ISO Sakkarin and Aero
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The McDonalds on the Watford by-pass is at the end of the estate. I'm not planning to go out in the foreseeable future.
- Pepper Pig
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Yes. But unsurprising.
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It was like this where I live just before McD's closed. And I've seen an article in the Manchester Evening News with a picture shows heaps of KFC rubbish just flung on the ground near to a KFC that has just re-opened.
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Ours aren't opening yet. They've had huge queues at KFC though and at all the chip shops which have opened.
Some of you will have heard me mention a couple I know, both well over 70 and 'vulnerable' who are out visiting supermarkets and such places every day despite having freezers groaning with food. Burger King has been open for a few weeks, popular with workers such as ambulance crews and other key workers. The other day they were passing and were tempted to stop and buy a meal. They said they sat in the car park and devoured it and it was the best food they'd had for weeks.
Some of you will have heard me mention a couple I know, both well over 70 and 'vulnerable' who are out visiting supermarkets and such places every day despite having freezers groaning with food. Burger King has been open for a few weeks, popular with workers such as ambulance crews and other key workers. The other day they were passing and were tempted to stop and buy a meal. They said they sat in the car park and devoured it and it was the best food they'd had for weeks.
Re: ISO Sakkarin and Aero
which goes to show that 'the new normal' is going to be just like the old normal as recidivism kicks in.
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There was a massive queue at the KFC drive through when we went past earlier.
We did a click and collect at Five Guys before our collection slot at Asda. I really enjoyed it, just the right combo of salt and grease
They were very well organised and brought our food to the car.
We did a click and collect at Five Guys before our collection slot at Asda. I really enjoyed it, just the right combo of salt and grease
They were very well organised and brought our food to the car.
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Seems to be the same all over. I really just don't get it. I get it that a lot of people like industrial strength fastfood. But to like it so much that they'll go out in the middle (yes, middle or not even middle yet) of a pandemic and line up around the block???? What part of uncontained-still-on-the-upswing-and-likely-to-get-worse pandemic don't we understand?
Could someone who partakes, please enlighten me?
Seems to be the same all over. I really just don't get it. I get it that a lot of people like industrial strength fastfood. But to like it so much that they'll go out in the middle (yes, middle or not even middle yet) of a pandemic and line up around the block???? What part of uncontained-still-on-the-upswing-and-likely-to-get-worse pandemic don't we understand?
Could someone who partakes, please enlighten me?
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I love the occasional bit of fast food, but there are limits and I'd never queue for it to the extent some people are. I also saw massive lines outside the garden centre so I think some people are just over excited to have somewhere to go and the opportunity to not have to cook.
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Looks like people are just desperate to eat something that´s not home cooking!
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McDs is something that I might eat if I’ve been for a drink in town or for breakfast at the station if I’m catching an early train. Certainly would not queue like I’ve seen in photos for it.
Cheers
NLB
Cheers
NLB
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I think it is also a bit of "back to normal".
My mother was a full-time nurse and did all the cooking, but every couple of weeks we hit the snack-bar and feasted on chips, Currywurst or Schaschlik or rotisserie chicken.
It may be the same thing here after so many weeks of one's own cooking.
My mother was a full-time nurse and did all the cooking, but every couple of weeks we hit the snack-bar and feasted on chips, Currywurst or Schaschlik or rotisserie chicken.
It may be the same thing here after so many weeks of one's own cooking.
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karadekoolaid wrote:Looks like people are just desperate to eat something that´s not home cooking!
So am I! I like cooking but right now I’m sick of it – I’m desperate to go out for lunch somewhere… anywhere! It doesn’t have to be anything special; a sandwich and a coffee would do, just to feel like a little bit of normality had returned.
McD and KFC aren’t my thing, haven’t set foot in either of them for 30 years, but I completely understand why people would go there as soon as they opened.
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Quite a few of the (mainly) under 35s I worked with virtually lived on these kinds of fast food. I think they have addictive qualities once you've had a few and they're quick and easy. Many people will really have been craving them.
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Mrs Vee wrote:karadekoolaid wrote:Looks like people are just desperate to eat something that´s not home cooking!
So am I! I like cooking but right now I’m sick of it – I’m desperate to go out for lunch somewhere… anywhere! It doesn’t have to be anything special; a sandwich and a coffee would do, just to feel like a little bit of normality had returned.
Couldn’t agree more, I’m sick of cooking and cleaning. I’d be happy with anything I hadn’t cooked myself, but I’m really craving my Dads twice cooked chips and an Indian, preferably sit down with a chat to the waiters and other regulars.
BB
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We're having fish and chips via Deliveroo tonight. Not our regular chippy but good enough.
And yes, I am absolutely sick of cooking.
And yes, I am absolutely sick of cooking.
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Our local, and very good, chippie has been doing "Phone and collect" for three weeks now. I send OH up the hill to get them, but only because she reckons she needs some exercise.
http://www.godfreyschips.com
http://www.godfreyschips.com
Re: ISO Sakkarin and Aero
Follow up to that horrific story of the bike being stolen from outside Asda, yet another scary front page headline for the Watford Observer website today, proof once again what a den of vice and iniquity this place is.
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