Why is take-away food so terrible?

Kobe

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop wrote:

Very true, its packed with MSG. All the meat for Chinese restaurants comes in frozen boxes imported from China. I've seen this first hand and have never eaten Chinese since. I was in a freezer warehouse in Navan that supplied Chinese and other restaurants. The forklift guy was moving all these boxes with Chinese writing on them into a truck. I asked him what was in the boxes and he said meat on its way to Dublin Chinese restaurants. It seem there was no checks on quality or what it even was.

Not all of them, I work in a Chinese restaurant and we only order our meats from local suppliers, such as Cunningham food, and English Market in Cork.

Chunners

I prefer my own cooking, beef and chicken from a chinese tastes like rubber and their chips are vile

ShadowHearth

Karl Stein wrote: »

I had a King Creole from KC's in Douglas Cork on Wednesday evening and it was delicious.



My Brother got the Kansas City Pitta.



I felt festively plump after washing my Creole down with an ice cold can of Coke.

You can never say no to KCs, me and buddy usually go there once a week. It's 35mile trip to KCs though, well worth the drive! King creole is just orgasmic stuff.

There are good chippers and bad chippers, but I know one thing, I would never touch Chinese take away. I know some stories about local Chinese takeaways thanks to my friends who do deliveries for them.
In hacap course we were told that majority of places that get shut down by health inspectors are Chinese restaurants and takeaway shops.

RonanP77

I can't stand take aways any more, I've been doing a good bit of running & cycling all year, I lost 2 stone and since that I really didn't like the few take aways we've gotten.

Andy-Pandy

Bombay pantry is quality take away, good value can be had if you collect it. Love the butter chicken masala.

Fr_Dougal

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Takeaways are a bit like sex

Gbear wrote: »

Take away has to be cheap, quick and easy

Indeed.

biko

cloud493 wrote: »

I got a chinese last night, and it was so awful, made me sick it did.
So why do we eat take away? Are your take aways generally as terrible as mine?

This could possibly be the worst generalisation on boards in a long time.
OP has one meal from one place and now it's all takeaways everywhere are terrible.

Sorry about you getting sick OP. Did you throw up or was that also an exaggeration?

cloud493

If you read the rest of that post, I said it included many other take aways, not just the one I had last night. Last nights was the one that made me sick, therefore it broke the camels back, etc.

Kevwoody

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Good take aways do exist. Its just you have to wade through the sea of crap to find them. Currently on the quest for decent chips in Galway.

Surely the chips in Mc Donaghs on quay street would be among the best?

wandatowell

The local Indian takeaway is top class.


Tend to stay away from other takeaways.

Larry Wildman

Some of the more expensive takeaways are top notch (surprise surprise).

Bombay Pantry, Diep and Mao are all excellent.

budgemook

Good Chinese take aways are tough to find, especially in Dublin for some reason.

I moved to Dublin 7 about a year ago and started noticing something called a spicy bag / box advertised in the windows of Chineses, had never heard of these things before. Tried one last night after a good few pints. I think I liked it at the time but glad I don't really remember it well.

demanufactured

OP You must have eaten from the ****tiest Chinese in the country.
Theres 2 great Chinese takeaway near me.
3 really great chippers.
An amazing Indian just down the road.

I get a takeaway maybe twice a month... Its a treat and always hits the spot.

demanufactured

Kevwoody wrote: »

Surely the chips in Mc Donaghs on quay street would be among the best?

Meh... Iv had better.

SeaFields

There's a chipper van after setting up by me lately. You think "chipper van = plastic chip cartons and deep fried sausages."

As take away food goes, it's gorgeous. He cooks burgers from fresh and they come with a lovely salad. His battered fish are large fillets which again are cooked from fresh and battered in front of you. Chips are proper thick cut. And the portions aren't huge so you don't wake the next morning feeling sh!tty.

/grabs car keys....

hardCopy

Keno wrote: »

Leave MSG alone. The whole outcry over it was due to a single letter sent to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_flavoring#Safety_as_a_flavor_enhancer

Bloody gorgeous, ask people why their afraid of it and they don't even know what they're supposed to fear.

There isn't even so much as a consistent rumour of a side effect

Baked.noodle

I know somebody who says they had MSG in a bag at home. They made a sandwich and sprinkled the stuff onto it to try it out but had to spit it out and toss it in the bin.

tomwaterford

hardCopy wrote: »

Bloody gorgeous, ask people why their afraid of it and they don't even know what they're supposed to fear.

There isn't even so much as a consistent rumour of a side effect

is not like meant to be really addictive/....makes you want to eat more and more of something

Chinese/any take away food is not the best to be eating at the best of times!!!
why would people want to put it onto it(other than takwaway owners)...it would be a good step if it was outlawed!!

take away is awlful horrible and bad for you and I used to feel prue crap after eating it...
it is no different to smoking...you know its bad for you...yet it seems to be acceptable for people to eat it regulary enough....anything more than once a year is too much
couldn't even hack the smell of it now

*sorry for the rant!!:o

hardCopy

Baked.noodle wrote: »

I know somebody who says they had MSG in a bag at home. They made a sandwich and sprinkled the stuff onto it to try it out but had to spit it out and toss it in the bin.

It's in this stuff: http://www.amazon.com/Knorr-Purpose-Aromat-Seasoning-3oz/dp/B000NY3A8C

Lovely sprinkled on chicken, or steak, or chips or anything really.

Miss Lizzie Jones

cloud493 wrote: »

I had a take away last night. Don't eat take away very often, but I got a chinese last night, and it was so awful, made me sick it did. I was considering this morning and I realised, almost all the take away I've had that isn't either from a chippy that was recommended to me, or the big chains, mcdonalds, burger king, super mac, etc, is nearly always terrible*, and you nearly always get done over on delivery chargers.

So why do we eat take away? Are your take aways generally as terrible as mine?





*I'm not suggesting mcdonalds or super mac is actually amazingly good food, but certainly, it never makes me sick, you know what your getting at least.

It's takeaway food not haute cuisine.

AlanS181824

Nothing like a good wrap from the local chippy....

Vincent Vega

cloud493 wrote: »

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I kept it just in case I wanna complain :pac:

Ah yes, the 108 special with fried rice.

cloud493

Miss Lizzie Jones wrote: »

It's takeaway food not haute cuisine.

Not expecting it to be. I am expecting decent grub.

Yamanoto

Larry Wildman wrote: »

Some of the more expensive takeaways are top notch (surprise surprise).

Bombay Pantry, Diep and Mao are all excellent.

I think the attention to detail, ingredients & service are a cut above at Bombay Pantry.

Their curries are all a bit too tomato-ey though & don't hit the spot quite like a more typical bhuna, jalfrezi or madras IMO.

cloud493

I've had some of the best chippy-esque food I've ever had from vans. When I used to go see tranmere rovers play when I was younger, the van that did burgers and hot dogs and chips, they were incredible.

cloud493

Contacted just-eat on their live chat, got a refund and a voucher for the just-eat site. So yay, happy with that.

shruikan2553

Kevwoody wrote: »

Surely the chips in Mc Donaghs on quay street would be among the best?

They are on my to do list. Im afraid of being disappointed.