Takeaway food

[BigMoaner]

I think we average one a month - payday takeaway - but no more. It's a lot of money innit.

Yes I’m this as well. I enjoy it very much.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Very very exceptional in our house. It tends to happen if I am not in and my wife doesn't have time.
I hate most of the traditional takeaway options available.
We do order from Waso when we need a new giant bag of rice. That's kind of like takeaway, but you still have to bung it in the oven.

 

[dessiato]

For years we very rarely had take-away food. Being back in the UK it has become more of a habit. Now, living where we do, we have two very good f&c shops, three Chinese, and a pizza/kebab house all within walking distance. Our favourite is Chinese, we go to what is arguably the best of a very good bunch. We usually go once a week.

 

[Voley]

Once a week-ish.

Love a curry on a Friday night if funds allow.

Options a bit limited for delivery around here out in the sticks. No Deliveroo or anything. The local Indian takeaway delivers and is good though. There's a good Chinese that'll deliver here too. Other that that, it's Domino's but they're shite.

 

[gentlegreen]

I just crashed out of a Yougov poll because in spite of me making clear I am only vaguely aware of several delivery services, I refused to assign attributes to them ...
I almost never eat food prepared by others - for all sorts of reasons...

 

[Saffy]

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.

 

[Winot]

I find it surprising that so few local places offer non-Deliveroo delivery. I'd much rather pay them to deliver. Surely someone can manage that for less than the 30% charged by Deliveroo. Or is it the case that Deliveroo ban you from offering a parallel local delivery option?

 

[The39thStep]

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.

 

[MickiQ]

By takeaway food I presume you mean buy and take home to eat? In which case once or twice a month. We probably eat out more often than that often most weekends.

 

[Voley]

Tired, busy, time poor but cash rich,

That accounted for my ever-expanding waistline when I lived in London.

Remember when you used to have Friends and Family on your phone? Top ten most-called numbers were cheaper. One of mine was the local pizza delivery guy.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

We have friends who come over for a curry every couple of months as there’s a great Indian takeaway near us but I’ll make all the chapattis, naans and rice so we only order mains to save cash. During the pandemic when we were both made redundant and scarily skint, I worked on replicating our favourite Chinese and Indian dishes and the habit has stuck.

“Hoose rice”

Look up Kevin Bridges

 

[Saffy]

“Hoose rice”

Look up Kevin Bridges

We do this and say Hoose rice all the time.

 

[seeformiles]

“Hoose rice”

Look up Kevin Bridges

I’ll have you know that I would offer my “Hoose rice, naans and chapattis” up for scrutiny by any curry house in the country

 

[pogofish]

Maybe once or twice a month, depending.

Sometimes we get a takeaway as a treat after a weekend walk. The cost of eating-out these days means that going-in for a pub meal is now something more special than ever.

Other times tend to be if I've been working late and simply don't feel up to cooking something, then I'll get a takeaway on the way home. I have two good Chinese places, a good Kebab shop and an upper-third chipper that are convenient on my way home.

There is also a Tim Horton's next to my local Lidl branch that runs cheap meal deals on certain days and I'll sometimes stop by there after doing my weekend shopping, esp if I'm making a pot of something for lunches the next week and don't want to juggle cooking a meal and my pot of stew/curry/chilli etc.

 

[pinkmonkey]

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.

 

[souljacker]

I very rarely have a takeaway these days. It's just too expensive and money is very tight. I did buy me and the kids a chippy tea on my birthday the other week but thats the first in ages. If I had some more cash I'd get a curry regularly and occasional Chinese and Thai.

During Covid we used deliveroo a lot but they would regularly get the orders wrong, food was always cold and I don't really want to support a company that treats their staff so bad that they cycle the wrong way up one way streets, never have lights on their bikes and make shocking driving decisions in their desperation to earn a couple of quid.

 

[starfish]

We used to at least once/twice a month on a Saturday. Either Chinese or Curry. But our favourite Chinese takeaway appears to have disappeared. Never used Deliveroo or any of those other services.

 

[Numbers]

Once a month for us, the payday treat like others.

Thankfully we're absolutely spoiled for choice and all pretty decent quality.

 

[neonwilderness]

I'm close enough to the city centre to have a decent range of stuff available. I used to get one a couple of times a month, then during lockdowns it crept up to a couple of times a week so I had to rein that in It's probably once every couple of months these days.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Not as often as 'once or twice a month' but more often than 'a couple of times a year.' Most often a dirty pizza (none of that thin crust authentic Italian blah blah thanks) after a few drinks, very occasionally a curry, we have a few decent curry places around.

 

[Griff]

Probably two or three times a month.

Still remember the novelty of moving back to London from rural North Essex and seeing there were something like 250-275 delivery options compared to the 3 we had that delivered to our village.

Now with JustEat and Deliveroo that number is well past 300 that will deliver here.

With all that choice though, we tend to just get Chinese from one place we've found we like, and Pho from Stratford Westfield. Never get curries delivered as it's nicer to just walk round the corner and eat in.

Occassionally if I'm sitting up late watching films or something, I might get a cheeky pizza. Did that on Friday night and it arrived luke-warm. Gutted.

 

[DotCommunist]

Once a month I go to this little chinese place tucked around the corner of my housing area. He's always empty and its run down to fuck and yet they are still doing exceptionable chicken chow mein (no peas) and fried mushrooms? It should be doing a lot better. I don't rate its chance of continued existence very highly unless its a front, a delicious front, for the washing of questionable money.

 

[Orang Utan]

Used to treat myself once a month, but do it less so now, mainly cos it costs too much and also I get bored easily and don’t fancy ordering anything I’ve tried before.

 

[cupid_stunt]

There’s lots of reasons why people get takeaways though. Tired, busy, time poor but cash rich, ill, disabled etc etc

Or, wobbling home from my village pub, which can result in a visit to the chippy, having turned 60 I can get the seniors' fish & chips for just £5.50, or the kebab shop for a donor, even the medium size one comes with a massive load of meat, and salad, for a reasonable £7.50.

Loads of places in Worthing deliver out here, but my usual treat is a Chinese takeaway, which is normally enough for 2 days.

 

[gentlegreen]

Or, wobbling home from my village pub, which can result in a visit to the chippy, having turned 60 I can get the seniors' fish & chips for just £5.50,

Do they ask for ID ?
Is it smaller ?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Do they ask for ID ?
Is it smaller ?

No, they don't ask for ID.

And, yes, it's smaller, just about right for me, it still fills a dinner plate, the standard size portions are a struggle to fit on a dinner plate, and a lot of it just ends up in the bin, so wasteful.

 

[sojourner]

When we drank, it was every weekend on a hangover.

It's never, now. We don't drink, have been avoiding UPF foods for near 2 years, I don't eat meat anymore (and the veg curries you can get round here all taste the same - I can make wayyy better myself), and after being really ill a few months ago after having fish and mushy peas, we never even go the chippy.

 

[Numbers]

Probably two or three times a month.

Still remember the novelty of moving back to London from rural North Essex and seeing there were something like 250-275 delivery options compared to the 3 we had that delivered to our village.

Now with JustEat and Deliveroo that number is well past 300 that will deliver here.

With all that choice though, we tend to just get Chinese from one place we've found we like, and Pho from Stratford Westfield. Never get curries delivered as it's nicer to just walk round the corner and eat in.

Occassionally if I'm sitting up late watching films or something, I might get a cheeky pizza. Did that on Friday night and it arrived luke-warm. Gutted.

We’re lucky with our local pizza place in that it’s only a few hundred metres so the pizza always turns up piping hot.

The furthest away of our preferred places is 1 mile, the majority tho’ are way less.

 

[Griff]

Mine normally do too, which is why my cold pizza was so annoying.

 

[Numbers]

Mine normally do too, which is why my cold pizza was so annoying.

I don’t mind if a Chinese or Indian isn’t piping as we usually zap it anyway.

But pizza, kebab, chips, McD’s etc. need to be.