Takeaway food

[Looby]

Sometimes I get a McDonald’s breakfast just for the hash browns but the bacon is never cooked enough so I bring it home and cook it in the air fryer til it’s crispy.
Mr Looby thinks it’s fucking stupid to pay for a takeaway and then cook it but I love those hash browns.

 

[Orang Utan]

I once got ice cream deliverooed to the park so I’m not gonna tell anyone it’s lazy or extravagant

 

[Leafster]

I can't remember the last time I had a take-away. I think it was probably from the local chippy on a whim as I walked by and the aroma drew me into the shop.

Very occasionally I might get a delivery from the local Balti place but the quality has gone down hill over the years. I think I might have had one this year.

Rarer still would be picking something up from the local(ish) kebab shop (Chicken wrap with all the salad) if it's late in the evening and I happen to be driving past. Don't think I've had one this year.

 

[tony.c]

I love those hash browns.

Try Iceland hash browns. I think they have a slightly peppery taste which I like.

 

[furluxor]

I get food delivered if I'm with friends and that's the plan, or if I'm ill/just returned from a trip/some other complicated circumstances. It's expensive and not very good, and all the packaging makes me feel guilty, and I feel duty bound to tip the driver well, which increases the cost further. When I was younger and could scarcely afford takeaways, they seemed like the exciting option, but now they always feel meh. I don't understand how people can enjoy Domino's pizza, it's inedible.

Sugar is my crack, so I do get cake as a takeaway 1-2 times per week, but it's 2min from home and I bring my own box. Today I had some lovely lemon polenta cake with pistachios. I need to wean myself off this stuff but it's hard.

 

[tony.c]

The only takeaway I get is an occasional Indian. I sometimes get a mutton biriani on way home from Midday Mass on Sundays. An Indian restaurant near me reopened a few weeks ago under new management. They were doing a 'Weekend Special' and I thought I should support them as they are more local. They started by offering a 'weekend special' curry and paratha. Then they reduced it to just a curry. That was ok as I can make some rice myself.
But last time I went in the owner made a remark about how they always look forward to my check. I took it as a sarcastic comment that I didn't buy sides. I haven't been back since.
I see the sign outside at weekends now says 'Student Weekend Specials'.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Every couple of weeks, normally fish and chips because we’re in Scarborough. about twice a month at the moment. Otherwise to the local burger joint for a grilled chicken wrap (a kebab in every way except the name) and a grilled halloumi and veg wrap for me. I'm not into munchy boxes and they're the thing up here - it's a mixed pizza box of beige food. We tried the most popular one at the Chinese, El Jugs liked it, I thought it was disgusting. It was so dry and salty.
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That looks fucking bogging.


Every couple of weeks here, a curry delivered, or get some shit from the nearest big town 5 miles away if we don't mind like luke-warm...

 

[pinkmonkey]

This one is worse IMO - some of them look like someone spewed in a pizza box - I mean, look at all that tastless UNMELTED processed cheese on the chips.
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[Griff]

I couldn't touch that.

 

[moomoo]

This one is worse IMO - some of them look like someone spewed in a pizza box - I mean, look at all that tastless UNMELTED processed cheese on the chips.
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The lads at work eat stuff like that. It looks gross and smells even worse

 

[Lotte]

Very occasionally. I have IBS and they always make me feel bloated. There is an amazing Indian near me, though - it does a veggie meal for a tenner. You get your main, naan/rice, poppadoms, onion bhajis and dips and there's enough to last me two days. My brother and I have both cut down on takeaways, not that we had loads anyway but he'd rather make his own meals, and I agree with him. He's an amazing cook anyway.

That munchie box looks gruesome. I'd eat the onion rings and that's it.

 

[orient slacker]

We’re 1 a month takeout types. And that’s nearly always a fish supper from a decent chippy. We’d do more, but the quality of the other local options isn’t up to much.

 

[skyscraper101]

Pretty rare for me. 2 or 3 times a year maybe. Usually Chinese as it's the one thing I can never really replicate to any satisfactory standard at home.

That said, I do stop in at Wasabi on the way home from work way more often, like twice a month because I'm addicted to the Chicken Katsu bento box.

 

[Skim]

Once or twice a month, loads of options. But apart from the pizzeria, which always arrives piping hot, most deliveries arrive lukewarm or, in the case of the Japanese the other night, completely stone cold

When we move to the countryside next year, the only option will be Chinese (30-minute round trip to collect). I am going to get really good at making the dishes I would normally order in, like pad Thai and curry. Seriously considering buying an oven for the garden to make my own pizza and naan

 

[campanula]

Never, When the offspring were younger, we lived near a good chip shop. so would order a fish supper sometimes ( as being fairly nutritious and affordable). I have had enough catering jobs, at every level, to have put me off take-outs or eating out. I am a reluctant, but decent cook and have no £££ to spare on iffy ingredients. I don't have deadlines or heavy work responsibilities so I have time to make nice food. I don't really buy things such as sauces, mayonnaise, biscuits, tinned foods and such, and wouldn't consider buying or eating a ready meal under any circumstances. If too knackered/lazy, I fall back on egg or cheese on toast.
I grew up eating horrible, institutionalised food (and often knew real hunger) and as soon as I had agency to choose and make my own food, I swore I would never again eat cheap margarine, watery baked beans, spam or rubbery sliced bread. I have never eaten a McDonalds (recalling youthful Wimpy burgers - shudder). I could,I think, under duress, manage to swallow a burger (possibly)...but those immortal, bizarre abominations pretending to be bread rolls...nope, never, not even under threats of violence.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Far too many! It's pretty depressing stuff to look at past orders on Ubereats and add the money up.

Definitely once a week though, I'd reckon.

Just checked my UberEats. I haven't used it at home, but did use it occasionally in my last job, because it was in an industrial estate, so had to take my lunch in, although a couple of days a week there would be colleagues who drove to the nearest bakery/sandwich shop who would ask if anyone else wanted anything.

Occasionally, I forgot to take my lunch in, like, left it in the fridge/on the kitchen worktop at hone, or I didn't have anything in to make lunch with or was running late, so I ordered in at work. (Although I did have a stash of emergency pot noodles/tinned tuna salad, just in case.)

I ordered once in July, twice in June, once in May, once in April, variously from McD, gyros, Burger King, KFC, so the damage wasn't too bad.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

I don't really order takeaway deliveries at home. Although during the pandemic, maybe a couple of months after it started, I ordered a bottle of wine and pizza weekly from my local pub (well, I say local but it's a mile or so away), because they opened a takeaway/collection hatch and also did deliveries. I wanted to help their small independent business survive the pandemic and so I timed that weekly treat with an online 'pub quiz' run by a friend.

Years ago, like 15-20 years ago, I occasionally used to get a Dominos pizza, maybe once a month or every other month, but they were shit, tbh, and super expensive for what they were.
I tried ordering a curry once, but I was going through a veggie phase and the curry was just like frozen mixed veg in a curry sauce, nasty, we didn't have a decent chippy nearby, and my favourite Chinese restaurant was in the city centre and didn't deliver to my postcode.

I ordered a curry more recently, when I crashed at a friend's in the next street (I had a head injury and couldn't be alone for 24 hours), so I ordered us dinner, and that was lovely, but iirc around £60 by the time I'd ordered mains, rice, naan, some poppadums and dips, plus delivery charge! Eek! I used to think of takeaway as cheaper than eating out, but that was pretty much the same as eating in the city centre restaurant itself. There was some left over for lunch/dinner the next day though.

If I haven't been shopping/don't fancy what's in the freezer, I'm more likely to order a Coop quick shop than a takeaway, I can get a pizza to bung in the oven and a bottle of wine for the price of just a Dominos pizza, plus loo roll or washing up liquid or bread for toast in the morning or whatever else I need. It's quick and convenient, usually delivered within an hour or so.

 

[hash tag]

Now I don't work shifts anymore I don't see the point of take aways or deliverys.
If we are going to pay for food to be cooked for us, we eat out. No hassle with plate warming , washing up and the like.

 

[Cloo]

We mostly have them if a) there's a lack of food in the house or b) someone has an urge for something, suggests it and then gets everyone else fancying it too.

 

[rubbershoes]

We have a Chinese on Dec 23. And maybe one other takeaway during the year.

No one delivers to where we are

 

[Cloo]

I once got ice cream deliverooed to the park so I’m not gonna tell anyone it’s lazy or extravagant

TBH, that just sounds like really living

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

I'll usually get a banging curry (plenty of choice in Zone 3 London) on either a Saturday night or Sunday evening, depending on which night before I have taken drugs on and not eaten dinner. This helps justify it as I'm catching up on food and the cost of food. It's also the weekend so treats are allowed.

I wouldn't even consider getting a takeaway Monday- Thursday because that's when I make myself cheap dinners with salad and other stuff from Aldi, to make up for weekend excess both physically and financially.

 

[Epona]

I'll usually get a banging curry (plenty of choice in Zone 3 London) on either a Saturday night or Sunday evening, depending on which night before I have taken drugs on and not eaten dinner. This helps justify it as I'm catching up on food and the cost of food. It's also the weekend so treats are allowed.

I wouldn't even consider getting a takeaway Monday- Thursday because that's when I make myself cheap dinners with salad and other stuff from Aldi, to make up for weekend excess both physically and financially.

Whereas we're generally Tuesday night takeaway people, if we're going to have a takeaway (as I said earlier it's not very frequent, once every 2 to 6 months).
This is because N works nights and his regular nights off are Monday and Tuesday, and Just Eat do a "cheeky Tuesday" 20% off deal for a lot of places (but not our local chippy, so if we want Fish & Chips we'll go there in person).

I can't actually remember the last time (if ever) we had schedules where we were at home together evenings at the weekend, when I work I tend to do day jobs but he's been on nights for nearly 3 years, before that he worked in hospitality and so almost always worked weekend evening shifts, and before that he was a nurse and often did weekend evenings or nights.

I don't think we've ever regularly had Friday evening to Monday morning off work together in the more than 20 years we've been together.

So yeah, if we're going to get a takeaway, it will most likely be on a Tuesday night!

 

[Hollis]

Really would encourage everyone to boycott Deliveroo, Just Eat and the rest - they really are shit companies who exploit everyone in their business model and take no responsiblity for what they do.. Just narrowly avoided getting taken out on my bike by one of their shite riders - cutting a corner, no lights, company takes no responsilbity. Just the usual bland bollockes about their 'rider safety course'.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Really would encourage everyone to boycott Deliveroo, Just Eat and the rest - they really are shit companies who exploit everyone in their business model and take no responsiblity for what they do.. Just narrowly avoided getting taken out on my bike by one of their shite riders - cutting a corner, no lights, company takes no responsilbity. Just the usual bland bollockes about their 'rider safety course'.

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Similar to Booking.com, I'll use these food delivery companies for their search engines to do the research, then just go direct to get the product. It cuts out the middle man and usually saves you money.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Until I started a diet it was creeping up to most weeks, if you include the odd lunch. Where I live there are plenty of lower cost options. Dangerously so compared to where I've lived previously. I'll always drive out and get it, so I don't pay the delivery charge, but also so I get it hotter and fresher.

There are certain types I've almost stopped getting, though. Things like Indian and Chinese have crept up in price, to the point if I'm spending that money, I'd rather go out and make a little bit of an occasion of it. And much as I want to like Thai I don't think I've ever had one that isn't shit or at least no better than I can do at home with a decent paste.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

This one is worse IMO - some of them look like someone spewed in a pizza box - I mean, look at all that tastless UNMELTED processed cheese on the chips.
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Remove the cheese and add a bit of chilli sauce and I probably would.

 

[geminisnake]

Most weeks when I could get a really fucking good chippy tea from a van in the nearest village for under a fiver.

Pretty much never where I am now. Very occasionally get a £2 portion of disappointing chips on the way home as a snack but not a full takeaway meal.

I will sometimes get a breakfast roll or a hot pie or two rather than making food at home but that doesn't feel like it counts as A Takeaway?

get the bus through to Kirkwall and go to the Indian on a Wednesday, £14 for an amazing meal

We get a takeaway when we happen to be leaving town around teatime, so sometimes once a month, sometimes not for a couple of months. I refuse to pay over £5 for them to deliver when it's only a couple of miles away. Never ever buy takeaway pizza, it's way overpriced imo. We mostly either have Indian or a munchie box (our munchie boxes have real food(and only a few onion rings) in them, and you can't see the base layer, unlike the examples posted by other posters) , very occasionally a chinese

 

[dessiato]

There isn't much of UK style takeaway culture here mainly because people see eating out as a social/family thing .Also Chinese,Indian,Kebab, Piza type stuff although getting more popular is seen my many as ' plastic food' and cooking at home or going to a cafe as proper food. There are a number of cafes that will do you a homemade plate of the day that you take home, , the piri chicken cafes do the same and some supermarkets have kitchens and do a take away menu that you pick up.

Same in Andalucía, although there are a few very good spit-roast chicken vendors selling specifically as take away. They typically charge about 4€ for a chicken.

 

[The39thStep]

Same in Andalucía, although there are a few very good spit-roast chicken vendors selling specifically as take away. They typically charge about 4€ for a chicken.

Obviously grilled chicken is more popular here and you'd pay around 7-8 euros