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Badly Made Rolls!!!!!

  • 14-07-2008 02:16AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭


    :mad: Is i just me or does anyone else have a major problem with the way some deli staff make rolls? There's a Centra around the corner from where I live and as it's closest to me I foolishly go back there all the time. I've never yet gotten a roll there that I could eat without a knife, fork and another roll to mop up the excess food with.

    I don't understand why these people aren't trained (or don't just use their common sense) in making said rolls. When someone asks for, say, chicken, lettuce, sweetcorn and grated cheese, you put in the lettuce first, right? Then the fally-out bits like sweetcorn and grated cheese, and then the chicken. Tuck it in neatly so that the roll is edible, yes? No, the one around the corner, despite my asking in order of how I want the stuff put in, will give me a roll that has the coleslaw and cheese slapped on and piled high above the actual bread with bits of lettuce sprinkled on top of that (!!!) so that I have to go home and scrape it to one side with a knife or try to squash it all in to get my mouth around it. I'd hate to have to buy a roll on the go and try to eat it in the car or on the bus. I'd end up with three of the contents on the ground. Is it just my crappy local or have others experienced the half-of-my-roll-contents-are-outside-the-actual-roll phenomenon????

    End of rant :rolleyes:


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭mthd


    a polish girl put chicken wings in my roll a few weeks ago :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Solution - bring a packed lunch that you've made yourself the way you like it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭pookie82


    I do when I'm working - usually go to this place if I have a day off and don't have anything in the house. All my house mates had the same problem - came home with a "roll" with half the contents only secured by the clingfilm. We had a laugh about it for a while but got one the last day that was completely inedible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    mthd wrote: »
    a polish girl put chicken wings in my roll a few weeks ago :(

    WTF?! :eek: That actually made me laugh out loud though!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Next time it happens throw the roll full force at the makers head.

    That'll learn them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Dublin don't do good rolls imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    sligos subway is pretty messy,whereas carricks was perfect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Sofaspud


    What I'm curious about is why this thought popped into your head at 2.16 on a sunday night!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭eyresquare


    your making me hungry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    Sofaspud wrote: »
    What I'm curious about is why this thought popped into your head at 2.16 on a sunday night!

    Maybe he found 1 of 3 of the aforementioned sandwich/roll fillings on the ground beneath him which fell off earlier due to a badly made roll.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭eyresquare


    i tink that if a roll is overfilled you got a good deal.it would be worse if there wasn't enuf in it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I just don't get the logic with putting something like mayo on last....... LAST!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    I just don't get the logic with putting something like mayo on last....... LAST!!!!!

    Mayo ALWAYS goes last???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    well technically speaking i think of whole-pieces of lettuce and not that shredded crap - so i would put lettuce on last, as it would act as a blanket for the loose bits.

    But srsly for a sambo its Sauce>Meat>Fixins


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Ireland are pretty retarded at making sandwiches, the cuisine de france breadsticks they use are just not suitable for packing with salad etc. They need to upgrade to more subway/quiznos type rolls, you can pack more gear in without it being a total mess. French sticks are suited to cheese and ham etc., which is what the French do with them, incidentally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Subway rolls are **** tbh.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    well at least we don't eat pie sandwiches in Ireland!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Paninis ftw! Nothing can escape from the glue that is the melted cheese.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭ryoishin


    I was the best roll maker ever when i worked in roches in Blanch. I was the guy with the red mohawk incase anyone went there. People told the other guy i worked with that they wanted me to make their roles.

    The meat should go on last to weigh down the other filling and to stop it falling out. Honestly the level of roll making has seriously droped since i did it. That makes me sound like a geek but its true. Its a toss up between the roll eater who wants loads of stuff on his roll and being able to close it to fit in your mouth.

    Also alot of people dont know the difference between coleslaw and Mayo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Only rolls I ever buy are chicken and cheese (I hate mayo, coleslaw, and all vegetables and sauces) So simple it's actually more difficult to make it badly!

    I hate when they put on too much butter though - even if I ask for a "small" bit they still put on like a million tonnes of it*.
    When the whole thing just tastes like butter it's horrible.


    *slight exaggeration


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Sure it'll end up the same way in your stomach anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o



    I hate when they put on too much butter though - even if I ask for a "small" bit they still put on like a million tonnes of it*.
    When the whole thing just tastes like butter it's horrible.


    *slight exaggeration

    I hate this aswell, the Spar in Inchicore is brutal for this, In fairness to them, they make good rolls but the butter thing p*sses me off...a "small amount of butter" is apparently the same as what they put on everyones....But tbh, thats the only problem so i'm not doing so bad...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Captain Ginger


    The Centra near me makes great ones, however the Londis doesn't.

    I always go for the chicken in breadcrumbs, mayo, salad combo and in Londis I open it up to find it all over the place, yet from Centra it's packed nice and tight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Sure it'll end up the same way in your stomach anyway.

    Or all down your front as the lettuce and cheese falls out of your poorly made roll!

    To all deli staff - cheese first, then chicken!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Newaglish wrote: »
    Or all down your front as the lettuce and cheese falls out of your poorly made roll!

    To all deli staff - cheese first, then chicken!
    Ah now, you can't blame them for your poor eating skills :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    You just gotta be real bossy with them.
    Those east european girls generally have dour faces (can't fault them, university degree, and theres more money making rolls here than an engineer over there) and don't give a **** how it turns out. So if it doesn't look good enough, tell them to make another one, and throw the first in a fridge or leave it behind, or just tell them its no use :)

    I don't often get rolls from those places but unless its a place with great staff training/etc ya gotta take control:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    After having a deli person snot all over one of my rolls in the past, I tend to make my own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    [-0-] wrote: »
    After having a deli person snot all over one of my rolls in the past, I tend to make my own.

    Were you charged extra for it? :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭[-0-]


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    Were you charged extra for it? :pac:

    Haha. No, thankfully!! :pac:


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