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Post by harrypalmer on Feb 2, 2024 23:07:59 GMT
Popeye's chicken tenders, in Reading. Surprisingly bland crispy coating. Spicy spuds, from Alibaba's pizza in Ivybridge. These are a Plymouth and environs speciality and you should try them. Chuncks of potato, deep fried in KFC spicy coating. 10/10 Spicy spuds! Grew up in Plymouth so I know. I didn’t try a kebab until uni because all I’d ever order was spicy spuds. A real body blow when I realised they didn’t exist anywhere else. |
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Post by technoish on Feb 2, 2024 23:12:17 GMT
I’m still yet to find a reliable wing outlet myself. There is a pretty good stall in Borough Market but that’s not particularly convenient. Wingos in Washington DC makes me want to move back there. The boneless wings smothered with 25 sauce options were insane. Mombo, Sriracha, abusive, nuclear, bourbon, mango habanero, jerk. Just *mwah* chef's kiss. Oh dear God. They've changed the menu. No more boneless wings. I'm actually super sad now  But otherwise, I could eat UK KFC hot wings any day of the week, friggin delicious. (And way better than awful US version - the Thai version is suuuper spicy tho). My very local Morley's Fries chicken actually isn't too bad either. For the saucy variety it's kind of hard to go wrong with Korean wings. It's like kara age on steroids. |
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Post by harrypalmer on Feb 2, 2024 23:15:07 GMT
I like Slim Chickens tenders. I sad eat 7 and fries and a chicken burger predictably regularly. Sauces are pretty good too.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 2, 2024 23:17:59 GMT
I like Slim Chickens tenders. I sad eat 7 and fries and a chicken burger predictably regularly. Sauces are pretty good too. I enjoy their garlic toast. |
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Post by Danno on Feb 3, 2024 1:40:54 GMT
Greggs Cheese & Ham Toastie - 9/10 Tried recently as a local Greggs had nothing else left and I'm now addicted. Mature cheese, ham, bachamel sauce which extra mature cheese to the outer. When they toast it instore, the inside goes suitably gooey, the bread crisp, while fluffy inside... Incredible stuff. The cheese and mustard toastie is also solid |
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Post by brokenkey on Feb 3, 2024 15:10:29 GMT
Popeye's chicken tenders, in Reading. Surprisingly bland crispy coating. Spicy spuds, from Alibaba's pizza in Ivybridge. These are a Plymouth and environs speciality and you should try them. Chuncks of potato, deep fried in KFC spicy coating. 10/10 Spicy spuds! Grew up in Plymouth so I know. I didn’t try a kebab until uni because all I’d ever order was spicy spuds. A real body blow when I realised they didn’t exist anywhere else. they were originally called potato surprise, used to order them and a portion of chips after a night at the Warehouse on Union Street. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 3, 2024 16:15:45 GMT
I’m still yet to find a reliable wing outlet myself. I mis-read that initially, wondered why you'd be looking for www.simplywigs.co.uk/male-wigs/ in a fast food thread. |
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Post by brokenkey on Feb 3, 2024 18:34:39 GMT
I’m still yet to find a reliable wing outlet myself. There is a pretty good stall in Borough Market but that’s not particularly convenient. Do you know what the stall is called? |
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Post by mikeck on Feb 3, 2024 18:55:55 GMT
Spicy spuds, from Alibaba's pizza in Ivybridge. These are a Plymouth and environs speciality and you should try them. Chuncks of potato, deep fried in KFC spicy coating. 10/10 Fucking hell, rare to see both my hometown (city) and the town I live in mentioned. And yes, spicy spuds rarely found anywhere else... |
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Post by harrypalmer on Feb 3, 2024 18:58:31 GMT
Milk Bun in bristol do the best wings I’ve ever had, but I’m not really a wing guy. I remember Atomic Burger doing proper buffalo Wings too.
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Post by harrypalmer on Feb 3, 2024 19:01:08 GMT
Spicy spuds, from Alibaba's pizza in Ivybridge. These are a Plymouth and environs speciality and you should try them. Chuncks of potato, deep fried in KFC spicy coating. 10/10 Fucking hell, rare to see both my hometown (city) and the town I live in mentioned. And yes, spicy spuds rarely found anywhere else... Rendezvous kebab house by Ritzy/candystore was my haunt. |
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Post by mikew1985 on Feb 3, 2024 20:17:53 GMT
One thing I wish every place would do as standard is say whether their wings are breaded / battered or not. Because I’m in the camp that strongly disagrees with breading or battering wings. Battered or breaded usually means disgusting because they're usually bad pre prepared frozen wings. Usually overly large too. Yuck Edit; that's a lot of usually there |
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Post by rawshark on Feb 3, 2024 21:23:58 GMT
I’m still yet to find a reliable wing outlet myself. There is a pretty good stall in Borough Market but that’s not particularly convenient. Do you know what the stall is called? Couldn't tell you the name, but it’s by The Globe pub and also does great wraps. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 6, 2024 17:47:18 GMT
Why is Burger King so fucking expensive nowadays? Organised crime rackets should be in awe of them.[/OldManInMyDay]
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 6, 2024 19:48:35 GMT
TBF I think stuff like BK, Macy D's, KFC and the like have been expensive for a while now completely eliminating a lot of the reasons why you'd go.
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Post by anthonyuk on Mar 6, 2024 20:11:43 GMT
While it's always been expensive, 5 Guys at the Trafford Centre wanted £22 for burger, chips and a drink at the weekend.
Walked away, even after queueing. Just refuse to pay it.
Also in Manchester, while it was relatively fancy place (or at least tried to be) apparently charging £22 for a single cocktail is now a thing. The mind boggles.
It seems even over the past 6 months, even going for fast food isn't just a treat anymore, more bordering something you have to budget for and justify.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 6, 2024 20:16:13 GMT
It's like going to the chippy, it's expensive enough that you won't go every Friday like you would not that long ago.
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Post by knighty on Mar 6, 2024 21:30:43 GMT
22 quid for a burger chips and drinks is obscene. I’ve always felt McDonald’s bucked the trend tho - can get two kids happy meals for near enough a fiver. And it’s just about enough to see them as their main evening meal (and my kids are big eaters).
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Post by Lizard on Mar 6, 2024 21:35:08 GMT
Had a Maccers breakfast the other day. Sausage and egg McMuffin, hash brown and a drink. Was okay, cost about $12.
Burger King is bilge here. Even more budget than Maccers.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2024 21:55:03 GMT
anthonyuk5 Guys is *proper* tasty. We paid not much more than that at the one in Liverpool One only in December for two meals (sure it was £35) so I can only assume you’ve been hit by a Trafford Centre tax there. Thinking about it, I think we may have shared one portion of fries, and between two that’s all you need there actually. We had a Spoons tea recently. We were waiting for our kid and her friend who’d gone on their first semi-indepedent cinema trip and unfortunately nowhere else in town would let us in so that’s where we ended up. Chicken cheese and bacon panini and chips x2 with a plate of nachos to share. She had two Diet Cokes and I had two Guinness, about £30 all in. Brexit hellhole and all that but can’t argue on the price. Chippy tops out at about 6 quid a meal round are way for a pie or sausage meal, you’re breaking a tenner for cod and chips. I’m always half sick after cod and chips though as it’s so f*cking huge. The cans of pop are a ridiculous price now.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 6, 2024 22:05:08 GMT
I’ve complained about the fries before but they genuinely wind me up. Everyone knows the gag, nobody thinks you’re getting ‘free’ fries but that it’s just seven quids worth of chips stuffed into a cup that holds three leaving the rest to just rattle around in the bottom of the bag.
It’s a ridiculously expensive portion of chips. Nothing about that entire transaction gives the impression you’re getting value for money. Put them in a proper sized box or sell a smaller portion you cunts.
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Post by rawshark on Mar 6, 2024 22:28:51 GMT
Having moved from London to Oxfordshire about a year and a half ago, it opened my eyes to why Wetherspoons are basically a public service. Compared to other pubs round here, it’s still got the best range behind the bar, but that’s by the by. They’re just integral to the community because it’s the place where the elderly and people on a fixed income can go to meet and chat over a cheap meal and drinks. It’s basically a public service.
Fuckers have fucked up my order the last three times running, mind. One time leaving the tissue bit that separates the burger patties in the packet when they served it to me. I’m just happy it wasn’t a plaster or a clump of hair.
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Post by mrpon on Mar 7, 2024 12:21:12 GMT
/horp
Don't say tissue, it's parchment paper.
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Post by dfunked on Mar 7, 2024 12:26:22 GMT
It always amuses me that you can identify a spoons meal within a millisecond if you're shown a picture.
Even if you hid the telltale plate you'd still be able to tell.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2024 12:29:27 GMT
Cheeky Spoons.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 7, 2024 12:52:34 GMT
Like drake, we ended up in spoons the other week, as we decided to eat out on a whim and the good restaurants were full. Once we'd separated ourselves from the Brexit hoardes upstairs, it was actually OK. It's all microwaved/fried pap but couldn't knock the price, given what the kids eat and probably half the price. We have not returned though.
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Post by cubby on Mar 7, 2024 13:20:16 GMT
Back in my student days we were told by friends who worked at spoons to only order the burgers as that's the only thing not microwaved.
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Post by A46Matt on Mar 7, 2024 13:28:09 GMT
Or stick with something that just gets chucked in the fryer like scampi and chips
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2024 13:45:55 GMT
The pints are fine, wouldn't touch the food. The local crackheads work in the kitchen at our spoons.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Mar 7, 2024 13:55:41 GMT
My most successful, low stakes activism has been not setting foot inside a Wetherspoons since 2016.
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