Newland Ave.
>> No. 9201 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 9:54 am
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>>8703

In fairness that's how Americans see us with Pizza Hut; in fact our Pizza Huts are far more upmarket than they are Stateside. I think it's the same for KFC in many Asian countries.
>> No. 9202 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 1:38 pm
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>>9198
>>9200

I've always found the Real Sandwich shop in Ezzle square and just along from the McDonalds in town really nice, their Turkey/cranberry/stuffing bap has helped overcome many rough heads.

I'm quite fond of that Hitchcock's Vegetarian restaurant in town, you can take in your own booze too. The only weird thing is how it's a buffet. Napoleon's restaurant isn't too bad either from what I can remember, though we just got a cheap meal each and won back enough to cover the meal and a taxi home with the vouchers they give you...
>> No. 9203 Anonymous
8th May 2013
Wednesday 1:55 pm
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>>9202
I've been to Hitchcocks many times and I almost always end up bored by the food as it tends to be bland and stodgy. The only time I've been impressed was when they had some lovely marinated carrots. If it wasn't for the puddings I'd leave their hungry.

If you're after veggie food then Zoo isn't bad. It always tickles me when their specials are whatever is on offer at Jack Fultons across the road.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 9236 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:01 am
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>>9203
Banned for mixing up their and there? This is why I shouldn't post on my phone while I'm having a poo at work; I was literally shitposting.
>> No. 9238 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:15 am
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>>9236

It was the correct use of "their" but

>their specials are whatever is on offer
>> No. 9239 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:25 am
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>>9238
What should it say?
>> No. 9240 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:30 am
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>>9239

In the context of the original sentence:

>when their specials or whatever are on offer at Jack Fultons across the road.
>> No. 9241 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:32 am
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>>9240

Maybe it should be "Jack Fulton's" with an apostrophe too but some establishments omit the apostrophe in their name.
>> No. 9242 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:36 am
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>>9240
But that means something different. What he was saying is that the specials menu comprises whatever happens be on offer at Jack Fulton.
>> No. 9243 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:39 am
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>>9238
I thought it would have been for

>If it wasn't for the puddings I'd leave their hungry.

>>9241
I've just looked it up. They're actually called Fultons Foods.

There seems to be a few of us up early this morning.
>> No. 9244 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 6:57 am
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>>9242

You're right. I completely misinterpreted it.
>> No. 9249 Anonymous
10th May 2013
Friday 9:49 am
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>>9244

It's amazing how my eyes and brain autocorrect their/there mix-ups. I was picking out spurious grammatical errors like a blackout drunk confabulating memories to fill in the blanks.
>> No. 9299 Anonymous
13th May 2013
Monday 6:23 pm
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>>9200
>Laundry is alright
You think? I thought their menu was trying to be fancy but their chefs just couldn't match up to it. I took our department there for Christmas dinner and everyone's food came a bit wrong somehow, my rosti was rock hard and more people's veg was "a bit too al dente" (the phrase that was getting thrown around). Also the only two people that had steak got food poisoning.

I went to 1884 the other night and it was honestly the best dining experience I've ever had without having to leave Hull for it. Not quite on par with Pipe & Glass near Bev, obviously, but not as pricey either. I'm now desperate for an excuse to go back.

Never tried Hitchcock's, nor have I tried Green Ginger but I've wanted to for a while. I'm just not a big fan of mushrooms and I've heard veggie types tend to eat a lot of them because they secretly miss meat and mushrooms are as close as they can get.

Without turning this into yet another Hull thread (too late for that, soz everyone else), I'd love some more recommendations around here as I'm running out of new places to eat.
>> No. 9300 Anonymous
13th May 2013
Monday 6:25 pm
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>>9299
>they secretly miss meat
You don't really know any vegetarians, do you?
>> No. 9301 Anonymous
13th May 2013
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>9300
I was just being a cock. I know a few. I once watched a vegetarian ease his way back into meat-eating by having a tuna sandwich. He basically orgasmed right there in the pub.
>> No. 9302 Anonymous
13th May 2013
Monday 10:46 pm
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>>9299
It's well over a year since I went to Laundry, but I found the food very agreeable. I guess it helps that when I went it was almost empty and the chefs won't have been rushed like they would over Christmas.

There's not a lot of mushrooms at the buffet at Hitchcocks. It's a different theme every night (whoever books first for the night gets to choose the menu) but it's quite bland. I think that their core clientele* are so grateful just to have a vegetarian restaurant instead of having to make yet another choice between a cheese and tomato tart or five bean chilli that they lap it up regardless.

If you like fish then I recommend Lion & Key. The chefs there used to work at Ceruttis, which is probably the best fish restaurant in Hull but it's very dated and a bit stuffy inside. Tony Cerutti is very welcoming, though. I'm also fond of Green Dragon in Welton, it's a Marstons but the food is far superior to what's on offer at the likes of Goldcrest and Warton Arms.

As far as I can tell, there are 3 main groups of people you will see at Hitchcocks:-

1. Students who like the informal hippy vibe.
2. People who have dragged their friends, date or family there for a special occasion, usually a birthday. If it's family then the dad will invariably make a quip about having a plate full of chips and nothing else or popping to a takeaway on the way home to get a burger. The stubborn attitude of the dad makes the veggie more determined to like Hitchcocks.
3. Banshees. Groups of up to 20 women who spend the evening working their way through several bottles of wine and cackling like witches. They're too pissed to care what's actually on the plate in front of them.

>> No. 9315 Anonymous
14th May 2013
Tuesday 10:37 pm
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>>9302

>Banshees

Oh Jesus Christ that description triggered my PTSD. No good can come of a table like that, and apparently they don't even tip as they are protecting their fucking pooled 'kitty' like its the holy sacrament. Just shuffle credit cards like normal fucking people. But try to refuse them service, I dare you.
>> No. 9316 Anonymous
14th May 2013
Tuesday 11:45 pm
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>>9302
>Cerutti's
I was going to bung that in my post and ask if anyone's tried it, actually. It's always closed when I wander past but I've heard nothing but good things about the menu. Two Rivers in The Deep is apparently shite food and you're basically just sitting in a canteen that's had an evening makeover but I still want to try it out.

Speaking of dated and stuffy inside, have you tried Lantern on Whitefri'gate? I went years not even knowing it's there but I went in January and the food is just great. It's supposed to be Cypriot food but everyone I know that's been has had steak because they were told the steak is amazing. I had the steak, it was amazing. Paid the reasonable £17 for a fillet and it didn't disappoint at all. You pay for your veggies on the side but if you're paying £17 for steak then £3 for something to go with doesn't really take the piss. Decor is reminiscent of a Teddy's Amusements that hasn't been done up since the seventies, plastic ornaments and dusty curtains and all that. We had the restaurant to ourselves, I'd love to go again in spite of the time travel.
>> No. 9318 Anonymous
15th May 2013
Wednesday 8:16 am
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>>9316
I've been to Two Rivers with work, it's not in the canteen. We were sat between the sharks and the Amazon tank. I can't recall much about the food, though.

I've never been to Lantern but I've had it recommended before. I might look into it.
>> No. 9347 Anonymous
19th May 2013
Sunday 11:30 pm
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>>9318
I went to Lantern again on Wednesday and was again the only person in the restaurant for some time. However, I was treat like a king and my steak was amazing. If you can catch them when they're open, I highly recommend you go.
>> No. 9443 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 5:04 pm
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>>9347
Another Hull lad here, I shall check out Lantern, is that the one next to that leather jacket shop that is obviously some seedy ciggy smuggling front and up those stairs?
>> No. 9444 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 5:44 pm
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I know I'm more than a little late to this thread, but I might as well throw my oar in as I ate at a Nando's for the first time a few weeks ago. I had basically the OP with a coke, no dessert. I'm surprised they're a rising success because to me it just tasted like fast-food chicken and fast-food chips. Which is alright, I'm not that snobby about my food, but it cost over a tenner and for that kind of money I expect (and can easily get elsewhere) some proper food.

Won't be going there again unless I can't avoid it.
>> No. 9445 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 6:01 pm
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>>9443
Yes it is and it's amazing. I'm surprised you actually pinpointed its location, it's quite easy to walk right past even if you're looking for it.

I've actually been back again because my friend wanted steak last week and I didn't know where else to take him. I'll recommend you get the fillet steak because it really is perfect and supplement with some french fried onions (onion rings) and the peppercorn sauce but whatever you decide to get do let me know how it is because I feel a bit bad getting the same thing every time I go back.

To put things into scope, I regularly eat three meals a day consisting of fish and sometimes have to make the conscious effort to eat something that isn't fish, Lantern has a menu with about ten different kinds of fish and I don't even give them a look after trying that steak. It's really a case of "I could try this... but I know I'm going to leave happy with the steak".
>> No. 9446 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 6:46 pm
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>I regularly eat three meals a day consisting of fish
Are you married to a fishmonger or something?
>> No. 9447 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 7:49 pm
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>>9445
Maybe a "Hullfag" meeting may be in order at the Lantern in the next year or so. Would be a laugh, then we could get trolleyed on the Marina or in the Olde White Hart.
>> No. 9448 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 8:13 pm
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>>9447
Didn't there used to be a truly vile sailor's pub by one of the dock entrances? It's either there or in immingham. Unbelievably rough.
>> No. 9449 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 9:29 pm
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>>9448
There are a few really gash pubs in the Saltend side of the city, truly awful. Plimsoll Hotel in Witham ranks highly on the shit scale.
>> No. 9450 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 10:58 pm
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>>9449
As does the rest of Witham.
>> No. 9451 Anonymous
18th June 2013
Tuesday 11:14 pm
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>>9449
Really... gash... pubs?
>> No. 9452 Anonymous
19th June 2013
Wednesday 11:27 am
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>>9446
No, I'm just a stickler for fish.

>>9447
I'm soon to become a "Mancfag", actually, but that does sound like a good idea - I've actually never been out around Old Town. Given the nature of Hull, you know we'd all get there and already know each other somehow.
>> No. 9502 Anonymous
24th June 2013
Monday 2:32 pm
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>>9451
Sandringham in Paragon Square is a good example of such a pub too, really terrible. Probably a good place pick up any 40-50 year olds for a shag.
>> No. 9503 Anonymous
24th June 2013
Monday 5:21 pm
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>>9502
A example of a gash pub?
>> No. 9504 Anonymous
24th June 2013
Monday 8:36 pm
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>>9503
Gash is also common slang for rubbish, matey. Although it's more a sailor/cannon fodder saying.
>> No. 9506 Anonymous
25th June 2013
Tuesday 8:48 pm
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>>9504
If you say so. I thought it was a vulgar reference to lady parts.
>> No. 9507 Anonymous
25th June 2013
Tuesday 8:54 pm
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>>9506

It's both.
>> No. 9508 Anonymous
25th June 2013
Tuesday 8:58 pm
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>>9506
Don't be a cunt.
>> No. 9512 Anonymous
25th June 2013
Tuesday 10:33 pm
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>>5889
>Anyway Spoons isn't great but it's better than Nandos. But why would you bother going to either when every town in the country has a better, cheaper option?

Very late to the party here but my local 'Spoons (Zachariah Pearson, to continue the Hullfa.gs theme) do kids eat free, so my missus and I can have a burger with a J20/Pepsi and the kids can have pasta, spag bol, a mini roast of the day or sausages and mash with a Fruit Shoot and see change from a tenner.

For comparative purposes, the equivalent from Pizza Hut, Frankie & Benny's or another pub chain would be around £30-£45 for no discernible difference in quality. Last time we went to Ask it cost over £20 on food and drink just for our two kids, but I'm adamant that the service there is deliberately glacial so you'll spend more on drinks.

I'd never go to 'Spoons without the kids, though.
>> No. 9513 Anonymous
25th June 2013
Tuesday 10:45 pm
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>>9512

>I'd never go to 'Spoons without the kids, though.

BROKEN BRITAIN
>> No. 9514 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 12:30 am
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Went to Nandos today because it was the only source of food open in the sad little shopping mall I found myself in. I have come to the conclusion that the whole operation was designed from the ground up to accommodate people who do not belong in a proper restaurant, and I include both the customers and staff in this judgement. The first sign is the fact they assign you a table, but then make you get up and walk to a counter to order and pay for your food, which threw me entirely off balance. Why do this? Why employ servers at all? Why not just construct a spicy chicken trough in the centre of the floor? I suppose it's because they can't trust the plebs who are their target audience to pay after their meal like normal humans.

The food was fine, it was warm and tasted like chicken, so somebody's done the research at least, but unwisely they had built an open kitchen in the place, and I managed to spot four or five pretty serious violations of the food safety act. I had to stop watching them before I got depressed. I accept that no kitchen is perfect, but if you're at the point where you don't even care that people can see you failing to wash your hands and throwing allergens all over your station, then you're at rock bottom.

Restaurants are quite possibly the last business that actually has a decent amount of independently owned ventures, each unique and most very high quality indeed, and it's depressing to see a line outside of yet another chain. There's an hour wait at Nandos but there's a rosette cafe down the road that will make you the worlds tastiest toad in the hole for less than a large mcnandos and cheese, and it's half fucking empty. Because people want to walk into any city in the country and get their usual at Starbucks, cafe rouge, giraffe, or so it appears.
>> No. 9518 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 12:45 am
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>>9514

>Because people want to walk into any city in the country and get their usual at Starbucks, cafe rouge, giraffe, or so it appears.

Careful lad, sounds like you are thinking a little too much for modern Britain. Any more like this and you'll be off to Gitmo.
>> No. 9519 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 1:13 am
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>>9514
That's an impressive review. It made me revisit my memories of visiting that shithole of a "restaurant". Do more reviews on different restaurants mate.
>> No. 9520 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 1:22 am
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>>9514
I've never been in one and never will after reading this thread, but this business about going to a counter and paying before you've eaten: is there actually a waiter/waitress or not? I suppose it sounds a bit like a Wetherspoons.

>the plebs who are their target audience
A major reason people who don't even aspire to Nandos go on Jeremy Kyle and play the fool is because the producers put them up in a hotel, and they've never stayed in a hotel before. A lot of people don't know that.
>> No. 9521 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 1:41 am
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>>9514
>Why not just construct a spicy chicken trough in the centre of the floor?

This image is wonderful.
>> No. 9523 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 1:42 am
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>>9520

> A major reason people who don't even aspire to Nandos go on Jeremy Kyle and play the fool is because the producers put them up in a hotel, and they've never stayed in a hotel before. A lot of people don't know that.

c'mon then; us takin t'kids t'travelodge up donny
>> No. 9525 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 1:46 am
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>>9514

> Restaurants are quite possibly the last business that actually has a decent amount of independently owned ventures, each unique and most very high quality indeed

I'm wont to agree with you, but once I learned to do a bit of basic cooking I found out that most restaurants are actually pretty pants. If I pay five times what it'd take me to produce the same meal at home, I'd like a meal that's about five times better. I very rarely get it.
>> No. 9526 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 2:01 am
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>>9525

Agreed. With the right ingredients and decent recipes, it's quite easy to match, and often exceed the level of cooking found in the vast majority of restaurants.
>> No. 9527 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 4:03 am
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>>9526

Of course plenty of places aspire to be nothing more than sustenance at a slight profit, and the number of restaurants that make you say "how did he do that" decrease as your culinary knowledge increases, but there reaches a certain level of cooking where your thought is "now why didn't I think of that", and the meal is always enjoyable, no matter how faithfully you could recreate it at home.

But there are restaurants for people who just don't happen to be at home when they're hungry, and then there are restaurants for people who leave their house to go visit them. The difference should be obvious but both should be saved from the wrath of Nandos.
>> No. 9530 Anonymous
26th June 2013
Wednesday 4:47 am
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>>9519

I will be taking requests. Chains would be the best, of course, but I'm willing to pencil in any local oddities if I happen to be in the area.
>> No. 9552 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 12:40 am
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>>9514
Bill Bryson has written about this. This was in the late nineties regarding America. Is it time to worry that it's applying to us too?

I remember the first time I tasted European chocolate. It was in the central railway station in Antwerp on 21 March 1972 my second day in Europe as a young backpacker. While waiting for a train I bought a bar of Belgian chocolate from a station kiosk, tore off a bite, and, after a moment of startled delight, began to emit a series of involuntary rapturous noises of an intensity sufficient to draw stares from 20 yards away. You know how a baby eats a bowl of pudding - with noise and gusto and an alarming amount of gurgly drool? Well that was me. I couldn't help myself. I didn't know that chocolate could be this good. I didn't know that anything could be this good. American chocolate bars, as you are perhaps aware, are mysteriously bland affairs. I have been told that it wasn't always so. Many times I have heard from people of my parents generation that when they were young American chocolate bars packed a proper wallop - that they were fatter, creamier, more lusciously endowed with nuts and nougat and gustatory ecstasy. My father reminisced fondly about candy bars of the 1920s so chewy that they would take most of the day to eat and a couple of weeks to digest. The same bars now are pallid little nothings. The popular explanation is that these products have been constantly reformulated - perhaps I should say deformulated - over the years to hold down costs and to broaden their appeal to people with less intensive palates. It is certainly true that an awful lot of American foodstuffs - white bread, most domestic cheeses, nearly all convenience foods, the bulk of beers, a good deal of the coffee - are nothing like as robust and flavourful and varied as their counterparts almost anywhere in Europe, Britain included. It's an odd thing in a country that loves to eat, but there you are. I put it down to two things. The first is cost. Everything in America is predicated on cost far more than in other countries. If price is a factor between competing businesses, and it always is, then the cheaper will inevitably drive out the costlier, and this seldom leads to improved quality. Actually it never leads to improved quality. There used to be a good fast food Mexican restaurant in the next town from where I live. Then about a year ago Taco Bell, part of a national chain, opened up across the road. I don't believe there is a person alive who would argue that Taco bell offers really good Mexican food. But it is cheap, at least 25 per cent cheaper than the restaurant it was competing with across the road. Within a year the old restaurant was gone. So now if you want Mexican fast food in our neck of the woods you have to settle for the cheap but carefully uninspired offering of Taco Bell. Because Taco Bell is so vigorously competitive on price its dominance is well nigh universal. Almost wherever you go along the American highway these days, if you want a taco you must settle for Taco Bell. The stupefying thing is that this seems to be the way most people want it. And here we come to the second of our factors - the strange unshakeable attachment of American consumers to predictable uniformity. Americans in a word like things to be the same wherever they go. This is the part that mystifies me. Take Starbucks a chain of coffee shops for which I have a mild and possibly irrational dislike if only because they are becoming ubiquitous. Starbucks started quietly in Seattle some years ago but in the last five years the number of its outlets has grown tenfold to 1,270, and the number is intended to double roughly in the next two years. Already in many cities if you are looking for a coffee bar the choice is pretty well Starbucks or nothing. Now there is nothing wrong with Starbucks, but nothing all that special either. It offers a decent cup of coffee. Big deal. I can give you a decent cup of coffee. The impression you get is that Starbucks principal motivating force is not to produce the finest coffees but rather to produce more Starbucks. If the American coffee drinking public demands truly excellent coffee then Starbucks will have to provide it if it wants to stay pre-eminent, but the American public won't demand that so there won't be any particular pressure on Starbucks to provide exceptional quality. It may, but there won't be any commercial necessity for it, especially because in most places a) it will be the only coffee bar around, and b) its customers will be completely habituated to the Starbucks brand. We have two very congenial coffee bars in Hanover but I am certain that if Starbucks were to open here people would be excited. You should have seen the delirium when The Gap moved in. Starbucks would be seen as a kind of affirmation for the town from the outside world. Visitors, on whom the town depends, would almost certainly favour it overwhelmingly because they know it and are comfortable with it. People have grown so used to uniformity that they have become, as it were, hypnotized by it. About five miles from where I live there was, until recently, a nice old fashioned family-owned restaurant. A couple of years ago a McDonald's opened opposite it. Almost at once the bulk of passing trade transferred from one side of the road to the other. Last summer the family owned restaurant closed. Shortly afterwards I mentioned to a neighbour how disappointing I found it that people would forsake a local establishment for the universal appeal of McDonald's. "Yeah", my neighbour said in that thoughtful drawn out way that indicates a proposition not entirely agreed with. "But at least you know where you are with McDonald's, "don't you?" "Exactly", I cried with feeling. "Don't you see that's the whole problem?" I wanted to grab him by the lapels and explain to him that it was because of this kind of thinking that chocolate in America has no kick, white bread tastes like wadding and cheese has a hundred names - colby, Monterey jack, cheddar, American, provolone - but just one flavour, one texture, and one vivid yellow hue. But I could see there was no point. He was like one of the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The forces of blandness had captured his spirit and there was no getting it back. He had become a McPerson. He looked at me uneasily - people don't usually get excited in our street - and I could see he was thinking, "Whoa! Emotional fellow!" Maybe he was right. I have to admit I have been a little out of sorts in recent months. I put it down to severe chocolate deprivation.
>> No. 9553 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 1:14 am
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>>9514

You're exactly right. The marketing jargon is that Nando's is a "fast casual" restaurant, intended to sit in the market niche between fast food and the bottom end of the chain restaurant business (Ask, Frankie & Benny's etc).

They have worked very hard to completely dominate that niche, with very careful marketing. Nando's restaurants feel a bit like a proper restaurant, but they're completely non-intimidating. The servers seat you to give an air of formality, but they leave you alone to peruse the menu and order in your own time. The menu is simple, offering just enough choice without being overwhelming. It even explains how to place your order.

If you're 17 and trying to impress a girl, Nando's is absolutely perfect. It feels like a proper restaurant, but it's totally within your fast food comfort zone. At no point are you going to look like a knob. It's eating out with training wheels, no manners required.

Approaching the niche from the other direction, it offers a greasy fast food fix for people who consider themselves slightly too good for KFC. You can kid yourself that you're eating healthily because you have ratatouille and macho peas with your half chicken. For a certain strata of the lower middle class, Nando's is the acceptable face of fast food.

Absolute bloody genius.
>> No. 9554 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 1:47 am
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>>9553
>For a certain strata of the lower middle class, Nando's is the acceptable face of fast food.
I have just been hit with an overwhelming realisation that I am poor. It is like being shot.
>> No. 9555 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 1:54 am
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>>9554
I imagine it must feel like that, if you've been living in a bubble of self-importance all this time.

I still find it terrible that less than a quarter identify as working class.
>> No. 9556 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:02 am
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>>9555
Why is that terrible? The modern working class is a horrible thing, it's not so much a matte of aspiring to be middle class anymore, more a case of dreading being working class. The classic British working class is near dead.
>> No. 9557 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:10 am
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>>9556
Because the more people who think they aren't poor working class, the easier it is to ostracise the poor working class.
>> No. 9558 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:30 am
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>>9557
Why?
>> No. 9559 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:40 am
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>>9558
What a stupid question.
>> No. 9560 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:43 am
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>>9557
Exactly and this is an American import, part of the 1980s and 1990s Neo-Liberal dogma. It has never been easier to ostracise the poor, the disabled and the sick. It has never been easier to make everyone race to the bottom while dismantling unions and workers' rights, rights which took decades to fight for.
>> No. 9561 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 3:09 am
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>>9559
Should be easy to answer then.

>>9560
Extra holidays don't mean much when there's no jobs.
>> No. 9562 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 3:33 am
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>>9557

The modern left has deliberately disregarded the distinction between the working class and the lumpenproletariat - the non-working class. In Marxist and Leninist terms, most poor people in modern Britain are at best irrelevant and at worst an active impediment to class consciousness. It's only a very modern and very feeble strain of leftist politics that regards those outside the wage-labour system as victims rather than parasites. Redistribution (especially redistribution to the non-working poor) is just a tool to maintain the current social order, creating an underclass who are dependent on the political system. Every safe Labour seat represents tens of thousands of people who have been bought off by the political class, communities where the capitalist masters who owned the pit or mill have been replaced by political masters who control the flow of government spending.

From The Communist Manifesto

"The lumpenproletariat, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue."
>> No. 9563 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 8:24 am
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>>9552
I had some Hersheys the other day. It may have been because it was dark chocolate and cookies and cream, but it wasn't as God awful as I remembered it to be. I don't know if that means chocolate over there is getting better or chocolate over here is getting worse.
>> No. 9564 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 8:43 am
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>>9563
Since kraft has taken over cadburys it's getting worse.
>> No. 9565 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 2:32 pm
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>>9552
That's rather good, thanks for posting it. I keep meaning to read his books.
>> No. 9566 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>9562
It's a bad left-winger that follows Marx et al. uncritically, and I consider such stratification of the 'lumpenprole' completely apposite to the ideals of socialism. Distinctions of class are roles within society that are imposed upon them, not inherent to the nature of the individual. That no-one is considered beyond participation is my theory, and that no-one is denied the right to receive is my practice.

Attitudes like yours are the reason Cameron is able to talk about a non-existent 'something for nothing culture'. They're the reason people worry about, for instance, an epidemic of benefit fraud when the stats show only 0.7% of all claims are fraudulent, and then use this notion to dismantle the entire benefit system. Maybe some people will always be a detriment to society, but I will not exclude them if I must exclude every other needy person with them.
>> No. 9567 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 5:14 pm
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>>9566

The 0.7% figure is the stupidest statistic in all of politics. 0.7% of benefit claims are *proven* to be fraudulent. It's like measuring the burglary rate based on the number of convictions, it's a comical underestimate of the true figure.

During the New Labour government, the number of Jobseeker's Allowance claims fell by over a million, but the number of Incapacity Benefit claims increased by over a million. Nearly all of this increase is of people with back pain or depression, two disorders that are essentially impossible to disprove. In some parts of the country, 20% of the working-age population are claiming Incapacity Benefit. By some extraordinary co-incidence, these are all areas with a high rate of long-term unemployment. Are there really terrible clusters of disease, or is the benefits system being used to pacify an underclass?
>> No. 9568 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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>>9567
It's the only figure we have - or do you erroneously think your speculation that there's a much higher percentage of actual fraud is somehow a valid justification for policy?

So you're suggesting that in some parts of the country 20% of the working-age population are skiving and sponging and all your other Tory terms of abuse? They've all collectively managed to slip one by the assessors, because the assessors are corrupt Labour shills?
>> No. 9569 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 6:08 pm
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>>9568>>9568
Card carrying LP man here. All I can say is fuck, we're fucked unless we let the Stalinist style reindustialisation and modernisation of the infrastructure and economy commence. Fuck the City, the free market has spoken in favour of hair extensions and lip gloss, we will slide to 20th economy in a decade unless we really pull our socks up.
>> No. 9570 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 6:45 pm
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>>9569
Yes, we can't 'lose' the 'economic race', can we, 'card carrying' 'LP' 'man'.
>> No. 9572 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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>>9568

I'm saying that successive governments have paid off the poor to stop them from rioting. I'm saying that the benefits system is designed to pacify people in ex-industrial communities, trapping them in a culture of dependence on the state. I'm saying that benefits are part of the problem, not the solution - we need an economy that provides meaningful work for all, not an economy that consigns millions to the scrapheap. The left is in cahoots with the right and the debate over cuts is just a pantomime to distract us from the real issues. Benefits aren't ther for the good of the people, they're a tool of oppression. Bread and circuses, that's all. The political elite offer a few crumbs from the table and call it socialism and we buy right into it.

The shining vision of a Labour government is an extra fiver on your giro and a new coat of paint on the leisure centre. It's a sop, a pathetic bribe for your compliance, it's the same old shit sandwich with a sprinkling of sugar. You can stick it up your arse, I want a revolution.
>> No. 9573 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 9:35 pm
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>>9572
I don't agree with your views on the welfare state. It is designed to protect the vulnerable, not pacify the workshy. If it does the latter it's not a good enough reason to have everybody fend for themselves. People don't go on benefits because it's 'too easy' to claim them, they go on benefits because there's no better alternative. If we fix the economy the rest will fix itself.

And no true social democrat votes Labour, so there's no need to go on about the 'political elite'.
>> No. 9574 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 9:39 pm
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>>9568
We have next to no figures for corruption - may as well legalise it!
>> No. 9575 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 9:43 pm
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>>9573
> It is designed to protect the vulnerable, not pacify the workshy.

That was the vision, once upon a time, then people realised it can be used to trap voters.

>they go on benefits because there's no better alternative.
No preferable alternative to them. Not the same thing.

>And no true social democrat votes Labour,

that's sort of the point, they don't serve those who believe in the welfare state, they serve those who have no choice but to support state control else their world falls apart.
>> No. 9576 Anonymous
3rd July 2013
Wednesday 10:27 pm
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>>9572
>we need an economy that provides meaningful work for all

But how much of what work is available is meaningful? It's service industry crap that provides nothing of real value aside from helping to carry on a centuries-old work ethic which is very clearly unsuitable for the modern world.

I'd like to see people trained for a life of leisure. I'd like to see an end to working any more than three days per week. I'd like people to use some of that extra time to fulfill the roles in their local communities that statutory services now do a terrible and expensive job of doing.
>> No. 9577 Anonymous
4th July 2013
Thursday 12:24 am
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>>9576
I presume that's what he meant. Unless I've grossly overestimated his lefty credentials.
>> No. 9628 Anonymous
14th July 2013
Sunday 9:02 pm
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The Daily Mail has been on the case. Contrary to what Nando's claims about animal welfare, it buys chickens that are mass produced in hanger-like sheds and force-fed so that at six-weeks-old the chicks have the same size breasts as fully grown chickens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362445/Why-Nandos-chicken-isnt-wholesome-think-Celebrities-love-To-middle-classes-guilt-free-fast-food-If-knew-story-.html

Keeping the Hullfa.gs theme going, What's next? Best place for a pint? Best place for a takeaway? Best place for a haircut? I should be off to Swadh on the old Hedon road in the next fortnight so I'll post a quick review afterwards. I'm tempted by the Uthappam - down on the menus as a 'South Indian version of pizza made of rice and lentil batter with masala toppings'.
>> No. 9653 Anonymous
26th July 2013
Friday 9:09 pm
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>>9628
I am back from finishing uni and looking for any old admin/clerical work in town, so hopefully I strike lucky and I may be able to join a Hullfa.gs meet. Will make a /map/ thread.
>> No. 9657 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 5:33 am
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This thread has given me a tin foil hat with regards to food. It is a gift I am most welcoming of.

And BTW, the last fast-food-cum-restaurant I ate at was Pizza Hut, what's wrong with that? Because there's probably something, right?
>> No. 9658 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 5:41 am
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>>9657
I get dehydrated after eating there. Possibly because of all the salt in their pizzas (they probably use tons as a unit of measurement for salt added to every pizza).
>> No. 9659 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 7:48 am
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>>9657
There's nothing tinfoil about it. If you didn't think Nando's meat was questionable two years ago then it certainly is now. The Mail article in >>9628 tallies up with the findings of >>8712.
>> No. 9660 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 1:30 pm
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>>9659
I went to triple-check my post. Again, nearly identical, except 'Assured Chicken Production' standards has been replaced with Red Tractor. But interestingly they have placed a link on this page to their official response to the Daily Mail article, which I'll also reproduce here.

At Nando’s, sourcing responsibly is incredibly important to us. All of our chicken is of Red Tractor assured standard, with about 80% of chicken in the UK produced to this standard. It guarantees chicken welfare standards and ensures we are supporting the British Farming industry. We’re strongly committed to giving our customers the best value chicken at the highest possible welfare standard.

Our chickens are barn-reared and traceable back to individual farms, with the majority provided with natural daylight and their environments enriched in ways above and beyond what’s required of the Red Tractor standard. As a result, we’re confident that they are reared responsibly and with care, in a way that our loyal customers would expect from us.

We sell over half a million chickens each week and after ongoing and recent reviews of our entire supply chain, we don’t believe there are enough suitable chickens available in the UK at a higher welfare standard above Red Tractor to meet the demands of our growing business.

We’re constantly monitoring the industry and should the situation change, then we would of course fully explore other viable options. In the meantime, we’re committed to doing everything we can to source and rear our chickens responsibly, not only in line with the Red Tractor assured standard, but actually exceeding it.


Growing their business takes priority over protecting the welfare of animals. Well that's nice of them to admit isn't it?
>> No. 9661 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 2:53 pm
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My mate told me they add chemicals or starch or something at Chinese buffets to make you feel more full.

Is this true? I'm hesitant to believe him because he believes in all kinds of conspiracies.
>> No. 9662 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 2:59 pm
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>>9661
He could have been referring to textured vegetable protein, which is added to processed meat to bulk it up. That's not a specifically Chinese thing. Monosodium glutamate, however, is a staple of Asian ingredients, and makes things taste 'meatier'.
>> No. 9663 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 3:08 pm
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>>9660

> We sell over half a million chickens each week and after ongoing and recent reviews of our entire supply chain, we don’t believe there are enough suitable chickens available in the UK at a higher welfare standard above Red Tractor to meet the demands of our growing business.

> Growing their business takes priority over protecting the welfare of animals. Well that's nice of them to admit isn't it?

To be fair, I don't think there's much they can do beyond Red Tractor other than start using only organic chickens. I don't believe that anyone expects that a national low end chain like Nando's can logistically supply all its stores with organic chickens. It just wouldn't be practical.
>> No. 9664 Anonymous
29th July 2013
Monday 3:26 pm
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>>9663
No, I wouldn't necessarily expect a large and growing business to have an ethical, decent quality supply chain either. What's your point?
>> No. 9723 Anonymous
9th August 2013
Friday 5:27 pm
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Some of my friends love nandos and seem to go there often. Can't speak of the chicken as I'm a veggie but they have more than one veggie option which is something. Chips are nicer than wetherspoons' dry crumbly offerings, desserts are atrocious, on the whole it's ok but not somewhere I'd want to go given the choice. Pretty much everything this thread says, straddles the line between upmarket fast food place and low-end restaurant. Still better than frankie and benny's though.

>>9657
Probably the pizza being a salty greasy mess. The cookie dessert they do though is amazing and worth the shame of going there.
>> No. 9724 Anonymous
9th August 2013
Friday 7:51 pm
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>>9723
>Still better than frankie and benny's though.

Bollocks. Maybe for vegetarians, but there's nothing at Nando's as nice as bacon steaks. Hell, even their Cajun chicken burger is probably better than Nando's fodder.
>> No. 9725 Anonymous
9th August 2013
Friday 10:12 pm
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>>9724 Oh the food at F&B is nice, way better than anything at nandos. I just find it too pricey and tacky. The service is also rubbish, at least at my nearest one, but then again the only reason the service at nandos isn't complete shit is because you have to do almost everything yourself
>> No. 9743 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 3:51 pm
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/16/nandos-fast-food-chipmunk-tinchy

>Do you go to Nando's? Of course you do. Only those who never let a non-organic French fry pass their lips or who live a long way from a town or are hardcore multinational refuseniks don't go to Nando's.

Right...
>> No. 9744 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 3:53 pm
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>>9743
It did remind me how great a word "refusenik" is, though.
>> No. 9745 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 4:39 pm
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>>9743

Why has this person written a love letter to Nandos? It reads like one of those "reviews" restaurants pay local papers to write. I suspected it was sarcastic when she started quoting Tulisa's usual order, but it seems like she was just aiming for free spicy rice for life.

Jesus Christ.
>> No. 9746 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 5:56 pm
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>>9745

This was my thought too.
>> No. 9747 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 7:19 pm
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>>9745

Credit where credit is due, the Nando's card is an incredible guerilla marketing coup.
>> No. 9748 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 8:06 pm
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>>9747
Giving free shit to celebrities. Revolutionary.
>> No. 9749 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 8:28 pm
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Went with my sister today for the first time.

We had to wait to be seated, then when we got a table we had to wait in a bloody queue to order!

The menu has about 3 different things, all basically bland chicken. It didn't taste terrible, but it was pretty uninspiring. Not worth the money at all.

The worst thing was the horrible, horrible hum of the 'restaurant'. It was incredibly loud. It really felt like a McDonalds.

And yes, there was a lot of, er, semi-chavs and lad types in there. Not sure how to describe it.
>> No. 9750 Anonymous
22nd August 2013
Thursday 8:51 pm
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>>9749
>Went with my sister today for the first time.
Sick fuck.
>> No. 9751 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 12:09 am
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>>9748
I'm not who you were responding to, but do many other places give a card that grants a lifetime of free shit to celebrities, whenever they fancy it? I have no clue, maybe it's commonplace, but either way it seems like a particularly suave proposition for fast food companies. Whatever they lose in inventory (next to nothing), they gain massively from having those people seen there, whether they're snapped in the act by paparazzi or just gawked at by the "semi-chavs and lad types".
>> No. 9752 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 12:14 am
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>>9751

A huge amount of businesses do this. Certain kinds of restaurants live and die on whether its cool or not to eat there, so celebrities get to eat and drink free. It's cheaper than any other sort of advertising.

I once gave Rory McGrath a free bottle of prosecco.
>> No. 9753 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 12:30 am
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http://www.nandos.co.uk/faq/what-high-5black-card
http://www.nandosblackcard.com/
Subtle.
>> No. 9754 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 4:20 am
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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/16/nandos-fast-food-chipmunk-tinchy

Jesus fucking wept!

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 9755 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 4:28 am
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>>9753

Jesus christ I've seen less heavy handed PR done as satire. It feeds back nicely into how Nandos is truly lowest common denominator food - only the most pitiful, bland, lifeless moron would fall for the excitement and aspiration of maybe, just maybe, getting a card that gives you free fucking spicy chicken for a year. You'd be just like David Beckham, stuffing your fat face with poorly prepared poultry in a bleak shopping centre. I bet you don't even have to wait in the cue at the till!!!
>> No. 9758 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 4:39 am
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>>9753 >>9755
The donate button and the domain associated with it suggests to me that Nandos aren't behind it but a sad and deluded "internet entrepreneur".
>> No. 9759 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 4:39 am
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>>9757

The first link is official and is depressing enough. The second link, as you say, is sad evidence people fall for this shit. The comments on the articles are all "I'm poor can I have a black card where do I get one lol xxx"

Oh sweethearts, they're free to those that can afford it.
>> No. 9760 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 5:04 am
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I really like Nandos. Eat it about once a month. Has good vegetarian/vegan options and the chips are great. Fuck all of you.
>> No. 9761 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 6:55 am
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>>9760
>the chips are great

No, lad. Maybe it's because I'm from East Yorkshire, where the majority of takeaways have been using chip spice for donkeys years, but there's nowt special at Nando's.

Do you also use terms like 'real good'? Do you watch Embarrassing Bodies? Do you wear G-Star Raw, Evisu, Hollister and A&F clothing?
>> No. 9762 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 10:32 am
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>>9760
>the chips are great
I'm not going to dig into you like the guy above, but honestly, I can't see how that's right by anyone's measure. Their chips could not be any more average - they're just good enough to be edible, on a par with kebab shop chips.
>> No. 9763 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 11:26 am
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>>9760

>I really like McDonalds. Eat it about once a month. Has good vegetarian/vegan options and the chips are great. Fuck all of you.

Don't kid yourself into thinking you're eating in a classy joint. Your need for brand familiarity means you're missing out on some quality chicken.

Get your fat arse into an italian resteraunt and eat something that wont clog up you taste buds.
>> No. 9764 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 11:35 am
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>>9761
I wear Evisu. What's embarrassing bodies?
>> No. 9765 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 11:42 am
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>>9764
Typical Channel 4 fodder. Elderly people getting their haemorrhoids prodded, lasses with wonky tits or smelly fannies and lads with knob rot.
>> No. 9766 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 12:53 pm
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>>9761
>Do you wear G-Star Raw, Evisu, Hollister and A&F clothing?
I am becoming an old man, I don't think I've ever heard of any of these. I did a google image search for Hollister as that was the only one that made me think I might recognise the name and it seemed to be nothing but sepia pictures of really buff topless guys at the beach.

I don't think I fit that demographic.
>> No. 9767 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 1:07 pm
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>>9766
I'd heard of Hollister and A&F. I know about American Apparel because of their prominent and eye-catching adverts in Vice magazine.

I buy my clothes from Primark and charity shops - I enjoy looking quite nondescript and think there are better things to spend money on than clothes. Not Nando's either.
>> No. 9768 Anonymous
23rd August 2013
Friday 2:16 pm
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>>9767
>I am familiar with American Apparel because I know softcore pornography when I see it.
Fixed.
>> No. 9806 Anonymous
24th August 2013
Saturday 5:07 pm
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>>9767>>9768
Derailing the thread somewhat, but I've only ever known American Apparel as the main supplier many printers like cafepress use. Don't know why, their tshirts seem both more expensive and lower quality than others.
>> No. 9809 Anonymous
24th August 2013
Saturday 5:14 pm
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>>9806

AA shirts look brilliant - the cut is extremely flattering to your typical skinny hipster and the fabric drapes beautifully. People buying printed t-shirts recognise the brand and know how the shirt will fit, because AA are so popular. The problem is that Charney hasn't managed the increase in demand very well, so manufacturing standards have gone to shit. Screenprinters are moving over to Continental blanks, but the cachet of the AA brand will make them difficult to displace.
>> No. 9811 Anonymous
24th August 2013
Saturday 5:24 pm
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>>9809

Agreed. The fit of AA is incredible. They are cut like my tailored shirts.
>> No. 9928 Anonymous
29th September 2013
Sunday 9:38 pm
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I had a spinach and pepperoni pizza at Pizza Hut the other day (I'm using this as the 'mediocre chain restaurants thread') and I counted that it had 11 of the meanest, most thinnest slices of pepperoni I have ever seen. 11 slices of pepperoni, they really are stingy bastards.
>> No. 9936 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 1:44 pm
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>>9928
What size was the pizza?
>> No. 9937 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 2:22 pm
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>>9809
>>9811
What're they like for bulkier guys, as opposed to skinny twats?
>> No. 9938 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 2:52 pm
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>>9937

Not great. They're cut to fit tall and thin people and the fabric clings to the body because it's very soft and lightweight. If you're hiding a bit of podge, you'd be better off with a traditional heavyweight T from FotL or Hanes. If you're buying plain T-shirts, I wouldn't recommend American Apparel, because the quality has gone to pot.

http://www.barone.co.uk/products/t-shirts/1
>> No. 9939 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 10:31 pm
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>>9936
Regular sized, so 9". Large enough that it should not average out at fewer than 2 slices of pepperoni per slice of pizza.

I had to go on their website to check the sizes and it turns out they're doing a cheeseburger crust pizza. Looks like an abomination.
>> No. 9941 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 10:34 pm
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>>9939
This is what it actually looks like.
>> No. 9942 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 10:47 pm
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>>9941

Merciful Christ.
>> No. 9943 Anonymous
3rd October 2013
Thursday 10:59 pm
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>>9941
If it wasn't for the red onions I would probably eat that.

Even from the official Pizza Hut photo you can tell it will be shite. They're trying to make it look as nice as possible but you can tell that the actual crust will be too hard and crunchy. The garlic bread looks also looks the same instead of nice and chewy, in fact there doesn't seem to be any garlic in the garlic bread. There can't be more than a dozen potato wedges on that plate and they probably charge £2.99 for it. The whole layout of the picture, especially the sides, looks very amateur.
>> No. 9944 Anonymous
4th October 2013
Friday 12:34 pm
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>>9939
Reminds me of the Japanese approach, they do all sorts of weird shit with pizza as a medium.
>> No. 9945 Anonymous
4th October 2013
Friday 1:14 pm
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>>9944
As long as it's consensual, who are you to call it weird?
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5th October 2013
Saturday 7:07 pm
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>>9945
That's okonomiyaki, which often gets called "Japanese pizza" for some reason. I don't know why, there's no bread in it, no tomatoes and no cheese. It's round I suppose. It's fucking lovely too but that's by the by.

This is what I meant:
http://www.chachich.com/mdchachi/jpizza.html
>> No. 9947 Anonymous
5th October 2013
Saturday 7:43 pm
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>>9945

Why someone would want to eat a pizza that looks like a suicide bomber's charred ripped off face that has rotted in a ditch for 2 weeks is beyond me.
>> No. 9948 Anonymous
5th October 2013
Saturday 8:10 pm
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>>9946
There was an Indian 'pizza' mentioned earlier in the thread. It sounds shite, though. >>9628
>> No. 10253 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 5:44 pm
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A lifelong vegetarian who has never eaten meat was left distraught after eating a chicken sandwich served by mistake at a Birmingham restaurant.

“I never would have thought that I would need to double-check my food. I trusted them and they have let me down. I was in shock and started crying in the restaurant. I cried all night and couldn’t sleep. They can never say or do anything to make this up to me,” she said. “Nothing can compensate me for those 28 years. I can feel it sitting there in my stomach. I feel like it’s not my body anymore. They took away my choice about what to put in my body and now I can’t ever say that I have never eaten meat. I have devoted myself to this for 28 years and someone has taken this away from me.”


http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birmingham-womans-shock-after-being-6451684

Is giving a vegetarian meat akin to rape? That's how she makes it sound. I thought they were alright with it if they did it unwittingly?
>> No. 10254 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 5:51 pm
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>Carnivore culture.
>> No. 10255 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 6:41 pm
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>>10253
>now I can’t ever say that I have never eaten meat

Christ. It's wrong of them to serve her something she didn't order but what a complete over-reaction. If all you've achieved over 28 years is not eating a certain type of food then you really need to re-evaluate your life and self-righteousness.
>> No. 10256 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 7:04 pm
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>>10253

Speaking as a lifelong vegetarian, I think she's a pathetic cunt. I mean for fuck's sake, how do you eat most of a chicken sandwich without realising it? Does she just swallow her food whole? I have no real sense of the texture or flavour of chicken, but I'm pretty fucking sure that I could tell that it isn't halloumi.

Kitchen mistakes happen. I'd far rather that chefs focus their efforts on serious health and safety issues like cross-contamination and allergens than the petty dietary whims of pricks like myself. If you're that fucking nesh that you'll cry all night about eating a bit of chicken, then how about looking at the food on your bloody plate before you cram it down your gullet?

Also, shame on the Birmingham Mail for printing this bullshit, it's the Hindu equivalent of those squalid little scare stories you get in the Daily Mail about schools serving halal meat - divisive, pointless scaremongering.
>> No. 10257 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 7:46 pm
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>>10256
Agreed. Vegetarianism is done for the sake of animals or the sake of one's religion, it's not a fucking game where you have to go as long as possible without swallowing meat, and it doesn't change who you are if it happens by mistake. I think she has some issues with food that need to be treated with therapy.
>> No. 10258 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 7:48 pm
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>>10253
The next time I'm served meat on Friday during Lent by mistake, I'll make sure to call all local papers. My body shall not be desecrated with no consequences ever again.
>> No. 10259 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 10:42 pm
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I went teetotal for several years, when I took it up I did it because I had started drinking in the morning and before presentations/speeches to calm the nerves. Went a good half a decade without having a single drop of alcohol. I accidentally broke it by accidentally drinking some baileys in a curry house forgetting there was alcohol in it. One thing I did learn from it is I am a boring bastard when I'm sober. At least when I'm tipsy I don't care if I'm a boring bastard.

I didn't feel that upset about accidentally drinking the baileys like this veggie woman. But then again am I being a knob for this comparison.
>> No. 10260 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 11:25 pm
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>>10259
I think we should rope are Nadia into another sketch for her showreel.

Meataholics going off the wagon at the first bite.
>> No. 10261 Anonymous
30th December 2013
Monday 11:40 pm
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>>10257

There's a certain kind of histrionic twit who goes running to the papers over trivial things.

She isn't upset because the incident damaged her health. She isn't upset because the incident compromised her ethics.

>now I can’t ever say that I have never eaten meat

Apparently she want to be vegetarian so she can SAY she is one.
>> No. 10263 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 3:47 pm
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>>10253
Why would you go to Nando's and expect nothing else than disappointing chicken?
Also: why would you give money to a company that specialises in cooking up chicken if you felt that strongly about being a vegetarian?
>> No. 10265 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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>>10263
I know a few people who have been raised vegetarian and none of them are more concerned about animal welfare than the average person. Most of them have admitted they probably wouldn't be vegetarian if they hadn't been so since birth and they only continue to do so out of habit/because eating meat seems a bit alien to them. Plus,she looks like a prissy, spoilt desi bint.
>> No. 10266 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 6:20 pm
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I want spicy chicken now.
>> No. 10267 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 8:12 pm
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>>10263
Bloody vegetarians, coming over here, expecting to be able to go to the same restaurants decent hard-working carnivores like you and me do, they make me sick.
>> No. 10268 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>10267

>Bloody vegetarians
>they make me sick.

Better stick to beef and chicken then.
>> No. 10269 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 8:16 pm
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>>10268
Or cook them for a little longer.
>> No. 10270 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 9:30 pm
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>>10269

You can't overcook vegetarians. There's not a lot of fat on them so the meat can be quite dry. I prefer to boil them like a gammon.
>> No. 10271 Anonymous
1st January 2014
Wednesday 11:41 pm
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>>10270

They sound like they would go rather well in a casserole.
>> No. 10272 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 12:21 am
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>>10268

Cows are vegetarian.
>> No. 10273 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 12:53 am
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>>10272

We had a lovely little cannibalism discussion going, which you've just ruined with your oh-so-precious facts. Thanks lad.
>> No. 10274 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 1:01 am
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>>10270

I've never met a skinny vegetarian. This is my, entirely anecdotal, evidence that they don't exist and that all veggies are fat burds who keep cats.
>> No. 10275 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 1:06 am
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>>10274

>cats.

Best fried I think.
>> No. 10276 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 8:05 am
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>>10272

Nah, they eat sheep. What could possibly go wrong?
>> No. 10277 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 9:46 am
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>>10274
I know a stick-thin vegan. She barely eats and when she does it's salad or steamed veg, which she doesn't even like but forces down because it's 'good for her.' She also has a lot of protein supplements because she started going yellow.

I also know some morbidly obese vegetarians. They love their chocolate.
>> No. 10278 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 3:30 pm
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>>10277
> She barely eats and when she does it's salad or steamed veg, which she doesn't even like but forces down because it's 'good for her.'

This doesn't seem like a healthy attitude toward food. We really ought to drop the idea of 'good' and 'bad' food. There's only really balance, and that balance depends on what you want/need from your body.

Sage for preaching to the choir.
>> No. 10279 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 5:37 pm
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>>10274
>I've never met a skinny vegetarian.
All the vegetarians I know are all rake-thin. I honestly can't remember ever meeting a fat vegetarian.
>> No. 10280 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 5:43 pm
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>>10279
Ah bollocks, this isn't true actually. I know one chubby vegan.

He once told me that being a vegan in Mississippi is pretty difficult, and I imagine that's quite true.
>> No. 10281 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 8:54 pm
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>>10277
>They love their chocolate.

Yeah I can imagine that's true. If I eat a good sized steak or a chicken pie that will keep me full for hours but no matter how much rabbit food I chomp down on I'll still be hungry an hour later. Got to do with how fast it's digested I suppose. So I can imagine it's easier for vegetarians to snack a lot because of this.
>> No. 10282 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 10:47 pm
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>> No. 10284 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 10:53 pm
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>>10282
>Nando's marketing efforts penetrate britfa.gs yet again
>> No. 10285 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:25 pm
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>>10284
My new years resolution is to never again click on a Daily Mail link.
>> No. 10286 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:40 pm
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>>10285
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532552/On-day-when-rail-prices-rise-and-car-bomb-goes-off-in-Beirut-desperate-newspaper-runs-ANOTHER-non-story-about-BBC
>> No. 10287 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:47 pm
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>>10286
Could we please make it a convention that, in future, all Daily Heil 'articles' should be posted with a pastebin so we don't contribute to the thing?
>> No. 10288 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:54 pm
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>>10287
I'd enjoy it if purps or someone could wordfilter dailymail into a picture like with chair. It could just be a big steaming pile of fetid shite or something.
>> No. 10289 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:55 pm
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>>10287
No. I, for one, am grateful to learn that after everything that has happened the BBC still thinks it acceptable to give a platform to a suspected rapist.
>> No. 10290 Anonymous
2nd January 2014
Thursday 11:55 pm
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>>10287
Only if we do the same with Guardian articles.
>> No. 10291 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 12:02 am
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>>10289
Back in the kitchen, Laurie.
>> No. 10292 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 12:48 am
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>>10287
You'd do the world a favour if you set up a mirror to do it automatically
>> No. 10293 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 12:56 am
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>>10292
CoralCDN has been around for a decade, m8.
>> No. 10294 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 1:03 am
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>>10293
So why have you only just mentioned it, you pusillanimous sea cucumber?
>> No. 10295 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 1:08 am
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>>10294
It's difficult to predict when the Facebook containment field will leak another Johnny-come-lately into the wider internet.
>> No. 10296 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 1:12 am
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>>10295
And there I was thinking I'd seen everything else there is to see on the internet.
>> No. 10297 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 1:13 am
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>>10295
Though come to think of it you don't want a strict mirror, but something that strips their ads or there's little point. Ho hum.
>> No. 10298 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 1:30 am
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Wish I'd never posted that story about Nando's now. Here I thought you lads would find it mildly amusing, and now you're discussing stupid wordfilters and whinging about the Daily Mail.
>> No. 10299 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 2:51 am
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>>10298
What would you rather we be discussing mate?
>> No. 10300 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 3:57 am
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>>10299
I can just about tolerate it when my posts are ignored but when they spark a flurry of negativity it makes my social anxiety flare up. I'd appreciate it if perhaps you'd be a little more considerate.
>> No. 10301 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 4:36 am
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>>10300
I didn't think it was a "flurry of negativity". Just people saying the mail is shit because it is then some waffle.
I am sorry though, next time I'll try my best to be more tactful and not get involved in any negative flurries. Hope you're feeling better now. Have a nice cuppa and a biscuit.
>> No. 10302 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 2:19 pm
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>>10300
>flurry of negativity
McFlurrys are fucking shit m8
>> No. 10303 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 2:23 pm
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>>10282
What's he doing with his hand?

When Krispy Kreme opened in Hull someone came from London and staryed queuing at around 3am because it was his 'thing' to be served first at new outlets. Strikes me as a monumental waste of time.
>> No. 10304 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 8:31 pm
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>>10303
Pretending to be a chicken, you doughnut.
>> No. 10306 Anonymous
3rd January 2014
Friday 11:12 pm
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>>10286
Bloody hell. Reading this immediately after watching the program made me angry.
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/03/pq17-arctic-convoy-disaster-tv-review
>> No. 10308 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:01 am
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>>10302
You can't get better iced cream for 99p.
>> No. 10309 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:30 am
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>>10308
>iced
Don't be soft.
>> No. 10310 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:58 am
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>>10309
>soft

Is that a pun? Anyway, a McFlurry is nicer than a lot of Whippy imitations as too many of them overdo the cellulose; last summer I had one that was almost like eating a marshmallow. It's the only thing at McDonald's I like.
>> No. 10312 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 7:43 pm
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While we're on about vegetarians, Morrissey is at it again.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/03/morrissey-eating-meat-paedophilia-smiths
>> No. 10313 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 8:19 pm
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>>10312

I literally don't give a shit about the mass-industrial abuse of animals. Seriously, spray perfume in their eyes just because you've ran out of bleach, I genuinely don't give a shit.

However, I do sympathise with any vegetarian who abstains from meat because of the impact all the added industrial processes have on the pollution of the earth. Although I've never met a vegetarian who thinks that so whatever and stuff y'know.
>> No. 10314 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 8:32 pm
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>>10313
Why do you not care about living creatures but you do care about a non-living system?

Personally I give little shit about either.
>> No. 10315 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:06 pm
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>>10312

>Morrissey: eating meat is the same as paedophilia

>Former Smiths singer says there is no difference between believing in the abattoir and supporting Auschwitz

No difference at all. Uh huh.

Can't quite make his mind up in his shotgun blast of attention seeking, can he? How about he gets some fucking talent and originality and does something worthwhile and original for once? The cunt.
>> No. 10316 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:06 pm
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>>Why do you not care about living creatures but you do care about a non-living system? Personally I give little shit about either.

You drunk, Stacey?
>> No. 10317 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:15 pm
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>>10316
No, I'm curious as to the reasoning.
>> No. 10319 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:20 pm
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>>10315

I will always love Mozzer, no matter how fat and pompous he gets. I don't know what's more life-changing - hearing The Queen Is Dead for the first time, or being amongst a throng of middle-aged and shaven-headed Essex boys weeping like teeny boppers, all desperate to touch another man because the things he says and the ideas he represents are so unbearably beautiful.

to die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine...

https://www.youtube.com/v/wQ3GxsTaGE0
>> No. 10320 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:24 pm
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>>10319

>all desperate to touch another man because the things he says and the ideas he represents are so unbearably beautiful.

Jesus!
>> No. 10321 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:30 pm
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>>10319

He's shit and has no talent or ability for years.
>> No. 10322 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:53 pm
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>>I will always love MozHitler

Bloke's a nob. Needs a big kick up the arse.

Unregards
>> No. 10323 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:54 pm
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>>Why do a lot of people seem to rave about Nando's?

ITZ

lad
>> No. 10324 Anonymous
4th January 2014
Saturday 9:55 pm
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>>10319

tit
>> No. 10330 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 12:46 am
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>>10319
I fucking loathe the cunt. I like a lot of his music, but he's an awful person. His autobiography makes him sound like an even bigger prick. He's just a self important arsehole.
>> No. 10331 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 4:34 am
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I went once and the chicken was pretty tasty, cheap and healthy. I don't know why you lads are getting so bothered about a chicken restaurant.
>> No. 10332 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 8:24 am
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>>10331
I'd say only a third of this thread is actually about Nando's.
>> No. 10333 Anonymous
7th January 2014
Tuesday 11:30 am
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>>10331
Whenever I've been the chicken has been dead.
>> No. 10345 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 1:50 pm
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>> No. 10348 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 1:59 pm
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>>10345

I saw that and this thread was the first thing I thought of. Similarly the vice article where they former prejudiced bender youth leader mentions Si had the same effect.
>> No. 10350 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 2:16 pm
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>>10348
Well we are infested with "Ed Winchesters".
>> No. 10351 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 2:17 pm
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>>10350
Nice.
>> No. 10352 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 2:28 pm
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>>10345
I tend to enjoy the Graun, even when their writers are being daft, but that article really is absolute fucking junk.
>> No. 10354 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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>>10345

I don't see what is worse about that article than any other that the paper has put out.
>> No. 10355 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 4:28 pm
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>>10354
n1 m8, lefties wont no wot it em
>> No. 10357 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>10354
The worst one in recent memory is the one about cooking rice and peas in a racist manner.
>> No. 10358 Anonymous
15th January 2014
Wednesday 6:29 pm
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>>10348
>prejudiced bender
n1
>> No. 10384 Anonymous
4th February 2014
Tuesday 10:20 am
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A couple of old dears in Princes Quay (Hull, yes), asked me where the nearest Burger King was, so I told them upstairs in St. Stephens, so they said it was too far to go, so I had to direct them to eat in Nando's on the bottom floor. I feel really quite dirty for doing so. Everyone knows Paragon Square do some of the nicest burgers in the city centre!
>> No. 10385 Anonymous
4th February 2014
Tuesday 10:54 am
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>>10384
Too old to use the lifts or escalators?
>> No. 10386 Anonymous
4th February 2014
Tuesday 11:44 am
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My bad. I misread. There's a Burger King upstairs in Prospect Centre but nobody goes in there. I've heard good things about Wings on Ferensway, even if it is an all you can eat buffet.
>> No. 10623 Anonymous
7th May 2014
Wednesday 7:17 pm
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>> No. 10624 Anonymous
7th May 2014
Wednesday 8:08 pm
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>>10623

I know I left the emergency flood button somewhere...
>> No. 10625 Anonymous
7th May 2014
Wednesday 8:14 pm
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>>10623

I really hope he dies so someone worthwhile can have his organs.
>> No. 10626 Anonymous
7th May 2014
Wednesday 8:18 pm
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>>10625
Harsh.

Harsh but fair.
>> No. 10677 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:30 pm
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It's in the Graun (I know I should pick a more apt paper for posting about this) that Nando's have cut their corporation tax bill by a third through offshore tax avoidance.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/10/nandos-using-secretive-tax-haven-trust-avoid-inheritance-tax-bills
>> No. 10678 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:36 pm
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>>10677
This is not nandos problem, it is not HMRCs problem, it's legislations problem.
>> No. 10679 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:36 pm
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Does any company pay their taxes in full? And I don't give me "oh it's just avoidance, that's not illegal" because I really don't care.

I mean, can we just do something about this? It's just awful.
>> No. 10680 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:41 pm
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It was pointed out today that we're borrowing £110 billion pa to cover a budget deficit, but that if we collected every last penny that is rightfully due we'd have a £10 billion surplus.
>> No. 10681 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:41 pm
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>>10679

Wetherspoons do.

I think that is it...
>> No. 10682 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:42 pm
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>>10681
This. Unlike most companies who protest against tax by simply not paying it, JDW plc makes their tax protest openly and publicly.
>> No. 10683 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:49 pm
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>>10679
I think the only way you'd solve this would be through international cooperation, but I doubt we could even get the Channel Isles on board, never mind Switzerland and Luxembourg.

>>10680
Is there anything really wrong with borrowing? I'm not going to lie, I don't fully get it. All I know is that you're not meant to view government debt in the same way as personal debt.


They're a South African company, I don't think you can blame them for not giving a fuck about how much tax they pay in Britain.
>> No. 10684 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 8:58 pm
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>>10683
>Is there anything really wrong with borrowing?
Not per se, though there's a difference between borrowing to make up for money you can't make through tax and borrowing to make up for money you should be collecting through tax.
>> No. 10685 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 9:33 pm
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>>10680

grrr...
>> No. 10686 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 9:40 pm
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>>10685

Rawr!
>> No. 10687 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:15 pm
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I can't blame them. I wouldn't pay taxes too, since NO FUCKING CORPORATION DOES. Why should they?
>> No. 10688 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:18 pm
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>>10687
Sadly most people have to pay taxes because they don't have any choice in the matter, their income taxed at source as it is.
>> No. 10689 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:23 pm
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>>10688
Then the loud mouth bastards should do something about it.
>> No. 10690 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:39 pm
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>>10689
Frankly, yes, that's right. But it's easier to moan about things than do anything about it.



>>10680
That's not true, since it's inevitably just tallying ta x avoidance, which isn't taxable, that's sort of the point of it.

I don't differentiate between government mandated tax avoidance like pensions and government mandated tax avoidance like offshores, personally. If there's a problem, legislate. Don't moan at the companies for taking the most sensible option.
>> No. 10691 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:41 pm
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>>10690
2/10 SEE ME AFTER CLASS PS BRING LUBE
>> No. 10788 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 9:53 pm
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The tax thing is pretty relevant, as basically every company is a net beneficiary of having well-maintained roads, runways, railways, docks, hospitals, a workforce that can at least read, a workforce that doesn't die of simple infections like back in the supposed GOOD OLD DAYS.
However shit it is, the government and the state basically stops us eating each other alive and simply going feral by enforcing tax - and that's no good to anybody, so companies should have a real legal obligation to play ball.
>> No. 10789 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 10:31 pm
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>>10788
You are basically describing the free rider problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
>> No. 10790 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 10:33 pm
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>>10789

Isn't that the thing that filled all those American comedians in the 80's?
>> No. 10791 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 10:58 pm
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>>10788

Corporation tax is just a really boneheaded way of collecting tax.

Corporations have profits, which gets distributed to shareholders in the form of dividends. Taxing corporations is very hard, because they employ all sorts of accounting tricks and split parts of their business across national boundaries to take advantage of different tax regimes. Taxing dividend income is piss-easy, because it is almost impossible to lawfully conceal. Increase the rate of tax on dividend income and we'll lose a little due to tax exiles, but gain far more due to reduced avoidance. Consumption is also easy to tax, so it would make a great deal of sense to apply a variety of luxury taxes on things purchased by the super-rich. There's no good reason why we couldn't have a progressive rate of stamp duty, for example.

Don't tax corporations, tax the people who profit from the activity of those corporations.
>> No. 10792 Anonymous
19th July 2014
Saturday 11:09 pm
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>>10791
I'm a bit hazy on this, but didn't Gordon Brown do something like this to pension funds and end up wiping hundreds of billions off their value?
>> No. 10793 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 12:57 am
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>>10791
I've never been sure why we don't have a super vat of sorts on luxury goods.
>> No. 10794 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 2:16 am
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>>10791>>10793

> I've never been sure why we don't have a super vat of sorts on luxury goods.

VAT is already supposed to be a tax on 'luxury' goods Such as gas, electricity and clothes .

I'm by no means well off but I have massive reservations on taxing people based on what they spend their money on - it essentially becomes a sort of tax on (im)morality.
>> No. 10795 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 12:43 pm
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>>10794
I don't understand. Better to tax them based on what they spend it on than tax them on it all full stop.
>> No. 10796 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 12:55 pm
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Why tax profits at all? It doesn't work that effectively. Why not just raise money through issuing gilts when we need to? Look how popular NS&I savings certificates were when they were offered to the general public.
>> No. 10797 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 12:59 pm
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>>10795
What he's saying (I think) is that 'luxury' isn't an objective quality, therefore any splitting into different luxury-based tax bands is inevitably going to end up influenced by the personal morals of the enforcer (and if it's a tory government, think 1950s era morals).

I mean there are all sorts of grey areas - clothes, food and cars for example can all be classed as parts practical and luxury; the line seperating the two is less than clear.
>> No. 10799 Anonymous
20th July 2014
Sunday 2:12 pm
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>>10797

Yep. Absolutely nailed it.
>> No. 10937 Anonymous
30th August 2014
Saturday 10:33 am
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>>5883

I totally agree, Nandos is an epic disappointment. They went through a stage where their salads were quite good, but these days the salads are better in Pizza Express. Nandos chilli sauces are also extremely disappointing, the sauce has the kick, but there's more to chilli sauces than burning your face off, the sauces have to have flavour, that's the point, and Nandos sauces really do suck for flavour.
>> No. 10938 Anonymous
30th August 2014
Saturday 10:51 am
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>>10937
That poor post was only three years old, you vicious nonce.
>> No. 10939 Anonymous
30th August 2014
Saturday 10:58 am
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Seeing as this thread is doubling up as a Hullfa.gs trip advisor, what's Pie² like? I'm back in Hull in a fortnight for a friend's birthday so I was considering trying it out; I've seen a few people rave about it, but I don't entirely trust their judgement.
>> No. 10944 Anonymous
30th August 2014
Saturday 5:34 pm
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>>10939
Don't go to Pie2, go to Nandos.
>> No. 10961 Anonymous
7th September 2014
Sunday 5:18 pm
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Had my first experience of Vintage Inns today. There's something jarring about their delusions of grandeur on a shoestring budget, akin to going to a formal event and being served a platter of Iceland's breaded Pedigree Chums tikka lasagna dog meat bites. I know £9 isn't much for a main (mushroom, imitation cashew nut and leek suet roly-poly) but there's nowt fancy about serving it on a poncey rectangle platter with one Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire pudding and a smidgen of gravy. The vegetable bowl was 90% peas and metallic cabbage; there was 3 roast potatoes, 4 over-boiled baby carrots and a roast parsnip each.

I think I'd rate it below Fuzzy Eds. At least there you get decent portions, even if they try and cover up the fact they've burnt the food with half a bottle of barbecue sauce, molten rubber and cheese.
>> No. 10965 Anonymous
7th September 2014
Sunday 5:51 pm
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>>10939
It was amazing before they opened their shop on Newland. The pies used to be made to such a higher standard, but the ridiculous demand (people queuing right down Newland, they had to close for days when it first opened because they'd completely sold out of everything) they've seen since opening on Newland has seen a slump in quality. Worth a try to see what the fuss is about, but I can't understand people - and there are people - that have it almost every day.

Get yourself to a good chippy, mate, take advantage of the fish at its freshest before you have to leave the chippy Nirvana to go back to somewhere shit (anywhere but Hull).
>> No. 10968 Anonymous
7th September 2014
Sunday 6:27 pm
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>>10965
I never really rated the chippies in Hull while I lived here, although I don't like fish so I had battered sausage or patties instead, but I haven't found a decent one since moving to West Yorkshire. I prefer ones you'd find elsewhere in East Yorkshire than Hull, like Harpers in Brandesburton, Sullivans (Beverley rather than Hornsea) and the one in Beeford.

I haven't found a nice Indiam since leaving Hull, even though there's far more Asians here. You can get a nice halal Chinese, though.
>> No. 11071 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 3:02 pm
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>>8704
Went to Burger King today for the first time in ages. I'm sure there was only 10 fries in the bag and they'd overdone them so they were almost hollow. At least they gave me an XL bacon double cheeseburger when I only paid for a regular one.
>> No. 11072 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 4:33 pm
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>>11071
I really hate Burger King. I almost always go for McDonalds. When I can't go to one, and am forced to go to BK, it just pisses me off that I paid for shit. Stale bread, rubbery patty, close to no condiments, shit chips. Never again.
>> No. 11073 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 4:46 pm
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>>11072
You can ask for condiments. The chips are proper shit these days though.
>> No. 11074 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 4:59 pm
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>>11072
A grilled Burger King patty is far better than anything I've had at McDonald's. They have a tiny sign saying that they may use the same oil to fry chips, fish and chicken, which makes having a vegetarian option completely redundant if you ask me.
>> No. 11075 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 5:27 pm
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I noticed a notoriously gaudy takeaway in Hull is now doing an octuple cheeseburger. When will the big chains catch up with this new development?
I can safely say it will be total shit, but I think it would be worth a go.
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14th December 2014
Sunday 5:32 pm
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>>11075
>now

If it's Khantucky Grilled Chicken or Valentino with their Gang Bang/King Kong/Whatever it's called now burger then they've been doing them for around a decade at least.
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14th December 2014
Sunday 5:41 pm
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>>11076
The Big Bird/Kim Jong-Il/Gang Bang/whatever burger is either only ever triple or quadruple. It's Vicky Bay, and apparently £7 w/o chips and £8 with for the monstrosity. I think chips would be the last thing on your mind when you've eaten practically 6 reformed cow hearts.
>> No. 11078 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 5:43 pm
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>>11076
Here https://take-a-way.co.uk/menu/5666/victoria-bay-hull/
>> No. 11079 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 7:14 pm
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>>11076
>Khantucky Grilled Chicken
Purveyors of the finest chicken products and trademark-dodging puns.
>> No. 11080 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 7:17 pm
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>>11074
>They have a tiny sign saying that they may use the same oil to fry chips, fish and chicken
That's mostly arse-covering. In practice there's enough separation in place for any vegetarian that would eat there willingly.
>> No. 11081 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 7:35 pm
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>>11077
>Vicky Bay

That's what I meant, not Valentino. My friends would always warn me off that place unless I wanted food poisoning.
>> No. 11082 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>11081
Soft Southern poof are we? From South of the bridge are we?
>> No. 11083 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 7:52 pm
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>>11082
No, I'm originally from the East side of the river. It's my mates from the wrong side of the river, the ones who've lived off Newland and Prinny Ave for years, who say never to eat anything from there because it'll make you ill
>> No. 11084 Anonymous
14th December 2014
Sunday 8:38 pm
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>>11078
Fucking hell. Even northern immigrant take-aways are shittier than the southern ones. What is wrong with the north? Fuck me.
>> No. 11085 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 2:13 am
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See, now this is where you're wrong, you shandy-swilling poofter. This applies in the Midlands and Lancashire too.

Our takeaways here in Hull have the decency to demarcate themselves, and without meaning to sound like a drunken UKIP type, this is generally by ethnicity. White people do Fish and Chips and open for "dinner" (lunch) and "tea" (dinner), whilst the Chinese and Indians open from teatime till midnight, and the Iraqis who do the generic pizza/kebab/fried chicken type places are open all day and night basically.

Meanwhile, basically everywhere else I've ever been in this country, outside of quaint village Fish shops and Chicken Cottage, you lump them all together into some abortion of a fast food joint, and they're all ran by eskimos who I wouldn't trust to even fry a Haddock right, never mind have Burger, Pizza, Lamb Bhuna and Szuechan King Prawns on the go as well.

Not to mention the fries, and how fucking boring they are without Chip Spice. How anyone can desire a bag of dry chips with fuck all on them at the end of the night is beyond me, it's like when my dog eats grass when he has the shits.
>> No. 11086 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 10:56 am
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>>11085
You should come down my way and savour Ali's Halal Peri Peri Indian Restaurant.
>> No. 11087 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 12:49 pm
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>>11085
Estranged Hulllad here, crying my eyes out at this beautiful post.

I'm in the northwest now, and I just don't bother eating fish and chips because I know it's going to be shit. Looking forward to coming home for Christmas next week so I can gorge myself on chippy.

Of course, no Hullensians leaves the city of culture for extended periods without their own tub of chip spice. Even if it does soak up moisture like a sponge and is basically unusable after about a week without having to grab a chunk and grind it back into a powder with your fingertips over your food.

Also, >>11084­, don't go judging all the takeaways by that one. It's a laughing stock even in Hull. Their menus in the shops are covered in half-naked ladies and pictures of footballs, and still have that horrible rainbow gradient on all of them. A Hull institution.
>> No. 11088 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 5:46 pm
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>>11085

> Meanwhile, basically everywhere else I've ever been in this country, outside of quaint village Fish shops and Chicken Cottage, you lump them all together into some abortion of a fast food joint, and they're all ran by eskimos who I wouldn't trust to even fry a Haddock right, never mind have Burger, Pizza, Lamb Bhuna and Szuechan King Prawns on the go as well.

You've just described every fast food place in Stoke perfectly. Kebabs, Pizza, Burgers, Chinese ..... and a Lamb Dhansak (hidden round the back of the menu).
>> No. 11089 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 6:53 pm
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>>11088
Notts doesn't do it better I'm afraid. I walked past one or two reputable fast fooderies, but otherwise it's muck.

There is a fast food place 20 meters away from me, and I walk past the back of it, nearly every other day. It looks fucking deplorable, and yes, it's also run by these eskimo lads - who drive and park their black, tinted-window BMW's around the back and sit in them ominously. I am certain that 95% of all shitty fast food outlets are involved in money laundering.
>> No. 11090 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 7:10 pm
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Back when I lived in Leeds, I couldn't find a decent chippy for love nor money. There was one run by Turks or similar that could do relatively decent proper chips for £1.30 (they also did abominable soggy fries?), but all the posh chippies were unadulterated wank.

People raved about them being "the best in Yorkshire", but it was utter shite.

There was one proper chippy run by white people, although this was open about 3 days a week on Tuesday through Thursday, which was quite frankly useless, unfortunately. At least they did scraps.
>> No. 11091 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 7:19 pm
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>>11090

> People raved about them being "the best in Yorkshire", but it was utter shite.

Incidentally there are about five "Best fries in the Netherlands" chippies in Amsterdam and all of them are utterly awful. I think once anywhere wins some kind of accolade, even be it an anecdotal one, they all go utterly down the pan.
>> No. 11092 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 8:37 pm
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>>11090
>the best in Yorkshire
Which we all know is Harper's of Wetwang, anyway, so there's no need to concern ourselves with the delusions of madmen.
>> No. 11093 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 8:40 pm
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>>11092
I think their chippy in Brandesburton is nicer than the one in Wetwang.

Anyway, Sullivans in Beverley is nicer still.
>> No. 11094 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 8:52 pm
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Rick Stein's place in Cornwall does good fish, chips are meh.
>> No. 11095 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 9:30 pm
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>>11090

Are you daft or summat, lad? You never went to Graveley's or the Great Yorkshireman?

Tell me Leeds doesn't have good chippys, I swear you lot just talk out of your arse...
>> No. 11096 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 10:36 pm
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>>11091
wait, how did you know I'm in NL?
Anyway, the takeaway classic here is a "Kapsalon", lit: barbershop.

It's chips and schwarma meat topped with salad and grilled cheese, fabulous.

>>11092
Pfft, desolate wastelands of the East Riding.

>>11095
I never went to Harrogate, bugger off. But the Great Yorkshireman I did cycle and drive past many a time but never went there so I guess I can't comment. The good one I was talking about was this one: https://goo.gl/maps/b69C9, so if you happen to know how it compares, let me know. Although the September street view says it's under new management. Which probably means it's shite now.
>> No. 11097 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 11:37 pm
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>>11096

> wait, how did you know I'm in NL?

I told you in another thread; I've been hanging out in Leidsepleine watching you walk under the "homo sapiens non urinat in vento" arch every day on your way home from work.

I had a Kapsalon once and it was awful. Having the chips on the bottom just made them soggy and unpalatable. I'm not suggesting all Kapsalons are bad but this one was and from thereon out I stuck with donner-broodjes.
>> No. 11098 Anonymous
15th December 2014
Monday 11:50 pm
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>>11097
You stalker bastard. modlad? Still, you'll have been following my wreck-head workmates who injure themselves under the influence, not me, wrong city.

Did you have the kapsalon in Amsterdam? They're shit there. Or so I'm told. Where I am stop it, stalker they're much better.

I did have a very fresh and excellent donner-broodje in Amsterdam for, like €3.50 or somthing (fuck all), so I can't fault your judgement.
>> No. 11099 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 12:28 am
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>>11098

Agreed. Kapsalons were invented in Rotterdam, right? (Too drunk to be arsed googling it right now). But yeah the donner-broodjes are absolute top-notch. If you wander on down to the nieuwe-pijp area (van woustraat) there are two kebab places opposite each other round about the tolstraat (original greenhouse coffeeshop) level that constantly fight over the price of their broodjes. At one point they were going for a euro a pop. The place on the right hand side (if you're coming from the center) has the better broodje and always a massive queue. I can also heartily recommend their turkse pizza. Best hangover food ever.

Sage for hijacking Hull to the low countries.
>> No. 11100 Anonymous
16th December 2014
Tuesday 10:20 am
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>>11096

Anotherlad here. That is a belting chippy, no mistake.

Probably the best one (IMHO) in Yorkshire is in Otley:

https://goo.gl/maps/yjPHG

They have a sign saying something like "We only fry in beef dripping and make no apologies for this"...and a lovely café out the back.
>> No. 11102 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 9:46 pm
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Sorry for continuing tge Hull theme, but can anybody recommend the best Indian takeaway in the area? Fancy having one after footy tomorrow. A good dopiaza is my benchmark.
>> No. 11103 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 10:12 pm
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Raj Pavilion. I recommended the nawabi tandoori masala.

My favourite Indian takeaway was Bombay Tandoori on Anlaby Common but that closed a few years ago.
>> No. 11104 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 10:51 pm
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>>11102

Bengal Lounge down Prinny Ave or Raj Pavilion on Bev Road. Order, go in a pub and get a pint instead of sitting about like a lemon.
>> No. 11105 Anonymous
20th December 2014
Saturday 3:04 am
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A wise man once told me that the true yardstick to a curry house is the peshwari naan - If it's good and coconutty with flakes of coconut falling off then it's a good restaurant. If it's the vaguest hint of coconut on an otherwise plain naan, you're in a shithole.
>> No. 11106 Anonymous
20th December 2014
Saturday 3:47 am
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>>11105
And if it has glacé cherries in it you're in Stoke.
>> No. 11108 Anonymous
20th December 2014
Saturday 1:40 pm
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>>11104
Ray's Place.
>> No. 11109 Anonymous
22nd December 2014
Monday 2:01 pm
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>>11105

That doesn't seem like a very good yardstick. It's just dessicated coconut, anyone can get a box of that in tescos for 25p.
>> No. 11110 Anonymous
22nd December 2014
Monday 2:08 pm
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>>11109
Hence if they fuck that up there's really no hope for them.
>> No. 11111 Anonymous
22nd December 2014
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>11108

Is that the tattoo shop that has a painting of a snake with a sword through it above the door?
>> No. 11112 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 3:55 pm
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You'll find, in fact, that it's an Indian restaurant famous for being cheap as fuck and allowing - nay, encouraging - you to bring as much of your own booze as you want.
>> No. 11113 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 4:24 pm
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>>11112
We have one of those in our neck of the woods. Unfortunately they're a vegetarian establishment and therefore are shit by default.
>> No. 11114 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 4:26 pm
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>>11113
Couple of those around me too, don't sell alcohol but you can bring your own. Really nice food. There's another one that's completely dry though - can't even bring your own booze. Bloody eskimos.
>> No. 11115 Anonymous
23rd December 2014
Tuesday 8:24 pm
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I used to know one of the chefs at Fudge. He said to avoid Ray's Place at all costs but I can't remember why. I believe it was about something being dodgy/highly questionable.
>> No. 11116 Anonymous
24th December 2014
Wednesday 12:29 pm
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>>11115
That's common knowledge, though, and he works in a pastel-coloured building that will happily charge you a fiver for a slice of carrot cake.
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5th January 2015
Monday 7:34 pm
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Having never had anything more than a few stolen chips from Nando's I'm currently sitting in one because I'm hungry, have nothing in at all, and figure I should at least try it once. Paid £10.35 for the butterfly chicken with chips and salad; though I'm certain the menu said £10.25. Will report back soon, likely confirming this thread.
>> No. 11119 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 8:28 pm
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>>11117
It was shit. Dry and tasteless. The chips were only made palatable by the sauce and the spiced salt.
>> No. 11120 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 8:37 pm
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>>11119

Welcome to the club, now spread the message to any cretins who mention going out for a "cheeky nandos"
>> No. 11121 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 10:21 pm
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>>11119
If I have to eat in Nandos, I always have the steak roll. The chicken is so, so average.

Unlimited coke is nice though
>> No. 11122 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 10:57 pm
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>>11121

>Unlimited coke

If only.
>> No. 11123 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 11:34 pm
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Story time.

After having a few pints of Samuel Smith's Taddy Lager in Rugby Tavern, rather than be dragged around shit like Lyrics and Rumours by my mate's giggly 18-year-old girlfriend, myself and another friend decided a Special no. 1 from >>11085 was in order before getting the bus back to have a few more pints in Hessle.

Only two doors down from Chicken George in Hull is the rather less distinguished Paragon Square Burger. For some reason, my mate really wanted a wrap from in there too. We go in, and there's this massive drunk cunt stood at the till eating his chips, when he starts chucking the odd one over the counter. The Iraqi guy behind it wasn't best pleased, and asks him to stop. He goes back to serving people, before he does it again. Without a thought, the Iraqi guy turns and absolutely pelts the bloke in the face from about four feet with a freshly fried, spiced and garlic mayo'd bag of chips.

It all kicks off, the server's screaming in sandspeak and trying to wave about a curved Döner knife, the burly bloke gets his mates in to chuck shit about and try to get over the counter. Some of them powerless Street Marshalls come in and do fuck all before the Police turn up and disperse everyone, ourselves included. My mate didn't even get his wrap and we missed the bus.
>> No. 11124 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 11:39 pm
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>>11123
The bastards.
>> No. 11125 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 6:35 pm
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This is the kind of thing we need more of:

>The "world's first" crisp sandwich shop has sold out within two hours of opening.

>Simply Crispy in Belfast enjoyed overwhelming demand for Tayto cheese and onion flavour inside the white floury Belfast bap.

>The pop up cafe offering 35 different flavours opened following a spoof suggestion by the Ulster Fry satirical website and came after the establishment of a cereal outlet in London.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11340476/Crisp-sandwich-shop-owners-make-a-packet-on-first-day.html
>> No. 11126 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 8:43 pm
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>the establishment of a cereal outlet in London

Like that film on Netflix, Flakes? That was a stupid movie, but the point of it was that people didn't come for the cereal, they came for the community spirit. Still stupid to do in real life.
>> No. 11127 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 9:02 pm
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>>11126

Thankyou for clarifying the fiction I had been confusing with reality when I read about that.

That said I'm sure there's a cafe round here that does nothing but milk shakes where you can pick what flavour of pop tarts you want blended into it. Things like that stop seeming nonsensical when you live in a city full of hipster student wankers.
>> No. 11128 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 9:03 pm
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>>11126
It's one of those Nathan Barley type things, with mainly American cereal.
>> No. 11129 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 10:58 pm
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>>11125

Prawn Cocktail flavour on a breakfast roll is the pinnacle of crisp sandwich technology.
>> No. 11130 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 11:11 pm
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>>11128
Why has Ian Watkins cloned himself and eating cereal? Some new sick, deviant perversion?
>> No. 11131 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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>>11130

Not everyone with a beard is Iain Watkins, lad. They don't even look like him. My friend Marc, on the other hand...
>> No. 11132 Anonymous
13th January 2015
Tuesday 11:57 pm
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>>11131

I beg to differ.
>> No. 11133 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 12:06 am
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>>11130
Trix are for kids.
>> No. 11134 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 3:38 pm
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>>11129
1. Cheese and onion Seabrook's
2. Roysters T-Bone steak bubble crisps
>> No. 11136 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 4:04 pm
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>>11131
>Iain
Oh dear.
>> No. 11137 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:13 pm
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>>11079
>Purveyors of the finest chicken products and trademark-dodging puns.

I see you and I raise you Ken's Tuck-In Fried Chicken.
>> No. 11138 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:18 pm
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>>11136

That is how most people in Scotland spell it. It was an honest mistake.
>> No. 11139 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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>>11138

Don't worry, I don't think spelling names wrong is a ban worthy offence, is it, Pirpil?
>> No. 11140 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:23 pm
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>>11139
Lowercase you fool. pirpil.
>> No. 11141 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:24 pm
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>>11134

Lad. Roysters are fucking shit on a roll or sandwich, they don't have the correct consistency for it and mush too easily so you don't get a proper crunch.

I've never tried Seabrook's although, assuming they make more flavours than cheese and onion, all of their other flavours except the hypothetical smokey bacon will be better. Cheese and onion are only good for dipping in soup.
>> No. 11143 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:30 pm
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>>11141
Seabrook's are as thin as paper in my experience, rubbish crisps.
>> No. 11146 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:45 pm
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>>11141

Seabrookes are horrid crisps.
>> No. 11147 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:49 pm
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Those REAL Handcooked Jalapeno things are fucking amazing.
>> No. 11148 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:53 pm
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>Handcooked

Does that mean they rub it between their hands a lot, i.e. until enough heat is generated to cook it?
>> No. 11149 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 7:57 pm
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>>11148
Probably means that at some point some underpaid factory worker manually loaded the potatoes into the chipper.
>> No. 11150 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 8:01 pm
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>>11139
>I don't think spelling names wrong is a ban worthy offence
Either way, omitting the hyphen in "ban-worthy" is a crime and you should be fucking banned or something.

On the topic of shitty fast food, I tried a McRib for the first time today and it was disgusting. I'd rather eat a Rustler burger than a McRib.
>> No. 11151 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 8:08 pm
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>>11150

The McRib is a travesty. It is basically one of those processed Chinese style BBQ rib things you can buy from Iceland. Fucking horrible.
>> No. 11152 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 8:39 pm
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>>11151

They only sell it to offload cheap pork when the market is glutted.

http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage
>> No. 11153 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 9:35 pm
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And are cut thicker and put into thicker machine heat-sealed bags. Those are about the only discernible differences I can tell. Eating Kettle Chips feels like inviting splintery and cheap plywood into your mouth.

>>11150 >>11151
Tried one too myself, it just tasted of McD's bbq sauce and had an off-putting texture to the meat as if it were some kind of MRM thing slapped together in a factory. I was expecting it to be of a higher quality, given the hype and nostalgia people had for it. I was probably foolish in thinking a £2.20 odd burger would be anything but.
Not that I'm complaining about MRM, might as well use every conceivable part of the animal for appropriate foods, right?
>> No. 11154 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 12:58 am
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>>11152
I don't know why they're treating it like a massive conspiracy. Surely it's common sense that McDonald's would only produce the McRib when it is most profitable?
>> No. 11156 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 10:48 am
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I can''t believe they have the audacity to run the McRib at the same time as the Big Tasty. That's just disrespectful to the BT, the only reason I ever go to McDonalds.
>> No. 11158 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 2:23 pm
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>>11154
It's a weird article. The author throws around words like "arbitrage" but seems peculiarly naive about the nature of big business.

>>11156
The one time I ate a Big Tasty I thought it tasted kind of watery.

When I think about it the only thing I've ever truly enjoyed from McD's is the Big Mac.
>> No. 11159 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 3:08 pm
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>>11156
BT is by far and away the best thing McDs do, with the big Mac coming in second.
>> No. 11160 Anonymous
15th January 2015
Thursday 3:23 pm
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>>11146

They did something in the move from the plastic bags with a window to the foil ones. Their sea salted crisps used to be mint, now they're like McCoy's ripoffs but even saltier.
>> No. 11161 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 9:43 am
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Seabrooks were the don's of crisps in the 80's, being a Granvillelad I'd like to say I knew when they went downhill but Google proved all the rumors I'd heard to be unfounded. I suspect
>In the 1980s the company introduced sunflower oil to the cooking process, and in 2007 was the first crisp brand to remove MSG from all its crisps.
was probably the start of the slow decline but I'd never even heard of Walkers crisps until I was 11
>> No. 11162 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 9:48 am
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>have you not heard of the BigMcChickennugget burger?
Order a plain BigMac meal and 6 nuggets 2x BBQ sauce, now replace the crap they've left of your burger with 2 nuggets under each burger and some fries and a splash of BBQ sauce on top of each burger - Voila ! MRM & Salt overdose
>> No. 11164 Anonymous
16th January 2015
Friday 10:57 am
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>>11161
Why does some people having a glutamate intolerance have to ruin mouthfuls upon mouthfuls of umami goodness for the rest of us?
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17th January 2015
Saturday 5:37 pm
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>Another local speciality is our patties. They’re like a fish cake, but made with potato and sage. You have a patty and chips if you can’t afford fish. The best place to get one of those is Cave Street Fisheries, or Bob Carver’s in the old town, which is legendary. It’s been there donkey’s years.

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jan/16/lucy-beaumont-hull-the-way-see-it-chips

Recommending Carver's to anyone, especially one of their unbattered patties, is outright heresy.
>> No. 11170 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 5:58 pm
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>>11169
Isn't that just a scallop?
>> No. 11172 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 7:52 pm
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It's more-or-less deep fried battered mash potato and Paxo. A lot of chippies in Yorkshire seem to have some form of vegetarian option to go with your chips - around Pickering they do battered cheese triangles (I mean a mush that I assume is cheese and potato rather than Dairylea), which I assume is to accommodate the campsites that seem to be almost entirely full of Geordies.
>> No. 11173 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 8:03 pm
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>>11170
> Isn't that just a scallop?

>>11172
> mash potato

Have a word with yourselves lads.
>> No. 11174 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 8:09 pm
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>>11173

Go for it spudlad.
>> No. 11175 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 10:09 pm
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So that's deep fried potato served with a side of deep fried potato.

Reminds me of that Goodness Gracious Me sketch about going out for an English and demanding the blandest thing on the menu.
>> No. 11176 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 10:32 pm
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>>11169

Yeah, can't stand that bint. Could have written a better article about our fair city too.

>>11175

Don't knock 'em. I'm a Spam Fritter guy myself but a Patty Butty covered in Chip Spice is pretty orgasmic.
>> No. 11177 Anonymous
17th January 2015
Saturday 10:38 pm
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>So that's deep fried potato served with a side of deep fried potato.

That's pretty much all there is to eat if you're a vegetarian.
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17th January 2015
Saturday 11:20 pm
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>>11177

I'm a vegetaian and I beat sme crossfit dck at at an armwrestle competition. I raised the challenge to the Yorkshire 3 Peaks in under 4 hours as a winner, he sperged about protein and vanished.
>> No. 11183 Anonymous
18th January 2015
Sunday 8:17 am
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>>11178
What's that got to do with eating chips? Oh, and margherita pizza, veggies can have them too.
>> No. 11185 Anonymous
18th January 2015
Sunday 8:57 am
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>>11178

Sounds like you're hallucinating due to lack of protein mate.
>> No. 11187 Anonymous
18th January 2015
Sunday 5:30 pm
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>>11169
Goldenfry's is the only properly good chippy in the centre, Carver's is totally rank and swimming in grease. A word of warning: never go for their spam fritters unless you've got a bib, baby wipes and something for scorching for your poor old chin. Or you might want a trip to a dry cleaner's.
Harper's in Brandes is quite nice, though their patties resemble the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch and lack the requisite sage content.
>> No. 11188 Anonymous
27th January 2015
Tuesday 9:01 pm
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Just saw this on my news feed.

If this is more suited to /101/, I'll move it there but to keep it tangentially on topic, where's the best chippy in Manchester? City centre preferred as that's where I live.
>> No. 11189 Anonymous
27th January 2015
Tuesday 9:09 pm
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>>11188

Bloody hell, what a mad one!
>> No. 11190 Anonymous
27th January 2015
Tuesday 9:18 pm
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>>11188

Oh lord. They crowbarred that "doge" meme in there. That's a double /101/
>> No. 11191 Anonymous
27th January 2015
Tuesday 10:23 pm
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>>11190

I assumed from the Chinese characters that he was just writing as he speaks.

Only joking.
>> No. 11192 Anonymous
27th January 2015
Tuesday 10:33 pm
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>>11191
The Chinese characters are on my end. I rotate my Facebook language every now and again, for no reason other than I can.
>> No. 11193 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 11:51 am
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>>11188
My supervisor rants and raves over how good the Battered Cod in Fallowfield is. However, I grew up in Hull where there's a good chippy on every street corner and I'm fairly certain nobody in Manchester has ever even seen a fish and just batters old boots or strips of cardboard. Don't do it, lad, get a train to the seaside and do fish and chips properly.
>> No. 11194 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 1:48 pm
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>>11193
There are some good chippies around my home area that are as good as I've tasted at the seaside where it's about £2 more expensive.

Also I would never get a train to Hull, because that means I would go to Hull.
>> No. 11195 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 2:03 pm
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>>11194
Until you've been to Hull, hold your tongue on matters concerning fish and chips.
>> No. 11196 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 2:20 pm
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>>11195
Hull isn't even seaside, mind. It's more like, riverside.
I've had some nice FnC in Scarborough but the Magpie in Whitby is incredibly overrated.
>> No. 11197 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 2:20 pm
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>>11195
May as well just go to Grimsby.
>> No. 11198 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 3:08 pm
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>>11197
Said nobody ever.
>> No. 11199 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 3:13 pm
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>>11195
Until you've been out of Hull, hold your tongue on matters concerning civilised folk.
>> No. 11200 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 3:24 pm
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>>11199
>> No. 11201 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 3:27 pm
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>>11200
Less than two years to actually get some culture, come on lads.
>> No. 11202 Anonymous
28th January 2015
Wednesday 7:21 pm
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>>11200
How long until it's revealed that the decision was about as sound as awarding Qatar the World Cup?
>> No. 11203 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 12:36 pm
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>>11200
Notably lacking "of" between "city" and "culture", presumably to avoid legal action.
>> No. 11204 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 12:50 pm
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>>11203
Nah, it really is 2017 UK City of Culture.

Though trying to visit the website in the picture it redirected to hull2017.co.uk. Make up your minds.
>> No. 11205 Anonymous
29th January 2015
Thursday 8:25 pm
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>>11200
Is this a ruse?
>> No. 11228 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:04 pm
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>>8712
Nearly another two years to the day since I posted about Nando's policy. Still much the same.

We continue to engage with our suppliers in the search for practical welfare improvements.

Yeah well it's been four years, what 'welfare improvements' have you made exactly?

In addition [to Red Tractor standards] we employ an independent auditing company and our internal technical team also undertake regular visits to all our suppliers. We are confident that these processes ensure that the chicken we serve meets the high standard which our customers demand.

I have a vision of some bloke pulling up in a four-by-four, sticking his head into the barn, making a tick on a clipboard, talking about football with the farmers for ten minutes, and then driving off.

The majority of our chickens are raised in sheds with natural light and with access to welfare enrichment such as perches, hay bales and pecking objects.

So some of them don't even fucking see daylight before they meet the grinder.
>> No. 11229 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:11 pm
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>>11228
The fuck does it matter? Is it to keep your conscience clear? Making sure chicken have a better life than prisoners and homeless people, right before they are killed, grilled, and eaten seems very odd to me.
>> No. 11231 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:13 pm
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>>11229

I'm assuming you understand the concept of morality and animal welfare even if you don't agree with it, so just stop being billy big bollocks over there by pretending you can't fathom why.

That aside, well-raised chicken is of far higher quality than battery farmed stuff.
>> No. 11234 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:45 pm
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>>11228
>I'm assuming you understand the concept of morality and animal welfare
I assume you realise that you're talking about livestock that are getting sent to the chopper for you to enjoy a tasty dinner. I bet you're one of those mouth-breathers who complained about ritual slaughter being inhumane as well.

If you actually care about the animals, stop fucking eating them. I'm about to tuck into some chicken, but I'm under no illusions about how it reached my plate.
>> No. 11235 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>11200
> City Culture

Can't even get the bloody strapline right.
>> No. 11236 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>11234
We eat meat, therefore the animals' living conditions are irrelevant?
>> No. 11237 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>11205

Of course not.
>> No. 11238 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 9:07 pm
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>>11231
>the concept of morality and animal welfare
So basically, you do it to selfishly feel good about yourself. Like you accomplished something. The chicken you ate had seen sunlight; all is right with the world.

Do you eat free-range eggs? It is of higher quality. The freedom and happiness of chicken seeps into the egg.
>> No. 11240 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 9:42 pm
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>Do you eat free-range eggs

Yes. It's quite hard to get 'cruel' eggs in this country.

>It is of higher quality

True. I did say that in my post.

>So basically, you do it to selfishly feel good about yourself

Yes. Isn't that why vegetarians don't eat meat too? You're describing the human condition, this MO is not limited just to chicken freedomists.

All troll-pandering aside, I honestly don't see the dichotomy in caring about the conditions your food is raised in, even from a purely moral standpoint. You might be killing and eating them, but that doesn't mean you have to torture them when they're alive.

Personally I don't give a shit, but wanting free range food doesn't strike me as hypocritical at all. It's the same reason most sane people don't advocate performing medical experiments on death row inmates.
>> No. 11241 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 9:44 pm
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>>11238

>The freedom and happiness of chicken seeps into the egg.

I believe you're trying to be facetious, but you should know this statement is absolutely true. Do you know what a stress hormone is?
>> No. 11242 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 9:53 pm
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>>11240
Vegetarians aren't hypocrites. They might be annoying upper-middle-class, tedious, self-righteous, self-absorbed cunts, but they are still not as annoyingly hypocritical as your cancerous ilk. I hope ISIS behead you... Humanely.
>> No. 11243 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 9:54 pm
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>>11241
I agree. Happy eggs are better than stressful eggs. Think of the eggs.
>> No. 11244 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 10:11 pm
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>>11242

Oh deary me. Where exactly do you think I called veggies hypocrites?
>> No. 11245 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 10:15 pm
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Lads, I think you're repeating a conversation that happened several hundred posts and over three years ago.
>> No. 11246 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 10:18 pm
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>>11245

Welcome to britfa.gs
>> No. 11247 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 10:29 pm
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>>11246

New lads, new opinions. The fact that those opinions just happen to be the same as the previous lads' opinions is purely coincidental.
>> No. 11251 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 11:13 pm
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>>11247

Honestly, I was probably in the first argument too. I might have been on the other side for all I remember.
>> No. 11255 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 11:43 pm
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>>11242
Anything to back up your assertion vegetarianism is the preserve of the upper middle classes?
>> No. 11258 Anonymous
9th February 2015
Monday 11:51 pm
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>>11242

I have never encountered a vegetarian who was any of those things. Usually it's the people with a hard on for moaning about vegetarians that fit that description. The kind of person who recoils in horror if you order an onion baji without a side of bacon and lambs tongues.
>> No. 11262 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 1:41 am
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>>11258
You are probably one. Are you on your gap yah? Did you travel to India to find yourself yet?
>> No. 11263 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 2:22 am
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>>11262

I don't like anything about India and I had bacon, poached egg and toast for dinner. As for a "gap year", a gap from what?

I don't even know why it would matter if I was all that shit, actually.
>> No. 11264 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 11:07 am
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>>11228
>I have a vision of some bloke pulling up in a four-by-four, sticking his head into the barn, making a tick on a clipboard, talking about football with the farmers for ten minutes, and then driving off.

As a worker on a well known duck farm, this is about the level of care that is routinely carried out by the lazy fatties who whinge about the rest of the team not lugging that odd ton of straw about fast enough.

I am under no illusion at all that the most cruel thing about eating meat is that an animal is killed so we can do so: what's more cruel than doing something so ultimate? Of course, welfare standards are there to stop people losing their minds, being abusive and to stop disease in both meat and eggs, salmonella is far more rare than it used to be as a result of proper practices and regulations that are placed on the production of food.

I really don't care how an animal is killed at the end of the day, my only moral quibble is that some people have a bizarre view that the only desirably edible parts of the animal are prime cuts, ignoring completely the lovely things you can cook from cuts like beef shin, the offal that can be stewed a thousand ways. Luckily MRM exists to put all that lovely collagen and hard to remove meat bits back into the food chain. If you kill an animal, you should really be prepared to eat most or all parts of it.
>> No. 11265 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 11:57 am
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>>11264

Intestines do taste fucking foul.
>> No. 11266 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 12:11 pm
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>>11265
The best option for curing sausages is to use the intestines as a casing. I really don't know if Britons have really had a heritage of dry or salt curing sausages to then cook with later like other Eurotypes, so I don't think that really applies. Anyway, my favourite butcher in the area uses intestines for the casing on his sausages - and they taste far better than shitty richmonds.
>> No. 11267 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 12:32 pm
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>>11266
When it's a very thin casing maybe but just try some Sai Pa Lo Tod Grob or Boudin blanc and tell me it doesn't taste like the way someone having digestive problems smells.
>> No. 11268 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 12:54 pm
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>>11265
You're supposed to clean the shit out of them before you cook them.
>> No. 11269 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 1:01 pm
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>>11264
Well put. Waste not, want not.
>> No. 11270 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 8:21 pm
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>If you kill an animal, you should really be prepared to eat most or all parts of it.
Why? It really isn't "waste" if the fucking foxes get to have some disgusting offal that I wouldn't eat.

You lot are cunts, I swear.
>> No. 11272 Anonymous
10th February 2015
Tuesday 11:41 pm
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I've only had Nando's once. I'm very hungry and would kill for one now.
>> No. 11275 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 12:27 am
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>>11264
>Luckily MRM exists to put all that lovely collagen and hard to remove meat bits back into the food chain.

I'm a lifelong vegetarian, but I've always regarded MRM as one of the great wonders of the modern food chain. Guardianistas fawn over indigenous people who eat nose-to-tail, but love to sneer when westerners do the same thing. A chicken nugget or a value range hot dog is a truly remarkable object, consisting of meat that was previously impossible to make good use of.

Research butchery is a remarkable field. You'd think that there are only so many ways to slice up a cow or a chicken, but it turns out that we keep discovering new ways of producing quality cuts from meat that would have become mince. Clever butchery can increase the market value of a beef carcass by 30-40%. There's a guy called Eugene Gagliardi who is something of a genius in the field, and holds dozens of patents on cuts of meat.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/31/160391850/episode-399-can-you-patent-a-steak

Also, from the "I for one welcome our new robot overlords" file:

https://www.youtube.com/v/UrjFWrv_IAw
>> No. 11279 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 1:37 am
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>>11270

>disgusting offal

Lad, you eat offal or something made with an offal derived substance at least once a week and smack your lips with glee after you've chomped/slurped down your last mouthful.

So much good, tasty and edible meat goes to waste every year because people like you will only eat prime cuts and fillets and it's worse with fish. It is a fucking crisis, and can't continue or we'll pollute the earth and deplete its resources beyond repair and regeneration.
>> No. 11280 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 1:42 am
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>>11279
I don't eat offal. Go sell that shit to the NoFracking cunts.
>> No. 11281 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 1:43 am
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>>11279
>It is a fucking crisis, and can't continue or we'll pollute the earth and deplete its resources beyond repair and regeneration.
Why do you give a shit about what might happen after you die?
>> No. 11282 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 3:04 am
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>>11270

There are some offaly good things you can make with offal, from pate to faggots.

Ironically this faggot contains no offal as he's a prude
>> No. 11283 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 12:13 pm
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>>11282
>offaly
Back to potatofa.gs with you, lad.
>> No. 11284 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 1:39 pm
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>>11281

I don't plan on dying at any point in the next 30 years, nor do I hope my progeny will, and by then whole swathes of the country will be under water. If we ate more of the animals we breed, we wouldn't need as many and they would produce less methane. Cattle farming is the single largest net contributor to greenhouse gases in the world.

>>11280

>I don't eat offal.

Yes you do. Mince, sausages (especially hot dogs), any kind of meat stock (name a soup that isn't vegetarian, essentially), any reformed meat product, pate, donner kebabs and the list goes on. There are also lots of delicatessen meats that are made with offal, and you probably don't even notice. If you want to split hairs, beef gelatin is in fucking everything so remember that the next time you enjoy a Fruit Pastille.

Stop being a gibbering buffoon.
>> No. 11285 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 1:53 pm
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>>11279

> Lad, you eat offal or something made with an offal derived substance at least once a week

> So much good, tasty and edible meat goes to waste every year because people like you will only eat prime cuts and fillets

Make up your mind frothingathemouthlad.

> we'll pollute the earth and deplete its resources beyond repair and regeneration.

Pretty sure we've already gone over this line, it's all downhill from here lad. Might as well enjoy our lives eating the decent steaks and leave the offal for the awful.

>>11284

> I don't plan on dying at any point in the next 30 years, nor do I hope my progeny will, and by then whole swathes of the country will be under water.

You're one conflicted gibbon if you're bringing "progeny" into a world you believe will be beginning to sink into the sea. Calm down, enjoy your steaks, and stop having fucking kids for a few generations and we might actually work this whole food/air problem out.
>> No. 11286 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>11284
You just think that your selfishness (having kids) is more righteous than his selfishness (not eating offal).

Fuck off.
>> No. 11287 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 4:40 pm
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>>11286

I don't have any kids, ragelad.
>> No. 11288 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 4:46 pm
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>>11285

Beef and how people eat beef, plus longer life expectancy are the environmental and economic nooses around our neck, not people's kids.

To be a teenager again, hopped up on nihlism and apathy. Those were the days. I even got a shag out of it once, but she told me she loved me and laughed at the notion that chemicals could control someone's mind so she kicked me in the balls.
>> No. 11289 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 6:44 pm
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>>11288
So there is no way anyone can not give a shit about what happens after they die and not be a teenlad? A person can't genuinely, and sincerely be that selfish?
>> No. 11290 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 8:41 pm
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>>11289

Teenlad is a state of mind. Regretably on your part, one most people grow out of. Still, hopefully you didn't take Atlus Shrugged to heart as a teen and so you're not that guy.
>> No. 11291 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 9:22 pm
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>>11290
I don't read. I don't want trees to die for me.
>> No. 11292 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>11291

Kindle, m8.

Ur welcum.
>> No. 11293 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 10:47 pm
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>>11292
I don't want poor African child labourers to die for me while they mine for precious metals and stones.
>> No. 11294 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 10:49 pm
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>>11293
So what are you doing on the Internet using devices made from conflict minerals and assembled by poor starving Chinese people?
>> No. 11295 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 11:02 pm
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IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PERFECTLY ETHICAL, THEREFORE ALL ETHICS ARE ABSURD.
>> No. 11296 Anonymous
11th February 2015
Wednesday 11:30 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/v/BOksW_NabEk

>What if you just had one more day?

Be an edgy nihilist on the internet, of course.
>> No. 11297 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:30 am
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>>11296
Lad... I'm sorry. I will eat more plants. Don't be mad. I swear I will stop using plastic bags too.
>> No. 11298 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:52 am
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>>11297

Fortunately for you, Physics allows for an alternative universe where you are hilarious and all your endeavors succeed. Unfortunately for you, it isn't this one. Don't let that get you down, though. It's out there... somewhere. Take solace in it, no one can take that away from you.

Now, tell me about your relationship with your Father.
>> No. 11299 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 1:29 am
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>>11298
I feel that he must be disappointed in me. Come to think of it, I don't think my mother's proud of me either. It's okay though; prime cut beef heals all.
>> No. 11300 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 1:42 am
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>>11299

Apart from cardiovascular disease.
>> No. 11301 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:00 pm
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>>11300

Omega 3:6 ratios in grass fed beef are actually cardio favourable.
>> No. 11302 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:02 pm
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>>11298
https://www.youtube.com/v/5WwOZgPQwyU
>> No. 11303 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:28 pm
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>>11288

> Beef and how people eat beef, plus longer life expectancy are the environmental and economic nooses around our neck, not people's kids.

For there to be people to eat the beef and to have life expectancy there has to be kids, you utter cretin. Less kids = less people eating less beef = longer happier lives for everyone. Stop reproducing, sheeple!
>> No. 11304 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 12:57 pm
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>>11303

Getting into anti-natalism there.
>> No. 11305 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 2:59 pm
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>> No. 11306 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 7:32 pm
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It was my understanding that beefiness was oft considered a very unhealthy thing indeed.
>> No. 11307 Anonymous
12th February 2015
Thursday 8:03 pm
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>>11306
If it's thick and hot then its loads better.
>> No. 11308 Anonymous
13th February 2015
Friday 12:02 am
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>>11307

That is a rather positive if somewhat loaded statement.
>> No. 11309 Anonymous
13th February 2015
Friday 4:21 am
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>>11308
Smoothly done.
>> No. 11310 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:03 pm
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The city of culture.
>> No. 11311 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:04 pm
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>>11310
OOOOOOOOOOOH ONE FOUR EIGHT TWOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOH ONE FOUR EIGHT TWOOOOO
OH ONE FOUR EIGHT OH ONE FOUR EIGHT OH ONE FOUR EIGHT TWO
HULL
>> No. 11312 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:06 pm
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>>11311
>OH

I think you'll find it's "err", as in "err nerr, snerr".
>> No. 11313 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:08 pm
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>>11312
The nearest sound is probably ö, which is the correct way of saying the letter O without rounding it off at the end like a bellend. The rest of you are wrong, we're right, culture.
>> No. 11314 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:11 pm
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>>11312

Mirth.
>> No. 11315 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:14 pm
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>>11313
Next you'll be saying you work nïne to fïve instead of narn to farv.
>> No. 11316 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 6:17 pm
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>>11315
I am gonna have to treat myself to a narnynarn when the ice cream man comes round next.
>> No. 11317 Anonymous
16th February 2015
Monday 11:18 pm
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>>11316

I'd thoroughly recommend following @BoakingHeads if you're on twitter.

PERLER - The mint with the ERL. Suitable for use after SMERKING to HARD your fagbreath from your MAM

SCARE A GIRL - (v. phr.) How you get a point in a game of football. "It was heading for a draw but Dicko scared a girl in the last minute"

PRINNY AVE - Princes Avenue: Hull’s most upmarket boozing district; Drinking, dancing, fucking & fighting – but in nice slacks from Next.
>> No. 11318 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 9:57 pm
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>Chippy dyes its fish BLUE to mark Tour de Yorkshire (but insists it tastes the same)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3019292/Chippy-dyes-fish-BLUE-mark-Tour-Yorkshire.html

Nope.
>> No. 11319 Anonymous
31st March 2015
Tuesday 10:49 pm
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>>11318
It's interesting that people are disgusted by the thought of eating something blue. There was a test on the BBC Science minisite that measured your disgust reaction to certain images, and it was predicted that, because the colour blue rarely occurs in nature and is not associated with disease threats, we will not find it disgusting to touch compared to yellow and red. Maybe the reaction is different somehow because we are considering ingesting it.
>> No. 11320 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 1:16 am
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>>11318
Oh fuck, I forgot that was happening. I hated it when Tour de France was in Yorkshire, all the roads closed for the most boring sport in the world. Hundreds of people stood on the car-less dual carriageway waving flags for the 50 seconds the bikes whizzed by, then marching back in a massive horde like the most middle class apocalypse ever. Fuck the Tour de Yorkshire.
>> No. 11321 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 1:26 am
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>>11319

That fish's colour has a good resemblance to the colour of mould.
>> No. 11322 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 6:53 am
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>>11319
Didn't Heinz do blue and green ketchup but nobody liked it?
>> No. 11323 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 9:34 am
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>>11322

Yes. I also heard there was special green Guinness for St Patrick's day and it was the colour of phlegm.
>> No. 11324 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 10:20 am
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>>11320
I watched it in Elland. It was a decent day out with a good build up to it, however the actual cyclists going past was extremely anti-climactic. I may go again this year if the weather's alright and it's not too far to go.
>> No. 11325 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 10:27 am
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>>11320

I love cycling and the tour, but I really don't understand going to see it in person. I'd enjoy being there for a tough climbing section, maybe, but it's far more fun to watch the whole thing on Eurosport than get 30 seconds of bikes and three minutes of support and TV cars.
>> No. 11326 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 4:01 pm
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>>11325

Following the TdF is in part just an excuse to have a little adventure. The Dutch camp out for days and have a massive piss-up, the French and Belgians convoy up in their campervans and follow the race across the country. Locals set up outside a café and throw a street party. Teenagers hitch-hike from stage to stage, people barbecue and share food and there's a real sense of camaraderie, especially amongst the people who are going all the way to Paris.

When I followed football with my old man, it was always about the away games for us, slogging across the country in his knackered Skoda to Tranmere, spending five hours on the coach to Port Vale. Over the years, every trip is a little bit richer for the accumulation of memories. The places you go take on a special significance, held together by the narrative of sport.

Following cycling is like that on a grander scale. All the experiences feed into each other. Watching an attack on Ventoux on TV is a totally different experience when you've walked that climb, when you know what the dry mountain air tastes like, when you've left a bidon at the Simpson memorial. Making it to the Champs-Élysées after 23 days of travelling brings into sharp focus what an epic thing the Tour de France really is. Perching on a fence with a beer on the Rue de Rivoli, watching the riders go around, thinking about all the times I've been here before, the people I've met, the places I've been, the glorious triumphs and crushing defeats of races past.

When it gets into your blood, it never leaves you. One day I'll be an old codger in a faded CSC cap, droning on about half-forgotten riders, moaning that these new-fangled graphene bikes aren't half as lovely as the old carbon machines we used to ride.
>> No. 11327 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 4:13 pm
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>>11326

>One day I'll be an old codger in a faded CSC cap, droning on

I think you should have a look in the mirror mate.
>> No. 11328 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 5:40 pm
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>>11326
>moaning that these new-fangled graphene bikes aren't half as lovely as the old carbon machines

Graphene is carbon.
>> No. 11329 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 5:44 pm
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>>11328
He means carbon fibre. Sony have recently made something like 10m sheets of monolayer graphene (on a substrate, as it has to be), so I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing things wrapped in bulk graphene and marketed as indestructible. I also wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be destructible, given that I rip graphene on copper to bits with a tungsten needle for a living.
>> No. 11330 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 6:24 pm
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>>11328
Diamond is also carbon, your point?
>> No. 11331 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 7:45 pm
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>>11329
What do you do? Sounds fun.
>> No. 11332 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>11329
The more perfect a graphene structure is the harder to break it will be. The hardest diamonds are essentially perfect. You probably know this.
>> No. 11333 Anonymous
1st April 2015
Wednesday 8:50 pm
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>>11332
Flaws are the bane of all ceramics. On paper things like silicon carbide can be as strong as metals at a fraction of the weight but without ductility cracks of the order of microns can cause the material to fail well before you'd expect it to.

Composites are very much in vogue right now but there's still loads of work going on in metallurgy. Whoever finds the recipe for the successor to current nickel-based superalloys is going to be an incredibly rich person.
>> No. 11334 Anonymous
2nd April 2015
Thursday 5:07 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Efr09wLeY
>> No. 11376 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 10:52 am
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>Americans are getting massively confused by the concept of a 'contumelious Nando's'

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/news/a35663/americans-confused-contumelious-nandos/

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Americans-question-contumelious-Nando-s-frustrated-lack/story-26492992-detail/story.html

>It has emerged today that a 19 year-old man from Manchester is taking the piri piri Chicken giant to court, alleging that his dining experience was not as advertised and ‘only about half as contumelious as expected’.

http://news.bfnn.co.uk/lad-sues-nandos-for-meal-not-being-contumelious-enough/
>> No. 11377 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 12:08 pm
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>>11376

>you know when you go down town with the lads and you all realize you’re hank marvin’ so you say “lads let’s go Maccers” but your mate Smithy a.k.a. The Bantersaurus Rex has some mula left on his nandos gift card and he’s like “mate let’s a have a contumelious nandos on me” and you go “Smithy my son you’re an absolute ledge” so you go have an extra contumelious nandos with a side order of Top Quality Banter


Mirth: Audible.
>> No. 11378 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 4:25 pm
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>> No. 11379 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 4:33 pm
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>>11377
I can't understand why. It's been pretty vogue this week with this image being plastered fucking everywhere, but I've always found Tumblrites and pretty much anyone else making fun of lad culture to be flat-out cringeworthy.
>> No. 11380 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 4:37 pm
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>>11379
It's so fucking stupid it's pretty funny to be honest. Because you can easily picture the type of person saying this.
>> No. 11381 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 4:43 pm
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>>11380
The type of person saying it legitimately or the type of Tumblr saddo that would say it in jest?
>> No. 11382 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 5:07 pm
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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/tomslater/2015/05/anti-lad-crusaders-have-begun-a-cultural-cleansing-of-british-universities/
>> No. 11383 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 5:33 pm
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>>11382
Anyone else notice the notable omission on the list of clubs that have been signed off as "good lads"?
>> No. 11384 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 5:54 pm
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>>11383
Why's it notable?
>> No. 11385 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 6:40 pm
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>>11384
It's probably the most famous of the university's sports clubs, and one of the first things most people think of when you mention Oxbridge.
>> No. 11386 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 6:48 pm
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>>11385
Oh, I misread your post. I see what you mean now.
>> No. 11387 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 7:39 pm
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>>11382
Aren't they missing the point completely when 90% of the laddish behaviour in Oxbridge comes from drinking societies (for those not in the know, think Pitt/Bullingdon Club on a tigher-but-still-extravagant budget)? Good luck getting the Vikings or Caesarians to sit down and talk about their feelings with some circle-jerk counselor.

Speaking of which, fuck off girls who apply to all female colleges because they "don't want to be exposed to lad culture", then join their college drinking society and go on swaps with the self-selected 'top lads' of the university to constantly reinforce their negative view of men. It sounds crazy but I actually know more than one person like this...
>> No. 11388 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 10:27 pm
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A contumelious Nandos and a contumelious Dominos in one contumelious Hoagie.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEHuOKFra8

What has science done?
>> No. 11389 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 10:31 pm
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>>11388
I don't like to mix chicken and cooked tomato.
>> No. 11391 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 10:53 pm
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>>11389

Not even in a contumelious parmigiana ?
>> No. 11392 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 11:04 pm
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>>11391
CHEAKY CHEAKY
>> No. 11393 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 11:17 pm
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>>11391
I've not tried one.
>> No. 11394 Anonymous
14th May 2015
Thursday 11:20 pm
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>>11389
Dear god, your taste sucks. Absolutely abysmal.
>> No. 11395 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 12:08 am
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>>11392

Fuck you.
>> No. 11396 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 11:44 am
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>>11391
I'd deliberately drop summat heavy on my foot for a contumelious parmo right now.
>> No. 11397 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:06 pm
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>> No. 11398 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:10 pm
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Alright, this is getting silly now. I can understand a wordfilter for chēēky Nando's, but not a word filter just for the word chèéky.

If this doesn't stop then I'll keep posting Lembit and the Chêêky Girls and nobody wants that to happen.
>> No. 11399 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:24 pm
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>>11398
>nobody wants that to happen
I don't know about that. I bet Lembit's chuffed that someone's finally talking about him.
>> No. 11400 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:35 pm
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Everyone takes the piss out of Lembit, but I think he's a dude. He got that wonky chin after crashing a hang glider into a mountain. He shagged a Contumelious Girl and Sian Lloyd off of the weather. He has done professional wrestling, made a film with a band called Adam and the Asbos, and used to have a column in the Daily Sport. Sian Lloyd says she dumped him because he was a drunken lout. Tell me you wouldn't love to go on the piss with a guy who has lived that life.
>> No. 11401 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:39 pm
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>>11400
>Sian Lloyd says she dumped him because he was a drunken lout.
How dare she say such a thing.
>> No. 11402 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 2:54 pm
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>>11400
I just like his name.
>> No. 11403 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 4:17 pm
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>>11400
>He shagged a Contumelious Girl and Sian Lloyd off of the weather.

That's like boasting you stepped in dog shit and chewing gum on the way home.
>> No. 11404 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 4:41 pm
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>>11403
Are you having a go at ARE SIAN?
>> No. 11405 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 5:15 pm
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This advert was on my local newspaper today.

Aside from the obvious familiarity of the brand, I am slightly confused by the use of quotation marks on "new".
>> No. 11406 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 5:23 pm
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>>11405
You should probably get down there next week to find out more.
>> No. 11408 Anonymous
15th May 2015
Friday 5:50 pm
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>>11404
She looks like someone has stretched a balloon over an iron, cut a fringe into a mop and put that on top before sticking on two (with one broken) googly eyes.

She wouldn't have been out of place as one of the puppets on Wizadora.
>> No. 11409 Anonymous
16th May 2015
Saturday 2:07 am
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>>11405
There's a particular breed of moron that thinks quotation marks are there to add emphasis rather than mark quotations.
>> No. 11410 Anonymous
16th May 2015
Saturday 2:17 am
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>>11409

I am fucking shocked and horrified. I genuinely didn't care this much about my nan dying.

What do we burn and who do we kill to make things okay again?
>> No. 11411 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:58 am
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The absolute madman.
>> No. 11412 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 7:58 pm
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>>11410
Chum, if I knew that then The Cleansing would have already begun. For a while I hoped Lynn Truss would lead us in a bloody uprising, but sadly she never quite took up that mantle...
>> No. 11413 Anonymous
18th May 2015
Monday 9:42 pm
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>>11411
That bloke is an absolute legend.
I laughed heartily.
>> No. 11432 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 9:56 pm
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Nando's. Too cheeky for its own good?

http://www.theladbible.com/articles/nando-s-tried-to-be-extra-cheeky-to-a-customer-and-have-got-in-a-bit-of-trouble
>> No. 11433 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 10:00 pm
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>>11432
Good grief what a tediously uninteresting website.
>> No. 11434 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 10:15 pm
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>>11433
That and Buzzfeed are what modern subscription-free news sites aspire to be like. It's all about generating dem clicks.
>> No. 11435 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 11:27 pm
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>>11433

I think these particular macros should be allowed, because they are always spot on. Whoever makes them is on the ball.

I say this because I got banned about a year ago for posting a similarly perceptive take on another topic.

Why is your image so small? The original is larger.
>> No. 11436 Anonymous
29th May 2015
Friday 11:35 pm
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>>11433
>LOL is your corsa even limited edition mate?

This one's just too true...
>> No. 11437 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 12:24 am
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>>11435

You would open the doors to hell because the cat was scratching to get out? The shortsightedness of it all is baffling.
>> No. 11447 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 11:36 pm
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>>11437

One day I'm going to order the cheekiest nandos ever. And after that day, the main in corner meme, and rare pepes will be allowed on britfa.gs.


Mark my words.
>> No. 11448 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 11:41 pm
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>>11447
Pray tell, what on earth is a "pepe" when it's at home?
>> No. 11449 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 11:49 pm
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>>11448
You do not want to know. That way lies madness. Or you could just google it.
>> No. 11450 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 11:55 pm
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>>11447

And on that day I shall fall upon you as an eagle upon vermin.
>> No. 11451 Anonymous
30th May 2015
Saturday 11:58 pm
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It's the sad frog from 4chan that eats its own shit.
>> No. 11452 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 12:09 am
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>>11451
>eats its own shit
Sounds like he'd fit right in at Nando's.
>> No. 11453 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 8:48 am
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Why do Pizza Express employ so many Slavic women? They seem to hire considerably more than any other similar restaurant chain.
>> No. 11454 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 2:06 pm
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After many years of hearing how bad nandos was, I had one.

A chicken burger with some mayo-like sauce and Halloumi. I don't see why the place gets so much hate. The chips were pretty good actually, and the chicken seemed of good quality. It wasn't mind blowing, but it did the job when me and some friends wanted a quick lunch. Certainly far better than greasy old KFC or Mcdonalds. I wouldn't choose to go there for a meal, but I'd go with no complaints if I had to.
>> No. 11455 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 2:14 pm
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>>11454
>I don't see why the place gets so much hate.
It's certainly edible and you could do a lot worse, but the hate is a kick-back from people who are annoyed by it being overhyped and all this ladzbantz stuff. The food is okay, the hate is due to the cultural context surrounding it.
>> No. 11456 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 2:40 pm
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>>11455
Then I think the hate should be directed at the ladbantz people perpetuating this stuff, and not chicken based meals. Fuck me I hate everyone. You're all just massive, massive cunts.
>> No. 11457 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 4:37 pm
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>>11456
You'd rather humans hate one another rather than a mediocre brand of grilled chicken? Sounds like you're the cunt.
>> No. 11458 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 5:54 pm
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>>11455
>the hate is a kick-back from people who are annoyed by it being overhyped and all this ladzbantz stuff.

Considering the thread was made in 2011, there wasn't a mention of ladculture until 2013 and a cheeky Nando's until this year.

Before this thread turned into another Hullfa.gs thread, as was a brief trend around 2012/13, it was mainly about understanding the growing hype for uninspiring food rather than vitriol about LADS LADS LADS.
>> No. 11459 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 6:43 pm
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>>11458
So people on here were angry that the average cunt was not a dining at a Michelin star restaurant?
>> No. 11460 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:08 pm
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>>11459

Yes. You've nailed it, you fucking genius. Only two forms of dining exist in this world and this thread was a Highlander-esque battle to see who would become The One.

Nevermind the fact Tesco sell better shit for less, or that you can make it in the house for cheaper; that is irrelevant. Nevermind that they charge ridicuous amounts for what is just chicken in sauce.

It's that it isn't Michelin star dining.
>> No. 11461 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:25 pm
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>>11460
Tesco don't sell "better" grilled chicken with unlimited drinks. Anyway, this whole thread is filled with very patronising and privileged voices.
>> No. 11462 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:31 pm
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>>11461
It's called having standards. Not living in a beige house full of dead twigs in vases and potpourri.
>> No. 11463 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>>11461

>unlimited drinks

Exactly how is the fact you can drown yourself in Pepsi relevant to the discussion?

CEO of Nandos, everyone.
>> No. 11464 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:32 pm
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>>11462
Go have a go at people eating at McDonald's. I'm sure you will feel much better about yourself after you look down your nose at them.
>> No. 11465 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>11458
>another Hullfa.gs thread
Well, I can't see why not! Where should we go for my grandma's birthday later this month, lads? People are bandying around the new Sleepers in Bev but I used to go out with the manageress at Sleepers and haven't been back in since, not sure about it.

Grandma will be ordering a steak and chips wherever we go, so any suggestions tailored to "pub food, but for an occasion" are welcome.
>> No. 11466 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>11463
You want to pick and choose? "Oh let's not talk about the drinks, let's talk about the sauces and how you are shit for eating there because their sauces are shit."

Go kick rocks.
>> No. 11467 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>11463
It's the mark of a top establishment, like Pizza Hut.
>> No. 11468 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:34 pm
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>>11465
>Grandma will be ordering a steak and chips wherever we go

Easy. Lantern.
>> No. 11469 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:36 pm
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>>11461

You can buy a small Free Range chicken, all the ingredients to make your own Peri-Peri sauce or simply buy a nice pre-made (i.e. not fucking Nandos sauce), get a bag of proper chips from the chippy and a 2 litre of your favourite pop for less than a Nandos meal you ridiculous human being.
>> No. 11470 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>11469
Funny that. Restaurants wouldn't exist if everyone just went home and made their own food. Or does that only apply to Nandos?
>> No. 11471 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:41 pm
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>>11461
>privileged voices

not you again.
>> No. 11472 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:41 pm
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>>11466

Who cares if they are unlimited if you are only going to drink two anyway? You are still paying more than you would for a larger volume of, say, Pepsi at the supermarket and it's the same shit.

You are defending a marketing spiel. I could say UNLIMITED CHIPS and I know at best people will be able to eat 3 large servings. I adjust the price accordingly, boom I'm in profit.

You've drunk that Franchise training Koolaid at the very least, my friend.
>> No. 11473 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:43 pm
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>>11470

Fast Food isn't under scrutiny here, the price vs quality of Nandos is.

If Nandos was priced similarly to McDonalds this thread wouldn't exist.
>> No. 11474 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:44 pm
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>>11468
That's my preference, it's been a fair while since I've been and they do hands-down the best steak in Hull, but grandma also isn't the sort of person that can tell the difference between the £7 steak at a pub and the £17 steak at Lantern since she will be having it burn to a crisp regardless. That side of the family are also generally unappreciative of spending in excess of a tenner on a meal.
>> No. 11475 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:45 pm
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>>11459
>So people on here were angry that the average cunt was not a dining at a Michelin star restaurant?

Angry? No, I'd say it was bewilderment at it's rising popularity. You could always try, you know, reading the thread instead of resorting to speculation.

Anyway, dat nearly 50 month old OP won't no wots hit it.
>> No. 11476 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:45 pm
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>>11470

Nandos is either fast food, or it is a proper restaurant. Make up your mind.
>> No. 11477 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 7:52 pm
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>>11475
>You could always try, you know, reading the thread
>587 posts and 37 images omitted
Would you mind awfully if we didn't?
>> No. 11478 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 8:04 pm
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>>11477

>Fucking entitled cunts

>Uh, no. If you'd read the thread you would see that we aren't

>You expect me to justify my opinions? Muuuuuuum!

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 11480 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:24 pm
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Does anyone else ever experience the .gs phenomenon of making a comment, maybe a few, and then coming back to some sort of bitter argument where someone else has seemingly taken up your identity? (unintentionally I assume).
>> No. 11481 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:27 pm
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>>11480
Who took up your identity? Were you the original patronising cunt?
>> No. 11482 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:28 pm
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>>11478
Is that you annoying geentextlad? Stop it. You are not funny.
>> No. 11483 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:28 pm
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>>11473
If the food and service in Nando's was similar to that of McDonald's it would be priced similarly too.
>> No. 11484 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:28 pm
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>>11480
Inevitable result of anonymous posting innit. There are going to be people who agree/disagree with both sides of an argument and it's really easy to just jump in and call someone a silly cunt then piss off out the thread. Pretty much unavoidable and a trade off that has to be made for anonymous discussion. Also I often find someone will make my point far more articulately and convincingly that I could.

That's always nice.
>> No. 11485 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:30 pm
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>>11484
*than
>> No. 11486 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:30 pm
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>>11480
>someone else has seemingly taken up your identity?
That you described what happened this way means you're part of the problem. A thread is a collaboratively written document. We are all anonymous and have no identity.
>> No. 11487 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:33 pm
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>>11486
>We are all anonymous and have no identity.
Speak for yourself.
>> No. 11488 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:33 pm
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>>11486
>A thread is a collaboratively written document.

That's a good way of putting it.
>> No. 11489 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:33 pm
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>>11483
A BigMac meal costs about £6, a grilled chicken burger with one side and unlimited cola is £7.50. What are you complaining about? Why don't you just come clean and say what you really mean, you patronising fucking twat.
>> No. 11490 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:34 pm
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>>11484
A part of it is perhaps that people assume that the person responding to them is the same person they in turn responded to.
>> No. 11491 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:34 pm
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>>11486
That's a hard pill to swallow in this narcissistic age.
>> No. 11492 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:34 pm
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>>11486
Anonymity is a problem when debating, to a degree, because arguments can be criticized or misconstrued when the irregularity of multiple opinions gets mixed. It's why there are so many arguments, perhaps
>> No. 11493 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 9:46 pm
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>>11487
I will speak for everyone.
>> No. 11494 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:03 pm
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>>11489
>A BigMac meal costs about £6
I think whoever was serving you noticed you weren't looking at the till.
>> No. 11495 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:14 pm
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>>11494
Well the 'super deal' is £4.60 - I don't think many people buy a big mac by itself (it's the chips they make their margin, you know).

http://www.burgerlad.com/2013/01/mcdonalds-menu-items-and-prices-in-uk.html
>> No. 11496 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:17 pm
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>>11495
Made the mistake of browsing this site during deadly the 'several hours after dinner' period. Phwoar.
>> No. 11497 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:17 pm
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>>11495
Almost £6 for the chicken legend? What the fuck is this? Why is it so expensive?
>> No. 11498 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:21 pm
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>>11489
I'm not complaining about anything. I eat at and like McDonald's and Nando's. I won't clarify what I meant because you misunderstood my post and insulted me for your mistake.
>> No. 11499 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:22 pm
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>>11495

Those prices are obscene.
>> No. 11500 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:26 pm
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>>11498
I'm sorry. I quoted the wrong person.
>> No. 11501 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:27 pm
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>>11499
Imagine that? They are expensive and not even cheeky.
>> No. 11502 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:28 pm
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>>11499
Steer clear of Nando's then m8. Not even halal (unlike Chicken Cottage, which is proper halal, and cheaper too).
>> No. 11503 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:31 pm
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>>11499
They aren't so bad in my opinion. I'm the kind of person who only really goes into a Mcdonalds when I'm doing a long drive and want to stop, £5 or so for a big greasy meal and time on the wifi is reasonable to me.
>> No. 11504 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:33 pm
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>>11503
Are they still demanding you hand over a mobile number so they can text you a code, or does it Just Work now?
>> No. 11506 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:43 pm
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>>11504
Oh dear. I get my Whopper meals for £2.89 and for that I'm politely asked only for my post code. And I decline.
>> No. 11507 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:50 pm
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>>11506
>I get my Whopper meals for £2.89
I know they're only kids, but you know you're not supposed to give them fake pound coins, right?
>> No. 11508 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 10:51 pm
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>>11507
£2.89 mate. Printed on the receipt and everything.
>> No. 11509 Anonymous
31st May 2015
Sunday 11:14 pm
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>>11504
Can't remember, last used one in February. I think you do have to hand over your mobile number but I just use my work phone.

They're also handy because my contractor has a job on at a major London train station, station, so if you go to the station Mcdonalds and show your ID and say you're on the job they take 10% off the bill.
>> No. 11510 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 7:06 am
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>>11497
>chicken legend

I, for one, wish to know what is legendary about the chicken legend.
>> No. 11511 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 2:15 pm
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>>11510
The same thing that's loveable about the it they've been lovin' for the past few years.
>> No. 11512 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 4:55 pm
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>>11511
Didn't they have one before I'm Lovin' It? I'm sure they did but I can't remember. Watch them come up with a new one to try and turn around their flagging fortunes and join in on the cheeky craze.

BADDA BAP BAP BAHHH UNIRONICALLY SMASH IN A CHEEKY MACCAS WITH YOUR PALS.

A surefire hit. I should be a marketeer.
>> No. 11513 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:00 pm
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>>11512
Nando's has a monopoly on cheeky. It'll have to be just rude instead.
>> No. 11514 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>11513

Initial focus grouping has suggested that McDonald's could market itself as scampish to compete with Nando's on the insolence front.

COME AND HAVE A SCAMPISH MACCAS.

However, this may confuse some and lead them to believe that McDonald's is offering scampi now. We advise that McDonald's introduces McScampi bites to their menu to coincide with the scampish maccas ad campaign.
>> No. 11515 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:40 pm
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>>11514

>McScampi bites

This would bring me out of my decade long Macd's boycott for funding the IRA.
>> No. 11516 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:54 pm
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McDonalds should team up with nandos and offer the McNando, chicken breast with peri sauce and a cap to put backwards on your head.
>> No. 11517 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:55 pm
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>>11514

I'm going to start using the phrase "off for an insouciant Pret".
>> No. 11518 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:56 pm
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>>11515
You what?
>> No. 11519 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 6:57 pm
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>>11515

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/30/opinion/topics-of-the-times-the-ira-you-say.html
>> No. 11520 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 7:22 pm
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>>11514
I don't think I would trust McDonald's with seafood. It'd have to be made out of potato, like when you get scallops from a chippy.
>> No. 11521 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 7:34 pm
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>>11520
They do shrimp burgers in Japan and Korea, probably other places.
>> No. 11522 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 7:51 pm
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>>11521
I don't trust those slit-eyed bastards.
>> No. 11523 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 8:14 pm
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>>11522
What about Turkish food?
>> No. 11524 Anonymous
1st June 2015
Monday 8:33 pm
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Anyone in the Reading area?

Go to the Crown Inn in Theale at lunch time. They do a cajun chicken baguette in there, and it is cheeky as fuck.
>> No. 11525 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 9:34 pm
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Drove past this today.
>> No. 11526 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 9:45 pm
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>>11525

http://signmania.tumblr.com/a-z-fried-chicken

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/meet-mr-chicken

A word of advice: Never buy fried chicken from a place that also does phone unlocking.
>> No. 11527 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 9:50 pm
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>>11515
I'm pretty sure what they fund are Individual Retirement Accounts.
>> No. 11528 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 10:07 pm
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>>11527
Keep up, lad.
>>11519
>> No. 11529 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 10:45 pm
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>>11526
This article is a load of bollocks. The picture of WFC is from Wakefield and means Westgate Fried Chicken.
>> No. 11530 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 10:47 pm
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>>11528
I have a strict policy of never clicking on links that appear on this website.
>> No. 11531 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 10:52 pm
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>>11530
http://www.google.com
http://britfa.gs/
Bye!
>> No. 11532 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 11:04 pm
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>>11531
Pardon?
>> No. 11533 Anonymous
8th June 2015
Monday 11:08 pm
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>>11532
I was initially going to suggest that you just copy and paste the links instead of clicking them, but realised you wouldn't do that because it wouldn't be any different to simply clicking on the links. So I linked both here and google for you, so you can never visit them again, because that would break your policy.
>> No. 11631 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:13 pm
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>>11630
I like it when people bump a thread over a week and a half since the last post just to continue bickering.
>> No. 11632 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:15 pm
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>>11631
Sorry?
>> No. 11633 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:19 pm
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>>11632
You better fucking be.
>> No. 11634 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:40 pm
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>>11633
I was seeking clarification because it's your post that is bumping this thread, not mine.
>> No. 11635 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:43 pm
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>>11634

Uh, the blue writing would suggest otherwise.

The offending post has clearly been deleted.

Doesn't pay attention, must do better.
>> No. 11638 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 6:58 pm
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>>11635
I know my post was deleted. I deleted it. We could have worked as a team and unbumped the thread, but unfortunately you missed my invitation. And posts with red writing bump the thread too.
>> No. 11639 Anonymous
18th June 2015
Thursday 7:13 pm
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>>11638

purple, Brian's HIP is malfunctioning again.
>> No. 11897 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 7:43 pm
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I went to Frankie and Benny's today and my fries came in a brown paper bag. The bag was on the plate with the rest of my food so I don't know if they think this gives the food a more New York feel or they're trying to be arty or what but it seemed wanky to me.
>> No. 11898 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 9:42 pm
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>>11897

That is wanky.

Have you seen this Twitter page? https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates?lang=en-gb

More and more restaurants are doing wanky as fuck things. A fry up off a shovel being the worse one I've seen.
>> No. 11899 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 10:03 pm
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>>11898
It sounds like barbed comments on their customers to me. "Shovel it in, you'll have anything, you disgusting greasy fat fucks. Yes your chips come in a bucket because that's what's needed for you, Jabba."
>> No. 11900 Anonymous
24th December 2015
Thursday 10:06 pm
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>>11899
When Nando's is simply served from a trough that stretches the length of the room satire will truly be dead.
>> No. 11902 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 1:01 am
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>>11898

I love/hate that page, I can't stand looking at it, but I keep coming back. It makes me so fucking angry. The telling thing about all of those dishes is that the plating is absolutely shit. They're trying to make up for a lack of visual appeal by throwing all their food in a shoe like it's supposed to be clever, and it literally makes me shake with anger. Literally.
>> No. 11903 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 7:36 am
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>>11898

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I am so fucking glad that I have never been to one of these establishments.

Also:

>Selling sausage rolls by the pint is illegal.

And it actually is. Mirth audible.
>> No. 11904 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 8:41 am
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>>11903
>I am so fucking glad that I have never been to one of these establishments

One of my local pubs serves chips in either a bucket or a little deep fryer basket. It's not exactly an upmarket establishment, though.
>> No. 11905 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 9:34 am
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>>11904

I'm happy to buy shit from a literal shithole; but less happy when it's at 400% markup.
>> No. 11906 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 10:21 am
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As a once waiter, any food served on slates can fuck right off. It was a nightmare to carry it to your table and its a disaster carrying it back. These ideas are usually conjured up by chefs and idiot managers.
>> No. 11907 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 10:38 am
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>>11906

Mainly idiot managers.

Also, the fact that people are still posting in this thread after almost five years is testament to btitfa's transient udrr base. Sigh.
>> No. 11908 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 11:17 am
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>>11907
It's the Nando's, Hullfa.gs and general dining out (predominantly chains like Wetherspoons or Frankie & Benny's) all rolled into one, so the odd little comment will be made now and then that would be too mundane to warrant it's own thread.

Unless, of course, the fact the workplace annoyances thread on /job/ (1,563 posts since May 2011) and the driving thread on /101/ (470 posts since September 2011) are evidence of a transient userbase because they're both somewhat active after all this time.
>> No. 11909 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 11:28 am
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Seeing this thread back on /*/ is a wonderful Xmas gift.
>> No. 11910 Anonymous
25th December 2015
Friday 11:34 am
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>>11908

Posting from phones is hard and you are incredibly pedantic, nonetheless I cede.
>> No. 11929 Anonymous
4th February 2016
Thursday 5:44 pm
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>A father of three choked to death as he tried to eat a McDonald's cheeseburger in one mouthful, an inquest has heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-35490011

Remember, lads. Chew your food.
>> No. 11930 Anonymous
4th February 2016
Thursday 9:07 pm
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>>11929

I'd been looking for a cheap and easy way to kill myself.
>> No. 11931 Anonymous
5th February 2016
Friday 4:20 pm
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>>11930
Why pay 99p for a burger when you can walk in front of a bus for free?
>> No. 11932 Anonymous
5th February 2016
Friday 5:22 pm
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>>11931
Because buses taste awful. Even more so than a McDonald's cheeseburger.
>> No. 11933 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 10:28 am
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>>11930
Be careful, lad. If you live somewhere people actually have a modicum of sense [read: not Wales] then they'll probably try and save your life instead of leaving you to choke to death.
>> No. 11934 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 10:59 am
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>>11933
It was lodged so far down his oesophagus that it couldn't be fished out of his throat or moved by the heinlich either.
>> No. 11936 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 11:43 am
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>>11934
Did he literally shove the whole burger straight down his gullet?
>> No. 11939 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 4:46 pm
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>>11934
See also: fairycakelad. The things just expanded like a sponge so nothing worked. Back slaps, ab thrusts, trach - nothing got through.

Remember, lads: chew your food.
>> No. 11944 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 10:42 pm
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>>11936
He folded it in half and shoved it in his face, like a complete fucking idiot.
>> No. 11945 Anonymous
7th February 2016
Sunday 11:18 pm
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>>11944
At least he won't be doing that again any time soon.
>> No. 11946 Anonymous
8th February 2016
Monday 8:15 am
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>>11929
>To set the record straight....... I am Darren's mother, I was at the inquest today, Darren's alcohol content was half over the legal driving limit and NOT one and a half as reported!!! The food was caught at the back of his throat and could not be brought back out!! The friends who were with him DID the heimlich manoeuvre as well as CPR, there was nothing else they could have done no matter what training they had that. Darren's death was quick, he did not suffer. Myself, my children and Darren's partner are suffering enough without having to listen to senseless comments from people who had no idea what a loving person and father Darren was, yes he was a prankster but what a fun loving guy he was... I only hope that if any of you who are parents you never have to bury your own child as this pain is unbearable every single moment of my life... Now please show respect to myself and my family and leave us to greave in peace.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431832/Watch-words-father-three-choked-death-tried-eat-McDonald-s-cheeseburger-one-mouthful.html

Why you'd go online to read the 'senseless comments' is absolutely beyond me.
>> No. 11953 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 9:12 am
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Thought I'd post this in here, seeing as there was a discussion on the living conditions of chickens earlier in the thread:

>And they call this free range: What's more disturbing? These images of 16,000 'free range' hens crammed into a shed...or the fact their conditions have been approved by the RSPCA?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3489317/And-call-free-range-s-disturbing-images-16-000-free-range-hens-crammed-shed-fact-conditions-approved-RSPCA.html
>> No. 11954 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 9:26 am
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>>11953
The RSPCA and the farmer defend themselves by saying the hens were suffering from a viral outbreak which caused them to look like shit. I don't know what to think, I mean it is the RSPCA.
>> No. 11955 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 10:49 am
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Glad this thread is bumped up because my post doesn't warrant it enough.

Anyway, I've been to Nando's twice last month - usually for a birthday lunch or something and I have to conclude that the food is just sub-par. Maybe it's that particular location, but it's the greasiest shite I've put into my body.

I get the Portuguese piri-piri spicing, but that can easily be recreated at home using one of those oven-proof bags and the correct blend of spices. I would avoid this one lads.
>> No. 11956 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 2:33 pm
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>>11954
Bearing in mind that the RSPCA are normally pretty strict on this kind of thing, if they did in fact sign it off (wouldn't be the first time the Mail have made shit up if they didn't) I'd be more inclined to trust their judgment over whichever pathetic excuse for a journalist the Mail assigned to the story.
>> No. 11957 Anonymous
13th March 2016
Sunday 8:53 pm
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The RSPCA have started giving a shit about animal welfare now rather than just hunting down rich people? Pull the other one.
>> No. 11958 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 4:08 am
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>>11929
Well this makes me uncomfortable. Some time ago, I went for lunch in some chain restaurant in the 02 Arena and had a steak and chips (average but nice enough). Because I'm a retard, I was shoving fairly large chunks of steak in my mouth when the chips hadn't properly gone down and didn't fully chew before swallowing and ended up choking. A bit of Heimlich Manoeuvring and a lot of coughing up the food later and I was ok (took a couple of days to eat again - throat was fucked) but I was panicking for a moment.

anyway, the point is seeing someone die from choking even if they are stupid enough to fold up a burger makes me pretty nervous, as does eating in restaurants now. Chew your food, lads.
>> No. 11959 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 4:15 am
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>>11958

I work in the restaurant industry, and through all the safety and hygiene and food training everyone does, choking is never covered. Presumably because it's never really going to be our fault that someone can't chew their food properly and nobody wants to be sued for cracking some dudes ribs, but in a job where you have to know how to use an epipen just in case, it seems odd they don't at least mention the heimlich.
>> No. 11961 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 8:59 am
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>>11959
It's part of standard first aid training. You do have a first aider, right?
>> No. 11962 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 7:01 pm
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>>11959
>I work in the restaurant industry
So you work in a restaurant, then?
>> No. 11963 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 7:17 pm
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>>11962

He sweeps the floor at KFC.
>> No. 11964 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 8:08 pm
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>>11959
>nobody wants to be sued for cracking some dudes ribs
This isn't America. Has this ever happened here?
>> No. 11965 Anonymous
14th March 2016
Monday 8:22 pm
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>>11964
We aren't that different. Speaking English makes us all cunts.

http://catererlicensee.com/woman-sues-pub-for-4-million-following-trip-in-beer-garden/
>> No. 11967 Anonymous
19th March 2016
Saturday 4:35 pm
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>>11965
Hmm, this is a lot different though - the injury was caused by a health and safety oversight, not in the course of an attempt to save someone's life. It says that the pub recognised that, admitted liability, and paid out £100k. You may question the woman's judgement of whether the injury ruined her life to the tune of £4m, but in my view it's a quite a different degree of callousness to sue someone trying to help you.
>> No. 11978 Anonymous
5th April 2016
Tuesday 1:50 pm
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>>11897
>>11898
The lad who went to Frankie & Bennys posted in December but We Want Plates posted this in October. If only he knew.
https://twitter.com/WeWantPlates/status/650667316695408640
>> No. 11980 Anonymous
11th April 2016
Monday 4:26 pm
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>>11978
Why would you have chips in a bowl on the plate rather than simply on the plate?
>> No. 11993 Anonymous
30th April 2016
Saturday 3:38 pm
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>KFC probe after fast food restaurant serves up POO

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/510565/kfc-investigation-poo-faecal-coliform-bacteria-Birmingham-bbc-Rip-Off-Britain
>> No. 12010 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 1:00 pm
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This could had been maroon a few years back.

>A Salem man whose life was likely saved by the thoughtful actions of Domino's pizza employees is the store's No. 1 customer, an assistant manager said.

>She said Domino's employees were concerned about Kirk Alexander, a regular customer who's been ordering from a Salem store for more than a decade, because they hadn't heard from him in 11 days. They sent a delivery driver to Alexander's home early Sunday morning, she said, and eventually decided to call 911.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/05/man_saved_after_dominos_delive.html
>> No. 12011 Anonymous
12th May 2016
Thursday 3:08 pm
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>>11980
My guess is that it makes a smaller portion of chips look less small than it is. Why a restaurant would feel the need to skimp on something quite literally as cheap as chips is another question.
>> No. 12012 Anonymous
16th May 2016
Monday 9:18 pm
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>>12011

10kg of chips is about ten quid - a generous portion of 200g would yield 50 portions. A skimped portion of 120g would yield 82 portions.

If you're selling your chips for three quid a portion, getting away with 120g a portion nets you an extra £100 per 10kg. when you consider that a moderately busy Frankie & Bennies shifts about 50kg a day, you can start to see the benefits.

The whole restaurant game is about marginal gains that add up over time.
>> No. 12013 Anonymous
28th May 2016
Saturday 8:30 pm
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A man was left with a broken arm after jumping out of a coffee shop's first floor window because he mistook children banging trays for a terror attack.

The unnamed man dived out of a Costa Coffee branch in Manchester, then ran to a bank close by to call for help, according to witnesses.

He was among many in the Didsbury village coffee shop who thought schoolchildren shouting and making noise meant that the shop was under siege.

Individuals in the cafe "freaked out" when they heard the shouts and several "gunshot-like" bangs, Manchester Evening News (MEN) reported. One customer told the newspaper how people were running around out of fear.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/terrified-man-breaks-arm-after-jumping-out-of-costa-coffee-windo/

I think I'd take terrorists over being in a café full of noisy kids, to be honest.
>> No. 12014 Anonymous
5th June 2016
Sunday 8:43 pm
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>That's a happy meal! Couple wed in MCDONALD'S two years after their first date at the fast food restaurant - and they also eat there three times a week

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3626158/That-s-happy-meal-Couple-wed-MCDONALD-S-two-years-date-fast-food-restaurant-ago-eat-three-times-week.html

How you can have a three year old daughter despite not having a first date until two years ago is a bit beyond me.
>> No. 12015 Anonymous
5th June 2016
Sunday 9:50 pm
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>>12014
The daughter could be from a previous or could be adopted etc.

If that's beyond you, I'd be scared to know what else is.
>> No. 12016 Anonymous
6th June 2016
Monday 5:35 am
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>>12013

I know dived is the proper term, but dove just sounds so much more elegant.
>> No. 12100 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 1:31 pm
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I heard someone today refer to Subway as "Subbers".
>> No. 12101 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 2:01 pm
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>>12100
I heard someone refer to Bradford as 'Bradders' last week. It's these little things that drive you over the edge.

I have been reading this thread for many years now, but it was only at the start of this year that finally got taken to a Nandos by someone younger who is an habitue and couldn't believe I'd never been. I actually thought it was acceptable. It's basically fast food at double the price, but almost double the quality of McDonalds etc. I quite enjoyed the Brazilian music playing or whatever it was, and the chicken and fries were tasty. I've experienced much worse ambiences and food in branches of Wetherspoons at a similar price.
>> No. 12102 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 2:46 pm
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>>12100
Shocking.
>> No. 12103 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 5:53 pm
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>>12101

Weird. I've never heard anyone refer to it by any colloquialism other than Bradistan. Must have been a youth, the sort of person who uses Snapchat and says "lad" as an exclamation in real life.
>> No. 12104 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 6:31 pm
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>>12101
Weirdest one I've heard is that apparently the J24-J26 area is known locally as Cleckhuddersfax. No idea if it's bollocks, but it's what someone from Kippax told me and you Wessie folk are strange.

The person using "Subbers" was a bald and portly salesman in his late 30s, so I guess that kind of twattery is par for the course.
>> No. 12105 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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>>12104

That's the Deep West.

I'd say it's generally wise not to stray much farther than the 62-621 link without good reason.
>> No. 12106 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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>>12104

It's a posh kid thing, isn't it, to abbreviate things that are cold and corporate into a matey kind of nick-name? I'm not sure if it's because they're so fond of branded and expensive products and services that they feel the need to declare that affection any time it comes up, or if it's a lazy txtspk kind of thing, or if it's just because slang really has gotten that shit because of set reality TV programs and the resulting celebs (seewatididthur) being totes trendies who set the lev's props. Portmanteaus are the ones that usually get me more riled up though. If you've ever read a Cosmo or Heat or some other magazine that should only be used as an emergency sanitary towel, then you'll know what I mean.

I've personally heard some posh student girls call Sainsbury's "Saino's", money shortened to "muns", and "I'm a complete and total bellend and people like me have had a cultural impact only because there's so many other bell-creases such as myself wandering about spending money on things that remind me of me/that I want to be" shortened to "hi my name's Laura".
>> No. 12107 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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>>12106
Is 'Laura' really your idea of a posh name?
>> No. 12109 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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>>12106
Ha! I really enjoyed reading that. Please post more rants.
>> No. 12110 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:43 pm
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>>12107

Is spending Wednesday night on .gs really your idea of being a well-rounded and productive member of society?

I don't know mate, I'm not posh so I don't know what Reginald Saxby-Lambert and his trophy wife were calling their daughters 20 years ago. But as it happens, one of the poshest girls I ever knew was named Laura.

One of the sexiest, too. She did have a bit of a nannas mouth, but she also had an arse that would make a black girl jealous, with Goldeneye 'crush-the-boat-captain' thights. Seeing as posh girls like to sex gentlemen beneath their 'status', I am passing this information on happily. High morals, low standards it seems with these people.
>> No. 12111 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:44 pm
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>> No. 12112 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 10:51 pm
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>>12110
>Is spending Wednesday night on .gs really your idea of being a well-rounded and productive member of society?

Actually, yeah.
>> No. 12113 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 11:09 pm
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>>12112

I'm going to admit that I only said that because I didn't have any other comeback. I actually think that browsing .gs is an endeavour that anyone should be proud of. I also think it's quite funny that in the 30 or so minutes since I posted that, the posting rate has dropped completely.
>> No. 12114 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 11:33 pm
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>>12110

I fucked a posh bird called Laura not long back. She was studying archaeology, I made her horny by talking about Marxist theories, and when I said I'd love a coffee, she brought me a tray with a cafatiere and a little jug of milk.

It's the only time I've ever felt horribly used by a woman.
>> No. 12115 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 11:39 pm
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>>12114
I don't get why you feel used, she sounds like a nice bird.
>> No. 12116 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 11:53 pm
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>>12110
It just seems like a fairly standard white-girl name to me is all, neither particularly common or posh. FWIW I've known a lot of posh birds and none of them were called Laura, on the other hand a number of not-posh-but-not-chavs-either girls that were called Laura, hence my bias I suppose.
>> No. 12117 Anonymous
26th October 2016
Wednesday 11:57 pm
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>>12115

That's precisely why mate. A lad like me will never get to be with someone like her, I just got to be her "bit of rough" during the wild uni years.

She chuckled and rewarded my attempts at intellectual conversation in a thick northern accent like a dog that had just successfully performed a sit followed by a roll over. I was entertainment to her.

I'm not bitter. That's just life isn't it, old bean.
>> No. 12118 Anonymous
27th October 2016
Thursday 4:02 am
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>>12103
It was an 18 year old big ginger lass from 'Bradders' on the bus back from Leeds who said it, who was trying unsuccessfully to get a gormless sounding 20 something lad to fuck her. They had both been out on a works night from their retard employment scheme and were complaining about the drinks prices in terrible Leeds bars. She suggested Bradders was much cheaper and also mentioned she was meeting her good mates (including 'both Sams') in Nandos the day after.

And I was listening to this long and drunk conversation with my missus who is called Laura and who isn't especially posh. We probably also sound dimwitted on the bus when we are drunk to be fair.
>> No. 12119 Anonymous
27th October 2016
Thursday 6:29 am
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I've fucked two women called Laura. One was a fine art student with dreadlocks who said "yah" instead of yes. The other was a goth who called herself Lauz from a council estate who was a massive Hitler fan and got an enormous swastika tattoo.
The nazi was the far better fuck by far.
>> No. 12120 Anonymous
27th October 2016
Thursday 3:25 pm
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>>12118>>12119

The grim scenarios inferred from these posts made me laugh uncontrollably while was on the shitter at work.

Britain is a depressing place.
>> No. 12121 Anonymous
27th October 2016
Thursday 6:57 pm
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>>12120

Seconded, both on the laughing and Britain being awful. I'm out for good it seems.
>> No. 12123 Anonymous
27th October 2016
Thursday 7:02 pm
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>>12121
>I'm out for good it seems.

Can't tempt you back with a cheeky Brexit with the lads?
>> No. 12125 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 3:26 pm
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I tried Taco Bell today. The quesadilla was decent, not bland* but far from spectacular, but their Mexican fries were delicious; by far the best seasoning I've ever had on chips. More filling than other fast food joints and, especially considering this was in Barnsley, considerably less chavs as they'd all gone to the KFC next-door.

* If you're a vegetarian then you're only choice of filling is refried beans and that's one of the blandest things I've tasted in quite some time.
>> No. 12127 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 7:09 pm
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>>12125

Seppo-loving creep.
>> No. 12128 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 7:30 pm
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>>12125
Disgusting shite.
>> No. 12129 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 7:33 pm
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>>12127
Do we even have British fast food chains these days? What's our version of McDonald's and Burger King? Wimpy, if that's still going, and Little Chef?
>> No. 12131 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 7:43 pm
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Wimpy is definitely still going but it originated in the US and is currently headquartered in Sef Efrica. Yes I just read the wiki. There are actual British fast food chains around though, we have Yo! Sushi, Wasabi, Tops Pizza, Southern Fried Chicken, Sam's Chicken, Morley's, Dixy Chicken... all classic English food.
>> No. 12132 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 8:04 pm
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>>12131
>all classic English food.

Thinking about it, the answer is obvious. If Greggs started doing chips I imagine they'd make a killing.
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30th October 2016
Sunday 8:54 pm
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>> No. 12134 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 9:15 pm
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>>12131

There is a Wimpy's in Nottingham that is really good - and generally a pleasant experience every time I've been there. I sort of enjoy the fact their decor has stayed in the 90s and that it's relatively chav free given they prefer Maccas or BK.
>> No. 12135 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 9:20 pm
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>>12129

The only true British fast food is the type being pulled in a trailer on the back of a white van.
>> No. 12136 Anonymous
30th October 2016
Sunday 11:14 pm
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>>12134
The one in Broadmarsh? I thought that had shut down?
>> No. 12137 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 1:05 am
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>>12135
I've never had and stopped at one in a lay-by - I'm sure they all sell drugs or something.
>> No. 12138 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 4:31 pm
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>>12137

Just rubbers for the negs,
>> No. 12139 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 5:04 pm
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>>12138
#hustle
>> No. 12140 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 8:38 pm
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>>12135

This is where British cuisine is really at. The humble sarnie shop is utterly overlooked both in the media and popular discussion.

You get people who will go abroad and eat pig bollock shish kebabs, and come back saying how charming and rustic is all is, so cultural and authentic. Were the positions reversed they'd be eating a double spam and egg butty at a place called Goodfillers next to a bloke in a high vis jacket, but somehow they turn their nose up at that as though it's below them.
>> No. 12141 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 8:41 pm
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>>12140
I can't eat Haraam food though.
>> No. 12142 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 9:48 pm
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>>12136
Don't think so, unless it's happened in the last 2 months or so... I did get a bit anxious checking right now and it seems to be still there... Perhaps I need to pay it a visit soon.
>> No. 12143 Anonymous
31st October 2016
Monday 11:02 pm
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>>12140

I once saw some bloke on a food programme waxing lyrical about authentic Neapolitan pizza fritta. What is pizza fritta, you might ask? It's deep-fried pizza.

Saveloy dips, scouse, stottie cakes with ham and pease pudding, singing hinnies, well-fired rolls with square sausage, chicken parmos, gala pie. Northern Britain does stodge better than anyone else.
>> No. 12182 Anonymous
23rd December 2016
Friday 3:51 pm
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Tried TGI Fridays for the first time today. The burger was nice for the first couple of bites, but then it became obvious how dry it was and how none of the other fillings added much in the way of flavour. Also, for some reason they make the waiters wear black tops and red suspender belts so they look like chippendales doing a firefighter strip routine, except instead of buff strippers it's scrawny students.
>> No. 12183 Anonymous
23rd December 2016
Friday 4:00 pm
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>>12182
Going to TGI's and not ordering the ribs was your mistake there lad.
>> No. 12212 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 7:22 pm
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I went to KFC twice today to get some of their Zinger fries. It's quite rare to see the improvement of something so mainstay. I mean spicy chips, wow.
>> No. 12216 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 9:18 pm
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>>12212
Chip spice has been a mainstay of Asian run fast food places in Bradford for a while, it's an absolute revelation. Chips spice is the fucking future.
>> No. 12217 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 9:38 pm
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Chip spice first came to Britain in Hull in the late 70s, copied from American fast food outlets.
>> No. 12218 Anonymous
3rd February 2017
Friday 10:22 pm
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The chips in the Black Country are fucking orange.
>> No. 12220 Anonymous
4th February 2017
Saturday 1:57 am
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>>12218
And a bit soggy bab.
>> No. 12298 Anonymous
13th April 2017
Thursday 4:20 pm
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I had a burger from 'Spoons today and it seems they've jumped on the chip spice bandwagon. However, their 'special seasoning' tastes like your chips have had the dust and crumbs from a packet of Skips chucked on them.

Standard 'Spoons service, though. One order wrong and for the five bean chilli they could have at least stirred it so it wasn't so blatantly obvious it was microwaved.
>> No. 12299 Anonymous
13th April 2017
Thursday 6:02 pm
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>>12298

It's the same stuff they season steaks with and was a staff secret long before it came on the menu.

Get a side of sour cream and some raw onions, they go great with the chips.

The five bean chilli is indeed microwaved and so is the rice. It all comes in flash frozen from the main warehouse. How did you think its cooked?
>> No. 12300 Anonymous
13th April 2017
Thursday 6:08 pm
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>How did you think its cooked?

Microwaved. Hence me saying standard 'Spoons service.
>> No. 12301 Anonymous
14th April 2017
Friday 8:58 pm
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>>12300

In that case, I don't know why you've got the hump that they didn't disguise it.
>> No. 12390 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 4:03 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjG5usM_y4
>> No. 12391 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 12:08 pm
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>>12390
Was it really worth bumping this thread for that? A two year old joke that was only worth a moderate chuckle at the time?
>> No. 12392 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 12:37 pm
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>>12391

Not him but I guess we're here now.

Try out your local Polish place lads, ask about if you have any Poles at work.

We went on Friday to one hidden above a Polish shop in Hull. It was pretty quiet, everything was in Polish except one menu. They had Tyskie and Żubr on tap, which is always a good start. I had Ox tongue in horseradish sauce for starters, and grilled pork neck with potato dumplings and vinegared vegetables for main. Absolutely perfect, and less than £20 with two pints. I don't think I've ever had grilled meat that was still as succulent and well seasoned, and not dried out like it often is in Greek/Turkish places. The tongue was brilliant too, halfway between the consistency of kidney and beef; the mildly mustardy, creamy sauce was much nicer than I expected too.

Definitely going back.
>> No. 12393 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 1:23 pm
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>>12392
You went to a good Polish restaurant and that must mean they're all good?
>> No. 12394 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 1:52 pm
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>>12393

Come off it mate, that's clearly not what he said.
>> No. 12395 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 3:55 pm
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>>12393

Just saying, it's a cuisine often overlooked.

I'm sure if every city has a good Indian or Chinese restaurant, then a lot will also have a Polish place or two worth trying.
>> No. 12396 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 4:47 pm
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I can't claim personal experience, but I've heard very, very good things about Ethiopian cuisine.
>> No. 12397 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 5:00 pm
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>>12391
Thankfully we'll be able to deport that Nando fella next year.
>> No. 12398 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 5:47 pm
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Eastern European food always seems grim to me. When they post their meals on KC /int/ it looks vile.
>> No. 12399 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 7:06 pm
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>>12392
A lass from a farming family offered me tongue before. It looked disgusting.
>> No. 12400 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>12399
Tell her to brush her teeth properly.
>> No. 12401 Anonymous
22nd January 2018
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>12399

Undeniably a lot of their stuff looks or sounds horrific but it definitely tastes amazing. It's remarkably similar to long forgotten English cooking - They retained the art of flavoursome cooking with what they had available while we lost it to the influences and exports of the wealthier parts of Europe.
>> No. 12403 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 5:18 pm
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Mum calls for burger which 'objectifies women' to be removed from Hull takeaway menu

A Hull mum says she wants a popular takeaway to take its infamous 'Gangbang Burger' off the menu, claiming it sends a "subliminal" message that sexual violence is acceptable.

Khan Pizza, in Princes Avenue, has long offered the "speciality burger" - four chicken burgers topped with cheese, onion, mushrooms and egg in an 8in bread cake - to hungry customers. But after claiming her complaint to the shop has been ignored, Anita Robinson, who lives in the Avenues, is publicly demanding the burger's withdrawal.

Mrs Robinson said: "I'm about as liberal as they come, but I do not want to have to explain to my kids what a gangbang is when they see it on a takeaway menu.

It's absolutely shocking. It objectifies women. People go out drinking down Princes Avenue. There are lots of bars.
The Gang Bang burger sends a very clear, subliminal message to young men, who may be drunk, that this sort of thing is acceptable. It needs to go."

According to the Collins dictionary, a gangbang is: "An instance of sexual intercourse between one woman and several men one after the other, especially against her will."


https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/mum-calls-burger-objectifies-women-1186999
>> No. 12404 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 5:40 pm
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Since when is the definition of a gangbang against the women's will? There's already a phrase for that, it's gang rape.

Femism seems intent on making it seem like women don't enjoy sex. It's not fathomable that a woman might want six dicks in her.
>> No. 12405 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 5:51 pm
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>>12403

I've seen a gangbang burger on so many generic takeaway menus. It's most as ubiquitous as the "death by pepperoni" pizza.
>> No. 12406 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 5:54 pm
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>>12405
Death By Pepperoni sounds like a night in at Michael Barrymore's.
>> No. 12407 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 5:56 pm
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>>12403


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXtx6N3ww7Y
>> No. 12408 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 6:04 pm
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>>12404
I think it's more of an American definition, you know what they're like.

This story has made the national press, with The S*n accompanying their article with a leaflet from a completely different takeaway.
>> No. 12409 Anonymous
9th February 2018
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>12404

I don't think Anita "I'm about as liberal as they come" Robinson is at the cutting edge of feminism, mate.

It's like blaming feminists for the quashing of grid girls in F1; the FIA is not SCUM.
>> No. 12410 Anonymous
10th February 2018
Saturday 5:50 am
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>>12409

I wasn't saying her, specifically - the literally definition of gangbang, according to Collins, is 'most often rape'. Which is a bizarre thought to me, and I can only assume has been influenced by the current wave of no-middle-ground feminism.

As an aside, gangbang could quite easily also mean multiple women shagging one bloke. Is that objectifying men?

Why couldn't she just have said that naming a food after a sex act is not appealing. I do agree actually that she probably shouldn't be having to deal with her young children seeing the name, too. It has nothing to do with women, though, more exposing kids to the name of a sex act.

I'd also contend I don't want to think about multiple jizz loads while contemplating a chicken burger full of mayonnaise.
>> No. 12411 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 6:27 pm
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>>12410

Don't overthink it lad. It's easy to let the current zeitgeist persuade you that it has some merit and it's just the "bad eggs" that make it seem a bit over the top- It's not. The lot of them have the mindworms, and are really no better or worse than religious zealots or fervent nationalists, for example.

I'm not sure where or how it started off, but what's clear is that we have a sort of bizarre new wave of pseudo-puritanism. The whole affair is based on moral one-upmanship and virtue signalling, and in turn it has become utterly divorced from reality and the interests of actual women.

The fact it still wears the mantle of "feminism" is just disingenuous, really, like how Jehovas Witnesses say they are Christians when really they're a mentalist cult.
>> No. 12412 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 7:33 pm
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>>12411

I know exactly what you mean. I had started to fear I was getting a bit Daily Mail in my old age, but actually I think it's just that I'm old enough now to see that everyone's a bit of a fucking cunt.

All I can say is that anecdotally almost none of the statements or proclamations these people make actually mesh with the realities of the actual women that I know. Though if I wasn't a white straight bloke I'd probably not be able to resist the urge to blame my downfalls on anything or anyone other than myself.
>> No. 12413 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 7:56 pm
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The worst example I've seen of this is women now feel like they can't complain about trans women in the female brackets in sport in case they get accused of being transphobic, despite them currently dominating in Volleyball and MMA. Starcraft 2 was the last time I seen this be addressed sensibly and since then, the tranny in question has went on to win in the mens bracket so realistically the women wouldn't have stood a chance against her.

Woman being different, but equal, rather than "WE'RE ALL THE SAME!" is what I thought feminism was about, but now we live in some weird dissonance where feminism is undermining women. This is especially true in Israel where men are refusing to marry Israeli women because of how terrifying some have become and are emigrating/marrying Slavs because of how the rape laws work there. A women's word against yours is all it takes to get you 8 years in jail for rape. No forensic evidence is needed and even when they get caught lying they can't be prosecuted so they do so with impunity to leverage control over Israeli men. As a result, the Israeli women who aren't horrible human beings can't find husbands.

https://rtd.rt.com/films/no-woman-no-crime/

/sage for /pol/ in /nom/
>> No. 12414 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 8:12 pm
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>>12413

Similarly to your latter point, I read an amazing thought piece about how women in silicon valley feel they're being cut out of the loop, because many men in the industry are afraid to take a meeting alone with a woman because of any accusations that could potentially be levelled against them. There's anecdotal discussion of men requesting a chaperone rather than be behind closed doors alone with a woman. What a fascinating symptom of this whole clusterfuck. I don't even doubt it, I'd likely do the same.

>Starcraft 2 was the last time I seen this be addressed sensibly

I find this the most interesting, though - is it actually well accepted that men are just better at video games than women? I understand a male athlete outclassing a woman in most fields, but I can't see the same thing applying to CPM or strategy. That's interesting.
>> No. 12415 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 8:50 pm
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>>12413
StarCraft II doesn't have a men's bracket. Cis women are welcome to compete against the men and on occasion some have. And Scarlett has competed in female-only tournaments FWTW.
>> No. 12416 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 8:57 pm
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>>12415
And the women complained and she hasn't since. Despite them being welcome, there hasn't been a woman in the round of 8 for some time. Unless you count Scarlett.
>> No. 12418 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 9:11 pm
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>>12416
You can't call it a men's bracket just because the women who play SC aren't good enough to compete against the best men, especially not when trying claim transgender women are forced to favour one bracket over another. If women's StarCraft still existed it would be like chess: an open bracket and a female bracket.

>>12414
I didn't care to read them but
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/7nirmm/is_scarlett_allowed_in_female_gaming_leagues_how/ds260sm/
>> No. 12419 Anonymous
12th February 2018
Monday 10:16 pm
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>>12418
The women's bracket exists because they were getting stomped, and they complained about Scarlett winning one of their tournaments only to go on and win in the main bracket so they were justified in doing so. They complained for the same reason TROTW complained about Koreans stomping them and then Korea was segregated. She'd have dominated with no competition.

The point was that women don't feel comfortable raising this issue now because of how warped feminist ideology has become, which is a damning indictment of feminisms current agenda which is equality at any cost, regardless of outcome, even if that outcome is women feel marginalised in their own sports events.

Whether or not people with y chromosomes make them better gamers is up for debate, I think it's a matter of men seem to be willing to sleep 4 hours a day and play Starcraft 2 for 20 and women aren't. Which is fine, but they deserve to be matched with people on their level. If Scarlett is training like a top 8 player she shouldn't be going against women who aren't. Regardless, they moaned so much about it she hasn't done it again so it's probably a moot point at this stage. The best women's Volleyball player in the world being trans is an issue though. Equality at any cost, regardless of outcome, will see trans women dominating women's sport eventually and who benefits from that arrangement?
>> No. 12420 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 7:49 am
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>>12419
Fucked up trannies and narcissist feminists.
>> No. 12421 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 7:58 am
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>>12420
I saw them play last year, not as good as Throbbing Gristle.
>> No. 12422 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 10:34 am
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>>12420
>Fucked up trannies
I know, right? It's almost impossible to find decent parts for them.
>> No. 12423 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 3:26 pm
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>>12422

Tell me about it m8. Germanium transistors are like rocking horse shit these days, the bloody EEC banned them or something.
>> No. 12424 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 3:29 pm
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>>12423
Lead content I think, it's banned from consumer electronics.
>> No. 12425 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 3:32 pm
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>>12424

Bloody Brussels bureaucrats. It's my right as a god-fearing Englishman to fill my lungs with lead fumes. It's the toxic precipitate of liberty.
>> No. 12426 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 7:09 pm
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>>12425

I feel the same way about lead solder. Still have a stockpile of it from my grandad.

It's just so much better to work with. Worth the early death.
>> No. 12427 Anonymous
13th February 2018
Tuesday 9:55 pm
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>>12426
Ah, good old 63/37. There's none finer.
>> No. 12428 Anonymous
14th February 2018
Wednesday 9:00 am
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>>12424
Germanium transistors are pretty shitty, though. Nice low bandgap which would be handy for low voltage work, if they didn't leak and change so wildly with temperature.

And decent lead free solder (lots of silver, decent flux) is now good enough that I've abandoned SnPb unless I particularly need the lower temperature.
>> No. 12429 Anonymous
14th February 2018
Wednesday 3:15 pm
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>>12428

Guitar nerds prefer germanium transistors for some distortion and fuzz effects. It's a subtle difference, but they really do sound nicer. RoHS also killed the cadmium sulphide photoresistor, which is at the heart of some of the best compressors.
>> No. 12473 Anonymous
8th April 2018
Sunday 3:49 pm
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Today I had my first experience of Farmhouse Inns; a pub chain run by Greene King, which appears to be a more down-market version in relation their other chains such as Hungry Horse and Flaming Grill.

The first thing that struck me was the clientele. Many were sporting rather questionable tattoos and a lot of the men were wearing baseball caps indoors. Few seemed to be engaged in conversation with their partners, friends or children and were either slumped on their phones or had passed their phones to their offspring in order to keep them quiet; the latter being a strange move considering that the children's play area had at least two PlayStation 4s and two Xbox One's to keep them busy if they weren't interested in the children's versions of the fruit machines or the touch screen games all around the walls of the play area.

I ordered a steak and ale pie, which came to £7.99. The vegetables, carrots on peas, had dried out and looked severely anaemic. The chips were nice and chunky. The gravy reminded me of a nosebleed due to the sheer number of clots and lumps inside it. The pie itself was rather on the stodgy side and the meat was of relatively poor quality when compared with similar establishments. The service was slow and was topped off by the waitress spilling gravy all over the table because she tried carrying far more than she could manage, but at least she had a right prime arse. Laddo had the kids pizza meal, which came to £4.29. This consisted of a microwave pizza which was reminiscent of a supermarket Chicago Town knock-off and a small triangle of garlic bread which was ridiculously dry; it came with a sachet of ketchup which was presumably to provide some moisture for counterbalance. His meal did not come with any form of vegetable or salad.

To top off the journey and really put the icing on the cake, I went back to my car and noticed that the people parked in the adjacent spaces on either side had both managed to open their car doors into mine and damage the paintwork.
>> No. 12474 Anonymous
8th April 2018
Sunday 4:31 pm
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>>12473

I honestly don't know if I could still get into bother for saying some of this so let's just assume the following is a creative work of fiction.

I worked for Greene King under a different brand (not mentioned) and was bribed into afforded the opportunity to do a bit of gentle prodding/consulting for their team. I was told by more than one actual executive that the brand identity was 'Harvester for chavs' and when they asked me to look at their menu a bit they made it very clear that I was not, under any circumstances, to remove or reduce the amount of black pudding on the menu or in the dishes, and that the Big Cheesy Nachos would similarly need preserved. The impression I got was that there'd be significant property damage if their patrons discovered these favourites molested. I also didn't even know you could buy frozen mashed potato, so at least I learned something.

It was honestly a very weird atmosphere working with that lot, and really did feel like I was a sixth former being asked to look after the bottom set Year 9s. It was almost like even those charged with running these brands and GK itself treated it as a joke, something that would inevitably fail. I've never seen anything like it and was one of the factors that made me not want to work under their banner anymore.

This was a couple of years ago now, but I still feel partially responsible for your experience, I probably could have done more if I'd cared enough/been brave enough to step out of my advisory role, I'm sorry. Did they still have the 'black pudding tower' on the menu?
>> No. 12475 Anonymous
8th April 2018
Sunday 4:32 pm
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>>12473

>The gravy reminded me of a nosebleed due to the sheer number of clots and lumps inside it

That was vivid enough to make me wretch a bit, well done.
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8th April 2018
Sunday 4:45 pm
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>>12473
At least it wasn't a Toby Carvery.
>> No. 12477 Anonymous
8th April 2018
Sunday 4:45 pm
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>>12474
>Harvester for chavs

If that's what they were aiming to cater for then they've certainly delivered it. It seemed like the venue of choice for dads who were having their day of custody with their offspring and decided the best thing to do with them was to spend it drinking beer and playing on their phone whilst the kids run feral around a pub.

>>12475
You're welcome. One thing I forgot to mention was that every single menu I saw was sticky and smeared in old gravy.
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8th April 2018
Sunday 4:52 pm
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Oh, and the only instances of black pudding I can remember on the menu were in the all day breakfast and as part of the mixed grill. They still had the cheesy nachos.

>>12476
I went to a Toby Carvery once as it was included in the paid expenses on a business trip. Never again. Even worse than Farmhouse Inns.
>> No. 12479 Anonymous
8th April 2018
Sunday 5:00 pm
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>>12478

This was what I was on about. It was apparently a big seller. I suppose it's not a bad concept but it's definitely a bit council.

The food is only in these sorts of places to get more people in to buy the beer, it sometimes isn't even planned to turn a profit, so there's very little attention put on the hiring and running of the kitchens (I suspect Wetherspoons model is to break even on food as the beer makes up for it) That's how most single brewery pubs work I guess.
>> No. 12480 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 1:05 pm
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>>12479

Spoons food is alright though. I mean it's not exactly Michelin star but if I'm out of an aft and feel a little peckish, I often feel I could do far worse than a Spoons burger and one of those combo platter things full of onion rings and chicken wings. Why eo other similar pubs struggle with this when it's basically all pre-made anyway?
>> No. 12481 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 2:15 pm
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>>12480

Seconded. It's nothing special, but it's cheap and satisfactory. Where else can you get a full English and a mug of tea with free refills for less than a fiver?
>> No. 12482 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 6:13 pm
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>>12480
> Why eo other similar pubs struggle with this when it's basically all pre-made anyway?

Marston's are alright. That's about it for decent pub chain alternatives to Spoons.
>> No. 12483 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 8:02 pm
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>>12480
>I could do far worse than a Spoons burger
Not really. It's McDonald's and then that's it.
>> No. 12484 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 8:33 pm
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>>12483
What say you of black pudding as a burger topping?
>> No. 12485 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 8:43 pm
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>>12480

>Why eo other similar pubs struggle with this when it's basically all pre-made anyway?

It comes down to the fact that even in bulk, food is not that profitable. You need pub food prices to be low or nobody will touch it anyway - yet even proper restaurants selling you a burger for 15 quid aren't making massive profit.

Your next problem is competent staff. It's a challenge to find cooks that keep the place legal, that's still a lot of responsibility even if you're reheating stuff, and if they fuck anything up (burning bread, not rotating stuff properly, etc) then your already tight margins are even less realistic. Finding people willing to do all that (plus keeping the place clean - EHO is tough) for seven quid an hour is a major weak point, and paying more for better people is right back to square one.

The next issue is designing a menu that caters to a wide variety of people - majority of people eat in groups, even in pubs. So if you don't have a good veggie option, healthy option, few burgers, salad, sharing platters, nachos, a curry, fish and chips, a pie, etc etc etc, then you'll lose trade simply by people going somewhere else to eat because Fiona needs a gluten free veggie thing and so on. - But a broad menu means more space required, better operating procedures, the problem of wastage is still there - not everything can be frozen indefinitely, especially if you want fast service. So you lose money every week just by offering items people don't order. And with a chain it's even worse - your menu is the same everywhere, but your pubs will always be serving different people. London customers as a whole want something different to Yorkshire ones, and so on, so the entire thing becomes an exercise in risk mitigation.

There aren't many pubs that make money from food, if any. It's there to bring people in, and the alcohol is very profitable so it makes up for it. Wetherspoons does well with food, and their massive menu, because they can afford to make losses, as the bar is making money hand over fist, plus the economies of scale add up for such a juggernaut. They make up such a large portion of trade for industrial food manufacturers that they can play them against each other and potentially drive costs up for the rest of the industry.
>> No. 12486 Anonymous
9th April 2018
Monday 8:58 pm
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>>12485
>The next issue is designing a menu that caters to a wide variety of people

I reckon the reason is simple; kids. Whilst Spoons has a children's menu you'll never go to a pub with a soft play area inside whereas most other chains seem to be aimed squarely at families.

The simple fact is that kids ruin everything. Spoons may have its fair share of no-hopers who have been drinking quietly since 10am on a weekday, but they're not going to ruin the ambience in the same way as a swarm of screaming snotbags.
>> No. 12487 Anonymous
11th April 2018
Wednesday 12:53 pm
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>>12485
So what you're saying is, every time I go to Spoons for food and don't order any alcohol, they are making a loss? Excellent.
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11th April 2018
Wednesday 1:17 pm
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>>12487
You need to not order any drinks at all. The soft stuff in particular is probably the most profitable item they sell. £2 a pint at a cost of pennies.
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11th April 2018
Wednesday 4:43 pm
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>>12487

If anyone is making profit from food, it's Spoons. I bet their best sellers are engineered to make money.

You'd have to buy about 30 fish and chips to offset the profit they make from five or six pints, mind.
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11th April 2018
Wednesday 5:35 pm
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>>12489

Most pubs use booze as a loss-leader for food sales, yet Wetherspoons still manage to undercut them on both. Their economies of scale must be incredible.
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11th April 2018
Wednesday 5:46 pm
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>>12490

I know they have their own warehouses and distribution network, so they can buy product whenever it's the cheapest and store it for considerable amounts of times.

I sort of want to work for them just to see it from the inside.
>> No. 12492 Anonymous
11th April 2018
Wednesday 8:11 pm
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One other thing I've remembered about Farmhouse Inns, most of the kids (at least the ones being shouted at by their parents), had double-barrelled names like Lexi-Mae or Kacey-Jo.
>> No. 12493 Anonymous
11th April 2018
Wednesday 9:44 pm
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>>12492
hah!
>> No. 12494 Anonymous
12th April 2018
Thursday 1:49 am
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>>12485
> There aren't many pubs that make money from food, if any. It's there to bring people in, and the alcohol is very profitable so it makes up for it.

Well I'm a total prat because I've been telling people for years that it's the opposite; you can get a 4 person family fed and watered (1 meal and 2 drinks each) and back out the door and the table clear in an hour while an old mooch like me will take up an entire table for eight hours and only do eight pints.

Then again I was always told that pubs were barely breaking even on the booze, so - again - who knows. Bloke who told me this worked for Punch Taverns if that means anything.
>> No. 12495 Anonymous
12th April 2018
Thursday 1:10 pm
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>>12494
Wetherspoons buys all it’s alcohol just as it is about to “expire” at a reduced rate because they know they’ll shift it quick.
>> No. 12496 Anonymous
12th April 2018
Thursday 1:20 pm
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>>12495

If this connected to why sometimes you'll go in on a Sunday morning / lunch and all they'll have on tap is fucking Carling? They've bought the whole weekend's lot short dated and run out a bit quicker than they expected?
>> No. 12498 Anonymous
12th April 2018
Thursday 1:32 pm
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>>12494

Tied and tenanted publicans have been complaining for years that they can't make a profit on their beer sales, hence the massive number of pub closures and the huge shift towards food sales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30114911
>> No. 12527 Anonymous
22nd May 2018
Tuesday 7:50 pm
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This evening I had my first experience of Frankie and Benny's in well over a year.

The first thing that struck me was the music. Instead of the usual Motown and Rat Pack hits that you associate with Frankie and Benny's they were playing the likes of Justin Timberlake and Ed Sheeran. The second thing that struck me was how empty it was inside. When we arrived there was only one other party eating and a couple of men propping up the bar; why you'd spend hours drinking in a Frankie and Benny's when there's a number of decent pubs within walking distance is absolutely beyond me. There were more staff than customers. The third thing that struck me was that they've changed the menu. They've taken off the two things that I actually didn't mind eating there; the bacon steaks, i.e. gammon, and the Cajun burger.

I went for their fixed price menu, which offers two courses for £9.99. For the starter I went for 'Meatballs Italiano' which consisted of five meatballs of the strangest density I've ever encountered; if I'd thrown them on the floor then I'm almost certain they'd have bounced up to the ceiling. They were served in a 'Neapolitan tomato sauce' which had been nuked to the point of crusting to the sides of the bowl it was served in. I didn't even know it was possible to burn a sauce but they'd pulled it off.

For the main course I went for their cheeseburger. The meat itself was actually nice but would have considerably benefitted from being grilled. However that's a largely moot point to make because it was drowned in so much barbecue sauce to the point of being almost inedible. The cheese was 'Monterey Jack', which is one of those American cheeses which don't really melt, don't really taste of anything and are vaguely reminiscent of plastic. The chips were alright, though, even if some were served in mugs for whatever reason; I'd imagine that the wonks in charge have decided to start following a trend several years after everyone else has grown tired of it.
>> No. 12528 Anonymous
22nd May 2018
Tuesday 9:22 pm
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>>12498
Greene King are meant to be one of the worst for putting a huge markup on their tied pubs. Their beer's not even that great either.
>> No. 12529 Anonymous
22nd May 2018
Tuesday 9:24 pm
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>>12527
Last time I went to Frankie and Benny's I had their maccaroni-cheese calzone. Total carb overload, couldn't finish it but at least it was memorable.
>> No. 12530 Anonymous
23rd May 2018
Wednesday 4:17 am
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>>12527>>12529

The last time I went to Frankie and Benny's the server forgot to put our order in for over an hour while we just sat there like fucking melons. I was only there because the local 'spoons had been shut down by the progressive Labour council and the only place serving pints within walking distance was this fucking shithole F&B. Fucking London.
>> No. 12531 Anonymous
23rd May 2018
Wednesday 7:02 am
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>>12530
Did you at least get the meal for free because of it?
>> No. 12532 Anonymous
23rd May 2018
Wednesday 10:24 am
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>>12530
I doubt there's a single place in London where there aren't at least five pubs within walking distance, you fat lump.
>> No. 12533 Anonymous
23rd May 2018
Wednesday 12:06 pm
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>>12532

You don't know London that well then. There's a whole stretch of the Finchley Road where there are no pubs from the North Star almost at swiss cottage all the way up to the Garden Gate in Golders Green. Nearby West Hampstead is devoid of pubs and full of poxy wine bars and Restaurants where you can oxymoronically buy mediocre "Street Food", but you need to venture down to Kilburn to really find a decent set of pubs.
>> No. 12534 Anonymous
25th May 2018
Friday 6:46 pm
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Cineworld has changed their partner restaurants for Unlimited subscribers, so now I can't get 25% off F&B and Pizza Hut any more and they're changing it to 6 restaurants that don't exist in my town. However, Nandos apparently honour it despite not being officially affiliated so I'll probably start eating there and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
>> No. 12535 Anonymous
25th May 2018
Friday 7:02 pm
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>>12534

Nandos is certainly a lot better than Frankie and Benny's.

Haven't ever had Pizza Hut so I can't comment on that, but even a shite pizza is pretty good so perhaps that's a shame.
>> No. 12536 Anonymous
25th May 2018
Friday 7:24 pm
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>>12535
Pizza Hut have a free salad bar, so you can fill up on salad and ask for your pizza to be boxed up. Two meals for the price of one.
>> No. 12537 Anonymous
25th May 2018
Friday 10:49 pm
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>>12535
Pizza Hut has an obnoxious menu, but the free salad bar and the topping selections makes up for it. The Vegi Hot One with chicken is a cracking pizza.

F&B wont be to much of a loss, I suppose. I'll give Nandos a try.
>> No. 12538 Anonymous
25th May 2018
Friday 11:10 pm
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>>12537

As grim as Nandos is as a venue, there's really nothing wrong with chicken and rice, it's a solid meal for sure.
>> No. 12547 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 7:12 am
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Mrs wanted to go to Wagamama today, so there we went.

The specialty, I was assured, was their ramen dishes. Now, I've always been sceptical of this ramen craze, because I remember being a poorlad. One of my staple meals involved a packet of super noodles, a packet of pre-cooked spicy chicken, some smoked paprika and boiling the kettle.

I found myself paying a tenner yesterday and a high end restaurant for something somehow less flavoursome than my £1.50 Gourmet Super Noodles. For my money, I got a bowl of bland noodles in slightly spicy water with a load of meat and veg dumped on top.

It was nice as an overall meal I suppose, and the sides were delicious. But it stood out to me as one of those things where people are clearly following the herd rather than liking something on its own merits.
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24th June 2018
Sunday 7:56 am
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>>12547
>Mrs wanted to go to Wagamama today, so there we went.
I didn't realise they did breakfast on a sunday.

Twatishness aside, I've never tried wagamama, but real ramen is wonderful. Even real asian instant ramen like Nissin is much more flavourful than super-noodles.
>> No. 12550 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 10:20 am
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>>12548

>I haven't tried Wagamama

You haven't tried my Gourmet Super Noodles either. We can thus conclude that this post is 100% pulled out of your arse.

I meant yesterday anyway, I've not slept.
>> No. 12551 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 10:21 am
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>>12547
Completely agree, it's definitely one of those places people feel they have to like to be cool.

It's not bad, it is in fact quite tasty, but it is nothing special and the price barely justifies it.

That said the service is always quick and friendly and the portion sizes aren't terrible.
>> No. 12552 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 11:40 am
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>>12547

Their ramen is normally very good*, I don't think I'd be able to call it bland. Either they fucked up your dish or your tastebuds have died. I'd assume the former, but you never know.

*For a high street chain
>> No. 12553 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 12:14 pm
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>>12552

To be fair I have been a heavy smoker for a lot of years, and my preference has drifted towards only the punchiest of flavours really working for me.

I mean the broth itself was lovely when I drank it at the end, the meat was well cooked and there wasn't excessive green stuff. But it didn't really "stick" to the noodles, it was too subtle to stand out when you had a big mouthful.
>> No. 12554 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 12:27 pm
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>>12553

I think that just sounds like ramen in general, to be honest, it's always quite a thin broth and often light, even when they make it with pork bones and that.

Fuck, I love ramen though. To each their own, I suppose.
>> No. 12555 Anonymous
24th June 2018
Sunday 12:48 pm
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>>12554
I like ramen pork bones down people's throats, IYKWIM.
>> No. 12556 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 4:17 pm
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They've removed pasta and cous cous from the salad bar at Pizza Hut in an effort to make people order more food. They've also stopped serving standard Pepsi and 7up as unlimited refillable drinks, so you can only get the likes of Pepsi Max unless you buy a little bottle at extortionate prices, because they're concerned about the amount of sugar they're offering; for the same reason they're now using 'healthier' tortilla chips.
>> No. 12557 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 4:58 pm
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>>12556
The change on the drinks machine is because of the sugar levy. Taking out the options that attract the levy means they can continue to sell at one price.
>> No. 12558 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 8:08 pm
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>>12556

If it hadn't been really naff to begin with I might be upset.
>> No. 12559 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 9:50 pm
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Overpriced shite that cunty millenials eat thinking that they're succesful moving up from KFC and being classy and shit.
>> No. 12560 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 9:53 pm
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>>12559
Clear off, gammon.
>> No. 12561 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 10:02 pm
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>>12559

We might have covered this in the last 7 years of this thread.
>> No. 12562 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 10:38 pm
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>>12560

Build a wall to keep me out then.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 12563 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 10:39 pm
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>>12561

WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH MY LIFE
>> No. 12564 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 10:53 pm
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>>12563

WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH YOUR WIFE
>> No. 12565 Anonymous
1st July 2018
Sunday 11:30 pm
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>>12564

WHAT WILL I BE DOING WITH THIS KNIFE
>> No. 12566 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 12:36 am
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>>12564
>> No. 12568 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 1:55 am
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>>12562

PURPS BANNED ME NOW DOING LIFE
>> No. 12569 Anonymous
2nd July 2018
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>12568
I'M SMOKING THESE BANANA SKINS THEN GOING TO FIFE.
>> No. 12755 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 3:03 pm
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This weekend I have been to my first Brewdog pub.

The first thing it reminded me of was Subway. There is an array of drinks listed on a wall behind the bar, but it only clearly mentions the name of the drink, its price and its ABV. There are a number of taps around the bar but no mention of what they actually pump out. This is the type of pub for someone who has planned meticulously what they will be having in advance.

The bar staff were a little on the crusty side, but they tried their best to be helpful. Ask them if they have any of a particular kind of ale in and they'll reel them off rapid fire, so you'll only take in about half of what they say. Fortunately they're sensible enough to offer you samples before you commit to anything. None of them were anything truly special. It felt a bit different from a lot of pubs in that you should meticulously plan in advance what you want to drink rather than just walking straight up to the bar like you do for everywhere else.

The next thing I noticed was the price. You'll be looking at paying over £5 for two-thirds of a pint; this practice of not serving proper pints was new to me but plenty of people seemed happy to be fleeced. I sat down with my overpriced beer and took in my surroundings. Almost every woman was wearing dungarees. Some were even in double denim. There were plenty of men by themselves, all of them bearded and usually glued to a phone. The establishment was aiming for a particular aesthetic, as demonstrated by the old pinball and arcade machines.

I looked at the drinks menu whilst sat the table. It was clear that their focus was on novelty drinks. Ales with chili, ales tasting of toffee milkshake, ales tasting of banana bread. Gimmicks, in other words. By the time I had finished my overwhelmingly average second two-thirds pint, which they market as a growler, my friend's first drink arrived, for the bar staff had taken over 20 minutes to serve it due to not knowing how to set up the taps correctly.
>> No. 12756 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 3:47 pm
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>>12755

This is a fantastic review and is spot on.

My girlfriend called the one we went to 'starbucks for beer' and that seemed like a good way to sum it up for me.
>> No. 12757 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 3:54 pm
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>>12756
>'starbucks for beer'

It wouldn't surprise me if this exact phrase was used by their marketing parasites staff.
>> No. 12758 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 4:33 pm
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>>12755
I can't comment on the pub, but I hate an "industrial finish", unless it's a warehouse or a maintenance tunnel it just isn't finished.
>> No. 12759 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 5:22 pm
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>>12756
I think I'd agree with that. Why anyone would want beer that is designed to taste like barbecue sauce is utterly beyond me.
>> No. 12760 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 5:33 pm
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>>12758

Sure there is a reason now that hipster 'start up' bars and restaurant have this and mismatched old furniture and half painted walls and things, it is because it is cheap, even if the food is priced like it is a premium venue. As consumers I feel it is our moral duty to boycott this trend.
>> No. 12761 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 6:36 pm
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>>12755

I don't know if the "growler" thing is new but it reminds me of fucking Viz, so there's that.

I went to a brewdog pub in Soho in 2015 simply because it was the first near empty pub we'd passed in about half an hour and I was starting to really, really need a drink.

I'd had brewdog beers before, even in 'spoons, and I'd never considered them anything special. I seem to remember having a few pints of something with a fairly obnoxious ABV (I tend to go for 8 and above) which cost about 7 quid each and then fucked off because, even in central London, if you keep moving in the right direction you'll eventually find a decent pub.

My main gripe is that I had to go up two flights of stairs to find the bogs which, with my methamphetamine ravaged heart already ripping a healthy resting 130 bpm, wasn't the most enjoyable thing in the world.

tl;dr - if there was a spoons serving well pulled Stella next door I wouldn't have even looked at the Brewdog gaff and I wouldn't go back unless I found myself in a similar situation.
>> No. 12762 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 6:45 pm
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>>12761

>I don't know if the "growler" thing is new

A growler is a yank thing, it's essentially a resealable beer jug, they've been around for a long, long time over there, but have probably become a lot more prominent with microbreweries being so popular, as it's a great way to take cask beer home from a craft pub/brewery or deliver it.

The thing is, growlers are supposed to transport larger quantities of beer, with the 'standard' size being around 1.3 litres, so selling a 2/3rds pint 'growler' (whats that, 360ml?) is even more embarrassingly cynical.

It's bold they chose to use the phrase at all considering the Lorraine Kelly or Viz implications, but I suppose their target demographic would be too young to be aware of either Bo Selecta or The Viz.
>> No. 12763 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 6:52 pm
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>>12760

>Sure there is a reason now that hipster 'start up' bars and restaurant have this and mismatched old furniture and half painted walls and things, it is because it is cheap

You might be right there for single site startups, but there's plenty of chain pubs and restaurants going for this style too, and they pay a fuckload of money for it. It's just simply cheaper to bulk order 1000 of chair A from a wholesaler for all your sites than it is to buy mismatched stuff. Since it's trendy everyone from the factory to the designer overcharges for it, too.

I wouldn't be surprised if the painters still charge you full price despite skipping the exposed brickwork.
>> No. 12764 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 7:01 pm
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>>12762
I think I was a bit muddled up. Either way, their standard servings are half and two-thirds pints.
>> No. 12765 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 8:43 pm
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>>12764
Fucking Christ on a Hoverboard Playing a Xylophone, Why?
>> No. 12766 Anonymous
21st October 2018
Sunday 10:13 pm
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>>12765
Fucking Neoliberalism.
>> No. 12767 Anonymous
22nd October 2018
Monday 7:16 am
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>>12765
If you ever saw the episode of Who's the Boss on the BBC about Brewdog a few years back you'd have seen how the owners are a pair of monumental bellends.
>> No. 12768 Anonymous
22nd October 2018
Monday 10:22 pm
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>>12767
The epitome of that "being a dickhead's cool" song from a few years back.
>> No. 12769 Anonymous
22nd October 2018
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>12768
Despite me having not listened to it for a number of years, it plays in my head on a near-constant basis.

OI OI OI OI
>> No. 12770 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 12:16 am
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I tried nandos again for the third time in my life and first time in 4 years. It was okay. Nothing special. Frozen curly fries in a bag from lidl are about as good as their peri peri spiced chips. The extra hot chicken was disappointing and I guess the extra extra hot sauce had some nice citrus flavour despite being quite mild. I can absolutely cook a better meal for two people for the same as the price they charged for one.
>> No. 12771 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 12:25 am
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>>12770

> I can absolutely cook a better meal for two people for the same as the price they charged for one.

Ah, my "rip-off-quotient". If I leave a restaurant feeling like I could do as good or better at home for the same price then I was ripped off.

The thing is, there are tons of places that walk that line: chippies, most takeaways, and Nandos all fall into the "convenience over capability" gap.

What really narcs me off is when I pay 80 snaps a person and could have done better myself at some while hungover.
>> No. 12772 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 6:48 am
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>>12768
It was that mixed with David Brent.

"Hey! Look how cool and non-conformist we are! People wear casual clothes instead of suits! We're so laid back and fun!"

They then turn out to up uptight control freaks, with several of the staff hinting that this sort of behaviour is a regular occurrence.
>> No. 12773 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 9:10 am
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>>12770
Nando's charges £1.65 for a can of Coke and I'm beginning to suspect it's no better than the Coke I can buy from Asda for 35p.
>> No. 12774 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 9:59 am
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>>12773
Blame the sugar tax. Fat cunts ruining it for everyone.
>> No. 12775 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 11:50 am
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>>12771
At least with a chippy you don't have to deal with all the leftover oil. Less than three quid for a very full belly isn't to be sniffed at.
>> No. 12777 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 1:25 pm
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>>12771

>The thing is, there are tons of places that walk that line: chippies, most takeaways, and Nandos all fall into the "convenience over capability" gap.

Thing with takeaways is that not many people have a way to deep fry stuff at home, especially if they're not willing to put a big pot of oil on the stove. Even making a burger or pizza at home is a bit of a hassle if you want loads of toppings.

I was very surprised when Nandos started retailing their sauces, as that's basically the only step missing in making it for yourself at home. I suppose it says a lot about their target demographic that it wasn't seen as a problem.
>> No. 12778 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 6:36 pm
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>>12777

"Even making a burger or pizza at home is a bit of a hassle if you want loads of toppings."

I'd say burgers are fairly easy, it'll take you a few tries before you get it right but these days I can do them in my sleep.

Other stuff like deep fried chicken, pizzas, fish and chips - they all fall into what I called the "convenience over capability" gap. In other words, if you really tried hard at home any half decent cook could make food a thousand times better, but they don't want to go to all that inconvenience.

My mother used to use an oven top deep fat fryer and even manage to do fairly decent chips, but even as a fully grown adult those things scare the bejesus out of me. One day maybe I'll invest in one of those new fangled air fryer things.
>> No. 12779 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 7:19 pm
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>>12778

You can't do proper fried chicken at home unless you're extremely brave, because you need a pressure fryer to get tender meat and crispy breading. If there's anything more dangerous in a kitchen than a pan full of hot oil, it's a pressure cooker full of hot oil.
>> No. 12780 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 10:16 pm
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>>12778
That's how my dad does his chips. He's northern you see. They are excellent.
>> No. 12781 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 10:37 pm
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>>12780
It's how my Nan used to do chips. Best ones I've ever tasted, especially with a lamb burger.
>> No. 12782 Anonymous
23rd October 2018
Tuesday 11:24 pm
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>>12778

>I'd say burgers are fairly easy

I'd agree they're easy but they're a fucking hassle, by the time you've made a small salad to shove in the thing, chopped gherkins, tried to make big mac sauce or whatever, bought the wrong size burger buns, and the american cheese that is only good on a burger, it's just a bit much, innit. Not to mention you can't really make the meat good unless you've got a screaming hot pan which stinks up the whole house.

There's many compelling arguments for making burgers at home, such as actually cooking it medium rare - good luck getting a restaurant to do that for you unless they're grinding meat to order - but at the end of the day, I'd rather just drive out to get a whopper or something.

I agree with everything else you're saying, I just can't be arsed to make burgers at home. When I'm at restaurants I'll only really order stuff that requires specialist preparation or hours of cooking time. People who order tagliatelle and pesto for twenty quid are utter mentalists.
>> No. 12783 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 3:39 pm
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I know trying to phase out plastic means restaurants are now serving paper straws instead, but the one I had today must have had something else in it because the Pepsi started reacting to it the moment it came into contact with it; fizzing up and frothing out the top of the straw.
>> No. 12784 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 4:06 pm
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>>12783
The straw had nucleation points in it.
>> No. 12785 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 4:09 pm
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>>12783

That's just what paper straws do. The surface is slightly rough, which creates nucleation points for the dissolved CO2 to form into bubbles. It's the same principle behind those etched patterns in the bottom of some lager glasses, or that diet coke and mentos thing. You can try it yourself at home - pour a fizzy drink carefully into a spotlessly clean glass, then dunk a piece of paper towel into the liquid. It should suddenly and vigorously boil over with bubbles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke_and_Mentos_eruption
>> No. 12786 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 4:26 pm
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>>12782

My standard go to with burgers is mix mince, onions, garlic, an egg, whatever else the night before into burger shapes, then just do cheese, bacon, tomato the next day

Not difficult really.
>> No. 12787 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 4:30 pm
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>>12784>>12785
If I'm brought a fizzy drink and it doesn't fizz up like this then is that a sign it has been watered down?
>> No. 12788 Anonymous
28th October 2018
Sunday 5:44 pm
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>>12787
Fizzy drinks are just flavoured syrup and fizzy water, if they wanted to water it down they'd just add more fizzy water. The machine has a button for that, it would be silly for them to go over to a flat water source and add that.
>> No. 12789 Anonymous
29th October 2018
Monday 6:36 pm
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I've had Being A Dickhead's Cool stuck in my head all day. Thanks, lads.
>> No. 12790 Anonymous
29th October 2018
Monday 7:27 pm
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>>12787

It's more a sign that the system they use for carbonation is acting up, most commercial operations will buy soft 'drinks' in syrup form and mix them on site.
>> No. 12801 Anonymous
6th November 2018
Tuesday 8:28 pm
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So who's looking forward to trying KFC's new fries?
>> No. 12802 Anonymous
6th November 2018
Tuesday 8:30 pm
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>>12801
I don't think I've ever actually had KFC in my life.
>> No. 12803 Anonymous
6th November 2018
Tuesday 9:42 pm
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>>12802

You're not missing anything.
>> No. 12804 Anonymous
7th November 2018
Wednesday 1:56 am
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>>12801

I didn't think there was anything wrong with the old ones, the problem wasn't the fries, it was their shite employees not bothering to chuck old stale ones out that had been wilting under the hot lamps for ages. When they're fresh out they're as good as any other.
>> No. 12805 Anonymous
7th November 2018
Wednesday 2:43 pm
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>>12803
what in the everliving fuck am i looking at here
>> No. 12806 Anonymous
7th November 2018
Wednesday 5:49 pm
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>>12805
Finger licking chicken lung.
>> No. 12952 Anonymous
25th January 2019
Friday 4:31 pm
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>Vegetarian customers at McDonald's across the UK have reported finding chicken nuggets in meals that are meant to be meat-free.

>The fast-food chain launched their spicy veggie wrap in early January, but restaurant staff appear to be struggling with the recipe. Its main ingredient is supposed to be a red pesto vegetarian goujon, but customers have been given chicken nuggets instead.

>It's been happening all over the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-47003878
>> No. 12953 Anonymous
25th January 2019
Friday 5:31 pm
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>>12952
n1 maccys soyboys wont no wot hit em

That's a pretty awful blunder though, people are not only sensitive about their dietary choices but if you screw up ingredients like that it's only a matter of time before you end up putting a customer into anaphylactic shock. I think McDonalds has far too much on their menu these days to be honest, I prefer having a smaller selection that forces my hand a bit and doesn't leave the staff too overworked. I don't go there often but when I do, half the time I end up standing there like a dope when it's time to order because I haven't decided even after waiting in the queue. Somehow the 12 widescreen tvs they have above the counter don't help at all.

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 12954 Anonymous
25th January 2019
Friday 5:52 pm
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>>12953
I never actually know what to order at a McDonald's. At Burger King it's easy and I'll opt for the bacon double cheeseburger, unless there's a good offer on their app, but with Maccy's there's too many options to choose from and I'm never fully satisfied with whatever I go with.
>> No. 12955 Anonymous
25th January 2019
Friday 6:36 pm
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>>12953

It seems odd to me that this has happened at all, let alone at multiple locations. The McDonalds system is incredibly simple, everything is labelled and procedures are drilled into everyone, don't forget this is a business built to be operated by minimum wage teenagers, by and large.

Presumably the vegetarian goujons look exactly like the chicken goujons that go into the wrap, and people have been loading the wrong thing into the wrong clearly designated receptacle. Knowing a bit about how menu design works for these behemoths, the blame here actually lies with someone in menu design or logistics.

Or equally possible is that they look the same and a batch was mislabelled and sent out to multiple sites, and maccy's are scared to admit as much.

Either way, this'll be a shitstorm for them. The industry as a whole is terrified of feeding people the wrong thing, particularly because, as you say, it's not hard to kill someone doing that. And someone, somewhere often catches prison time when that does happen.
>> No. 12956 Anonymous
25th January 2019
Friday 6:38 pm
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>>12954

The Big Tasty is the best thing, but is not always on. I'll never not be happy with a Big Mac, though it doesn't really fill me up. I get 20 McNuggets AND a Big Mac when I'm pished.
>> No. 12957 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 9:37 am
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On the subject of maccies I'm not sure if it's part of growing up now in my mid 20s but the idea of it never appeals to me.

There'd be a time where I'd default to wanting one/eating it, then it became 'if there's nothing else around', then it became 'I'd rather do without.'

Hamburgers are still alright though.
>> No. 12958 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 9:49 am
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>>12954
Ah, so you go for the most unhealthy thing on the menu.
>> No. 12959 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 10:11 am
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>>12958

No, that's the bacon double XL.

Also, what's your point? Why even go to BK for a salad?
>> No. 12960 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 10:14 am
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>>12955

They're similar to the chicken goujons, but it's quite easy to tell them apart. I suspect it's a training issue rather than menu design, but mislabelling is a possibility.
>> No. 12961 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 10:20 am
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>>12958>>12959
I'd have thought the unhealthiest burgers on the menu would be those ones with onion rings on the top. Besides, it's a bit strange to be health conscious and go for a meal at Burger King.
>> No. 12962 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 12:59 pm
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>>12960

It could also be something like the order screens displaying similar names for the two, like SPICY WRAP C vs SPICY WRAP V. I've seen stuff like that happen before.

Or people at McDonald's are just thick.
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27th January 2019
Sunday 1:01 pm
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>>12961

You're right. It's the Texas BBQ King, at least that's the burger with the most calories.
>> No. 12965 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 5:45 pm
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>>12960

The chicken is shipped from Thailand (or it was last time I checked) and I'm not sure where the goujons are made. They couldn't get mislabeled anyway, and the bags are different colours (bright green for the veggie option of course).

Wot I reckon it is with my extensive history of professional McDonalds service is that every wrap for the past few years has just had chicken in it, so some numpty went and put chicken in a wrap like they were used to. Force of habit is usually how mistakes are made due to the volume of food you have to assemble in the place.
It's still a bit of a joke because the veggie wraps should specifically be in brand new green boxes and the stickers aren't ambiguous.

The veggie wraps are shite anyway, the goujons are tiny compared to chicken selects even if they do taste alright.
>> No. 12966 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 6:42 pm
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>>12965
>The veggie wraps are shite anyway, the goujons are tiny compared to chicken selects even if they do taste alright.

My girlfriend has tried one and said there was too much space in the bun/wrap, which they'd decided to fill with shitloads of mayonnaise.
>> No. 12967 Anonymous
27th January 2019
Sunday 7:24 pm
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>>12966

She told me something similar about you.
>> No. 12968 Anonymous
17th February 2019
Sunday 3:34 pm
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>>12956
I tried one of their Signature burgers today, probably the nicest thing I've had in a McDonald's but still not as nice as what you can get at Burger King. They gave me a free doughnut and cookie to apologise for how long it took to deliver our drive-thru order; it was 11 minutes from paying for it to receiving the food, which I didn't think was overly long but I won't say no to free food.
>> No. 12969 Anonymous
18th February 2019
Monday 3:17 pm
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>>12968
Is it those burger patties that you get in the Grand Big Mac? They look a bit thicker on the posters but I'm not forking out my hard-earned takeaway money until I know for sure, god damn it.
>> No. 12970 Anonymous
18th February 2019
Monday 3:29 pm
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>>12969

Not him but I can go check for you later as I'm a fat cunt and will probably want two burgers tonight.

However going off the pictures the Signature burgers look significantly thicker than the Grand Mac patties.

I'm not sure I want that, a thick well done burger is never that exciting, particularly when it's got filler in it (even just breadcrumbs).
>> No. 12971 Anonymous
18th February 2019
Monday 5:01 pm
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>>12969
They are as thick as a proper burger. Almost take like one, too.
>> No. 12972 Anonymous
18th February 2019
Monday 11:28 pm
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>>12970

None of the burgers in Maccies have filler. They're all pure beef, although what grade of beef I'm not sure as they do look weirdly pink when frozen.

Signature patties are just used in signature burgers, I think the grand mac meat is something close to a quarter pounder in size.
>> No. 12973 Anonymous
18th February 2019
Monday 11:41 pm
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>>12972

I suppose that should have occurred to me as everything is frozen.

Still, I don't think I want a thick well done burger. I will let you know later if it's shit.
>> No. 12974 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 12:42 am
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>>12973
Burgers are not steaks. They're supposed to be well done.
>> No. 12975 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 2:35 am
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>>12974

I disagree entirely.

There's a lot of practical considerations for serving minced beef at lower temperatures, and the FSA make it very, very hard to do so in a commercial operation, to the point that almost nobody actually does it in the UK. But I do believe that a thick burger made of good quality meat is far better around medium doneness. Well done hides a multitude of sins in less choice grinds, and is far safer, particularly in a commercial environment.

I think however if you have to have (or serve) a well done burger it should either be 'smash' style so you have a lot of crispy umami to make up for the loss of flavour from overcooking it, or you should simply serve thinner patties so the mouthfeel and overall flavour profile is less uniform.

I acknowledge and understand that as britons we've learned to fear anything (other than steak) that is served at anything less than well done, but considering we have the safest meat industry on the planet (now that BSE is dealt with, cough cough) it does seem a shame that we continue to eat, and legislate, as if we do not. We're one of the only countries in which you can entirely safely eat a raw egg, and our beef is similarly safe, though we certainly don't act like it. I understand it's hard for people to try things they've been taught will make them sick, or assume will, but I think that might say something about us as a society, are we just too unadventurous? We used to sew four animals together and eat that, whatever happened? The average brit is certainly less adventurous when it comes to food than almost any other european nation, but I really don't know why.

Medium rare pork is delicious too, by the way.
>> No. 12976 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 7:38 am
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>>12975
>The average brit is certainly less adventurous when it comes to food than almost any other european nation
Is that really true? What's a good way to fairly compare number of foreign restaurants with other European countries?
We do have a lot and in my admittedly limited experience other European countries really don't.
>> No. 12977 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 8:00 am
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>>12976
We have better restaurants but our home cooking is worse.

This is believed to stem from medieval times as we were far better at keeping produce fresher whereas those pesky continentals had to use things such as seasoning to make the taste of it going off. That and war rationing; there's nothing my uncle loves more than bland boiled food because that's what he grew up with.
>> No. 12978 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 8:11 am
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>>12976

While you're right that we have restaurants from all corners of the empire, it's very much a "mile wide, inch deep" situation. Most menus are really rather predictable when it comes down to it. I'm not saying I dislike our cultural mix of restaurants, I'm not saying we don't have talented chefs and interesting ideas, we do - but even our innovation is rooted in the safety and comfort of traditionalism. For example, tripe or pig's feet were seen as fresh and trendy ideas a couple of years back, but they're simply ideas dragged up from eighty years ago. It's 'new' but still feels safe because Grandma used to eat it.

We do have lots of international restaurants, but whether they're homogenised chains or independents, the market dictates what they sell and it's a menu we can all write in our heads - french places do beef bourguignon, baked camembert, and mussels served in one of those black pots. Indian restaurants serve English curries and vague diluted versions of Indian dishes. Italian places do spag bol or carbonara with cream. Like it or not, it's all anglicised. The owners may be authentically from those countries, but they learned long ago that we don't want their food, we want their version of our food.

I don't want to paint too bleak a picture, we do have a lively food industry, I just think it's trapped in a box because the nation's palate simply isn't that broad.

Put it this way - for all the cooking shows on TV, the hundreds of hours a month of food content now - how many times have you seen someone make Scallops with black pudding and pea puree? We're just not that imaginative when it comes to food. You're spot on in that you don't see hundreds of greek/turkish/chinese/whatever restaurants in Paris, but it's also much more difficult to pin down what the average menu looks like in that city.
>> No. 12979 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 8:17 am
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>>12978

I'll add too that if you live in London, you might disagree with me, as there are certainly more adventurous establishments there, and sometimes more authentic ones, due to the nature of the city. But stepping outside of that bubble, and it is a bubble even if it's a very large one, the country as a whole is a different story.
>> No. 12980 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 9:19 am
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>>12979
Seem like reasonable responses, cheers lads.
I've definitely lived in a variety of bubbles that would expose me to a broad range of foods, so didn't want to make assumptions.
I wouldn't want to eat scallops with black pudding and pea puree though, that sounds very bland. You'd need something sharp to go with it.
>> No. 12986 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 4:43 pm
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>A young mother choked to death when she tried to see how many Jaffa Cakes she could fit in her mouth for a party trick.

>Bethan Gaskin, 24, blacked out and stopped breathing when the snacks got lodged in her throat as she desperately tried to spit them out. The mother-of-one collapsed at home in Bourne, Lincolnshire on February 22 and was rushed to hospital. Tragically, the beauty therapist suffered a heart attack and she died five days later at Peterborough City Hospital.

https://www.clickbait.co.uk/news/article-6839005/Mother-one-24-choked-death-following-Jaffa-Cakes-challenge.html

I'd put something down her throat for her to choke on, IYKWIM.
>> No. 12987 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 5:17 pm
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>>12986

Too soon.
>> No. 12988 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 6:11 pm
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>>12986
I had a guilty chuckle too over this story - what a way to die; choking on a Jaffa cake party trick.
>> No. 12989 Anonymous
22nd March 2019
Friday 7:04 pm
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I wonder how many Jaffa Cakes it would take to kill someone. I guess one would do the job if you were daft enough to ram it far enough back.
>> No. 12990 Anonymous
23rd March 2019
Saturday 1:21 am
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>>12988

Imagine being her family, having to explain how she died to people.

Or her kid.

It's tragic, and sort of even more tragic because it's a daft way to die that you'd never expect to happen.
>> No. 12991 Anonymous
23rd March 2019
Saturday 2:28 am
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>>12986
There's this Japanese pudding that''s like a giant glob of sweet rice dough or something that's eaten on New Years. Tradition dictacts you have to take the whole thing in your mouth at once (rimshot). Anyway a bunch of people choke to death doing this every year but does it stop them? Like unagi it does.
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23rd March 2019
Saturday 3:01 am
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>>12991

The Japanese love a bit of potential death in their food.

Mochi is really nice, though I don't swallow it whole because I'm a filthy gaijin.
>> No. 12993 Anonymous
12th April 2019
Friday 5:38 pm
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PRESTON NAMES NANDO’S AS CITY’S BEST RESTAURANT, ANNOYING LOCAL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES

An award intended to celebrate local businesses in Preston, has been given to Nando’s, prompting frustration among residents.

The Smiles Better Awards, organised by Preston Business Improvement District (Preston BID), celebrates the best culinary offerings in the Lancashire city.

The winners for categories including bar, pub and restaurant of the year are decided by a public vote, with 68,000 votes cast this year.

But the results for 2019, which saw the popular chicken restaurant win in the restaurant category and a JD Wetherspoons win in the pub category, has prompted criticism among some residents who say the awards should have gone to independent businesses as opposed to national chains.


https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/preston-nandos-best-restaurant-smiles-better-awards-a8866416.html
>> No. 12996 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 8:08 pm
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Today I was treated to lunch at a Marstons pub, which was £6.35 for three courses.

For the starter I opted for garlic bread. This turned out to be three slices from a baguette which were dry and overcooked. The garlic was so subtle that it was almost non-existent.

For the main course I had the 4oz gammon steak with chips. The plate was red hot but the food itself was lukewarm at best. I'm almost certain they served Aunt Bessie's oven chips. I was particularly amused by the fact they'd chopped around a fifth off the egg as otherwise it would have been larger than the gammon it was placed on top of.

For pudding I went for the chocolate fudge cake. This promised to be gooey and chocolatey. The cake was neither gooey or chocolatey; the sauce was burnt and the cake was dry and lacking in flavour. This was the only course I didn't finish.

The entire meal took almost two hours as the service was so slow. The pub was not busy but there only appeared to be two people working there.
>> No. 12997 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 8:15 pm
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>>12996

I always find it hard to tell the difference between a pub that technically serves food, and a pub you're actually supposed to order food at.

I've been in a fair few places over the years when you're visiting somewhere and you look on Tripadvisor or what have you to find somewhere to eat, and there's some place with great reviews that looks nice. Then when you get there it's like that pub scene in American Werewolf In London.
>> No. 12998 Anonymous
25th April 2019
Thursday 9:17 pm
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>>12996
> which was £6.35 for three courses.

I don't want to seem like a posho lad, but - I think this might be the problem.
>> No. 12999 Anonymous
27th April 2019
Saturday 2:44 am
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>>12998
This got me thinking: could you quantify Vue for money? Like, there must be a point for which there is an optimum value for money for say, a steak dinner. You would get what you pay for initially, and then there will be a point where the quality of the meal does not improve as much with every extra pound spent

I imagine it would be a parabola type graph.
>> No. 13000 Anonymous
27th April 2019
Saturday 9:30 am
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>>12999
The last truly nice steak I had from a restaurant cost £22 for an 8oz fillet.
>> No. 13001 Anonymous
27th April 2019
Saturday 12:51 pm
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>>12996

This is not up to your usual standard, Mr. Rayner. Go back and do it again.
>> No. 13002 Anonymous
27th April 2019
Saturday 12:59 pm
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Steak is overrated. That's my unintentionally edgy, try-hard, or whatever, opinion for the day.
>> No. 13003 Anonymous
28th April 2019
Sunday 10:58 am
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>>13001
That's because Marstons are truly unremarkable. They don't really seem to know what they're doing and who they're aiming for.

If you visit a Greene King chain then it may also be unpleasant, but the number of chavs wearing baseball caps indoors eating mountains of black pudding means that it is at least noteworthy. A Marstons is nothing. Even the all day drinkers at a Wetherspoons help provide something resembling an atmosphere.

Marstons pubs tend to be purpose built on the edges of business parks, similar to units typically containing a Greggs, Costa and Subway all together. They're not going to get the passing trade for drinkers like a Wetherspoons does and, considering they're owned by a brewery, their range is little more than Estrella, Strongbow Dark Fruits and a smattering of their own beers. They're the type of place you'd have to go out of your way for, but nobody is going to want to eat a shitty three course meal for just over £6 which takes almost two hours due to the piss poor service. There's nothing to positively differentiate them from other pub chains; I know they tried marketing themselves as pizza pubs a few years back but that doesn't seem to have taken off.
>> No. 13004 Anonymous
28th April 2019
Sunday 7:40 pm
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>>13003

I've said for a long time that pubs are chucking money away by trying to market their food. Think of it this way - when you hear the phrase "pub that you'd deliberately go to just for the food", what do you think of? I'm willing to bet if you can think of any at all, it's either a single independent gastropub type thing, or something that's part of a very small chain, with maybe only a handful of pubs ran by a company. It's almost certainly not a Spoons or Yates or Marstons or whatever.

If, on the other hand, I say "a pub that serves decent enough food for the price" you probably immediately think of Wetherspoons or similar, and to be fair to them they're doing it right for the most part, though their menu should be smaller just to save themselves some money IMO. You don't need sizzler plates or big expensive banners with pictures of your burger on, you don't need to redesign your menu every six months, you certainly don't need to hire someone expensive to tell you to try and be a pizza pub or whatever. Just offer a beer and burger with change from a tenner and leave it at that.
>> No. 13005 Anonymous
6th May 2019
Monday 3:38 pm
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>> No. 13006 Anonymous
6th May 2019
Monday 3:39 pm
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>>13005
I can feel my pores swelling just reading your post.
>> No. 13007 Anonymous
6th May 2019
Monday 3:54 pm
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>>13004
I don't even consider Wetherspoons "pub food". It's fast food. As in, once you've eaten it, you think "well that was a waste of money".

It's not just that it's low quality - that's OK by itself. It's that when it comes, it's not enough, and you are left unsatisfied. And this is the same kind of deception I find employed at most fast food places. They promise you a meal and you're tempted into it by marketing and because you're hungry but you are always left regretful.
>> No. 13008 Anonymous
6th May 2019
Monday 11:58 pm
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>>13005

I just got one on your recommendation, and it was okay, but it also came with coleslaw in it and not even a hint of mustard. I'm not sure what you ordered but it sounded better.
>> No. 13009 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 6:55 am
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>>13006
There's very little point in adding lettuce to a burger. They don't add anything to the flavour, they're simply there to make it look bigger. If I'm making a burger at home then I'll add rocket, but never lettuce.

>>13008
If you use the touchscreens or the app you can fully customise your order. When I say it's probably the nicest burger I've had at McDonald's the bar isn't exactly high.
>> No. 13010 Anonymous
7th May 2019
Tuesday 7:40 am
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>>13009

>they're simply there to make it look bigger

It's more for the texture, but I yield that you don't often get fresh crisp lettuce at maccy d's.
>> No. 13011 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 9:17 pm
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This evening I have been to Morrison's cafe, to take advantage of their two adult and two children meals for £10, including drinks.

I ordered their beef and ale pie. I was a little perturbed when the cafe worker asked if I wanted it with beans, peas or 'mushies' and I am still not convinced that referring to mushy peas as 'mushies' is actually a thing; if it is then it blooming well shouldn't be.

The food was served promptly and the portion sizes were generous. I opted for the (unmushed) peas which were invariably shades of green that I've never seen in peas before, but at least they tasted fine. The chips I'd rate as slightly above par.

The meat inside the pie was surprisingly tender and of a decent quality, albeit slightly lacking in flavour but the sauce had a subtle richness to it. The pastry also had a pleasant crunch to it; it wasn't slightly raw, soggy or stodgy as you get in other establishments of a similar calibre.

The kiddiewonks opted for pizza and chips. Again the portion sizes were generous and the pizzas appeared to have been prepared on site. They had very little cheese on top so the overwhelming flavour was of the tomato puree.

The cafe was around one-third full, which isn't entirely surprising for a Wednesday evening. The other diners were families or elderly but fortunately the atmosphere was calm rather than the air being filled with the annoying screeching of children you'd have got in perhaps an Asda or a Tesco cafe, but Morrison's seems to have a slightly higher standard of clientele.

All in all, at £2.50 per head you can do a lot worse than this.
>> No. 13012 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 9:40 pm
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>>13011

I'm not sure how we can top this. Does someone want to review a soup kitchen? The bins round the back of Greggs?
>> No. 13013 Anonymous
8th May 2019
Wednesday 9:45 pm
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>>13012
We could just turn the place into a parody of one of those wanky food blogs though; that would be amusing.
>> No. 13014 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 12:53 am
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>>13011
>the cafe worker asked if I wanted it with beans, peas or 'mushies' and I am still not convinced that referring to mushy peas as 'mushies' is actually a thing
You know how sometimes a weed dealer will work in fast food and give you a bag if you use a code word when ordering your food?
>> No. 13015 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 6:55 am
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>>13014
No.
>> No. 13016 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 12:59 pm
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>>13015
Let me rephrase;
You know how sometimes on TV a weed dealer will work in fast food and give TV people a bag if they use a code word when ordering their food?
>> No. 13017 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 1:28 pm
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>>13016
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-bristol-37864218/gang-which-dealt-350k-worth-of-drugs-from-bristol-takeaway-is-jailed
>> No. 13018 Anonymous
9th May 2019
Thursday 2:16 pm
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>>13016

It happens in real life too. If you ask for the special pizza at the Happy Chip in Newcastle they'll sell you pills.
>> No. 13019 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 2:55 pm
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>>13018
Yeah. I don't know how it worked exactly, but my mates used to order a Dominos and get weed delivered at the same time.
>> No. 13020 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 8:42 pm
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>>13019
The dream.
>> No. 13021 Anonymous
24th May 2019
Friday 9:19 pm
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>>13020

I'd rather have Papa Johns and cocaine, to be honest.
>> No. 13022 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:10 am
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>>13021

Never had a Papa John's. I'm assuming it's similar to Domino's (i.e excruciatingly overpriced), how do they compare?

Still fucking baffles me how you can get away charging near 20 quid for a bloody pizza though, and people defend it because "it's pretty good if you go for the offers". It fucking isn't, you can get a better pizza for £3.50 from the counter at Asda.
>> No. 13023 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:18 am
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>>13022
The only difference is the pizza sauce, which I think is better. Otherwise it's exactly the same as Dominos, right down to the pricing.
>> No. 13024 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 12:21 am
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>>13022
Asda wont deliver that on its own though mate, I don't drive; my nearest Asda is 8 miles away, and based on my own anecdotal evidence of my consumption, these places get by on taking advantage of drunk people.
>> No. 13025 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 4:28 am
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>>13022

I prefer the sauce, cheese, and crust texture of a Papa John's, I just think they're all around better, at least in the thin crust game.

I agree with you that they're ludicrously expensive, and not really even "good pizza" anyway - what I should really do is invest in a decent pizza oven and have actual nice pizza on tap. But as it stands, I'm a fat, rich cunt so don't mind paying £25 for two XL pizzas and some chicken wings and some dips.
>> No. 13026 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 7:32 am
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>>13022
>Still fucking baffles me how you can get away charging near 20 quid for a bloody pizza though, and people defend it because "it's pretty good if you go for the offers"

I don't understand why Domino's have ridiculous prices for their pizzas, with constant offers on, rather than lowering the prices and getting rid of the offers. Surely there can't be that many idiots who'd pay full price for them?
>> No. 13027 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 7:38 am
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>>13026

Offers drive sales. A 12 quid pizza is expensive, but an £18 pizza with ONE WHOLE PIZZA FREE ON TOP OF THAT!!! Is a bargain.

It really does work.
>> No. 13028 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 9:37 am
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>>13027
What if you don't want that much pizza?
>> No. 13029 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 9:53 am
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>>13028
Save it for later.
>> No. 13030 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:14 am
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>>13029
What if you find leftover takeaway pizza pretty grim?
>> No. 13031 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 10:27 am
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>>13030
Then you are truly lost.
>> No. 13032 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 11:56 am
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>>13030
DOES NOT COMPUTE
>> No. 13033 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 2:02 pm
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>>13032
Part of takeaway pizza for me was the rush. It arrives, a huge meaty spicy monster, I scoff it down all to myself in a ridiculously short amount of time, and then it's over. I've had my fix and then I just want to lie around and digest while feeling disgusted with myself. The idea of then having more pizza later on or the next day is absurd. So I very rarely get it anymore because there never seems to be any decent deals anymore for the fat greedy loner who wants to spend about a tenner on a big pizza.
>> No. 13034 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 2:07 pm
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>>13033
If you've never had leftover pizza for breakfast then you are truly missing out on life.
>> No. 13035 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 2:47 pm
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>>13030

Then you're doing it wrong.

Take a pan, heat it up, stick your pizza in there, add a few splashes of water and cover the pan for about a minute or two - the result is usually better than the pizza as delivered.
>> No. 13036 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 2:49 pm
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>>13035

You're supposed to eat it cold, while slumped on the kitchen floor in a hungover mess.
>> No. 13037 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 6:08 pm
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Anyone should know that leftover pizza is one of the best things to exist in this miraculous universe of ours.

However, that's yet another way Domino's and their ilk fall short. Their pizza dries out and loses flavour overnight, and it doesn't take reheating well at all. This is contrary to the cheap, dirty kind of pizza you get from Alis Kebab Shack, which only improves to a subtler depth of flavour and richer texture when consumed cold; and develops a satisfying crisp tanginess when reheated.

It's like anything Yank made. Cars, donuts, guitars... You're paying over the odds for something that is objectively worse in almost every possible metric.
>> No. 13105 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 7:38 pm
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I've had an XL bacon double cheeseburger meal today. It was a bit of a disappointment. Definitely not worth the £7.50 it cost. Burger King seem to have gone right downhill.
>> No. 13106 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 7:46 pm
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>>13037
Never been a lover of dominoes, it's just soggy bland muck. Papa johns is overprices but tastes nice at least, I think it's good cold too.
Local independent pizza shops and kebab shops and their ilk, ehhhh too hit and miss. They use the crappiest ingredients they can get their hands on to get the price down to compete with the franchises.
>> No. 13107 Anonymous
19th October 2019
Saturday 8:04 pm
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Chicago Town > Domino's.
>> No. 13116 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 6:37 pm
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>>13105
>Burger King seem to have gone right downhill.
For me the end of Burger King as something I'd look forwards to as a treat was when they changed their fries. They used to be delicious and crunchy, now they're just the bog standard soggy, tasteless chips you'd get in any canteen in the land. I only eat one these days if I'm on the road and hungry enough not to wait to find something better. Once or twice a year, if that.

>Definitely not worth the £7.50 it cost.
The difference in price vs. McDonalds is quite pronounced these days. You don't get much change back from a tenner, which is enough to buy proper food from a pub.
>> No. 13119 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 7:18 pm
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>>13116
A Big Mac and fries is £1.99. If you're paying £7.50 for a meal in McDonalds you're a fucking mug.
>> No. 13120 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 8:09 pm
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>>13119
Yeah, but Big Macs are shite.
>> No. 13121 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 9:52 pm
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>>13119

>Big Mac and fries is £1.99

Is it? I thought a Big Mac was about three quid now?

>>13120

Incorrect. They're actually really nice.
>> No. 13122 Anonymous
25th October 2019
Friday 11:59 pm
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>>13121
>> No. 13154 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 1:24 pm
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Today I have been to Barnsley Bowl, Barnsley's #2 bowling establishment.

Instead of leaving a lengthy review of my all day breakfast, possibly the worst cooked breakfast I've ever had, I'm going to sum the experience up with an image.
>> No. 13155 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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>>13154

I've told you lot before. They're fucking obsessed with black pudding.
>> No. 13156 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 1:40 pm
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>>13154
I love bowling and I love a breakfast, but that's just (pig) disgusting.
>> No. 13157 Anonymous
24th December 2019
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>13154
I've honestly never been to a place with so many signs up promoting black pudding. They had a couple of monitors up and they spent most of the time with the image about the black puddings on.
>> No. 13161 Anonymous
28th December 2019
Saturday 7:54 pm
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>>13154 2 slices for 75p? Fuck me, that's a decent margin. B&M do a tolerable 10"er for a quid, 5p a slice?
Although, thinking about it, the ingredient cost for the rest of that
(horrendous looking) plate can't be more than 40p, so maybe it's about the same ratio? Any industro-cheflads lurking?
>> No. 13164 Anonymous
2nd January 2020
Thursday 9:43 pm
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Can someone please try the Vegan KFC and report back?
>> No. 13165 Anonymous
2nd January 2020
Thursday 10:13 pm
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>>13164
I will definitely do this for you.

Be interesting to see what the new Greggs Steak Bake is like too.
>> No. 13166 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 6:40 pm
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>>13165
I've tried the vegan steak bake today. The promo pictures are misleading as I can't recall a single 'meaty' chunk inside; instead it was tiny pieces of mince inside gravy/lava. There was also more air and less filling than I anticipated. It took me a little while to pinpoint the taste; at first I thought it was similar to a Linda McCartney country pie, but then it dawned on me that it was like the mince from Quorn's awful cottage pie ready meals.

At least I can claim £2 via TopCashback, but I'd give it a 3/10 and wouldn't buy it again. I suppose it makes sense if you think about it; I like a Greggs vegan sausage roll and Quorn's chilled sausage rolls are quite nice whereas I disliked the Greggs vegan steak bake but that's unsurprising because Quorn mince products are dreadful.
>> No. 13167 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 6:43 pm
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>>13166
I'm of the opinion that vegan mince (frankly any vegan "meat" product) tastes like fucking hair and I would never eat the stuff again.
>> No. 13168 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 7:00 pm
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I've never eaten a meat substitute apart from all the shit they cut animal meat with but I'd like to give one of them Impossible Burgers a try. Do they only have those in America? That'd be a shame because I can never go to America because catamarans take far too long.
>> No. 13169 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 7:01 pm
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>>13167
The only decent vegetarian mince I've had is Tesco's soya mince that you rehydrate but I think they've discontinued it. All other vegetarian mince I've tried tastes shite and it tends to overpower whatever you try to cook it with.
>> No. 13170 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 7:03 pm
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>>13169
Paul Joseph Watson.mp4
>> No. 13171 Anonymous
4th January 2020
Saturday 7:05 pm
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>>13166
I tried it too. There was definitely one lump in it but I suspect if there were others they'd disintegrated.
It was a perfectly serviceable steak bake, mainly tasted of onion, a hint of pepper and burning the skin off my mouth.

>>13168
Iceland do some decent vegan burgers. They're not quite right but they're the most meatlike I've tried.
>> No. 13172 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 3:43 am
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>>13169

I thought the fact Holland and Barretts' comes in the same pack size might mean it's the same somehow but I've never tried it.
>> No. 13173 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 10:09 am
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>>13171
I'd say Linda McCartney burgers edge Iceland burgers; the last time I went to a barbecue they only had cheap meat burgers so the Linda McCartney ones were actually nicer to eat. Not burgers, but I got a couple of Oumph! products yesterday so I'll see what they're like.

>>13172
For whatever reason most other dried soya mince I've tried ends up too chewy and rubbery.
>> No. 13174 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 10:37 am
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>>13173
I'll never forgive her for what she did to Paul. And for all I know there's probably bits of her old leg in there.
>> No. 13175 Anonymous
5th January 2020
Sunday 11:34 am
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>>13174
That's Heather Mills.
>> No. 13176 Anonymous
7th January 2020
Tuesday 7:09 am
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>>13164
It’s fine if a little dry, though the sauce makes up for it. The batter pulls most of the weight as expected. Perfectly inoffensive but nothing to write home about, basically.
>> No. 13553 Anonymous
23rd July 2020
Thursday 9:50 pm
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Nando's are taking part in the eat out to help out scheme. With the VAT cut it means you will be able to get a quarter of a chicken and two sides for £3.38.

This is how Rishi becomes PM.
>> No. 13588 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 8:23 pm
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Is having a flat arse a prerequisite to queuing up for a half price Nando's?
>> No. 13589 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 8:46 pm
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>>13588
Only as much as perving on teenagers is a prerequisite for posting on .gs
>> No. 13590 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 9:01 pm
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>>13589

If they're teenagers then standards are really starting to slip. Talk about a lost generation, broken fucking Britain.
>> No. 13591 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 9:12 pm
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>>13590
Better that than your Yewtree generation, our Jimmy.
>> No. 13592 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 9:21 pm
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>>13591
>our

Mods, arrest this lad for juvenile delinquency.
>> No. 13593 Anonymous
3rd August 2020
Monday 9:35 pm
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>>13591

Now then, now then. Back in my day the teenagers might have all had hairy fannies and polio but at least they didn't look like saggy thirty-something sunbed victims with two kids and a boyfriend doing a stretch for domestic violence.
>> No. 13597 Anonymous
10th August 2020
Monday 8:59 pm
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This evening I've been to a Greene King pub. The clientele were matching the target market of 'Harvester for chavs' as one man aggressively demanded they served him bread with dripping despite it not being on the menu and various women in boob tubes made statements along the lines of 'ah were reet looking forward to it anorl' once they found out it was fully booked.

Anyway, what I found intriguing was that you were encouraged to order through their app. Apart from when your meal and drinks was brought over you could spend the entire were there without integrating with a single member of staff.
>> No. 13598 Anonymous
10th August 2020
Monday 9:13 pm
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>>13588
Why aren't any of them wearing masks?
>> No. 13599 Anonymous
10th August 2020
Monday 9:18 pm
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>>13598

You don't need to wear them in a restaurant (or indeed a Nandos).

Boris sed.
>> No. 13600 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 7:46 am
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>>13597
Chavs eat bread with dripping and have Geordie accents? Think you're a bit mixed up lad.
>> No. 13601 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 8:49 am
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>>13600
Greene King specifically position themselves as 'Harvester for chavs', >>12474. Demanding that you are served bread with dripping when it's not on the menu seems like a fairly decent indicator whether someone is a bit council or not.
>> No. 13602 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 9:10 am
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Isn't Harvester already for chavs?
>> No. 13603 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 11:08 am
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>>13602
Imagine specifically aiming to cater for a downmarket version of that.
>> No. 13604 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 11:58 am
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>>13602
Do they even still exist?
>> No. 13605 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 5:59 pm
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>>13601
Again, I just don't associate bread and dripping with the person pictured. Maybe your meaning of 'chav' is a lot broader than mine, it sounds like you use it to refer to any working class person.
>> No. 13606 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 6:07 pm
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>>13605
It's also really old-fashioned - my nan used to like bread + dripping, but I haven't heard the phrase for fucking years. I'm not sure most chavs would know what it is.
>> No. 13608 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 6:23 pm
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>>13606

Right - I can't imagine anyone under 55 really requesting it in earnest, and I think at 30 I'm really scraping by the lower age limit of even just knowing what it is, and I only know because my mam and grandparents talked about it.

If they were 60 year old chavs then I suppose, but they just sound like old scratters over chavs.
>> No. 13609 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>13606
Bread and dripping is honestly something I'd expect to find on a very poncy modern British restaurant. I once had whipped, salted dripping instead of butter with the obligatory bread and it was lovely.
>> No. 13610 Anonymous
11th August 2020
Tuesday 6:53 pm
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>>13609

I did think that too.

Give it 15 years and Heston will be serving a black pudding stack too.
>> No. 13635 Anonymous
16th August 2020
Sunday 8:58 am
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>Some restaurants and pubs are withdrawing from the Eat Out to Help Out scheme because of "hostility towards staff".

>Under the scheme the government pays half of the bill on meals served from Monday to Wednesdays throughout August. Owners says a surge in demand on these days has led to staff being shouted at, and "physical and mental stress".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53769749

This is why we can't have nice things.
>> No. 13655 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 12:53 am
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>>13635
This is entirely to do with people who've not been out in 30 years spying a bargain and not realising the can't punch the waitress for the kitchen burning their steak pie like they could the missus and being apoplectic with rage about it.
>> No. 13656 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 4:01 am
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>>13635
I have a Harvester across the road. For the last couple of weeks they've been fully booked all through Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but even with reduced capacity still taking walk-ins at the weekend.
>> No. 13657 Anonymous
25th August 2020
Tuesday 9:14 am
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>>13656
Given what utter (cheap) bastards most people are, I can't see people magically deciding to go out more when the scheme stops - there'll just be moaning about Why Can't I Have Half Price etc.
>> No. 13658 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 10:41 am
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>"When are we going to get this opportunity again?" says Danielle Hughes, from Livingston in West Lothian. She estimates that she's saved £150 on eating out this month - money that's been stumped up by the taxpayer.

>Danielle, 24, has eaten out every day that the scheme has been going, and sometimes twice a day. She plans to continue until the offer ends on 31 August.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53894998

If you've spent £150 on meals worth £300 that you wouldn't have bought otherwise are you really saving money?
>> No. 13659 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 12:49 pm
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>>13658
>If you've spent £150 on meals worth £300 that you wouldn't have bought otherwise are you really saving money?


Your math is off they would have still eaten something.

And more importantly you failed to grasp a concept more important than saving, improved quality of life.

It isn't that they have saved money it is that they can live in a way they couldn't afford previously, For Danielle I imagine this to be her little slice of heaven in what is otherwise shitty time to be living through. Like when my gran was on her death bed I used to make the effort to visit her every day because I knew when I came round and gave her a hard dicking was the highlight of her day. Some say it is the little things that make life worth living my gran said it was my big thing.
>> No. 13660 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 12:57 pm
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>>13659
mathsssss.
>> No. 13661 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 1:09 pm
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>>13659
Is going to Wagamama five times in about three weeks an improved quality of life?
>> No. 13662 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>13661
If you live alone cooking for yourself can be expensive; also, Wagamama is often excellent so let's not be snobbish about it.
>> No. 13663 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 1:57 pm
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>>13661

It is rather self-explanatory from the fact that they have chosen to do it when the opportunity presented itself.

I wouldn't choose to do it, but that isn't the point is it, it is about having the choice.
>> No. 13664 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:02 pm
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>>13662
>If you live alone cooking for yourself can be expensive

How on Earth, mate? It's literally cheaper than going out.
>> No. 13665 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:10 pm
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>>13664

You know what is even better than being cheap though? Not having to do any fucking work. You could save loads of money by cooking a chicken broth for 12 hours, but don't pretend that your life is better than the restaurant steak eater. If you value your time based on what you save compared to going out for food, most of the time it seems people like you value themselves at less than minimum wage.
>> No. 13666 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:34 pm
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>You know what is even better than being cheap though? Not having to do any fucking work

It's really not hard to cook restaurant quality food at home for cheaper without it being a chore, but yes you're right it is easier to be lazy. Think I'll enjoy good food and saving money, thanks.
>> No. 13667 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:46 pm
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>>13666
>It's really not hard to cook restaurant quality food at home for cheaper without it being a chore

Mate, good/cheap/easy is a classic iron triangle.
>> No. 13668 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:47 pm
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>>13665
Lad, if cooking at home is more expensive than eating out then you're doing it wrong. Why spend more for less?
>> No. 13669 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 2:59 pm
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>>13666
You can get you clothes cleaned for cheeper and better if you hand wash them too.

You can also get a better quality table for cheaper if you just build it yourself.

you can also get clothes that fit better for cheeper if you just make them yourself.

you can do all these things at home for cheaper without it being a chore but I guess you are fucking lazy too.
>> No. 13670 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 3:04 pm
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>>13669
Diddums.
>> No. 13672 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 3:28 pm
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>>13670

"And then the mean man pointed out that there are lots of tasks we take short cuts for by trading money for free time so why should food be special, and I didn't have a retort so I said diddums".
>> No. 13673 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 3:36 pm
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>>13667
It really is; time is money and I doubt most people in this thread can cook restaurant quality food on their own.
>> No. 13675 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 3:40 pm
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>>13672
Whatever cheers you up mate, I hope you have a better day.
>> No. 13676 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 3:45 pm
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Does anyone else find fakeaways a bit weird? I'm not going to disparage anyone who is cooking but when people were replicating McDonald's and Nando's at home because they were shut if seems a bit... limited.
>> No. 13677 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 4:12 pm
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>>13673
There's also value in diversity. Sure, I could cook up a massive batch of curry on a Sunday, but then I'm stuck eating a progressively-worsening curry all week, and nobody deserves to be put off curry like that.
>> No. 13679 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 4:21 pm
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>>13677
That's exactly what I meant about cooking for one - there aren't many recipes for, say, a curry, or a stew, or a chilli or bolognese - or to bring it back to the Wagamama challenge, how to cook enough kombu dashi for one. You end up cooking too much, and then wasting a load.

There is probably a gap in the market for recipe books for one - but that's also a lot of the reason why young/single people eat out a lot, separate from the time argument.
>> No. 13680 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 4:37 pm
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>>13679
>You end up cooking too much, and then wasting a load.

Use a tub, use your freezer.
>> No. 13681 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 4:38 pm
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>>13680
All very sensible, of course - but most people don't do that, and that's why they eat out.
>> No. 13683 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 4:43 pm
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>>13681
I think this whole pandemic's proven by now that most people are not sensible.
>> No. 13684 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 5:27 pm
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>>13680
From the thumbnail it looks like their ingredients include a bowl of Cadburys mini eggs.
>> No. 13685 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 5:28 pm
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>>13684
Also I am so pissed off at how shit C*dburys have become that I move we make posting that word a bannable offence.
>> No. 13694 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 8:13 pm
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>>13685

Their take over by Kraft was the death knell of another great British institution.

This is the sort of thing Starmer should be using against the Tories. They style themselves as the pro-British party, and here we are, with the Yanks putting oil in our bastard chocolate.

Cadbury's fucking chocolate, a national institution and identifying brand, on par with the fucking Beatles or Yorkshire fucking Tea, torn down and raped, left nothing but a repackaged shadow of that waxy Hershey's shite.

Broken Britain indeed.
>> No. 13695 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 8:15 pm
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>>13685 those loathsome tossers tempted me with a bar of coconut chocolate. I love that combination.
Why was wheat flour ingredient number 4? It didn't even occur to me to read the ingredients, until the crashing headache started.
So yes, bannable is fine by me. They make terrible chocolate, and now adulterate even that.
>> No. 13698 Anonymous
26th August 2020
Wednesday 9:13 pm
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>>13676
I had some chicken legs and potatoes that were going off and no space in the freezer so decided to make a version of Nando's with mash and because I didn't cook the chicken until it was drier than the Sahara it tasted far better.

I wouldn't go out of my way to make takeaway-style food, though.
>> No. 13700 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 1:00 am
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>>13695
So what's the replacement national chocolate institution? I really liked Dubble bars as a kid so perhaps Divine?

Or I saw this on Dragon's Den the other night, I think Peter Jones said it was the best chocolate he'd ever tasted (though that might have just been because he ended up investing):

https://pureheavenly.com/
>> No. 13701 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 1:06 am
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>>13700
I want to believe this is UK based but it probably isn't.

https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk

I think we should give the crown to Green & Blacks - I know they're johnnie-come-lately but it's the best we have. Maya Gold for the win, but I also really like the Ginger one. The Hazelnut & Currant one is also excellent. My wife loves the sea salt one too, and me a bit more if I buy any of them for her.
>> No. 13702 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 1:49 am
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>>13701
Are you taking the mickey - Green & Black's are owned by Cadbury.
>> No. 13703 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 10:18 am
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>>13702
Pretty much every brand of chocolate out there is owned by Kraft or Mars. I think your best bet for widely-available chocolate is Lindt.
>> No. 13704 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 10:20 am
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>>13703
*Kraft, Mondelez, or Mars.
>> No. 13705 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 10:52 am
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On the cooking for One point, I have some leftover mash and want to make some potato cakes, but you can't buy a single egg. Sure, I could use flour, but it's nowhere near as good at binding.
>> No. 13706 Anonymous
27th August 2020
Thursday 11:36 am
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Tony's Chocolonely is starting to make its way over here at long last. It's Dutch but privately owned, fair trade, and actually properly manufactured. Their dark milk bars easily trump the reformulated Cadbury's Dairy Milk while being more toothsome and less wanky than Lindt.

One company I wouldn't mind shilling for because it's just that bloody nice.
>> No. 13738 Anonymous
7th September 2020
Monday 10:57 am
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SCIENCE HAS GONE TOO FAR.
>> No. 13748 Anonymous
7th September 2020
Monday 8:35 pm
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>>13706
Might give that a look, lad. Thanks.
>> No. 13792 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 5:50 pm
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Anyone know of some chocolate that tastes like Toblerone but without the nougat? I'm considering just melting a bunch of them down and using a sieve to filter out the crap.
>> No. 13793 Anonymous
13th September 2020
Sunday 7:11 pm
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>>13792

Milka used to be basically the same, but both brands are owned by Mondelez now so fuck knows. Lindt or Ritter milk chocolate is probably fairly similar.
>> No. 13852 Anonymous
30th September 2020
Wednesday 2:50 pm
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>>5886
>Subway
>one of the rare sources of healthy fast food.

Sandwiches in Subway 'too sugary to meet legal definition of being bread'

https://independent.ie/irish-news/courts/sandwiches-in-subway-too-sugary-to-meet-legal-definition-of-being-bread-39574778.html
>> No. 13853 Anonymous
1st October 2020
Thursday 6:58 am
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>>13852
I've always thought that - the bread just tastes weird like a crap brioche.
>> No. 14002 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 9:07 pm
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>A new Channel 4 show called Inside KFC at Christmas has become a talking point for viewers. The show revealed a worker making the chain's popular gravy side, and some fans are claiming it has put them off ordering it. The series takes place in different branches of KFC across the country, revealing what it's really like to work in one of the UK's most popular fast food restaurants.

>Staff member Anne, who works at a branch in Peterlee, County Durham, revealed the secrets to KFC gravy. The branch sells enough gravy in a week to fill nine bathtubs and Anne explained that she makes it by adding two scoops of 'crackling' to 3.5 litres of cold water. But it's not crackling in the way many of us know, like pork crackling, as the show's narrator revealed that KFC crackling is made up of left overs from the bottom of the chicken fryer!

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/inside-kfc-gravy-making-secrets-19483133
>> No. 14003 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 9:22 pm
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>>14002

I thought everyone knew this.

I suppose it does sound rank, but gravy is and always has been made with little bits of stuff stuck to the bottom of a pan, so it's not actually in any way weird or horrible*

*unless they don't change their oil or clean their fryers often, but I contend that the definitely do since one of their most popular products depends on it
>> No. 14004 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 9:38 pm
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>>14002
Weird hit-piece to make before Christmas. Is Aunt Bessie worried people will be copying the Japanese this year?

>>14003
Reminds me of when Jamie Oliver told drunk people outside a burger van that the patties contained heart-meat and nobody cared.
>> No. 14005 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 9:45 pm
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>>14004
The clip of Oliver showing kids how chicken nuggets are made is brilliant.
>> No. 14006 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 9:54 pm
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>>14005

I fucking love it, and again don't really understand what's supposed to be disgusting about blending up and forming meat - why is it bad when it's a nugget but fine when it's goose organs in a paté?
>> No. 14007 Anonymous
19th December 2020
Saturday 10:59 pm
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>>14002

Greater trespasses have been committed in the process of making jus, yet no-one gives a fuck because it tastes good.
>> No. 14008 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 12:48 am
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KFC gravy is overrated as fuck anyway, I don't know why people care so much.

It used to be in my top 3 fast food establishments but ever since they changed the chips it's been much lower in my estimations. Last time I got a bucket it only had one fucking drumstick in. Everyone knows drumsticks are better than thighs.
>> No. 14009 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:05 am
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>>14006
>why is it bad when it's a nugget but fine when it's goose organs in a paté?

Because poor people eat nuggets.
>> No. 14010 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:12 am
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>>14009
Are you the same weirdo who keeps saying "povvo"? Or are you just one of those people who likes ruining things?
>> No. 14011 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 8:21 am
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>>14010

I think you might have misinterpreted his intent on that one.
>> No. 14012 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 8:26 am
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>>14010
u w0t m8. He's just offering a very plausable explanation. Working class food / culture is often looked down upon here, but import something similar from France and use the french name and suddenly it's classy and sophisticated.
>> No. 14013 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 9:02 am
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There's a lad here who tends to completely miss the point when certain topics are raised; he has a knee-jerk reaction the moment he sees them mentioned and leaps to their defence even when they're not being criticised.
>> No. 14014 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 9:09 am
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>>14012
Precisely. The irony is that what is imported is usually cheap street food in its source country as well.
>> No. 14015 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 10:34 am
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>>14009

Relevant:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8863795/jamie-oliver-unhealthy-snacks-fattier-than-mcdonalds/
>> No. 14016 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 10:37 am
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>>14015
People are eating croissants and expecting them to be healthy?
>> No. 14017 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 10:49 am
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>>14016

No, but people probably expect their egg sandwich to have fewer calories than a big mac, and Oliver has worked hard to promote that belief.
>> No. 14018 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 10:53 am
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>>14017
Why? I've never had an egg sandwich on the basis of how it compares to a Big Mac. Surely the benchmark should be other prepackaged sandwiches.
>> No. 14019 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 11:05 am
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>>14018

Maybe you're in a motorway service station and you have a choice between eating at mcdonald's or buying a sandwich from the shop next to it. As this is where he sells his sandwiches it's not exactly a stretch.
>> No. 14020 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 12:02 pm
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>>14016

I don't think that anyone expects a Turkey Twizzler or a chicken nugget to be healthy. They may well expect food being sold under the Jamie Oliver brand to be healthy, given that he has spent most of the last decade banging on about healthy eating.

Looking at the food that Jamie Oliver makes, sells and promotes lays his hypocrisy bare - it's not about nutrition, it's about a classist notion of "good food" and "bad food". The "shit in a tray" ready meal that Oliver says you shouldn't be eating is almost certainly better for you than the recipe he suggests you cook instead.

https://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2012/12/17/popular-tv-chef-recipes-%E2%80%9Cless-healthy%E2%80%9D-supermarket-ready-meals
>> No. 14021 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 12:57 pm
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>>14002
Don't see a problem with the gravy at all, gravy's just overcooked bits mixed with seasonings and stock. If you had to cook the equivalent of 10 roast dinners a day, I assume that would be busy for a fried chicken place, your pans will probably have a massive clump of cooked bits stuck to them. Why waste taste? (which is what she said)

>>14006
Proponents of "nose to tail" eating are mysteriously horrified at mechanically recovered meat shocker. It's always been more to do with class, snobbery and being holier-than-thou than anything else.
The production of foodstuffs from every last particle of profitably/worthwhile recoverable meat from a carcass should be the very epitome of "nose to tail," but apparently only liver from a rare breed of chicken that gets wanked off daily by diligent farmhands after being hand fed grapes will do.

>>14012
Ditto.
>> No. 14022 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 12:59 pm
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>>14021

>It's always been more to do with class, snobbery and being holier-than-thou than anything else

Fuck, everything really is about class, isn't it?
>> No. 14023 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 1:04 pm
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I always assumed the point of shocking people with the process that makes the food is because the food's unhealthy. Pâté is also unhealthy but nobody really eats it in the same quantities as fast food generally is, can be, or is marketed to be. You put a smear of it on bread, you don't eat a box of deep-fried pâté nuggets.
The process of creating any animal product for consumption is going to be extremely unpleasant if you go and see it happen.
>> No. 14024 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 1:11 pm
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>>14022
Yeah, you're a fucker who's destroying a planet getting every last scrap from the bottom of a processing vat or MRM, but I can afford to have said wanked off chickens whose production model is absolutely, completely unattainable to be affordable to more than half the population, unless the entire countryside were dotted with small chicken coops every 50 or so yards. Have a look at yourself! Using all that extra energy to get a few more kilos of reformed chicken kievs! Disgusting peasant.

My experience of working with poultry informs me that free range barn chickens are absurd. Thousands upon thousands of birds in a shed with open gates on the side, and barely ten or so move further than 10 yards. Being open to the air has about the same chance of the birds testing positive for bird flu anyway, wild birds shitting near them is just as likely to pass on pathogens as birds kept inside with (defined by DEFRA) reasonable stock density.
>> No. 14025 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:09 pm
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>>14023

>you don't eat a box of deep-fried pâté nuggets

Oh I can assure you I would though.
>> No. 14026 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 2:48 pm
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>>14023

>you don't eat a box of deep-fried pâté nuggets.

Heston Blumenthal might serve a single pâté nugget as part of a 13-course tasting menu.
>> No. 14027 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 3:06 pm
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>>14025

Nobu had tempura foie gras on the menu at one point.
>> No. 14028 Anonymous
20th December 2020
Sunday 5:16 pm
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>>14022

Imagine I posted the "always has been" astronaut meme.
>> No. 14094 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 7:49 am
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>Brexit robbed me of my chance to try Nando's sauce, says British expat

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/19/brexit-robbed-chance-try-nandos-sauce-says-british-expat/

Not even Nando's sauce is safe from Brexit.
>> No. 14095 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 10:55 am
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>>14094
That's not very contumelious.
>> No. 14096 Anonymous
20th January 2021
Wednesday 10:59 am
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>>14095
Is this headline about it cheeky enough for you?
>> No. 14180 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 2:06 pm
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Burger King fries are always a disappointment.
>> No. 14181 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 2:46 pm
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>>14180
Frankly, I don't know how they manage to stay in business. You get a better burger than maccies but you're paying twice as much for the privilege with worse sides and usually your pop comes in a plastic bottle. They managed to reverse their decline through franchising all their restaurants but I still don't get what benefit that gives the consumer when the menu is deliberately standardised to a few items and there's not much scope elsewhere for local innovation.

You could just buy extra burger off the savers menu from maccies and have an altogether cheaper and more satisfying meal. If you still prioritise the burger over cost then you have Five Guys or one of the multitude of other more premium choices.
>> No. 14182 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 3:36 pm
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>>14181

Bring back Wimpy
>> No. 14183 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 4:38 pm
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They're still in business, still peddling benders-in-a-bun.
>> No. 14184 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 5:41 pm
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>>14183
You sure?
>> No. 14185 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 5:53 pm
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>>14184

I counted 72 uk locations on thier site unles they went under last week and haven't updated.
https://wimpy.uk.com/
>> No. 14186 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:04 pm
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>>14185
I was being fascetious. They still exist, but their history of how they tried, failed, and somtimes succeeded is fascinating. It's like the McDonalds that never was which still crops up in the least expected places.
>> No. 14187 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:11 pm
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>>14186

Everything about the Wimpy story is weird and interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpy_(restaurant)#History
>> No. 14188 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:12 pm
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>>14186

Wimpy feels like a relic of the 50s to me. Its the sort of place you should only get up at the far north end of the A1(M), in a crappy little wooden shack service station. You can imagine loads of mods pulling up there on scooters back in the day, like today's chavs in Corsas in the Maccies car park.

I like things that give you a window into the past like that. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
>> No. 14189 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:16 pm
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>>14188

That's what I'm saying. Wimpy is the Post-Brexit burger chain that British people deserve.

Let's bring back Mods too while we're at it.
>> No. 14190 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:21 pm
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I tried eating in Wimpy's the other year, it's McDonald's tier burgers at the price of Burger King, which they compensate for by giving you more of the chips and an entire onion in the bun.
>> No. 14191 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:29 pm
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>>14188
Do you ever wonder if a Little Chef and Wimpy ever took time out under their cloaks and huddled to remember the good times?
>> No. 14192 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:31 pm
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The thing I don't get about burger places like McDonalds, Burger King, Wimpy, whatever the other ones are, is:

How come they all taste totally empty? The burger itself is always like cardboard, and the flavour only comes from the sauce and cheese. They charge you a fiver for a burger and some chips but a plain old fashioned quarter pounder cheeseburger for £2 from the dodgy burger van outside B&Q is infinitely tastier.

Why isn't there a burger chain that just sells burger van burgers? No fuss, no fancy shit, they just ask you if you want onions or not and you put your own sauce on, and that's it. It'd instantly become my favourite.
>> No. 14193 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:41 pm
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>>14192
They used to sell tasty thing, but being a multinational got them attention to "health". Trans-fats, fat in general then sugar, you name the health story of the season. It's not that they couldn't have made a healthy burger that also tasted great but that the machine they built wasn't adaptable enough to make the change while maintaing taste. Meanwhile burger vans and smaller outfits don't have to care about PR, they can make what sells. Largely to people who get that buying a burger from a a burger van is is an indulgence.

There's an array of burger places around that try and do the "dirty burger" you describe, London is full of them and some of them have spread. The problem always is that a franchised setup will never be a joy driven enterprise.
>> No. 14194 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 6:44 pm
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>>14192
You can get them up and down the land; they're local joints rather than chains.
>> No. 14195 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 7:06 pm
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>>14194
Several of them are hidden chains (franchising isn't all about branding) or just sell the whole sale crap. The latter can work but let's be real: this is a nuanced discussaion about how fast food places work.
>> No. 14196 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 7:38 pm
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>>14192

Much of the taste of a burger van burger comes from the fact that the griddle is never properly cleaned and the burger patties are full of additives, flavourings and a lot of heart (literally). Multinational chains can't get away with that sort of thing.

McDonalds and Burger King brag about their burgers being 100% beef, which is probably necessary given the public suspicion about fast food but makes for a worse burger.
>> No. 14197 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 7:51 pm
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>>14196
I wonder if you could make an international burger corporation with heart. Just get enough money together and make a good burger company ignoring all the bullshit only a few snivelling whiners actually care about.

Make it a big success so that when the government tries to pressure you into ruining the taste you can just tell them to get bunned. Like employment law but for food standards. Maybe you would lose a few markets nobody cares about like Iceland but it would only win you followers in places like America.
>> No. 14198 Anonymous
21st February 2021
Sunday 11:57 pm
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>>14197
>I wonder if you could make an international burger corporation with heart.
I'm not sure heart makes a particularly good burger.
>> No. 14199 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 12:25 am
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>>14198
Oh sweet summer child, can you really say you've eaten a burger if you've not pulled an aorta from one at least once? Heart meat is delicious.
>> No. 14200 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 8:36 am
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>>14198

Beef heart is quite stringy and tough as a whole cut, but it's packed with flavour and adds structure and bite to minced meat. Rusk is basically flavourless, but it stops the juicy, flavoursome fat from dribbling out all over the grill. Prime cuts of beef have tender muscle with a marbling of fat, but in a burger you can just use lean trimmings and fat trimmings to achieve the same effect and you can use more flavourful visceral fat.

A good burger is like alchemy - the cheap crap actually makes the burger taste better if you combine it correctly. The ultra-economy burgers with pork or mechanically reclaimed chicken are a bridge too far, but there's a sweet spot near the bottom of the market. Upmarket chefs wank on about nose-to-tail eating and using tasty but gruesome cuts, but your local burger van has been at it for years.

Also, MSG is magic and you should buy a big bag of it right now. It makes everything taste richer and meatier. While you're at it, get a bottle of liquid smoke.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ajinomoto-MONOSODIUM-GLUTAMATE-454G-1LB/dp/B0050O7N4C/
>> No. 14201 Anonymous
22nd February 2021
Monday 9:10 am
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>>14200
>Upmarket chefs wank on about nose-to-tail eating and using tasty but gruesome cuts, but your local burger van has been at it for years.
Certainly yer genuine animal product, innit.

>While you're at it, get a bottle of liquid smoke.
I've never had a liquid smoke that didn't taste synthetic. There are ways to make your food smoky, that's not one of them.
>> No. 14202 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 6:46 pm
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>>14200
>MSG is magic
Indeed. Shame the cute panda bottles are difficult to find over here, I can't be arsed dealing with bags of crystalline powder in the kitchen. Maggi seasoning is a good second option but less versatile than pure MSG.

On a side note Ajinomoto has a really interesting corporate history and makes all kinds of weird and wonderful chemicals. The ongoing lacking supply of game consoles/CPUs/GPUs is rumoured in part to be due to a shortage of a substrate widely used in semiconductor manufacturing which they have a monopoly over.
>> No. 14203 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 7:01 pm
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>>14200

>While you're at it, get a bottle of liquid smoke.

Good heavens lad, we've got to have some form of standards. The stuff is rank.
>> No. 14204 Anonymous
24th February 2021
Wednesday 8:30 pm
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>>14202
MSG gives me insane nightmares.
>> No. 14246 Anonymous
9th March 2021
Tuesday 9:15 pm
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>>14204
What if you don't know you're eating it?

Can you get someone to spike you? Unless this is some commonplace thing of which I'm ignorant.
>> No. 14389 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 5:12 pm
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>> No. 14390 Anonymous
22nd May 2021
Saturday 5:24 pm
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>>14202
>Indeed. Shame the cute panda bottles are difficult to find over here, I can't be arsed dealing with bags of crystalline powder in the kitchen.
Just pour it from the bag into a jar of some sort. Same as you might do with sugar or flour.
>> No. 14391 Anonymous
23rd May 2021
Sunday 12:52 am
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>>14200
> Also, MSG is magic and you should buy a big bag of it right now.

MSG is great for sprucing up a dish, but it's one of those ingredients where getting the amount correct is much better than overdoing it. A 250g bag should last you a couple of weeks at least. I find that if a dish calls for salt, using half the amount of salt and about a quarter the amount in MSG works quite reliably. There isn't really a savoury dish that doesn't benefit from a pinch of MSG, even if the ingredients are already rich in it.
>> No. 14461 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 5:54 pm
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>If you ever saw the episode of Who's the Boss on the BBC about Brewdog a few years back you'd have seen how the owners are a pair of monumental bellends.

Former BrewDog employees have accused the craft beer company and its co-founder James Watts of fostering a “culture of fear” where workers were regularly bullied, insulted and “treated like objects” by senior staff.

The open letter, signed by 61 former workers, also alleges that senior staff at the fast-growing Scottish brewer pushed workers to cut corners by ignoring health and safety guidelines or on occasion bypassing customs checks when shipping beer overseas.

“Growth, at all costs, has always been perceived as the number one focus for the company,” the letter alleges. “Being treated like a human being was sadly not always a given for those working at BrewDog.”


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-staff-craft-beer-firm-letter

There's a turn-up for the books.
>> No. 14462 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 10:42 pm
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>>14461

Not surprising at all, their entire "we're cool punks who are your mates" marketing has always been very obviously bullshit, even before I knew the founders were posho cunts. And a quick look on their wikipedia page, the 'controversies' section is pretty fucking lengthy.
>> No. 14463 Anonymous
10th June 2021
Thursday 11:18 pm
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>>14462
I'm sure they're no worse than most other companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrewDog

>the Portman Group ruled that the labelling for Pink IPA breached Portman's Code of Conduct, upholding complaints from members of the public that the phrase "Beer for Girls", used on the packaging, was likely to appeal to under-18s.[45]
See? It's a storm in a teac-
>In a statement responding to the ruling, BrewDog dismissed the Portman Group's findings, saying "We’re as bothered about this Portman Group ruling as we are any other – that is, not at all."[46]
God, what utter wankers.
>> No. 14469 Anonymous
12th June 2021
Saturday 4:45 pm
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>>14462

If Brewdog were punks wouldn't they be making battery acid high strength cider?
>> No. 14491 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 4:05 pm
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To be fair to Brewdog, they pretty much single handedly brought craft beer and ale to the masses. They can't compete with a nice bottle of Hobgoblin though.
>> No. 14492 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 4:27 pm
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>>14491
I thought the Real Ale Twats were supposed to be hipsters themselves?
>> No. 14494 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 6:08 pm
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>>14492

Up until around 2007 the CAMRA guys were predominantly the older anoraky types who were into trains, and warhammers, and star trek (i.e. the good old days), then after Brewdog got Brits drinking IPA it's all these younger trendy types who care less about the beer than they do about doing tiktok dances with taps in the background.

This is the target market that has led to the recent trend in marketing all those expensive canned ales (Yeastie Boys and the like).

Get off my lawn.
>> No. 14495 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 7:13 pm
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>>14469

Breeding used to make decent beer, then they saw the money coming in and did what any corporation would do. Embraced wokism, encouraged dense people who had no idea of investment to give money. Because it was alternative. Employed socialist alternative types that bought into the Brewdog new model brewery. And all got suckered.
>> No. 14496 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:45 pm
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>>14491

Old Peculier or nowt.
>> No. 14497 Anonymous
19th June 2021
Saturday 9:53 pm
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>>14495
Your grammar is as poor as your opinions are nonsensical.
>> No. 14614 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 10:55 am
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>The restaurant group has had to shut around 50 outlets temporarily after apparently running short of its staple fare: peri peri chicken.

ITZ
>> No. 14615 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 12:42 pm
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>>14494
Craft beer's main conceit is that it's a break from tradition inasmuch that tried and tested malt/hop combinations are thrown out of the window in favour of serving up hyper strong, hyper bitter hop syrup that makes your teeth itch to people who are willing to pay a premium to be seen to be drinking shit.

This isn't to say all older beers were good, I mean, did anybody ever try Webster's Yorkshire/Pennine Bitter?
>> No. 14616 Anonymous
18th August 2021
Wednesday 5:03 pm
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>>14615
Yorkshire bitter? Sounds about right.
>> No. 14784 Anonymous
21st November 2021
Sunday 7:59 am
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This weekend I've tried the McDonald's festive stack. In other words, it's a bacon double cheeseburger but with added onion marmalade, crispy onion bits and one of those plasticky cheese slices that don't really melt.

It took almost 20 minutes to receive the order despite the fact that, for once, the place wasn't overrun with Deliveroo drivers.
>> No. 14785 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 1:18 pm
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This is essentially a loaf made of flour, mushroom, onion and carrot that you pour a pomegranate glaze on halfway through cooking and then shred with a couple of forks to make 'pulled lamb'. It was alright in a wrap with a bit of veg and salad but I wouldn't say that it tastes much like lamb.
>> No. 14786 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 1:18 pm
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Fucking hell wrong thread again.
>> No. 14787 Anonymous
23rd November 2021
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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>>14785

I like your cat. If you post some more pics of yours then I'll show you mine IYKWIM...
>> No. 14871 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 3:25 pm
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Greggs opens first ever drive-thru in Yorkshire

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/greggs-opens-first-ever-drive-22529545

How long have you lads been hiding drive-thru Greggs from me?
>> No. 14872 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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>>14871
We have a Greggs near me that is based in a BP garage, but not actual drive-through. Would visit every day to be honest.
>> No. 14873 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 4:16 pm
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>>14871
We've definitely posted about them before.
>> No. 14874 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 7:14 pm
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>>14871

There's been Greggs drive thrus in the North East for years. There's one at Sandy Lane services, which has also recently opened a drive thru chippy.
>> No. 14875 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 7:54 pm
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>>14874
>a drive thru chippy

Weeping at the thought of how beautiful a drive-thru chippy could be, if done well. A friend of mine and I often fantasise about buying a food truck and doing a mobile one. He's Polish, so we would call it Chipski.
>> No. 14876 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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There's a Shell garage in Portland in Somerset that has a drive through Greggs attached. That has been open for months now.
>> No. 14877 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 10:27 pm
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>>14875

They seem to have leaned a bit too non-traditional for my liking, nachos seem like a red flag, but I will certainly have a go - if the setup is that you order, then park in a bay and wait for your order to be cooked on demand then they are onto something. If they're trying to McDonald's it they can get fucked.
>> No. 14878 Anonymous
22nd December 2021
Wednesday 10:48 pm
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>>14877
I don't trust chippies that sell non-tradtional and/or non-seafood stuff. I like the fancier chippies that sell shell fish, and a battered sausage is a staple; but the ones that do nachos or kebabs or pizzas or curry, never good.
>> No. 14879 Anonymous
23rd December 2021
Thursday 8:31 pm
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>>14878
Right with you. The only encouraging thing on that menu is they charge 25p more for mushy peas than gravy/curry sauce; I'm expecting something good there.
>> No. 14881 Anonymous
25th December 2021
Saturday 9:54 am
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The Empire in Outwood has had a drive through for years.
>> No. 14882 Anonymous
25th December 2021
Saturday 10:00 am
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>>14881

And it's been shut for "refurbishment" for at least the last four.
>> No. 14991 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 9:06 pm
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I went to the Leeds McDonald's people say is 'disgusting' for my 30th birthday and had an awful time

I pulled in to the McDonald’s from the busy Easterly Road, which is next to a major roundabout. Blimey, it was busy. There were lots of cars in the car park, queuing up to order at the drive thru.

I remember visiting the drive-thru when I was younger, in my early twenties. It was late night, a group of children in tracksuits came over to our window as we pulled in and asked that we order them five dozen chicken nuggets. When it came to making our order, with the massive addition of nuggets, staff requested that we not order for them. They claimed the teens were making trouble and intimidating them. That’s just something I think about whenever I pass the Oakwood McDonald’s.

The exterior of the McDonald’s had changed vastly since I had last visited. I noticed there was now a big sign up, warning people not to park for longer than 90 minutes. This seemed like a fair and generous amount of time if you were visiting for a meal – perhaps not so fair if you were there hosting a birthday party, however. Fortunately, I wasn’t having a party, I was just there for a quick bite. As I mentioned, it was busy with cars entering so I was really relieved to see lots of zebra crossings scattered around the large car park. It made me feel a lot safer.

When I entered, I was met with disappointment. I wanted to experience the customer service, an element of the Maccies which had come under fire online. When I approached the counter, there was no one stood behind the service desk. One member of staff however was slumped with her back over the counter, scrolling through her phone. I asked her if I could be served at the counter. Her eyes darted in panic across the McDonald’s, looking for another member of staff.

“You can wait here but you’ll be waiting a while,” she said. I accepted this and went over to one of the digital display counters. There were a couple dozen of these dotted around the venue. I ordered a Big Mac meal (£5.79), a Filet-O-Fish (£3.59) and an apple pie (£1.09). I really wanted a milkshake to go with my meal – perhaps even a McFlurry but this wasn’t possible. I was told the ice cream machine was broken. Utterly typical. So I went for the Apple Pie instead, it wasn’t quite as fitting for a birthday treat but it would have to do.

I picked table service and wandered away to find somewhere cosy to sit. It is quite a large space in the dining are and I managed to find a seat tucked away in the corner. The uncomfortable wooden bench happened to be opposite a small children's play area. While I felt this was quite innovative for a Maccie D’s, it was cordoned off with bright yellow tape. It felt like I was sitting opposite a McCrime-scene. My fast-food took 11 minutes to arrive, fortunately I wasn’t in a hurry but usually McDonald’s arrives within five minutes of an order. Perhaps it had something to do with requesting table service, who knows.

I wasn’t the only person feeling impatient for my food. A pair of rowdy teenagers with their hoods up and wearing tracksuits were asking the cleaner angrily ‘where’s our food?!’ I felt sorry for the cleaner as he was in a precarious position. He politely told them that he’d check on the status of their meals. I felt like this whole interaction put customers in the venue on edge.

I also started to feel a little silly, clutching on to my 30th birthday candles and my party hat. As the clock was ticking, I began to think about my life. The series of decisions and events which had led to this moment. This moment on the eve of my birthday - hours before I progressed into the next decade of my life - as I waited for my food. I thought about the successes and mistakes I had made in my life. It’s at moments like this when the cold hand of existential dread sends shivers down my spine. I began to lose my appetite and feel a little sick.

The tartar sauce was sprayed across the corner of the burger and was smeared across the box, plus the cheese had been slapped beneath the burger. The fish burger clearly hadn’t received the care and attention to detail I was expecting. I had to scrape the burger bun across the cardboard box to collect the contents back into the sandwich. The rest of food was up to an adequate standard which was consistent with all the other McDonald’s I had visited. The Big Mac with its famous sauce was blissful. The fries were crunchy and delicate, although they became cold as I was eating which dampened my spirit during the meal. The apple pie only remained slightly warm when I dug into that.

It was probably the most disorganised McDonald’s I’d ever visited but I’m not blaming the staff, and especially not the man just mopping the floor or the woman scrolling through her phone at the counter.


https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/best-in-leeds/restaurants-bars/went-leeds-mcdonalds-people-say-22912926

There's definitely a trend in local journalism to send someone to McDonald's to write about their experiences.
>> No. 14992 Anonymous
17th February 2022
Thursday 11:25 pm
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The shite journos at Leeds Live should all be condemned to commute to the office by bus from Adel during rush hour forevermore.
>> No. 14993 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 12:26 am
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>>14992
Is Leeds Live a newspaper? Is that review likely to have been printed on actual paper? This would be the final insult to trees if so, to know your brethren were felled to accommodate a manchild's blog post about McDonald's.

(Obviously I am very sorry if the shite journalist in question happens to post here).
>> No. 14994 Anonymous
18th February 2022
Friday 12:36 am
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>>14993
A lot of local newspapers have fallen under the 'Live' umbrella, e.g. the Hull Daily Mail is Hull Live online, the Birmingham Mail is Birmingham Live online, the Stoke Sentinel is Stoke Live online, etc.

They're all owned by Reach, who also own The Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Express and OK Magazine, amongst others, which is why you'll constantly see stories regurgitated from one of the local papers they own into the nationals and vice versa.

Actually, looking into it, I think Leeds Live are completely separate and are just looking to piggyback off the Live branding.
>> No. 15145 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 8:29 pm
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McDonald's drive-thru in Leyland blocked by angry man who refused to wait for sausage and egg McMuffins

The stalemate began at around 9.30am shortly after the customer, Stuart Yates, 55, drove up to the restaurant on Churchill Way and requested the two breakfast meals.

He said: “A week ago I got made to wait in the car park for over 15 minutes. A lad spotted me and said ‘oh, it’s him again’, because last time I complained. They said go and wait in the car park… I said ‘I’m not going anywhere until I get my food’.”

The drive-thru lane has been closed and police have been called to the scene.


https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/mcdonalds-drive-thru-in-leyland-blocked-by-angry-man-who-refused-to-wait-for-sausage-and-egg-mcmuffins-3704035
>> No. 15146 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 9:55 pm
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"I want breakfast".
>> No. 15147 Anonymous
22nd May 2022
Sunday 10:10 pm
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>>15146
After blocking the drive-thru for two hours and being moved on by the police he went home and ordered a couple of Big Macs through Uber Eats.

https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/unhappy-mcdonalds-customer-moved-from-drive-thru-after-two-hour-hold-up-3704078
>> No. 15416 Anonymous
1st January 2023
Sunday 5:47 pm
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I've learnt that the best thing to order from McDonald's is whatever their wrap of the day is, which is usually some form of fried chicken in sauce. It costs about £3.90 for a medium meal with full fat Coke, so it's cheaper than their burgers and tastes a lot nicer too.
>> No. 15417 Anonymous
1st January 2023
Sunday 6:57 pm
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I think there should be a secret police that drags you off to ab underground prison, NKVD style, if you're a complete arsehole.
>> No. 15418 Anonymous
1st January 2023
Sunday 8:38 pm
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>>15417
They'd be quite busy.
>> No. 15424 Anonymous
2nd January 2023
Monday 10:37 pm
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We were in Frankie and Benny's earlier, which isn't the sort of place I usually choose to go to, but everywhere "better" had queues coming out the door, and at the end of the day it's always nice enough for what it is.

The poor staff must have been having a nightmare of a shift, though. We overheard a waiter telling the matron that they'd run out of pizza dough, so she had to tell everyone as she sat them down that there was no pizza. One couple behind us was ordering we heard the poor waitress say "I'm sorry, we don't have that." about three times before the woman asked "Well what DO you have?!"

Anyway we had a blue cheese burger with bacon on and some beef brisket on the fries, and it was lovely. A lot better than I remember their food being, but maybe I was just hungry and craving something greasy, smoky and indulgent. We were probably the only customers in there who were satisfied.
>> No. 15671 Anonymous
18th September 2023
Monday 4:23 pm
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If you live in parts of Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff then Aldi are trialling takeaway pizza for £3.99 delivered.

https://www.aldipizzadelivery.co.uk/
>> No. 15672 Anonymous
18th September 2023
Monday 8:49 pm
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This doesn't seem very GDPR compliant.
>> No. 15718 Anonymous
22nd December 2023
Friday 3:42 pm
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Been to Pizza Hut for the first time in years, £11 for their lunchtime buffet and £4 for unlimited (sugar free) soft drinks so you might as well get the free water instead. What struck me was that they were heavily pushing people towards scanning the QR code on the table and ordering that way, which meant that the front of house staff had very little to do and were mainly stood around talking to each other.
>> No. 15719 Anonymous
22nd December 2023
Friday 4:19 pm
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Tip screens before I've had any service, received any goods (drinks/food), or even really had a chance to decide if the service has been good. How about no?
>> No. 15964 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 4:29 pm
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>>15672
Cookie policy isn't anything to do with GDPR, the regulation is called PECR.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-privacy-and-electronic-communications/guide-to-pecr/guidance-on-the-use-of-cookies-and-similar-technologies/
>> No. 15965 Anonymous
12th October 2024
Saturday 10:46 pm
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>>15964
Yes, because obviously the point of placing cookies is just to leave them there and do nothing with them.
>> No. 15966 Anonymous
13th October 2024
Sunday 8:14 pm
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Went to Bella Italia today. They're now also pushing the 'scan a QR code to order rather than dealing with a waiter/waitress' which seems to be becoming more commonplace. Anyway, I had a very underwhelming cannelloni.
>> No. 15967 Anonymous
13th October 2024
Sunday 9:07 pm
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>>15966

Have you just started eating out recently? Where have you been for the last five to ten years? It's normal everywhere to pay that way now.

Personally I love it because it's always awkward when you get to the end of a meal and suddenly it's like the service staff are intentionally avoiding you, and you have to make a tit out of yourself shouting for their attention.
>> No. 15968 Anonymous
13th October 2024
Sunday 10:59 pm
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>>15967
When I go to a restaurant, I'm only ever on my own. I clear my own table, pick up my plate and glass and whatever, and just walk over to the nearest employee and hand them the stuff. They're happy enough, and then I pay them. I'm a genius and everyone should do this.
>> No. 15969 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 1:22 am
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>>15967
I, for one, have never eaten at a restaurant that uses QR codes.
>> No. 15970 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 5:50 am
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>>15967
>Have you just started eating out recently?

Not all of us solely eat out at cheap Italian chain restaurants or pubs which specialise in black pudding.
>> No. 15971 Anonymous
14th October 2024
Monday 10:13 am
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>>15970

Of course if you're used to eating at Le Gavroche you might not have come across QR codes, but the likes of Wagamama, who I would say are the definition of a middle class eating establishment, have been doing it for years, and I've even seen it at over-priced gastropubs for tourists in Wales and the Yorkshire Dales that charge you 20 quid for a cheese board.

Point is it's very common now, it's not just for the plebs at Spoons. There's no need to get upset.
>> No. 15986 Anonymous
8th December 2024
Sunday 7:58 pm
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This evening I have been to Zizzi. After the starters I was ready to pencil it in as my new favourite chain Italian restaurant because they were really nice, but the mains were a let down and the service was very slow.
>> No. 15991 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 7:23 am
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Yesterday I went to Pizza Express. It was weird because two groups of ethnic women brought tripods for their phones as well as ridiculously bright lights they could clip onto it for taking pictures.

One group ordered more food than they were able to eat, I think about six large pizzas between two people, so for the most part they set up the food on the empty table next to them, got their phone ready with the tripod and lights, took pictures of their food and then had it boxed up so they could take it home with them. I only saw the other group taking pictures of their desserts at the table, but then they'd do things like recording each other stood up pointing at their glass of wine or walking down an aisle of tables while exaggeratedly swaying their hips, I'm assuming this is for TikTok or something.
>> No. 16020 Anonymous
12th February 2025
Wednesday 6:15 pm
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You. Fucking. What.
>> No. 16021 Anonymous
12th February 2025
Wednesday 6:36 pm
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>>16020
I don't really know your angle on this. Are you a Stormzy fan embarrassed that he's got his own Happy Meal? Are you a Maccies enjoyer who thinks they've besmirched their own reputation by partnering with the rogue bard Stormzy? Or do you just think the whole idea of rap artists scoring endorsment deals ever since Run D.M.C. dropped "My Adidas" almost four-decades ago, has got completely out of line now?
>> No. 16022 Anonymous
12th February 2025
Wednesday 6:41 pm
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>>16021
I can't remember the last time McDonald's collaborated on a "meal" with a celebrity, unless they've turned into Fortnite without me realising.
>> No. 16023 Anonymous
12th February 2025
Wednesday 6:44 pm
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>>16022
I know there was a Travis Scott meal, who is rapping man from Großamericana. I believe there was a Grimace shake too, but weather or not you count him as a celebrity is a personal choice.
>> No. 16102 Anonymous
16th May 2025
Friday 6:54 pm
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Tried a Steakhouse Stack from Maccies. Load of shite.
>> No. 16104 Anonymous
16th May 2025
Friday 9:43 pm
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>>16102
I don't rate any of their special menu. Since they've increased price of the savers burgers, a quater pounder is all that's really worth buying up there. Wrap of the Day's are nice if they're on good rotation. Wouldn't bother with Katsu unless you know you like it.
>> No. 16105 Anonymous
16th May 2025
Friday 9:53 pm
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The two Indian places I've eaten at this year both had a new dish with Naga in the name. I assume this is a trend of some sort, I asked at the first and they confirmed it contained Mr. Naga pickle. Mr. Naga pickle is hot as fuck so I'm guessing this is an attempt to one-up the classic vindaloo with something hotter and more flavourful. Except the second place I tried it, they'd clearly skimped on the pickle, I assume to not put off wusses. So it's worth trying at a good restaurant, probably a waste of time at a mediocre one.
>> No. 16177 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 6:27 pm
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Today I've tried Five Guys, I won't be going back again in a hurry. I went for the bacon cheeseburger and was surprised to find that it was actually worse than Burger King; it had less taste and the bacon was cremated so it didn't really offer anything other than texture. The fries were plentiful but they added so much Cajun seasoning that they quickly stopped being enjoyable. It also cost an absolute shitload for what it was.
>> No. 16178 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 1:53 pm
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>>16177
Five Guys seemed very good when I first tried it in that London back when it was new to Britain. Never replicated the experience in the years since.

>>16104
The special items are usually the best. If you get a Big Mac you're a wrongun. I thought the chilli cheeseburger was permanent. I do miss that. Katsu is dire and for some reason that can't possibly be related to my routine it seems like Katsu day every bloody day.
>> No. 16179 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 2:10 pm
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>>16177
I had it once and the jalapeños they put on the burger were raw. That was fucking weird.
>> No. 16180 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 3:09 pm
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>>16177

I've only had Five Guys once and same as you, I thought I would have been hard pressed to tell the difference between them and a Burger King if you blindfolded me. The only difference being one costs about three times as much. Mind you, Burger King's prices are daft enough these days it's probably not as imbalanced of a comparison as it was back then.

Come to think of it I don't even know where my nearest Burger King is. They seem to have just vanished over the last few years. They used to be a mainstay for me when I worked next door to one.

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