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Dunnes chicken roll rip-off

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  • #62
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    WellThen? wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521288

    They are BAD

    Calories are NOT a toxin. They are not bad for you. They did not shoot JFK. They did not kidnap the passengers of flight MH370 and force them into sex slavery.
    There's a good few calories in a chicken fillet roll. That does not make them bad for you, just don't eat pallets full of them and get off your (not you specifically) ass and go for a bit of a jog or a swim occasionally.

    All these poor souls running round counting every calorie they eat and diving into bushes at the sight of a slice of bread and getting together for a 2 minute hate directed towards pizza and wheat and deli food and god knows what else are probably gonna be stone dead before they reach 50, a fatal case of nofunitus, massive strokes brought on by constant stress and no exercise after a wasted lifetime of self deprivation.


  • #63
    renegademaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭renegademaster


    Lifelike wrote: »
    So I went into Dunnes Stores on St. Stephen's Green earlier to get my usual €2.29 chicken fillet roll for lunch, but was stopped in my tracks when I discovered that they have increased the price to €3.85 :eek: I then head over to the pre-packed sandwiches section where it turns out they have also increased the price of the sandwich meal deal from €3 to €3.50! A bit odd that these price increases come a few weeks after they decided to stop displaying the prices of most of their hot counter deli items.

    Needless to say I'll be taking my custom elsewhere from now on :mad:

    i was refused a breakfast roll on a brown roll in dunnes before, i stood there absolutely gobsmacked at what the manager was telling me, even though they had brown rolls and ingredients for a breakfast roll they still wouldn't sell it to me!!


  • #64
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    renegademaster wrote: »
    i was refused a breakfast roll on a brown roll in dunnes before, i stood there absolutely gobsmacked at what the manager was telling me, even though they had brown rolls and ingredients for a breakfast roll they still wouldn't sell it to me!!

    It's an oxymoron really. Healthy roll with un healthy contents.

    He was doing you a favour.


  • #65
    dxhound2005
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    MugMugs wrote: »
    It's an oxymoron really. Healthy roll with un healthy contents.

    He was doing you a favour.

    The new dispensation would say you are incorrect. Lots of lovely sausages and bacon good (loads of protein). Brown roll bad (loads of carbs).

    Complete nonsense of course and so is saying that either of the elements of the meal is healthy or unhealthy. And it's not really an oxymoron as I understand the meaning of the word.


  • #66
    Potatoeman
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    strobe wrote: »
    Calories are NOT a toxin. They are not bad for you. They did not shoot JFK. They did not kidnap the passengers of flight MH370 and force them into sex slavery.
    There's a good few calories in a chicken fillet roll. That does not make them bad for you, just don't eat pallets full of them and get off your (not you specifically) ass and go for a bit of a jog or a swim occasionally.

    All these poor souls running round counting every calorie they eat and diving into bushes at the sight of a slice of bread and getting together for a 2 minute hate directed towards pizza and wheat and deli food and god knows what else are probably gonna be stone dead before they reach 50, a fatal case of nofunitus, massive strokes brought on by constant stress and no exercise after a wasted lifetime of self deprivation.

    Its usually people that diet and dont excercise that make those comments. Yoyo dieters that dont excercise and keep putting on more weight.


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  • #67
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Are they still enforcing their no cheese policy?

    http://www.yelp.ie/biz/dunnes-dublin-2

    What this very negative review concerns itself with is the hot deli counter in the Dunnes in Stephen's Green. Dunnes normally do a very good deli counter; the one in George's St is extremely nice. However, my experience at the counter in question left a lot to be desired.

    The hot counter in this particular Dunnes is often running out of stuff, and while this might be expected occasionally, particularly at 2 or 3 o'clock, it is a minor inconvenience at best. What I am about to recount, however, is a heresy in the art of sandwich making, and should shock you to your very core.

    I approached the counter and asked for a chicken fillet roll. No problems there. Did they get the ratios wrong, you ask, too much mayonnaise or not enough lettuce? No, I could live with that. When asked what I wanted on my roll, I replied lettuce, tomato and grated cheese. To which I received the reply that they didn't do cheese with chicken fillet rolls. I assumed that there was some token additional charge for this extra filling, as cheese is not one of the staple chicken fillet roll fillings (tomato and lettuce for those of you who are interested); vexatious, but not the end of the world. I hazarded this assumption on my part, only to be told that no, it wasn't a financial thing, they just didn't put cheese on chicken fillet rolls. Full stop.

    When I asked about this bizarre state of affairs, I was told it was a health and safety thing. Now, I appreciate that this poor girl was only doing her job, and I assure you that I didn't take it out on her, but it is a sad state of affairs when a man can't walk into a shop in this great nation of ours and get cheese on his chicken fillet roll. Is what we've come to? Is this what the men of '98 and '16 died for?

    I ask this as I have been served cheese on chicken fillet rolls the length and breadth of Dublin, and if Dunnes wanted to institute some sort of cheese legal waiver, I would gladly sign.

    Needless to say, I shall not be giving the deli counter of Dunnes Stores, Stephen's Green my custom in the future.

    Fight the power!!!

    I went to buy an ice cream in a shop last Sunday. I said can I have a 99 cone please with chocolate syrup to which I was told you can only get syrup with a tub, I said I'll just have a tub so please.
    It was only after I had left the shop that I started seething with rage, I wanted creamy ice cream with chocolately chocolate sauce AND a crunchy conetastic cone all together!
    What a ****ing stupid ****ing policy. I'm close enough to 30 and to be told by the stupid **** behind the counter I couldn't have syrup on my first poxy ice cream cone in over half a ****ing year typifies exactly what is wrong with this country!

    And you know what I'll do the next time I'm in that shop, do you know what I'll do?!? I'll smile politely and say hi, that's what I'll ****ing do! :pac:


  • #68
    kfallon
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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    Fight the power!!!

    I went to buy an ice cream in a shop last Sunday. I said can I have a 99 cone please with chocolate syrup to which I was told you can only get syrup with a tub, I said I'll just have a tub so please.
    It was only after I had left the shop that I started seething with rage, I wanted creamy ice cream with chocolately chocolate sauce AND a crunchy conetastic cone all together!
    What a ****ing stupid ****ing policy. I'm close enough to 30 and to be told by the stupid **** behind the counter I couldn't have syrup on my first poxy ice cream cone in over half a ****ing year typifies exactly what is wrong with this country!

    And you know what I'll do the next time I'm in that shop, do you know what I'll do?!? I'll smile politely and say hi, that's what I'll ****ing do! :pac:

    At least you got over it fairly quickly......


  • #69
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    kfallon wrote: »
    At least you got over it fairly quickly......

    The ice cream was too good to stay angry, it was just too good to care about anything other than creaminess. :)


  • #70
    Warper
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    Lifelike wrote: »
    So I went into Dunnes Stores on St. Stephen's Green earlier to get my usual €2.29 chicken fillet roll for lunch, but was stopped in my tracks when I discovered that they have increased the price to €3.85 :eek: I then head over to the pre-packed sandwiches section where it turns out they have also increased the price of the sandwich meal deal from €3 to €3.50! A bit odd that these price increases come a few weeks after they decided to stop displaying the prices of most of their hot counter deli items.

    Needless to say I'll be taking my custom elsewhere from now on :mad:

    In fairness that is a big jump in price. Just swap places though


  • #71
    Paddy Cow
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    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Its usually people that diet and dont excercise that make those comments. Yoyo dieters that dont excercise and keep putting on more weight.
    What happens is they decide to lose weight, cut out all carbs, count the calories in everything until meals become a chore and the diet goes out the window and they go back to their old habits. Bread and carbs in general are fine as long as they are eaten in moderation. Cutting them out completely or drastically limiting them is silly and not sustainable long term.


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  • #72
    Graces7
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    biko wrote: »
    This may be a big ask but how about making your own sandwiches...


    Exactly my thoughts ..Lazy lot!

    Easy and cheap.


  • #73
    Plazaman
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    I think it's a buck....buck...buck....buckkingdisgrace personally.

    Chickens are evil, eat more cows.


  • #74
    RobbingBandit
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    Dunnes in Maynooth have been charging near €4 for them with a "Free" 330ml can for years.


  • #75
    Gandalph
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    Chicken famine in Ireland on the way you say?! Short sell chicken stocks!!!


  • #76
    RoboRat
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    Thats fowl behaviour from Dunnes and I am sure they will come up with a cock and bull story but thanks to the OP for that nugget of information.


  • #77
    thomas anderson.
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    This is our 9/11


  • #78
    Potatoeman
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    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    What happens is they decide to lose weight, cut out all carbs, count the calories in everything until meals become a chore and the diet goes out the window and they go back to their old habits. Bread and carbs in general are fine as long as they are eaten in moderation. Cutting them out completely or drastically limiting them is silly and not sustainable long term.

    Crash dieters are worst. They starve themselves and are surprised that they put on more weight when they quit their diet. If your body thinks it has been starved it will try and buildup reserves.


  • #79
    RobbingBandit
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    Potatoeman wrote: »
    Crash dieters are worst. They starve themselves and are surprised that they put on more weight when they quit their diet. If your body thinks it has been starved it will try and buildup reserves.

    In other news if you sneeze and fart at the same time you are transported into another dimension.


  • #80
    Sulla Felix
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    It's mechanically reconstructed bleached muscle, not fillet.


  • #81
    harry Bailey esq
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    Lifelike wrote: »
    So I went into Dunnes Stores on St. Stephen's Green earlier to get my usual €2.29 chicken fillet roll for lunch, but was stopped in my tracks when I discovered that they have increased the price to €3.85 :eek: I then head over to the pre-packed sandwiches section where it turns out they have also increased the price of the sandwich meal deal from €3 to €3.50! A bit odd that these price increases come a few weeks after they decided to stop displaying the prices of most of their hot counter deli items.

    Needless to say I'll be taking my custom elsewhere from now on :mad:

    what a shower of priks.f*%k them,and their effin chicken rolls. scumbags.


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  • #82
    carrig4life
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    In other news if you sneeze and fart at the same time you are transported into another dimension.


    Liar!

    I just tried...


  • #83
    super_furry
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    Gotta say I think you're right to cry fowl, I'd say you were spitting feathers.


  • #84
    meoklmrk91
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    I used to have a chicken fillet roll with garlic mayo practically every day in school, I gave them up to save money, I actually cannot remember the last time I had one and I've only had a breakfast roll once this last year. I think I'll have one of them in the morning for old times sake and because both are sexual.

    Also I am of the opinion that either aldi or lidl needs to open a deli, they would do it better and cheaper and it lidl bakery is anything to go by it would also be sexual.


  • #85
    RobbingBandit
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    carrig4life wrote: »
    Liar!

    I just tried...

    Poster is no longer online as they have been transported to dimension x.


  • #86
    MugMugs
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    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    and it lidl bakery is anything to go by it would also be sexual.

    I am a little uneasy near you.

    Go stand over there..... :eek:


  • #87
    kowloon
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    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    It's mechanically reconstructed bleached muscle, not fillet.

    We can rebuild it, we can make it better, we have the technology.


  • #88
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    MugMugs wrote: »
    I am a little uneasy near you.

    Go stand over there..... :eek:

    Lol, I am a product of my generation, when I was growing up sexual was used to describe something that was really good, "that chicken fillet roll was fupping sexual, "did you see her new runners, they are sexual". I rarely use it now, only for food that is really, really good! It's rediculous really :D


  • #89
    Ann Landers
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    If I ate a chicken fillet roll even twice a week for lunch, I'd need to be rolled out the room!


  • #90
    Artful_Badger
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    I haven't bought a roll in Dunnes since about 5/6 years ago when eating my hot chicken roll I found the chicken rather chewy.

    Turns out it wasnt chicken I was chewing at all but chewing gum that must have fallen out of someone's mouth into the salad.

    Haven't trusted them since.


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  • #91
    le la rat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭le la rat


    Chain yourself to the shop door and go on hunger strike


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