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misskool

Cleaver wrote: »

Nandos. For f*ck's sake.

I love Nando's.

The extra hot blow your mind out sauce is great.

I'm pretty sure I'm not 23 in trekkie bottoms though...

Cleaver

misskool wrote: »

I love Nando's.

The extra hot blow your mind out sauce is great.

I'm pretty sure I'm not 23 in trekkie bottoms though...

Are 'trekkie bottoms' the sporty trousers worn by Mr Spock?

Hey, each to their own. I don't particulary like having to queue up to order my food at a counter from a teenager who generally doesn't care. It just feels like a conveyor belt approach for expensive fast food. Don't really get the attraction, but maybe that's me. I've only been once or twice and I didn't enjoy the experience, maybe I should give it another go but when you live in a city there seems to be so many good, independant places that I kinda feel life is too short to waste it in Nandos.

They also don't use any type of free-range or freedom food chicken. Now, this obviously doesn't always matter in all businesses but it just seems strange to me that a purely chicken-based restuarant, specialising in chicken, who sell little but chicken and boast about their chicken only sell battery / barn, poor quality chicken. To me that's a bit like opening a specialist vodka bar and then only selling Asda Smartprice Vodka.

Harry_Powell

carolt wrote: »

That's a really strange post, Harry, from the very same persoon who told me off on this very same forum, can't have been more than a couple of weeks ago, for giving out too many of my personal details, and warned me not to do it again.

I just can't work that out.

Could you explain what you meant then, Harry, or what you mean now?

Oh dear, your selective memory strikes again.

In the post(s) you refer to, I asked you a question about some statement you made on here (probebly something similar to this thread, heavy on rhetoric, low on real facts) and you told me that you don't wish to discuss your life on the internet. I said "fair comment, but I'll remind you about that when you next go on about yourself.

Not one day later you were on saying how much of a slob you were and that your hubby did all the housework, that you had two kids and that you put them into a 'before and after' school club. I reminded you that you 'didn't want to discuss your life on the internet'.

So, I'm not telling you off, I'm just remarking at to your duplicity. I do believe that you invent a lot of stuff up on here and that's why you don't dare back it up with factual information (and you always claim the 'fifth amendment'), with other things that are true, such as your domestic relations, you're happy to go on about them ad nauseum.

I hope this help you.

misskool

Cleaver wrote: »

Are 'trekkie bottoms' the sporty trousers worn by Mr Spock?

Hey, each to their own. I don't particulary like having to queue up to order my food at a counter from a teenager who generally doesn't care. It just feels like a conveyor belt approach for expensive fast food. Don't really get the attraction, but maybe that's me. I've only been once or twice and I didn't enjoy the experience, maybe I should give it another go but when you live in a city there seems to be so many good, independant places that I kinda feel life is too short to waste it in Nandos.

They also don't use any type of free-range or freedom food chicken. Now, this obviously doesn't always matter in all businesses but it just seems strange to me that a purely chicken-based restuarant, specialising in chicken, who sell little but chicken and boast about their chicken only sell battery / barn, poor quality chicken. To me that's a bit like opening a specialist vodka bar and then only selling Asda Smartprice Vodka.

Of the specialist fast food choices available, I would prefer a Nando's to the other choices.

Generally, I grow my own vegetables (ya-dah ya-dah, etc etc) but there are so many guilty pleasures.

To be fair, free-range or freedom food chicken does taste better but it also costs more. Unless the company wants to expand to a niche market and have customers who are prepared to pay niche prices, then they will sell based on economies of scale and that includes battery/farmed chicken.

People who want to eat want something reliable (especially when you have fussy children) would go there. This is made more so when many independent places I go to have such a hit and miss attitude regarding quality and taste of food.

A good reason why people go to identikit restaurants, they know what they're going to get. It won't be amazing but it won't be terrible either. They only have so much money to go out and eat with, they can't afford to take a chance.

carolt

Harry_Powell wrote: »

Oh dear, your selective memory strikes again.

In the post(s) you refer to, I asked you a question about some statement you made on here (probebly something similar to this thread, heavy on rhetoric, low on real facts) and you told me that you don't wish to discuss your life on the internet. I said "fair comment, but I'll remind you about that when you next go on about yourself.

Not one day later you were on saying how much of a slob you were and that your hubby did all the housework, that you had two kids and that you put them into a 'before and after' school club. I reminded you that you 'didn't want to discuss your life on the internet'.

So, I'm not telling you off, I'm just remarking at to your duplicity. I do believe that you invent a lot of stuff up on here and that's why you don't dare back it up with factual information (and you always claim the 'fifth amendment'), with other things that are true, such as your domestic relations, you're happy to go on about them ad nauseum.

I hope this help you.

Well, you'd know all about that, Dithering Dad.

I bow to your expertise in this area - you are clearly the master of duplicity. Or should that be triplicity, quadroplicity, etc?

Heyman_2

Cleaver wrote: »

Hey, each to their own. I don't particulary like having to queue up to order my food at a counter from a teenager who generally doesn't care. It just feels like a conveyor belt approach for expensive fast food. Don't really get the attraction, but maybe that's me. I've only been once or twice and I didn't enjoy the experience, maybe I should give it another go but when you live in a city there seems to be so many good, independant places that I kinda feel life is too short to waste it in Nandos.

Someone I know had a Nandos 'experience', They went there as a family, entered the reception area and waited to be seated. A slightly overweight, pale-looking middle-aged waitress greeted them with a gruff, Essex-accented 'OLA!'.

Just like being in Portugal, I tells ya.

carolt

misskool wrote: »

Of the specialist fast food choices available, I would prefer a Nando's to the other choices.

Generally, I grow my own vegetables (ya-dah ya-dah, etc etc) but there are so many guilty pleasures.

To be fair, free-range or freedom food chicken does taste better but it also costs more. Unless the company wants to expand to a niche market and have customers who are prepared to pay niche prices, then they will sell based on economies of scale and that includes battery/farmed chicken.

People who want to eat want something reliable (especially when you have fussy children) would go there. This is made more so when many independent places I go to have such a hit and miss attitude regarding quality and taste of food.

A good reason why people go to identikit restaurants, they know what they're going to get. It won't be amazing but it won't be terrible either. They only have so much money to go out and eat with, they can't afford to take a chance.

misskool, why is this thread still on here, yet the other Saturday Night Chat Thread got banished to the Arms?

Just wondering.

Cleaver

misskool wrote: »

Of the specialist fast food choices available, I would prefer a Nando's to the other choices.

Generally, I grow my own vegetables (ya-dah ya-dah, etc etc) but there are so many guilty pleasures.

To be fair, free-range or freedom food chicken does taste better but it also costs more. Unless the company wants to expand to a niche market and have customers who are prepared to pay niche prices, then they will sell based on economies of scale and that includes battery/farmed chicken.

Do you not think though that there is something slightly odd about opening up a restuarant that specialises in just cooking and selling chicken, then only buying pretty much the poorest type of chicken available?

misskool wrote: »

People who want to eat want something reliable (especially when you have fussy children) would go there. This is made more so when many independent places I go to have such a hit and miss attitude regarding quality and taste of food.

A good reason why people go to identikit restaurants, they know what they're going to get. It won't be amazing but it won't be terrible either. They only have so much money to go out and eat with, they can't afford to take a chance.

I guess you're right, especially from the child angle. I 'spose what appeals to many (the identikit, standardised approach) is what really turns me off. I'm happier going to different places, some amazing, some middle of the road, some 'awful'. I put 'awful' in inverted comments, because sometimes awful places can be quite memorable for one reason or another.

Before I say this misskool, this isn't a comment aimed at you. But I find the 'I know what I'm gonna get, not amazing, not awful, middle of the road' attitude something us Brits settle for quite a bit. And having little money means you should take more chances in my eyes. Go to a scary looking, cheapy, backstreet sushi place. It may be awful (doubt it) but at least you'll have a different sensory experience, unlike at Nandos.

Ye gods, I've just re-read my post - how pious and righteous do I sound? Ah well, I don't care when it comes to this subject. I hate all these identikit gaggle of restaurants that crop up in odious groups all over our country.

Cleaver

carolt wrote: »

misskool, why is this thread still on here, yet the other Saturday Night Chat Thread got banished to the Arms?

Just wondering.

The fickle hand of God knows not of logic Carol.

misskool

carolt wrote: »

misskool, why is this thread still on here, yet the other Saturday Night Chat Thread got banished to the Arms?

Just wondering.

I can move it if you like?