Is KFC going in beside TK Maxx?

Kanney · 14-09-2009 11:55am #1

Is KFC going in beside TK Maxx, up above Cuba there?

dmcg90 · 14-09-2009 12:59pm

Hope so, it would be SAVAGE

JohnCleary · 14-09-2009 1:07pm

fatties

soundbyte · 14-09-2009 1:20pm

I dont think so. Its Providence cafe and restaurant and a clothes shop called zebra.

LadyMayBelle · 14-09-2009 1:31pm

Mmmmm chicken...

GerardKeating · 14-09-2009 1:43pm

Kanney wrote: »

Is KFC going in beside TK Maxx, up above Cuba there?

Not sure, i heard it was opening in five months, and those units will be open in less that two months.,..

Redhairedguy · 14-09-2009 2:34pm

I love me some KFC... Can't wait til it comes to Galway

Bonzodog · 14-09-2009 3:15pm

I thought it was....maybe I'm wrong. I also thought that Pizza Hut was going to up here in Ballybrit in the Dunnes complex. There is definitely planning going through for a drive through Fast Food joint there, so maybe KFC are locating a drive-thru there?

I hope so.

foxy_19-89 · 14-09-2009 3:17pm

from what i know its going into 'phase two' in knocknacara near the dunnes and new look shpot

Tzetze · 14-09-2009 3:27pm

What's the deal with KFC being allowed get away with not revealing their full ingredients? Highly-addictive, E-number-laden, MSG-loaded, carcinogenic muck!

Bon appetit!

Sea Devils · 14-09-2009 3:34pm

Meh always peferred Popyes Chicken myself.

gary82 · 14-09-2009 3:47pm

Tzetze wrote: »

What's the deal with KFC being allowed get away with not revealing their full ingredients? Highly-addictive, E-number-laden, MSG-loaded, carcinogenic muck!

Bon appetit!

You know E numbers aren't necessarily bad :rolleyes:, that's a myth, for example E300 is vitamin C and E162 is just beetroot juice!

Redhairedguy · 14-09-2009 3:49pm

Plus if you're walking into KFC or any other fast food restaurant, you are hardly expecting a nutritious, well balanced meal... Mmmm... Deep fried goodness...

Tzetze · 14-09-2009 3:50pm

gary82 wrote: »

You know E numbers aren't necessarily bad :rolleyes:, that's a myth, for example E300 is vitamin C and E162 is just beetroot juice!

Ok, thanks. :rolleyes:
I've read that 'not all e-numbers are bad for you'. That's a long way from 'all e-numbers are harmless'.

They can still shove their 'secret recipe'.

ScumLord · 14-09-2009 4:09pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

fatties

Mmmm, yes I can't wait to have some of those.

Svalbard · 14-09-2009 4:56pm

Screw KFC.

When's TK Maxx opening? Is it big?

GerardKeating · 14-09-2009 5:16pm

Svalbard wrote: »

Screw KFC.

When's TK Maxx opening? Is it big?

Late October.

Bigish...

14-09-2009 5:17pm

Tzetze wrote: »

Ok, thanks. :rolleyes:
I've read that 'not all e-numbers are bad for you'. That's a long way from 'all e-numbers are harmless'.

They can still shove their 'secret recipe'.

someone told me yesterday they boil the chicken in milk before breading it.. no idea if it's true.

also, e-numbers killed my father and raped my mother. down with this sort of thing.

banshee_bones · 14-09-2009 5:45pm

Deleted User wrote: »

down with this sort of thing.

Careful Now!

Lockstep · 14-09-2009 5:52pm

I'd love to make my return to Galway and gorge myself on KFC.

Redhairedguy · 14-09-2009 6:56pm

kickoutthejams wrote: »

I'd love to make my return to Galway and gorge myself on KFC.

You stay where you are with your Belgian, Flemish speaking folk.

We zullen u geen Fried kip, dat u weinig worst man...

Mrs OBumble · 14-09-2009 7:18pm

Bonzodog wrote: »

I thought it was....maybe I'm wrong. I also thought that Pizza Hut was going to up here in Ballybrit in the Dunnes complex. There is definitely planning going through for a drive through Fast Food joint there, so maybe KFC are locating a drive-thru there?

I hope so.

Pretty sure I read that this got declined on the grounds that they don't know what's happening with the roading/outer by-pass yet.

soundbyte · 14-09-2009 8:24pm

JustMary wrote: »

Pretty sure I read that this got declined on the grounds that they don't know what's happening with the roading/outer by-pass yet.

No, that was Phase 2, which was a major extension. The drive thru was approved at the beginning o the year. Don't recall if it was announced that it was KFC(going in, but they were interested for sure.

Mike... · 15-09-2009 2:41am

Thats the NN Taxi Drivers happy

tbh · 15-09-2009 9:52am

Mike... wrote: »

Thats the NN Taxi Drivers happy

funny guy :rolleyes:

Mrs OBumble · 15-09-2009 10:26am

Mike... wrote: »

Thats the NN Taxi Drivers happy

Is KFC popular in Nigeria et al?

I wouldn't have expected Africans to be any more well-disposed towards America's attempts at world-domination of food brands than Irish people are.

biko · 15-09-2009 10:33am

Racist image removed from Mikes post and card given
Take it to some private forum.

tbh · 15-09-2009 10:41am

JustMary wrote: »

Is KFC popular in Nigeria et al?

I wouldn't have expected Africans to be any more well-disposed towards America's attempts at world-domination of food brands than Irish people are.

black people love fried chicken. Didn't you know? It's hilarious, like saying Irish people are all drunks.

Redhairedguy · 15-09-2009 12:23pm

tbh wrote: »

black people love fried chicken

...and taffy... and watermelon...

Then again, who DOESN'T like fried chicken? (besides vegetarians, vegans & hippies)

ScumLord · 15-09-2009 12:26pm

tbh wrote: »

black people love fried chicken. Didn't you know? It's hilarious, like saying Irish people are all drunks.

But... We are all drunks.

Redhairedguy wrote: »

...and taffy... and watermelon...

Then again, who DOESN'T like fried chicken? (besides vegetarians, vegans & hippies)

And possibly chickens?

Xiney · 15-09-2009 1:17pm

Tzetze wrote: »

What's the deal with KFC being allowed get away with not revealing their full ingredients? Highly-addictive, E-number-laden, MSG-loaded, carcinogenic muck!

Bon appetit!

Carcinogenic?

Fried food is carcinogenic - that lovely browning? Oh Yeah. But even toast has the PAHs that make fried food carcinogenic. Being overweight makes you prone to cancer as well and duh, KFC is pretty good at makin fatties.

But you know what? Nobody here is suggesting that eating dinner from the chipper every day is like, the world's best idea. And frankly, the people that are stupid enough to think that... the world is better off without. Natural selection, baby.

MSG is a bunch of crazy unscientific crap. It's absolutely harmless. Some people claim to be sensitive to it, but for most people it's no different than getting sodium from table salt (basically it should be taken in moderation)

Addictive? **** guys. It's not like it has crack in it. Self control. Granted, I'm being pretty hypocritical on this point since a packet of ginger nut biscuits to me is like a flame to a moth, but there's nothing truly addictive about it. That's just a phrase people who have no self control (like me) like to bandy about to feel better about the fact that we can't walk past our food nemesis without grabbing it and scarfing it down.

E-numbers? More reactionary hippy mumbo jumbo that's been picked up by the media and overblown and now smarties are pastel. ****ing hippies. E numbers aren't the problem, processed food is the problem. Takes all the nutrition out of it, adds too much sugar and salt. E-numbers are nothing in the grand scheme of things.

I cook most (as in, 85%) of the food I eat from scratch. I eat fairly healthily, 34 cent ginger nut biscuit sleeve obsession notwithstanding. Two meatless days a week, lots of oily fish and very little fried food. In fact, I can't even tolerate too much fried food because my stomach isn't used to it and so I get terrible gas which is oh so very attractive. Anyway, my point is, KFC isn't the problem. The problem is people. And there's been plenty of chippers and packaged food around anyway, if people want to slowly waddle themselves into an oversized casket they'll be doing it whether the american chicken kaiser colonel arrives or not.

/rant over

Redhairedguy · 15-09-2009 1:47pm

Thank you.

That was actually a complete pleasure to read, and I agree one hundred percent.

I cannot wait to get my teeth into some tasty tasty chickeny goodness, and as Xiney said, it's only really for a treat or those days where you just can't face cooking (hungover, sick, etc etc)

tbh · 15-09-2009 1:52pm

yeah! like Xiney said, why spend 85% of your time cooking - there's nothing wrong with KFC, so eat it whenever you want!

nom nom nom

Redhairedguy · 15-09-2009 2:19pm

tbh wrote: »

so eat it whenever you want!

Moderation, my friend. That's the name of the game!

ukgalwaymcguire · 15-09-2009 2:23pm

Mike... wrote: »

Thats the NN Taxi Drivers happy

racist.. totally.
the attitude because a kfc may come too town.. people in this back water dont like change, dont like different races, different cultures and now different food... if you want too reap the benefits of a growing city, with a multi cultural background, stop dragging your feet in the ground over petty matters
galways history should be enough to embrace the new, the many cultures of this world.. some folk should really think on a larger scale..
we do not live in one town, one city, one county, one country, one continent.. we live on one planet.. and if you want to be racist.. come off this planet and go mess with someone elses universe
(sorry for the rant, but lately its any excuse to be racist, and as someone who is half italian, half irish, and has half jamaican children, it gets to me)

as for kfc.. hope it comes and i hope it comes, but please dont use this or anything else to be racist and ignorant..

tbh · 15-09-2009 2:25pm

ukgalwaymcguire wrote: »

as someone who is half italian, half irish, and has half jamaican children, it gets to me)

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man your kids must have the most amazing accents ever!

Maqnus · 15-09-2009 2:30pm

ukgalwaymcguire wrote: »

racist.. totally.
the attitude because a kfc may come too town.. people in this back water dont like change, dont like different races, different cultures and now different food... if you want too reap the benefits of a growing city, with a multi cultural background, stop dragging your feet in the ground over petty matters
galways history should be enough to embrace the new, the many cultures of this world.. some folk should really think on a larger scale..
we do not live in one town, one city, one county, one country, one continent.. we live on one planet.. and if you want to be racist.. come off this planet and go mess with someone elses universe
(sorry for the rant, but lately its any excuse to be racist, and as someone who is half italian, half irish, and has half jamaican children, it gets to me)

as for kfc.. hope it comes and i hope it comes, but please dont use this or anything else to be racist and ignorant..

Jaysus Christ, learn how to take a joke! Back water? How dare you.

Xiney · 15-09-2009 2:33pm

Maqnus wrote: »

Jaysus Christ, learn how to take a joke! Back water? How dare you.

In all seriousness, Galway (actually, Ireland) is a backwater for anyone who's from a real city.

muppetkiller · 15-09-2009 3:10pm

Xiney wrote: »

In all seriousness, Galway (actually, Ireland) is a backwater for anyone who's from a real city.

I don't agree and I've lived in many cities around the world (Melbourne , Ulsan , San Fran , Boston etc to name a few..) ..Sure it's small and doesn't have great infrastructure but it's friendly , safe and to be we have a fantastic quality of life in Galway (even if they moan about everthing all the time..me included lol).

Xiney · 15-09-2009 3:28pm

Just because it's a backwater doesn't mean I can't like it.

It has its charm!

If it makes anyone feel any better I think Dublin is a backwater too, with less charm.

Tzetze · 15-09-2009 6:40pm

Fair enough, eat whatever you like in moderation. I still can't fathom how they can get away with not revealing their full ingredients as it's a 'secret recipe'. That was the point of my post.

And of course, I have the option of not eating there and eating there is just what I won't do. Nor will I eat anything else when the producers won't tell me what it is I'm eating.

ukgalwaymcguire · 15-09-2009 6:41pm

both my kids and i were born in the uk, so we have south london accents, with irish passports lol..
as for backwater.. i dont truly think galway is.. there is a minority as i described above who have that attitude.. galway is for me the best city i have ever lived in, if certain minoritys would embrace the growth of the city both in population, culture and ethnic background, and new businesses, then galway would also become harmonious, either way, galway will grow, will attract more and more cultures,
its up to the population to choose if they want too be dragged kicking back to the past, or embrace the future...
backwater it isnt in reality.. backwater attitude from some of its inhabitants yes.

mikom · 15-09-2009 7:56pm

ukgalwaymcguire wrote: »

we do not live in one town, one city, one county, one country, one continent.. we live on one planet.. and if you want to be racist.. come off this planet and go mess with someone elses universe

Amazing....... the long lost lyrics to Micheal Jacksons last song.

ukgalwaymcguire wrote: »

as for kfc.. hope it comes and i hope it comes, but please dont use this or anything else to be racist and ignorant..

Probably what Micheal Jackson was thinking before he died.

Redhairedguy · 15-09-2009 8:36pm

Tzetze wrote: »

And of course, I have the option of not eating there and eating there is just what I won't do. Nor will I eat anything else when the producers won't tell me what it is I'm eating.

What about Coca Cola?

Tzetze · 15-09-2009 9:00pm

Redhairedguy wrote: »

What about Coca Cola?

I quit drinking that crap years ago. Not just Coca Cola, but anything produced by them including Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Fanta, etc.

galwayrush · 15-09-2009 10:03pm

Xiney wrote: »

In all seriousness, Galway (actually, Ireland) is a backwater for anyone who's from a real city.

Yep, my home town has charm and can be fantastic fun, but it ain't ever going to be a Toronto or Rome, my two favourite real cities. :cool:

dmcg90 · 15-09-2009 10:41pm

Tzetze wrote: »

Dr. Pepper etc.

Not drinking Dr Pepper... Whats the worst that could happen?

mike kelly · 16-09-2009 9:16pm

KFC - it tastes great but it chicken it ain't

vulcan57 · 22-09-2009 1:45pm

Has anyone noticed the advertising that has started to appear on the side of city buses. Could be a good sign that they are coming soon to somewhere in Galway.