Has Ireland Gone Mad On Takeaways?

xXxkorixXx · 07-07-2011 12:02AM #1

Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this

me and me fella used to get a takeaway nearly every night, and they were always very busy.

Dont get me wrong, i love them but do you think that there is a huge takeaway culture today in Ireland? And do most people now a days get a takeaway every night and just dont bother cooking anymore?

(Like i said, i love takeaways and i'm not saying anything bad about them, i'm just saying do you think that Ireland just doesnt care about proper home cooked meals anymore??)

Any opinions would be great.

Cheers, Kori

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 07-07-2011 12:04AM

its 50/50,some families where just raised on fast food and you see kids under 12 weighing a good bit,other families kept the tradition of cooking at home.

kfallon · 07-07-2011 12:04AM

I haven't got one sober for over 2 years!

Had a few drunken taco chips but not often at all, the Japanese flag arse and cost of savlon cream is a great deterrent!

Geansai Rua · 07-07-2011 12:04AM

Its why we're all fat ba stards...

No biggie

orourkeda · 07-07-2011 12:05AM

Beef curry with boiled rice chips and chicken balls is the way to go

ScummyMan · 07-07-2011 12:06AM

Bleedin Japanese baastards Joe!

General General · 07-07-2011 12:07AM

Takeaways - if you can still fit in the door, then you haven't had enough - if you can't fit in the door any more, why not try our home delivery service???

JONJO THE MISER · 07-07-2011 12:08AM

For the love of god dont go into the gambling or Galway city foruum if you dont like takeaways.

Captain Darling · 07-07-2011 12:08AM

There's about six takeaways in Athenry now (where i'm from), for a town thats small its far too much.

There was some statistic there lately saying that the recession was actually boosting sales in chippers etc, because people couldnt afford to buy decent food. Its hard to understand, because takeaway food just sits like a ball of sh1te in your stomach and in the long run doing a decent shop for good food knocks the cost thing on the head.

I used to think it was great hangover food, but it only makes the hangover twice as bad. Fook that.

wild_cat · 07-07-2011 12:08AM

OP..

Seriously get your cholesterol checked.

strokemyclover · 07-07-2011 12:10AM

I used to think a few people were out of control with take aways a few years ago too. Its certainly not a new thing, I reckon everyone goes through periods of not understanding the difference between food/drink and love so invariably we all go through these phases....just my 2c!

ColeTrain · 07-07-2011 12:12AM

Thread title reads like a TV3 special report.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 07-07-2011 12:13AM

i think its case of both parents working,coming home tried so a takeaway is ordered..

theteal · 07-07-2011 12:13AM

when in ireland i would get a chinese/chipper maybe 3 out 4 Fridays of a month. merely based on habit that we didn't cook on a friday. during the week, it was all fresh meat and veg.

chippers over here are sh!te so i'm on a health binge

for the overall perspective, i can't say i would have noticed any take-away places being overly busy apart from friday evenings and after pub closing

[preach]
OP you should probably have a serious look at your diet - cholesterol can't be good from the sounds of it
[/preach]

Captain Darling · 07-07-2011 12:16AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

Thread title reads like a TV3 special report.

Reports for idiots. Like programmes that leave you in no doubt over what the subject matter is about:

The Worlds Fattest Man

The Worlds Smallest Woman

The Man who wants to be a cat.

Ahhhh, just feck off with these dumbass programmes!! :mad:

admiralofthefleet · 07-07-2011 12:17AM

wild_cat wrote: »

OP..

Seriously get your cholesterol checked.

im the op's fiance. if you saw her you would swear she never ate a takeaway once in her life

The Scientician · 07-07-2011 12:18AM

Captain Darling wrote: »

There was some statistic there lately saying that the recession was actually boosting sales in chippers etc, because people couldnt afford to buy decent food. Its hard to understand, because takeaway food just sits like a ball of sh1te in your stomach and in the long run doing a decent shop for good food knocks the cost thing on the head.

I think takeaways are thriving to the detriment fo swankier, more expensive establishments and going out in general. Even if your takeaway costs €20, it's cheaper than going down the pub or even the cinema etc.

OPENROAD · 07-07-2011 12:18AM

Thought demand for takeaways would have gone down considering the economic situation and the price of takeaways

mrsbyrne · 07-07-2011 12:23AM

theteal wrote: »

when in ireland i would get a chinese/chipper maybe 3 out 4 Fridays of a month. merely based on habit that we didn't cook on a friday. during the week, it was all fresh meat and veg.

chippers over here are sh!te so i'm on a health binge

for the overall perspective, i can't say i would have noticed any take-away places being overly busy apart from friday evenings and after pub closing

[preach]
OP you should probably have a serious look at your diet - cholesterol can't be good from the sounds of it
[/preach]

nothing to say about the takeaways, just wanted to point out that i was born in Hornchurch, down your way.:)

Buceph · 07-07-2011 12:25AM

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

me and me fella used to get a takeaway nearly every night

Fer srs? That's madness.

I used to get one about every three or four weeks when I was at friends' places. Now even that's too expensive and we end up getting frozen pizzas. My parents would get one every six months or so.

Cooking isn't that difficult. And I don't even mean the "make yourself a stew and three different vegetables every day." Get 30 chicken wings for €3.70 and stick them in the oven for 40 minutes, and then nuke a few potatoes. It's piss easy. Boiling spuds is easy, making a stir fry is easy, making pasta is easy. I don't know where people get the idea that cooking is difficult to do. Butchers no longer sell stuff that needs hours of preparation, most of their products are things designed to be cooked easily, with little preperation.

Captain Darling · 07-07-2011 12:26AM

The Scientician wrote: »

I think takeaways are thriving to the detriment fo swankier, more expensive establishments and going out in general. Even if your takeaway costs €20, it's cheaper than going down the pub or even the cinema etc.

Yeah, its a cheaper alternative to a posh meal. Fancy weekends away in Ashford Castle accompanied by a snazzy meal have now turned into a bag of chips, steak and kidney pie and a dry hump in the back of a 1998 Toyota Avensis of a Friday night.

My how times have changed....

Ally Dick · 07-07-2011 12:27AM

kfallon wrote: »

Had a few drunken taco chips

Same here. Taco chips followed the following day by taco sh!ts

LaLucy · 07-07-2011 12:32AM

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

Just wondering what peoples thoughts are on this

me and me fella used to get a takeaway nearly every night, and they were always very busy.

Dont get me wrong, i love them but do you think that there is a huge takeaway culture today in Ireland? And do most people now a days get a takeaway every night and just dont bother cooking anymore?

(Like i said, i love takeaways and i'm not saying anything bad about them, i'm just saying do you think that Ireland just doesnt care about proper home cooked meals anymore??)

Any opinions would be great.

Cheers, Kori

Every night are you mad!? I make all meals at home. If people are so uneducated to think its cheaper to get take away then let them on. What a ridiculous thing to say!
I'd say we get take away once a month and that would chips and vegetable burger. There's no excuse to be eating it every day, that's disgusting and lazy.
Even busy couples who come in late can prepare on weekends.

OPENROAD · 07-07-2011 12:33AM

Buceph wrote: »

Fer srs? That's madness.

I used to get one about every three or four weeks when I was at friends' places. Now even that's too expensive and we end up getting frozen pizzas. My parents would get one every six months or so.

Cooking isn't that difficult. And I don't even mean the "make yourself a stew and three different vegetables every day." Get 30 chicken wings for €3.70 and stick them in the oven for 40 minutes, and then nuke a few potatoes. It's piss easy. Boiling spuds is easy, making a stir fry is easy, making pasta is easy. I don't know where people get the idea that cooking is difficult to do. Butchers no longer sell stuff that needs hours of preparation, most of their products are things designed to be cooked easily, with little preperation.

Spot on imo, I used to possibly get a take-away once a week, stopped getting them though for a few reasons, firstly the price, far too expensive for what you are getting, especially given the quality of the food.

As you say it really is not all that difficult to cook, the hardest part is probably the prep work, but that is something you only need to do a couple of times a week, and you really do make huge savings.

Lady Chatterton · 07-07-2011 12:43AM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

im the op's fiance. if you saw her you would swear she never ate a takeaway once in her life

You can be very thin and still have high cholestrol. A cousin of mine is a size 8 but her cholestrol up until a couple of months ago was 8.7, some of this was due to a poor diet but her GP reckoned that some of it was due to high stress levels for a prolonged period. Apparently, stress hormones such as cortisol, affect cholestrol levels.

Lord Nikon · 07-07-2011 12:44AM

Jaysus i fecking love a good curry. Saturday we religiosly get a takeaway, and maybe once or twice during the week too. It cheers me up actually, and i look forward to it. It's my little treat.

I dont drink as much as before, or go out much at all in fact, but a curry is a little luxury, like expensive bogroll.

Roast pork curry, no onions, boiled rice, bag of Macaris chips on top. Or maybe a side order of salted chilli chicken instead of the chips.

Sonnenblumen · 07-07-2011 12:51AM

I think takeaways are going mad looking for business. I thought it was a sign that people were copping on at last just how crap most of these places really are.

scotty_irish · 07-07-2011 12:58AM

generally tastes like ****e, gives you a food hangover, and little change from a tenner per person. and the driver spits in your food. nuff said.

gimme 20€, i'll feed 4 people, like kings.

ordinary_girl · 07-07-2011 01:02AM

I still get takeaways but not as regularly as I used to, mainly due to lack of funds and the guilt! I think maybe there is a bit too much of a takeaway 'culture' here though, I have relatives in Italy who never get takeaways and think it's crazy that we do. I'm finally starting to appreciate home cooking

AfterDusk · 07-07-2011 01:02AM

neuromancer wrote: »

but a curry is a little luxury, like expensive bogroll.

Which, incidentally, you need after having your curry

Lady Chatterton · 07-07-2011 01:12AM

scotty_irish wrote: »

generally tastes like sh1te, gives you a food hangover,

When I used to say that to my husband he used to laugh at me but I really believe that you can get a food hangover, when you eat processed sh1te and your body is used to normally having healthy food. I think if you eat processed food all the time you don't really notice how sh1te it really is and the effect it has on your body.

I know it is really boring but I sit down every weekend before I go shopping and I plan out the meals that we are likely to have during the week. I sometimes cook meals in advance too so that I don't resort to takeaways when I'm busy. I really enjoy cooking and I'm pretty good at it (so Mr D tells me) so takeaways don't really interest me.

I have one exception though, if I'm really sick, I will make my husband go to a local fish and chip shop of a bag of traditional chips cooked in lard.

Has Ireland Gone Mad On Takeaways?

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