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

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  • #92
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    That’s correct but you could still make a hang sandwich at home.
    I leave home at 0650. It's true that I could make a lunch, but it's also true that I might not have time to eat a lunch.

    I really wish people would stop comparing millennials (or whatever we are) to people who were at work in the 1990s. Things have changed completely.


  • #93
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I leave home at 0650. It's true that I could make a lunch, but it's also true that I might not have time to eat a lunch.

    I really wish people would stop comparing millennials (or whatever we are) to people who were at work in the 1990s. Things have changed completely.

    Depends what you do. Not every 'millenial' works in software.


  • #94
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Cant beat quality.

    The difference in quality between a €2 sandwich during a bust and a €6.50 during a boom is either nothing or the latter is worse. Assuming price matters to quality here is like assuming that the expensive houses built from 2001-2006 are the best.


  • #95
    Bigmac1euro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Bigmac1euro


    Wasn’t there a Facebook page dedicated to chicken fillet rolls. People would whack up the prices and quality, heaven. Like pumps.ie was for petrol and diesal. We need a chicken fillet radar app that’s going to give us the information for the most important feed of the day. High in protein and fresh outta the glass box sitting there for at least 4 hours. Whopper munch.


  • #96
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,799 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    And the same chicken was probably the sweepings off the meat factory floor.
    A roll of the dice whether you would end up with a dose of the wild sh1tes after it.


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  • #97
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    You know the Tiger is back when there's gormless pillocks wandering around buying chickie filleh baggehs without checking the price first


  • #98
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,065 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Am starving reading this thread.


  • #99
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I
    I really wish people would stop comparing millennials (or whatever we are) to people who were at work in the 1990s. Things have changed completely.

    How has it changed? Genuinely curious here? I assume you mean working in IT?


  • #100
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    for the same price you could buy a whole cooked chicken in most supermarkets

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  • #101
    corkboy38
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭corkboy38


    €4.70 for a chicken fillet roll near my gaff, bit of butter, coleslaw, and onion and you'd be elected.


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  • #102
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    corkboy38 wrote: »
    €4.70 for a chicken fillet roll near my gaff, bit of butter, coleslaw, and onion and you'd be elected.


    Same down here in the wesht. The daughter's boyfriend paid €9 for two of them today.
    More money than sense if ye ask me!


  • #103
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Depends what you do. Not every 'millenial' works in software.
    Stheno wrote: »
    How has it changed? Genuinely curious here? I assume you mean working in IT?
    Not working in IT, I work in a bank. I have a brother who is 13 years older than me who worked in the same bank, and we often compare our working conditions and laugh (I cry).

    Lunch breaks, holidays, pensions, you name it; all different. It's only fair to mention that I'm a 'contractor', although working like a regular employee on very ordinary wages (this didn't exist in his time, except for highly paid directors). Anyway this isn't about working conditions per se, this is about the price of a chicken fillet roll!
    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.
    The thing that gets me is the price when I looked at the label on the roll.

    The roll with chicken cost a fiver.

    The coleslaw and cheese were only 60 cent each.

    Sorry, but that price for a roll is gouging, and the people who charge it are on their way to putting themselves out of business.


  • #104
    Planet X
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 3,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    You'll be paying extra for the "Chlorine wash".....


  • #105
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Welcome to Ireland where we will fleece you at every opportunity and we do it with a smile.


  • #106
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Welcome to Ireland where we will fleece you at every opportunity and we do it with a smile.

    Or perhaps it might change if a few more people to a leaf from the OPs book and returned the over priced item.


  • #107
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    Welcome to Ireland where we will fleece you at every opportunity and we do it with a smile.

    You don't even get the smile anymore, unless they have wind


  • #108
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    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....

    Sometimes Thailand.


  • #109
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Not working in IT, I work in a bank. I have a brother who is 13 years older than me who worked in the same bank, and we often compare our working conditions and laugh (I cry).

    Lunch breaks, holidays, pensions, you name it; all different. It's only fair to mention that I'm a 'contractor', although working like a regular employee on very ordinary wages (this didn't exist in his time, except for highly paid directors). Anyway this isn't about working conditions per se, this is about the price of a chicken fillet roll!

    What were once considered professional jobs worldwide are largely fcked.
    They will evolve to paying min wage eventually, as people will take less and less pay to work in a so called respectable job.


  • #110
    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    The rest of the world has the "Big Mac index", we have the chicken roll index, can't decide if it's better or much worse


  • #111
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    €4 in my local Centra at work. Granted they do a massive volume of the things, beside an industrial estate and the only decent shop for around 3km in any direction.

    Even that's too much. Profiteering is all it is.


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  • #112
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    You will find that while it might look expensive (My missus works for a large chain of convenience stores), the shops are being robbed blind by corporations, Franchises, landlords and of course the Taxman. Not to mention pharmaceutical end users who drive up the price of the roll with robbery. Thanks Paul and Adam


  • #113
    corkboy38
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭corkboy38


    You used to be able to get a roll and a can of coke for 3 quid only two years ago near me.


  • #114
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Kingp35 wrote: »
    You're missing out.

    I never got the obsession in this country for chicken fillets rolls...

    Just dry and utterly tasteless :confused:


  • #115
    [Deleted User]
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    Nobelium wrote: »
    What were once considered professional jobs worldwide are largely fcked.
    They will evolve to paying min wage eventually, as people will take less pay to work in a so called respectable job.
    Completely agree. A machine will be doing my job in the next 15-20 years.

    I never questioned my career choice until I figured that out.

    Ah! Bank Holiday Tuesday. Have a great one, folks :pac:


  • #116
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Completely agree.

    Cripes, we agree on practically next to nothing, so that's a pretty worrying confirmation.

    And fair play to you for not talking that price gouge like far too many do.

    Have a nice evening.


  • #117
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Wow this thread is so funny you're all such madmen having chicken rolls and lucozade to fix your hangovers what a mad wild bunch of people on here.


  • #118
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    Wow this thread is so funny you're all such madmen having chicken rolls and lucozade to fix your hangovers what a mad wild bunch of people on here.

    If that's your definition of mad and wild I'd say you're some craic at parties.


  • #119
    Bateman
    Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Was it the Centra near Connolly Station? I'm struggling to think of the one you could mean if it's in the IFSC area, why not just say where it is...


  • #120
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nobelium wrote: »
    Cripes, we agree on practically next to nothing, so that's a pretty worrying confirmation.

    And fair play to you for not talking that price gouge like far too many do.

    Have a nice evening.

    You too! I think as consumers, regardless of politics, we all have a common interest in this. People are being gouged and there are no two ways about it.

    The chicken fillet roll is just an ordinary example but it applies equally to everything from retail costs, to hotel prices for tourists.

    We've been through an awful recession. And although that wasn't retailers' fault, we can limit the depth of the next recession by saying "Enough" now.


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  • #121
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bateman wrote: »
    Was it the Centra near Connolly Station? I'm struggling to think of the one you could mean if it's in the IFSC area, why not just say where it is...
    Mea Culpa, it was a Spar (I use those terms interchangeably) and it was 5 minutes from Henry Street.

    Am I allowed to name it?


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