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Subcomandante Marcos · 02-08-2016 02:16PM

fullstop wrote: »

Did you just pull that 'fact' out of your arse? It's factory farmed, yes...like nearly all the chicken in the supermarkets but they use hormone-free chicken, so basically like any fresh chicken you go to Tesco or Supervalu and buy.

I don't buy factory farmed chicken. Nobody should.

fullstop · 02-08-2016 02:21PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

I don't buy factory farmed chicken. Nobody should.

Fair play to ya only buying free range and organic, but the reality is not everybody can afford it. And to meet demand, there has to be factory farmed chicken.

So why did you say they pump it with hormones?

02-08-2016 02:22PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

It's terrible, factory farmed, hormone pumped crap chicken.

The ones in Hillbillys that you recommend are all hand reared by the Hillbilly family, and named. The Hillbilly kids cry every time they have to kill one to feed the masses. But the parents tell them the chickens souls have gone to chicken heaven.

Subcomandante Marcos · 02-08-2016 02:22PM

fullstop wrote: »

Fair play to ya only buying free range and organic, but the reality is not everybody can afford it. And to meet demand, there has to be factory farmed chicken.

I don't bother with organic tbh, just free range pasture rared is grand for me. I know a good farmer he's pretty local and I order stuff from him directly.

Subcomandante Marcos · 02-08-2016 02:23PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The ones in Hillbillys that you recommend are all hand reared by the Hillbilly family, and named. The Hillbilly kids cry every time they have to kill one to feed the masses. But the parents tell them the chickens souls have gone to chicken heaven.

Hillbillys and crackbird are the best of the bad lot when it comes to chicken quality.

NiallBoo · 02-08-2016 02:28PM

Chicken and chips for teenagers and adults who don't want to admit they're still ordering off the kiddie's menu.

Nothing particularly wrong in itself except the price and lingering infantalism.

Ush1 · 02-08-2016 02:34PM

NiallBoo wrote: »

Chicken and chips for teenagers and adults who don't want to admit they're still ordering off the kiddie's menu.

Nothing particularly wrong in itself except the price and lingering infantalism.

If you don't like chicken and chips, something is wrong with you!

NiallBoo · 02-08-2016 02:44PM

Ush1 wrote: »

If you don't like chicken and chips, something is wrong with you!

Sure, but if you're going out to a restaurant then you've got any number of much better options.

riclad · 02-08-2016 03:13PM

putting hormones into chicken is not legal in the eu.
There,s free range chickens and factory bred chicken .
they use chemicals and hormones in meat products in the usa .

Korvanica · 02-08-2016 03:20PM

Its grand, a little expensive for what it is. Tastes nice. Most people seem to hate it for no real reason.

livedadream · 02-08-2016 03:20PM

fryup wrote: »

.....whats Nandos like ?? tasty ? better than KFC ?

ah your comparing oranges with apples here mate.

Nandos is fresh grilled chicken

KFC deep fried breaded stuff.

IMO both are good but different meals,

KFC for a drunken munch is unreal

Nandos when you want to pretend your being healthy

nandos is grand but is massively overrated.

Story Bud? · 02-08-2016 03:24PM

I find it odd when people say Nandos is overrated, when all I ever hear about Nandos is that it's....well....overrated. I've never actually heard it being "rated" at all.

livedadream · 02-08-2016 03:36PM

Story Bud? wrote: »

I find it odd when people say Nandos is overrated, when all I ever hear about Nandos is that it's....well....overrated. I've never actually heard it being "rated" at all.

massive following with the cheaky nandos crew in the uk that has kinda soaked into the youth in ireland...

those damn kids... :eek::p;)

02-08-2016 03:42PM

Have ye ever been to that place on Middle Abbey Street, which offers an all-you-can-eat Asian buffet for €7.50? I used to go there when I started my first job nearby. It was a Mecca for poor students. I walked by there the other day and it's still going. Crazy value.

OT, Nando's is nice. Crackbird is alright too, but the staff are douchebags. No offence but you bring people food for a living, lose the attitude? Ditto Jo Burger (Same owner). They need to review their hiring policy IMO.

o1s1n · 02-08-2016 03:42PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Hillbillys and crackbird are the best of the bad lot when it comes to chicken quality.

Didn't think much of the chicken in Crackbird at all.

The fact that Nando's waiting staff don't take your order really really bothers me. Probably more than it should, might just be grumpy old man syndrome, but if I'm in a restaurant and there's waiting staff then take my bloody order!

Special Circumstances · 02-08-2016 04:21PM

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

I don't bother with organic tbh, just free range pasture rared is grand for me. I know a good farmer he's pretty local and I order stuff from him directly.

What's the going rate? Is it just luck that you got to know this farmer, or does he send a few of the fresh chickens down the town every now and then in a limo handing out flyers to drum up business?

rob316 · 02-08-2016 04:23PM

Bland ****e, just another example of what some slick branding and marketing can do for your inferior product.

ZeroThreat · 02-08-2016 04:38PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Didn't think much of the chicken in Crackbird at all.

The fact that Nando's waiting staff don't take your order really really bothers me. Probably more than it should, might just be grumpy old man syndrome, but if I'm in a restaurant and there's waiting staff then take my bloody order!

Which is why I've never left a tip in the few times I've been in there.

whisky_galore · 02-08-2016 04:42PM

Thought it a little overpriced, got an undercooked, pink chicken once in the very few times I have darkened its doors.

RayCon · 02-08-2016 04:47PM

I was in one once.

andekwarhola · 02-08-2016 04:52PM

Never been into one but I mentally associate it as a place favoured by people that say stuff like Bantz on social media.

02-08-2016 05:00PM

livedadream wrote: »

Nandos when you want to pretend your being healthy...

I didn't know it was associated with healthy eating.

That seems like a misplaced reputation to me. I mean, it's not exactly tofu and mung beans.

NiallBoo · 02-08-2016 05:06PM

Korvanica wrote: »

Its grand, a little expensive for what it is. Tastes nice. Most people seem to hate it for no real reason.

I wouldn't say hate, it's just annoying when places have ideas above their station.

McGrath5 · 02-08-2016 05:31PM

Both establishments serve up junk food of the lowest order, it baffles me why people go mad for this stuff.

There are a huge variety of independent eateries around Dublin that will serve up good quality honest food for the same cost as these places.

Special Circumstances · 02-08-2016 07:26PM

McGrath5 wrote: »

serve up junk food of the lowest order, it baffles me why people go mad for this stuff.

you've been very lucky in life if nandos counts as the lowest order of junk food you've had.

I'd put it somewhere at the border of fast food, where eddie rockets would be one side of the border and milanos on the other.

I realise people have an irrational and disproportionate hate for milanos too... but really you have the question where is this hate coming from, what is burning away at these people?

I mean, I've never had a carvery that would rank as decent grub but I'm not about to launch some misguided gourmet jihad on those who do like carvery but hate nandos.

Spicy grilled chicken, chips and a Super Bock - tastes like holidays to me even if its p155ing done here in Ireland. Awaits being called a filthy philistine for holidaying in the Algarve rather than the Amalfi coast. Or having ideas above my station for not going to tramore or something.... nandos are in that middle ground despised from all sides apparently.

livedadream · 02-08-2016 08:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I didn't know it was associated with healthy eating.

That seems like a misplaced reputation to me. I mean, it's not exactly tofu and mung beans.

you realise i said pretend youre being healthy....

opposed to eating a KFC...

FizzleSticks · 02-08-2016 09:10PM

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Wigglepuppy · 02-08-2016 09:35PM

Went there once. Way too expensive - feels like payment is for the gimmicky way it is served, and the sauce.

It's plain chicken (no marinade) and chips, you can add your preferred sauce. Nothing wrong with it at all but it's pretty bland, not worth the price, and when people say it's over-rated they mean its popularity and the praise it gets, which don't make sense to them, and I would agree.

Special Circumstances · 02-08-2016 10:06PM

Wigglepuppy wrote: »

It's plain chicken (no marinade)

Not in any nandos I've been in! Good try caller.

Burial. · 02-08-2016 10:14PM

It's good chicken. But for people living in Cork just get KCs or Hillbillys.

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