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

OldMrBrennan83

Beaks and feet

Poor Uncle Tom

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Beaks and feet

Feaks and beet, soo tasty

Mayo & red onions, ftw

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

This thread has everything. Whinging, culchie/city price comparisons, some casual racism and more Chicken Fillet Roll combo ideas than you can shake a french stick at.

€6.20 is fridiculous. The Centras and Spars - in Dublin city centre in particular - are absolutely creaming it.

Tried to make myself one (they're not a thing in New Zealand) a couple of weeks ago when I was hungover, spent about $20 on the ingredients. It was fairly ****.

limnam

The lack of tayto is concerning.

Turtyturd

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Haven’t gotten it from a services stop in a good while but will look out for it next time I’m in one.

The last time I was in one in town they didn’t have any normal drinks at the dispenser or in the fridge and when I asked I was told they didn’t stock them anymore.

Couldn’t be arsed with the “sugar free” muck.

This seems to be catching on. Been in a KFC and a cinema recently and both only had the reduced sugar ones. Don’t know if they were still charging the tax though.

ligerdub

Ordering a roll and then not paying because it's a couple of euro more than you thought it seriously low brow behaviour! I've seen it happen a couple of times recently by a few different scrotes, it's uncouth at best.

What is the shop owner supposed to do? Just chuck it away? You're not buying a toothbrush mate, they can't put it back on the shelf. It's bad enough to waste a few chips or the like, but not meat, even if it is low grade.

The lesson there if you're picky would be to ask first, suck it up and pay, or just not go there again!

A chicken and coleslaw sandwich from O'Briens is the guts of €7, a wrap or salad bowl from Chopped/Sprout is about €7-€10. A chicken fillet roll is a decent feed for about a fiver, maybe take the coleslaw out and save yourself a mighty euro.

Refusing to pay......give me strength!

awec

I honestly couldn't give a fcuk if it's chicken feet and processed elephant hoof.

A spicy chicken roll is the dogs bollocks. My local centra is 5.50 for one. Probably more if you fill it with salad too, but I don't bother with that.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Tell me how wrote: »

I'd be willing to bet the cleanliness of a lot of deli counters is by a distance cleaner than many cafe/restaurant kitchens given the fact that it is right in front of the customers eyes.

As for the food, again, probably same ingredients/supplier/cooking method as your average lunchtime restaurant. Price is the main reason I stay away.

I worked in a deli in college and it really was spotless. I know because we cleaned thoroughly every single day.

HBC08

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Stopped going there, on principle, when they started exclusively stocking diet drinks.

I did the same. Hate those sugarless soft drinks with a passion, it's crazy they don't give you the option and must be losing them customers.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Overcharging is the request for a payment that is above and beyond that which is reasonable. Nobody was trying to cheat me, and this is only an illustrative example of a trend anyway.

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....

The prices are usually displayed in the deli area, aren’t they? So yes, the roll was very overpriced but the point is that the price list would have been available, more than likely.

Ruraldweller56

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The prices are usually displayed in the deli area, aren’t they? So the roll was very overpriced but the point is that the price list would have been available, more than likely.

This whole thing sounds like shoplifting to be honest.

Thephantomsmask

My local tesco includes chicken Fillet rolls as part of the €3.99 main, snack and drink meal deal.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

This whole thing sounds like shoplifting to be honest.

Wha’?

Ruraldweller56

ligerdub wrote: »

Ordering a roll and then not paying because it's a couple of euro more than you thought it seriously low brow behaviour! I've seen it happen a couple of times recently by a few different scrotes, it's uncouth at best.

What is the shop owner supposed to do? Just chuck it away? You're not buying a toothbrush mate, they can't put it back on the shelf. It's bad enough to waste a few chips or the like, but not meat, even if it is low grade.

The lesson there if you're picky would be to ask first, suck it up and pay, or just not go there again!

A chicken and coleslaw sandwich from O'Briens is the guts of €7, a wrap or salad bowl from Chopped/Sprout is about €7-€10. A chicken fillet roll is a decent feed for about a fiver, maybe take the coleslaw out and save yourself a mighty euro.

Refusing to pay......give me strength!

You don't get it do you? 'I went up and paid for my chicken roll' would not have produced the same results, thread - wise.

We have someone on here who writes short stories as their hobby and works in a financial institution who couldn't work a price list.

Then we've all the wild young ones telling us about how great chicken rolls are to cure hangovers because they're all so mad.

Then we've the health experts and dieticians telling us why we shouldn't eat chicken rolls.

All thanks to one mishap, where a perfectly good meal was wasted.

Allegedly.

Now I'm off to the pub to go off the rails on half a bottle of smirnoff ice. Thanks to this thread I'll have the cure for my hangover in the morning and I'll be right as rain in no time.

Ruraldweller56

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Wha’?

Roll wasted. Shop out of pocket. Prices up on the board.

No different at all really.

And people are still falling for it.

Give ME strength.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

This whole thing sounds like shoplifting to be honest.

Things have escalated here in the last few posts. He’ll be accused or murder yet, mark my words.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

He’s as bad as a murder, the op.

Doctors room ghost

awec wrote: »

I honestly couldn't give a fcuk if it's chicken feet and processed elephant hoof.

A spicy chicken roll is the dogs bollocks. My local centra is 5.50 for one. Probably more if you fill it with salad too, but I don't bother with that.

You’d buy 2 off heat broilers for the price of that.2 Sunday roasts out of them.wouldnt cost a whole lot to flesh them for finishing.
That old sh1te yere buying in them rolls only ever knew concrete and antibiotics.not a bit of nature in them.its no wonder people are getting sick

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

Roll wasted. Shop out of pocket. Prices up on the board.

No different at all really.

And people are still falling for it.

Give ME strength.

It’s pretty much the same as genocide.

allthedoyles

Was brought out for lunch yesterday and fish and chips with mushy peas cost 17.95e. I found this expensive.

I have the receipt.

awec

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

You’d buy 2 off heat broilers for the price of that.2 Sunday roasts out of them.wouldnt cost a whole lot to flesh them for finishing.
That old sh1te yere buying in them rolls only ever knew concrete and antibiotics.not a bit of nature in them.its no wonder people are getting sick

There's not enough bogger in me to know what to do with a chicken.

I eat them, that's the extent of my contribution to the life cycle of a chicken. Chickens of varying quality, from your free range chickens to your KFC "chickens". They all do a job.

Church on Tuesday

awec wrote: »

I honestly couldn't give a fcuk if it's chicken feet and processed elephant hoof.

A spicy chicken roll is the dogs bollocks. My local centra is 5.50 for one. Probably more if you fill it with salad too, but I don't bother with that.

You won't be disappointed then so.

Red Lightning

When studying in Galway, Chicken fillet roll in the Londis beside GUH was €2. That would have been 2012. Good times.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Gwen Breezy Gout wrote: »

It’s expensive for a hot chicken roll but you would be paying close to 6 euro for a sandwich in many places.

I’d have a hot chicken roll around twice a week and generally costs between 4 and 4.50 depending on the place. The other places I rotate around for sandwich’s or fancier rolls the other 3 days would 5.50 at least and some 6 euro. I’d get a Subway every week too which is 7 but that includes a drink.

As an aside where did this “chicken fillet” roll naming come from, they are and always have been an “hot chicken” roll to me and anyone I know.

I’ve only ever heard them being called chicken fillet rolls (since the ‘90s) but what a thing to be bothered about. Who cares what others call them?

Balanadan

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I’ve only ever heard them being called chicken fillet rolls (since the ‘90s) but what a thing to be bothered about. Who cares what others call them?

They're hot chicken rolls. Many people care, passionately, about what they're called.

Jimmy Garlic

BrokenArrows wrote: »

You were not overcharged.
That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.

It was overcharging. Six quid for a less than a euro worth of ingredients slapped together.

eagle eye

8.70 for a 5oz burger meal with coke in supermacs, **** food, full of sugar, expensive and lots of people eating there.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Balanadan wrote: »

They're hot chicken rolls. Many people care, passionately, about what they're called.

I’ve heard them called chicken fillet rolls far more frequently.

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

It was overcharging. Six quid for a less than a euro worth of ingredients slapped together.

But the point is that the price would have been displayed at the deli area, expensive or not. Why did he only know the price at the till?

Franz Von Peppercorn II

eagle eye wrote: »

8.70 for a 5oz burger meal with coke in supermacs, **** food, full of sugar, expensive and lots of people eating there.

In other unrelated news I stubbed my toe.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

But the point is that the price would have been displayed at the deli area, expensive or not. Why did he only know the price at the till?

In fairness the prices displayed are normally for a roll with very basic fillings, I’d always add 5 or 6 fillings along with the hot chicken would always cost extra. That being said the op had very little fillings.

STB.

Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Gwen Breezy Gout wrote: »

In fairness the prices displayed are normally for a roll with very basic fillings, I’d always add 5 or 6 fillings along with the hot chicken would always cost extra. That being said the op had very little fillings.

It usually says how much each extra filling will be.

STB. wrote: »

Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

What’s the problem? Coleslaw can be eaten with hot things as long as it’s eaten promptly.

STB.

STB. wrote: »

Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

Hardly worth eating one unless it’s got coleslaw, most important ingredient after the chicken.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I’ve only ever heard them being called chicken fillet rolls (since the ‘90s) but what a thing to be bothered about. Who cares what others call them?

I worked in a Centra back in the boom and remember a traveller guy coming in and ordering a "Hot Spicy Chicken Fillet Baguette Roll".

It used to be 5euro a decade ago for a chicken roll. Never had the likes of them anywhere else. Tasty as.

OldMrBrennan83

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

You’d buy 2 off heat broilers for the price of that.2 Sunday roasts out of them.wouldnt cost a whole lot to flesh them for finishing.
That old sh1te yere buying in them rolls only ever knew concrete and antibiotics.not a bit of nature in them.its no wonder people are getting sick

Wouldn't be the same at all.

Badly Drunk Boy

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

I worked in a Centra back in the boom and remember a traveller guy coming in and ordering a "Hot Spicy Chicken Fillet Baguette Roll".

No ambiguity!

Tilikum17

punisher5112 wrote: »

BrokenArrows wrote: »

You were not overcharged.
That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.

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....

Thailand & Brazil too.

WoollyRedHat

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Are we back to gouging, so, is that it?

Pissing rain earlier. Went into Centra while I was waiting for a mate to finish work.
"One chicken fillet roll, please; coleslaw and cheese, no butter"

Was charged over eight euro for that, and a bottle of water at the till.

I didn't make a scene, but I said "sorry I'm not paying that", and the lovely woman at the till kind of nodded at me in (maybe) agreement, so I went and ate elsewhere.

My questions are threefold:

Is gouging back?

And isn't it all just self-defeating?

And do you refuse to pay when being overcharged?

Chicken Fillet Roll and Coleshaw? That's horrendous, why would you ruin a beloved food item with colesaw?

TerrorFirmer

€6.20 for a chicken roll with extra filling in Dublin CC sounds... not terrible to me. Like definitely not so outrageous that I'd walk out....€5 for a chicken roll with cheese is about the norm.

Ruraldweller56

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

You don't get it do you? 'I went up and paid for my chicken roll' would not have produced the same results, thread - wise.

We have someone on here who writes short stories as their hobby and works in a financial institution who couldn't work a price list.

Then we've all the wild young ones telling us about how great chicken rolls are to cure hangovers because they're all so mad.

Then we've the health experts and dieticians telling us why we shouldn't eat chicken rolls.

All thanks to one mishap, where a perfectly good meal was wasted.

Allegedly.

Now I'm off to the pub to go off the rails on half a bottle of smirnoff ice. Thanks to this thread I'll have the cure for my hangover in the morning and I'll be right as rain in no time.

Ah yes I almost forgot about the food connoisseurs who have to tell us all about the correct constitution of a chicken roll.

STB. wrote: »

Coleslaw, bloody coleslaw on a hot chicken fillet roll.

Mad men altogether so ye are.

All because someone decided they'd make up a story about not paying for a chicken roll in some spar/centra that they can't remember the name of because they weren't able to read the price list before they ordered.

OldMrBrennan83

A small bit of coleslaw isn't too bad but mayonnaise and grated cheese is like a nice coleslaw.

PsychoPete

Wasn't spending all our money on chicken fillet rolls what caused the resession if the first place? We'll be back there again if we aren't careful

OldMrBrennan83

PsychoPete wrote: »

Wasn't spending all our money on chicken fillet rolls what caused the resession if the first place? We'll be back there again if we aren't careful

We'll be back there in a cycle regardless.

loyatemu

3.50 in the IFSC Spar, was on special for 2.99 quite recently.

Butter or Mayo?
Spicy or Plain?
Lettuce, Tomato, Onion?
Cut in half?

Those are your options, once you start adding in exotic ingredients like cheese and coleslaw, you're asking for trouble...

WillyWonkaBar

loyatemu wrote: »

3.50 in the IFSC Spar, was on special for 2.99 quite recently.

Butter or Mayo?
Spicy or Plain?
Lettuce, Tomato, Onion?
Cut in half?

Those are your options, once you start adding in exotic ingredients like cheese and coleslaw, you're asking for trouble...

Cheese..... exotic? ... its not an option - its a must have!

loyatemu

WillyWonkaBar wrote: »

Cheese..... exotic? ... its not an option - its a must have!

I don't make the rules.

InTheShadows

I would have punched the chicken roll right in the face and walked out.

topper75

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

You would get a whole cooked chicken for that

Aye, and the flesh would be 'mechanically' separated from the carcass by my teeth. No need for preservative as I would consume within minutes.

Doctors room ghost

InTheShadows wrote: »

I would have punched the chicken roll right in the face and walked out.

Right in the minced beak and feet you mean