Why is take-away food so terrible?

Karl Stein

I had a King Creole from KC's in Douglas Cork on Wednesday evening and it was delicious.

KING CREOLE

Chicken (all our chicken is locally sourced, 100% Irish fillet) roasted in blackened Cajun
spices, served in a hot pitta with mayonnaise, iceberg lettuce and a few chips inside.

My Brother got the Kansas City Pitta.

KANSAS CITY PITTA

A hot pitta filled with slow roast Irish pork belly rubbed with our own blend of dry BBQ
spices, coated in homemade sticky BBQ sauce & served with mayo, sliced gherkin, a few
chips & iceberg lettuce.

I felt festively plump after washing my Creole down with an ice cold can of Coke.

Gbear

Take away has to be cheap, quick and easy to make and the majority of people who buy it like bland food.

That's why it's mostly ****e.

kowloon

I think with most places the cost of production is a race to the bottom. People vote with their wallets and the cheaper places do well unless they get so bad they shed customers to a competitor.

cloud493

Awkward Badger wrote: »

What you mean you nearly always get done over on delivery charges ? I've never had a takeaway that cost more than 2.50 for delivery.

In my area, according to just eat.ie, lowest delivery charger was €3.50, and the place wasn't reviewed well.

cloud493

YellowFeather wrote: »

Were they in a ball though?

It wasn't. It was kinda a boulder shape.

Baked.noodle

I never really eat Chinese food anymore, as it is always disappointing. Most people know its full of Msg, but its also full of salt, fat and sugar and whilst it might resemble the more healthy choice in fast food it is mostly crap. Battered Cod and chips would probably be healthier, once in a while.

spitfireIRL

Karl Stein wrote: »

I had a King Creole from KC's in Douglas Cork on Wednesday evening and it was delicious.

Daaaamn. It's been so long. Next time ask for Cajun chicken with it! Fckin starving now!

cloud493

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I kept it just in case I wanna complain :pac:

RobYourBuilder

cloud493 wrote: »

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I kept it just in case I wanna complain :pac:

How much did you pay for that abomination of a dinner?

joe swanson

Its so bad for me and full of fat and nasty things.....

But it tastes so good. Yum.

Remmy

I have it once every few months, gorge on it then remember why I don't order it very often. That msg stuff leaves me feeling like dog crap.

cloud493

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

How much did you pay for that abomination of a dinner?

For that, and the chicken balls it was just over 15 quid.

RobYourBuilder

cloud493 wrote: »

For that, and the chicken balls it was just over 15 quid.

Not cheap. They have some nice recipes over in the cooking club. Here's one for sweet and sour fried rice with chicken balls: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057027285

Nicer and a third of the price.

bnt

The devil's in the details. There's an independent pizza takeaway quite close to me, and their pizzas are very good quality and value. There's one ironic problem, though: their pizzas are nice because they're thin, which means that they go cold more quickly. I find that mine is nearly cold by the time I get home (under 10 mins walk), and it's a chronic complaint in online reviews. I would still go there more often if I wasn't watching what I eat.

From what I've read, Chinese cooking developed the way it did partly as a way of making the best of poor quality ingredients. Not that Chinese food is unique in this regard. Sausages were invented many thousands of years ago, so that butchers could use "everything but the squeal".

Toto Wolfcastle

I used to love Chinese, and I worked in a Chinese restaurant when I was younger so I ate it a lot, but I went a few months without eating it and when I had it again I felt like crap after it.

There are plenty of decent Thai and Indian take aways around though (depending on where you live I suppose) so I stick with them these days.

karaokeman

Gbear wrote: »

Take away has to be cheap, quick and easy to make and the majority of people who buy it like bland food.

That's why it's mostly ****e.

^ Hipster!

On a serious note most people (myself included) like their share of take aways (Indian is my preference) as a treat. Consider you cook yourself 6 meals a week, its nice to have something easily consumable for rewards sake. Similarly, a nice kebab or Supermacs is perfect after a night out especially if you are getting a nitelink and have a long journey home.

Kylo Ren

Leave MSG alone. The whole outcry over it was due to a single letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968.

Although many people believe that monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the cause of these symptoms, an association has never been demonstrated under rigorously controlled conditions, even in studies with people who were convinced that they were sensitive to the compound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_flavoring#Safety_as_a_flavor_enhancer

The One Doctor

Indian or Thai takeaways are usually very good. Chippers and Chinese takeaways are often terrible.

How Soon Is Now

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

The Indian where I live is amazing and one of the Chinese places is OK. I generally don't like chipper food, its OK at the time but the next day I feel rotten!

Indian takeaways tend to be one of the better ones for standard and taste.

If you get a bad Indian you know its bad!.

Chinese can be hit and miss no matter where its gotten because its all made around soupy sauces and batter.

Chipper food well that speaks for itself. No one is expecting five star food then! :pac:

Leilak

I think its the gloopy sauces that puts people off, but l suddenly get a ferocious appetite when passing a Chinese - what is it we smell that suddenly makes us want it? Similarly when you pass a chipper somebody said its the vinegar that throws out that pungent aroma l dunno:rolleyes:

Kobe

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop wrote:

Very true, its packed with MSG. All the meat for Chinese restaurants comes in frozen boxes imported from China. I've seen this first hand and have never eaten Chinese since. I was in a freezer warehouse in Navan that supplied Chinese and other restaurants. The forklift guy was moving all these boxes with Chinese writing on them into a truck. I asked him what was in the boxes and he said meat on its way to Dublin Chinese restaurants. It seem there was no checks on quality or what it even was.

Not all of them, I work in a Chinese restaurant and we only order our meats from local suppliers, such as Cunningham food, and English Market in Cork.

Chunners

I prefer my own cooking, beef and chicken from a chinese tastes like rubber and their chips are vile

ShadowHearth

Karl Stein wrote: »

I had a King Creole from KC's in Douglas Cork on Wednesday evening and it was delicious.



My Brother got the Kansas City Pitta.



I felt festively plump after washing my Creole down with an ice cold can of Coke.

You can never say no to KCs, me and buddy usually go there once a week. It's 35mile trip to KCs though, well worth the drive! King creole is just orgasmic stuff.

There are good chippers and bad chippers, but I know one thing, I would never touch Chinese take away. I know some stories about local Chinese takeaways thanks to my friends who do deliveries for them.
In hacap course we were told that majority of places that get shut down by health inspectors are Chinese restaurants and takeaway shops.

RonanP77

I can't stand take aways any more, I've been doing a good bit of running & cycling all year, I lost 2 stone and since that I really didn't like the few take aways we've gotten.

Andy-Pandy

Bombay pantry is quality take away, good value can be had if you collect it. Love the butter chicken masala.

Fr_Dougal

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Takeaways are a bit like sex

Gbear wrote: »

Take away has to be cheap, quick and easy

Indeed.

biko

cloud493 wrote: »

I got a chinese last night, and it was so awful, made me sick it did.
So why do we eat take away? Are your take aways generally as terrible as mine?

This could possibly be the worst generalisation on boards in a long time.
OP has one meal from one place and now it's all takeaways everywhere are terrible.

Sorry about you getting sick OP. Did you throw up or was that also an exaggeration?

cloud493

If you read the rest of that post, I said it included many other take aways, not just the one I had last night. Last nights was the one that made me sick, therefore it broke the camels back, etc.

Kevwoody

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Good take aways do exist. Its just you have to wade through the sea of crap to find them. Currently on the quest for decent chips in Galway.

Surely the chips in Mc Donaghs on quay street would be among the best?

wandatowell

The local Indian takeaway is top class.


Tend to stay away from other takeaways.