Ordering chicken in a restaurant.

Dublinmackem · 27-07-2013 08:02PM

I wouldn't not have a dish just because it's chicken, depends on the dish as a whole and what the starter or main is in terms of meat, some really great Italian, Lebanese, Mexican and French chicken dishes I'd have no problem ordering, your probably limiting the menu by about 40% also by chopping the chicken

27-07-2013 08:27PM

My fav thing to order would be Lobster, buts its nuts the price of it, when you do get it. Always order it when Im away as its usually cheaper.

magick · 27-07-2013 08:34PM

nice pan roasted chicken?! oh yes!

Pang · 27-07-2013 09:02PM

I have never ordered chicken. I just think that if you're heading out and paying for a meal, it's worth trying something different or something you wouldn't normally make at home. It's good to have variety in the diet.

ArtyC · 27-07-2013 10:51PM

I never understood going out for Italian. Pizza and pasta are my poor foods

xzanti · 27-07-2013 10:56PM

I love chicken.. I would often go for the chicken breast option on any menu..

Very filling, low in fat and quite tasty.. Yum.

Teyla Emmagan · 27-07-2013 11:02PM

I think this is bizarre too. Why go to a restaurant and order something you can so easily cook at home? I think chicken is fine, but i never get excited about eating it so wouldn't dream of ordering it when I was out. Unless there is absolutely nothing else on the menu. And in most restaurants, particularly ethnic ones, you have no idea about the provenance of the chicken. For someone who isn't a big chicken fan, I am super fussy about it. Normally unless I know it's really good I'd rather just skip it.

27-07-2013 11:03PM

Never something I've thought about, but thinking about it now, unless it's on a pizza, nope, I don't.

eyeball kid · 27-07-2013 11:19PM

Normally like to try something different when I eat out, be that lamb, chicken, beef, fish or what ever else is on the menu.
Definitely wouldn't say that chicken is a waste. Steak to me is something that you can normally cook at home easily enough and just the way you like it.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 27-07-2013 11:22PM

Why hasnt anyone mentioned the staple of the pissed paddy the Snackbox?

shruikan2553 · 27-07-2013 11:32PM

Depends on how it is cooked or what its with. I can cook something with beef as easily as chicken so it doesnt really matter. I only tend to avoid seafood because I dont like it and lamb because it tends to be fatty.

Wibbles19 · 27-07-2013 11:34PM

First thing I will always order is fish, everything fish, cause I don't have to listen to the kids giving out about the smell of fish in the house when I cook it.

kowloon · 27-07-2013 11:34PM

Lapin wrote: »

Very true.

Easiest thing in the world to cook too.

You'd be surprised how many people screw it up though.

The supermarkets cut them thin so they look bigger (in area) on those Styrofoam trays.
Then people dry them out like a piece of leather under a crappy grill or stick them onto a frying pan wet to semi-boil.
That's when they figure the stuff in the restaurant is much nicer than anything they do at home.

I can't cook, but a good steak is something I can manage. It's such a small amount of effort.

Problem123456 · 27-07-2013 11:41PM

Wibbles19 wrote: »

First thing I will always order is fish, everything fish, cause I don't have to listen to the kids giving out about the smell of fish in the house when I cook it.

Is that code word for sex?

Minderbinder · 28-07-2013 12:02AM

There are some really nice chicken dishes in restaurants that you wouldn't normally make at home. It's the same as ordering any other meat.

Only thing that annoys me in a restaurant is someone ordering a steak well done... such a waste. Is it an Irish thing that we want our food cooked to the point of cremation?

Czarcasm · 28-07-2013 12:25AM

Minderbinder wrote: »

Only thing that annoys me in a restaurant is someone ordering a steak well done... such a waste. Is it an Irish thing that we want our food cooked to the point of cremation?

I always ordered my steak well done (can't really eat red meat any more, hence past tense, doc had me cut down), but I don't think it was ever an Irish "thing". It seems more "nouveau cuisine" to order steak rare nowadays, or if you want to be really pretentious- order your steak done bleu.

I read an article recently too in one of the papers about Bord Failte trying to have restaurants do away with Irish traditional dishes like bacon and cabbage from their menus and adopt a more European cuisine to accommodate tourists.

Some of the top chefs in the top restaurants and hotels in the country, thankfully told them to get bent!

daRobot · 28-07-2013 12:54AM

ArtyC wrote: »

I never understood going out for Italian. Pizza and pasta are my poor foods

Then you've never eaten proper Italian food.

kowloon · 28-07-2013 12:57AM

Czarcasm wrote: »

Some of the top chefs in the top restaurants and hotels in the country, thankfully told them to get bent!

Tourists coming here don't necessarily want to try something they can easily get anywhere at home, seems like a pretty dumb thing for a tourist board to think up.

Joe10000 · 28-07-2013 01:02AM

Order chicken to do what ?

dfx- · 28-07-2013 02:22AM

Don't order chicken or steak much at all.

Lamb or duck would be my pick

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-07-2013 02:30AM

It depends on what kind of establishment you're dining in. Chicken is not only pub grub feed, there's many wonderful dishes out there which incorporate it.

28-07-2013 02:47AM

truebluesac wrote: »

Sorry sir we are all out of fanta . Could i intrest you in a bottle of our finest TK instead . Would you like red or white

I'm starting to like this restaurant..

28-07-2013 03:11AM

I order a lot of pig recently.. I say pig because there's so many different parts and it's become my fav animal. I go through short fazes of sea food as well. Prawns, clams, squid and crab are all really nice.

Bozo Skeleton · 28-07-2013 04:31AM

I'm vegetarian, so maybe it's seems weirder to me, but I've been deli queues where the person in front of me has ordered a roll with chicken and egg in. Chicken and egg together in one bite, that's just too weird.

Daveysil15 · 28-07-2013 08:53AM

Apocalypto Panther wrote: »

I don't remember ever ordering chicken in a restaurant except for maybe when I was a kid. It just seems like such a waste, do you ever order chicken in a restaurant?

How exactly is it a waste?

Apocalypto Panther · 28-07-2013 09:26AM

Daveysil15 wrote: »

How exactly is it a waste?

There's usually a lot more interesting options that you couldn't easily make at home.

slippy wicket · 28-07-2013 09:39AM

Yuck. Chicken is the food equivalent of beige.
Once you start eating that chemical filled over processed sludge you've given up and should start wearing slacks.

greenflash · 28-07-2013 09:41AM

Minderbinder wrote: »

Only thing that annoys me in a restaurant is someone ordering a steak well done... such a waste. Is it an Irish thing that we want our food cooked to the point of cremation?

There are loads of things that annoy me more in restaurants, however, my in laws all order steak well done. They're old school (even the younger ones) and just don't trust food unless it's cooked three or four times longer than necessary. The fact that their steaks end up with less taste than place mats is irrelevant. Like many in Ireland, they're just determinedly set it their ways and truth or reason cannot change them.

As for chicken, I'll choose it if there's an interesting dish on a menu and nothing else takes my fancy, but would never leave the house going "Yeay chicken!"

Daveysil15 · 28-07-2013 09:50AM

Apocalypto Panther wrote: »

There's usually a lot more interesting options that you couldn't easily make at home.

Not really, it depends on where you go. The Spanish and Thai restaurants have some interesting chicken dishes.

.jacksparrow. · 28-07-2013 10:58AM

greenflash wrote: »

There are loads of things that annoy me more in restaurants, however, my in laws all order steak well done. They're old school (even the younger ones) and just don't trust food unless it's cooked three or four times longer than necessary. The fact that their steaks end up with less taste than place mats is irrelevant. Like many in Ireland, they're just determinedly set it their ways and truth or reason cannot change them.

As for chicken, I'll choose it if there's an interesting dish on a menu and nothing else takes my fancy, but would never leave the house going "Yeay chicken!"

Not true I like my steak well done because I don't want cows blood rolling onto my chips on the plate and making them soggy.

Still love the taste of it well done.

Ordering chicken in a restaurant.

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