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6.20 euro for a chicken fillet roll? The Boom is Bollixed

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    #122
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    You too! I think as consumers, regardless of politics, we all have a common interest in this. People are being gouged and there are no two ways about it.

    The chicken fillet roll is just an ordinary example but it applies equally to everything from retail costs, to hotel prices for tourists.

    We've been through an awful recession. And although that wasn't retailers' fault, we can limit the depth of the next recession by saying "Enough" now.

    As a country that has let the USC stand this long like the mice we are, so there's not a hope we stand up to much else.


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    #123
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Mea Culpa, it was a Spar (I use those terms interchangeably) and it was 5 minutes from Henry Street.

    Am I allowed to name it?

    Being boards I'd hazard a guess at no. Protection of businesses above all else.


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    #124
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    The difference in city Centra's and rural Centra's is unreal.

    The last two times I spent more than a fiver on food in a Centra was when I got fresh local caught fish, with real chips, a wedge of lemon and a portion of tartar sauce in Centra Drimoleague. It cost 5.50, there was more fish than you'd get in any restaurant and I was told when I ordered it could take a short while as it was cooked to order, I watched the lady cook it and check it a few times before serving it.

    Next honorable mention goes to the Centra on Muckross Road Killlarney, the roast of the day there is second to none you'll find in a couple of mile radius and will set you back 6 euro which is what some nearby places charge for a side order, in both places you can sit down and relax at no extra charge. You could probably drive around inside the Centra in Drimoleague without any danger.

    I pity ye Dubs with yer 6 euro chicken rolls that my dogs wouldn't eat.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #125
    Bateman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    There are 3 or 4 Spars in the area so narrows it down anyway, thanks
    I didn't really think there was a Centra around which sounds right


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    #126
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Just dry and utterly tasteless :confused:

    I agree, there manky but sure in most spar/centra/garage you don't really get good tasting alternatives


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    #127
    Viscount Aggro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    Ever order a roll at deli counter, then change your mind?
    Yes, I have done so... did not like the price, or the person at the till wearing the plastic gloves she just made food with.



    I put it down behind some shelf - probably was found a few months later.


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    #128
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I wouldn't have paid OP.

    I would have walked out.

    That's robbery.

    These places should be named and shamed though probably not allowed here.

    Should be an official register somewhere.


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    #129
    heroics
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭heroics


    Tesco. Chicken fillet roll. Drink and crisps or a bar for €4 in dundrum.

    Not many options for the roll basically cheese and lettuce +sauce but not bad for the price


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    #130
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Most likely it was paid and nothing said but that doesn’t make as good a post.

    My thoughts exactly. But then the mad yokes on here wouldn't be able to post their favourite hangover cures or regale us with tales of bygone days (4-5 years ago) when these 'chicken fillet rolls were €2'

    Or the nutritionists couldn't tell us why we shouldn't eat them.

    See.


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    #131
    Blaizes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Blaizes


    I went to the deli counter in supermarket recently and got about four to five tablespoons each of coleslaw and potato salad, when I went to the checkout it came to 8.50, or thereabouts.Thought it was very expensive and said to myself I won’t be doing that again! Rip off Ireland and we are the mugs.


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    #132
    raspberrypi67
    Registered Users Posts: 776 ✭✭✭raspberrypi67


    Tat price was ok, why did you get butter...whats wrong with mayonaise?? Good thing the chicken wasent a chlorine washed one!!


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    #133
    [Deleted User]
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    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Most likely it was paid and nothing said but that doesn’t make as good a post.
    I write short stories as a hobby. If I'd wanted to embellish this, there'd be stand-offs, chainsaws, and pieces of chicken fillet flying left, right, and centre.

    That's not the case here.

    And, the fact that I didn't pay is immaterial. My point is that the price was an example of the gouging that many of us are expected to cough-up for, at lunch or elsewhere.


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    #134
    KSU
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Years ago, you weren't expected to have a Skype chat to some lad in Connecticut at 7pm GMT, or eat through your lunch break because "this is a startup and we have to behave like a team"

    Don't blame employees for this. We're not the ones choosing to work extra hours so we can live 40km outside the city. I've had it up to my guts with that sentimental old sh1te.

    Some people were born at the right time, and more luck to them. Just stop gloating.

    So you can't bring in a packed lunch because you have to work through your lunch :confused::confused:


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    #135
    [Deleted User]
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    KSU wrote: »
    So you can't bring in a packed lunch because you have to work through your lunch :confused::confused:

    I can't bring a packed lunch because I'm angrily writing to boards about not having time to bring a packed lunch.


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    #136
    KSU
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭KSU


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I can't bring a packed lunch because I'm angrily writing to boards about not having time to bring a packed lunch.

    You will never get through to people unless your exclamation point comes with a half rotten apple being flung across the desk for dramatic effect. :D


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    #137
    KikiLaRue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭KikiLaRue


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    I'd pay and give out to someone later who couldn't do anything about it.

    It’s the Irish way.


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    #138
    gmisk
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    raspberrypi67 wrote: »
    Tat price was ok, why did you get butter...whats wrong with mayonaise?? Good thing the chicken wasent a chlorine washed one!!
    That type of chicken has been banned for 20+ years in EU.

    Watch the flood of it into the UK from the US after brexit...


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    #139
    wally1990
    Registered Users Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭wally1990


    Back in about 2013 I dropped into a tiny corner shop near my home but next to a secondary school (never went into this shop before) and got a hot chicken roll, lettuce cheese and chicken and went to the till and she said 2.5€

    I was thrilled so gave the 2.5 because my other local was about 4 quid and just as I went to leave she said you can also take a bag of tayto and can of whatever drink I wanted

    I was baffled, never heard Of anything so cheap,

    Bloody shop has closed down since. Poor woman probably didn't know how to price correctly and cover costs

    6.2 is insane though,

    Normally where I am, it's about 4.5 to 4.90 now for a hot chicken roll and 2 fillings.


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    #140
    FixitFelix
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    I can't find it within myself to feel pity for anyone prepared to eat a chicken fillet roll from one of those rancid deli counters...
    Ah the chopped loyalty card holder:)


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    #141
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Anyone remember Maguire's on Suffolk Street in Dublin, beside Grafton Street

    Closed about ~4 years ago but used to do €2 chicken fillet rolls, small place so queues were literally out the door


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    #142
    Needles73
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    SureYWouldntYa wrote: »
    Anyone remember Maguire's on Suffolk Street in Dublin, beside Grafton Street

    Closed about ~4 years ago but used to do €2 chicken fillet rolls, small place so queues were literally out the door

    No wonder he closed if he was selling chicken rolls for €2......


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    #143
    [Deleted User]
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    It’s expensive for a hot chicken roll but you would be paying close to 6 euro for a sandwich in many places.

    I’d have a hot chicken roll around twice a week and generally costs between 4 and 4.50 depending on the place. The other places I rotate around for sandwich’s or fancier rolls the other 3 days would 5.50 at least and some 6 euro. I’d get a Subway every week too which is 7 but that includes a drink.

    As an aside where did this “chicken fillet” roll naming come from, they are and always have been an “hot chicken” roll to me and anyone I know.


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    #144
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Gwen Breezy Gout wrote: »
    I’d get a Subway every week too which is 7 but that includes a drink.

    Stopped going there, on principle, when they started exclusively stocking diet drinks.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #145
    OldMrBrennan83
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Stopped going there, on principle, when they started exclusively stocking diet drinks.

    Mustn't be them all. I got a normal Pepsi in the one in the Lusk M1 branch last week.


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    #146
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,570 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Mustn't be them all. I got a normal Pepsi in the one in the Lusk M1 branch last week.

    Haven’t gotten it from a services stop in a good while but will look out for it next time I’m in one.

    The last time I was in one in town they didn’t have any normal drinks at the dispenser or in the fridge and when I asked I was told they didn’t stock them anymore.

    Couldn’t be arsed with the “sugar free” muck.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #147
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Stopped going there, on principle, when they started exclusively stocking diet drinks.

    They gave up on that after a short time, I was chatting to the lads working there as I know them from going in and they said it wasn’t worth the hassle of them only having diet drink or trying to charge extra for non-diet ones. Subway is a franchise though so it could be something decided by the person running individual ones.

    I always get Pepsi max anyway so it never bothered me.


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    #148
    OldMrBrennan83
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Haven’t gotten it from a services stop in a good while but will look out for it next time I’m in one.

    The last time I was in one in town they didn’t have any normal drinks at the dispenser or in the fridge and when I asked I was told they didn’t stock them anymore.

    Couldn’t be arsed with the “sugar free” muck.

    Could still be a policy actually because those shops in the Applegreens are more Applegreen than standalone I think, so they'd sell what they're told to in those locations.


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    #149
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users Posts: 9,690 ✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    Chicken fillets rolls are like strippers. - nobody wants to know the back story.

    "Well when I was 15 my mom overdosed and my step dad....

    "See yaaaaaa"


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    #150
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,316 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    Chicken fillets rolls are like strippers. - nobody wants to know the back story.

    "Well when I was 15 my mom overdosed and my step dad....

    "See yaaaaaa"

    I'd still find things tasty after knowing the back story!


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    #151
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Booms not back unless the op threw his change in the bin with the receipt because he doesn’t like carrying coins.

    6 odd quid for a lock of beaks and feet minced into a slab and bread crumbs fcuk that


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