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

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    #182
    STB.
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    Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.


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    #183
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Gwen Breezy Gout wrote: »
    In fairness the prices displayed are normally for a roll with very basic fillings, I’d always add 5 or 6 fillings along with the hot chicken would always cost extra. That being said the op had very little fillings.

    It usually says how much each extra filling will be.
    STB. wrote: »
    Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

    What’s the problem? Coleslaw can be eaten with hot things as long as it’s eaten promptly.


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    #184
    [Deleted User]
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    STB. wrote: »
    Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

    Hardly worth eating one unless it’s got coleslaw, most important ingredient after the chicken.


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    #185
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I’ve only ever heard them being called chicken fillet rolls (since the ‘90s) but what a thing to be bothered about. Who cares what others call them?

    I worked in a Centra back in the boom and remember a traveller guy coming in and ordering a "Hot Spicy Chicken Fillet Baguette Roll".


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    #186
    [Deleted User]
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    It used to be 5euro a decade ago for a chicken roll. Never had the likes of them anywhere else. Tasty as.


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    #187
    OldMrBrennan83
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    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    You’d buy 2 off heat broilers for the price of that.2 Sunday roasts out of them.wouldnt cost a whole lot to flesh them for finishing.
    That old sh1te yere buying in them rolls only ever knew concrete and antibiotics.not a bit of nature in them.its no wonder people are getting sick

    Wouldn't be the same at all.


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    #188
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    I worked in a Centra back in the boom and remember a traveller guy coming in and ordering a "Hot Spicy Chicken Fillet Baguette Roll".

    No ambiguity! :D


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    #189
    Tilikum17
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    You were not overcharged.
    That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.

    Since when, most places it's €3 or €3.50....

    I've seen it at €4.50 but never over €5 never mind €6.20 that is absolutely crazy and then chicken fillets are actually coming in from China.... Yes China....

    Thailand & Brazil too.


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    #190
    WoollyRedHat
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Are we back to gouging, so, is that it?

    Pissing rain earlier. Went into Centra while I was waiting for a mate to finish work.
    "One chicken fillet roll, please; coleslaw and cheese, no butter"

    Was charged over eight euro for that, and a bottle of water at the till.

    I didn't make a scene, but I said "sorry I'm not paying that", and the lovely woman at the till kind of nodded at me in (maybe) agreement, so I went and ate elsewhere.

    My questions are threefold:

    Is gouging back?

    And isn't it all just self-defeating?

    And do you refuse to pay when being overcharged?

    Chicken Fillet Roll and Coleshaw? That's horrendous, why would you ruin a beloved food item with colesaw?


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    #191
    TerrorFirmer
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    €6.20 for a chicken roll with extra filling in Dublin CC sounds... not terrible to me. Like definitely not so outrageous that I'd walk out....€5 for a chicken roll with cheese is about the norm.


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    #192
    Ruraldweller56
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    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    You don't get it do you? 'I went up and paid for my chicken roll' would not have produced the same results, thread - wise.

    We have someone on here who writes short stories as their hobby and works in a financial institution who couldn't work a price list.

    Then we've all the wild young ones telling us about how great chicken rolls are to cure hangovers because they're all so mad.

    Then we've the health experts and dieticians telling us why we shouldn't eat chicken rolls.

    All thanks to one mishap, where a perfectly good meal was wasted.

    Allegedly.

    Now I'm off to the pub to go off the rails on half a bottle of smirnoff ice. Thanks to this thread I'll have the cure for my hangover in the morning and I'll be right as rain in no time.

    Ah yes I almost forgot about the food connoisseurs who have to tell us all about the correct constitution of a chicken roll.
    STB. wrote: »
    Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

    Mad men altogether so ye are.

    All because someone decided they'd make up a story about not paying for a chicken roll in some spar/centra that they can't remember the name of because they weren't able to read the price list before they ordered.


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    #193
    OldMrBrennan83
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    A small bit of coleslaw isn't too bad but mayonnaise and grated cheese is like a nice coleslaw.


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    #194
    PsychoPete
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    Wasn't spending all our money on chicken fillet rolls what caused the resession if the first place? We'll be back there again if we aren't careful


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    #195
    OldMrBrennan83
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    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Wasn't spending all our money on chicken fillet rolls what caused the resession if the first place? We'll be back there again if we aren't careful

    We'll be back there in a cycle regardless.


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    #196
    loyatemu
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    3.50 in the IFSC Spar, was on special for 2.99 quite recently.

    Butter or Mayo?
    Spicy or Plain?
    Lettuce, Tomato, Onion?
    Cut in half?

    Those are your options, once you start adding in exotic ingredients like cheese and coleslaw, you're asking for trouble...


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    #197
    WillyWonkaBar
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    3.50 in the IFSC Spar, was on special for 2.99 quite recently.

    Butter or Mayo?
    Spicy or Plain?
    Lettuce, Tomato, Onion?
    Cut in half?

    Those are your options, once you start adding in exotic ingredients like cheese and coleslaw, you're asking for trouble...

    Cheese..... exotic? ... its not an option - its a must have!


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    #198
    loyatemu
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    WillyWonkaBar wrote: »
    Cheese..... exotic? ... its not an option - its a must have!

    I don't make the rules.


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    #199
    InTheShadows
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    I would have punched the chicken roll right in the face and walked out.


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    #200
    topper75
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    You would get a whole cooked chicken for that

    Aye, and the flesh would be 'mechanically' separated from the carcass by my teeth. No need for preservative as I would consume within minutes.


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    #201
    Doctors room ghost
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    InTheShadows wrote: »
    I would have punched the chicken roll right in the face and walked out.


    Right in the minced beak and feet you mean


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    #202
    gmisk
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    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Wasn't spending all our money on chicken fillet rolls what caused the resession if the first place? We'll be back there again if we aren't careful
    Nope it was avocados.


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    #203
    Cina
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    I was in London at the weekend and I was shocked at how cheap food and drink was compared to Dublin. Get a great brekkie/brunch/lunch for £5.

    The f*ck happened to Dublin? Food was dirt cheap back during the recession. Shambles.


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    #204
    Hoboo
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    Cina wrote: »
    I was in London at the weekend and I was shocked at how cheap food and drink was compared to Dublin. Get a great brekkie/brunch/lunch for £5.

    The f*ck happened to Dublin? Food was dirt cheap back during the recession. Shambles.

    Because food in the UK is pure ****e


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    #205
    Cina
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    Hoboo wrote: »
    Because food in the UK is pure ****e

    Depends where you go. Food in London is amazing.


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    #206
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    Hoboo wrote: »
    Because food in the UK is pure ****e

    It’s impossible to get a decent roll in the UK they simply don’t exist, Subway is the best you can get which I love but once or twice a week is enough for going there and you need options.

    To be honest its very hard to get a decent lunch anywhere outside Ireland they just make sh*t sandwiches and rolls compared to here.


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    #207
    NuttyMcNutty
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    You might have met a strict person at the deli counter who tried to charge you for a portion of coleslaw as well. There's one near me and I always go out of my way to avoid her when getting food at the deli counter.

    Always look for the fat Irish bird.:D


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    #208
    NeVeR
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    My centra charge €4 for one and you get a can of coke included.


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    #209
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    ligerdub wrote: »
    Ordering a roll and then not paying because it's a couple of euro more than you thought it seriously low brow behaviour! I've seen it happen a couple of times recently by a few different scrotes, it's uncouth at best.

    What is the shop owner supposed to do? Just chuck it away?
    Guess I'm uncouth, so. Not bothered.

    What's the shop owner supposed to do? Not charging approximately 20% more than other outlets in the same neighbourhood for the same food would be a good start.

    And no, the price isn't displayed at the till. Or, I'd didn't see it.


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    #210
    dont bother
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Guess I'm uncouth, so. Not bothered.

    What's the shop owner supposed to do? Not charging approximately 20% more than other outlets in the same neighbourhood for the same food would be a good start.

    And no, the price isn't displayed at the till. Or, I'd didn't see it.

    this HAS to have been either Fresh in IFSC or Spar... both gougers on prices for EVERYTHING. it's been like this for a while now, but 6.20 is a new record.

    only a fool would pay that amount, or somebody who wants to seem like they have money.

    as for the fools calling it "uncouth" etc... nobody in ireland is posh enough to call anyone else that sort of thing, so get over yourself. you aint no better than nobody :)


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    #211
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    dont bother wrote: »
    this HAS to have been either Fresh in IFSC or Spar... both gougers on prices for EVERYTHING. it's been like this for a while now, but 6.20 is a new record.

    No, it's the Spar over beside Capel Street, the one in the ifsc is actually pretty cheap, I thought. The same roll costs me about 4 euro there.


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