Nandos

[tom_e]

do I?

and chance of food poisoning from anywhere is pretty much zero. had food poisoning once in my life.

Chinese, local does a tray, half fried rice, half chow mein, 4 battered chicken balls and sauce for £5.

Darn good value when being lazy.

Strange post if you don't.

 

[Glaucus]

Strange post if you don't.

once in ages, not my closest Chinese, delivered and is it greasy etc?

nandos/kfc you actually have to leave the house and go there, in which case, plenty of other places to go.

 

[Cosimo]

So long as it doesn't move on the plate and there's lots of hot sauce then it's ok.

 

[Liquiduk]

It's not my first choice for places to eat and there are some proper pants chains although luckily I have a fairly decent one locally.

 

[Eurofighter]

Chicken and chips, thought that's what Nandos was.

 

[Yaayuh!]

As long as it's cheeky, who cares

 

[ttaskmaster]

Inb4 tough guy with extra hot sauce

That'll be most of my Saffie friends... nutters, all!!
I generally eat whatever they won't/don't!!

arent both generic recycled chicken parts eateries?

Yes, they recycle it back onto the bone...

There isn't always time to hunt down an Artisan eatery where I can go out back and pick the exact chicken I wish to eat from a selection of rare breeds that have been fed on nothing but grass imported from the Alps and French truffles while quenching their thirst on the tears of virgins.

You need one of those time management apps, then...

Never understood the appeal of Nandos. It's just dry chicken with powdered "seasoning" and hot sauce on the side. Dry, dry dry. Yuck.

In South Africa, it is usually quite expensive chicken marinaded for hours/days in seasoning/sauce, cooked in more seasoning/sauce and then served with more seasoning/sauce added, along with even more seasoning/sauce available on the side... depending on individual franchise, though most have the same high standards.

Over here in the UK it is cheap chicken cooked and then with a bit of seasoning/sauce slapped on after. Why the Saffies still like such a pale imitation of the original, I don't know... !

 

[Housey]

I have been to a Nandos once in my life. I had heard people tell me if you like chicken then it's good and like any human non tree hugger, I like chicken. It was in Tamworth prior to a cinema outing when we had some time to burn. I then learnt I had to walk to a cash register to order my food, which arrived and was awful. Crap chicken, little flavor, cheap bread, rubbish chips, I was disappointed after people had said me it's good. Now this could just mean that the people who run Tamworth Nandos are cretins but if they are all like this WTF is all the fuss about Nandos? I am no food snob, I like a nice Mich star outing but I also like a good pie and chips in a pub or a good chuck out, but this was dire. My wife had a different dish and hers too was crap. Left most of it.

 

[Rexxar]

Went once, had a wrap, chips, garlic bread... The chicken tasted "sweaty" , never again!

 

[Glaucus]

I have been to a Nandos once in my life. I had heard people tell me if you like chicken then it's good and like any human non tree hugger, I like chicken. It was in Tamworth prior to a cinema outing when we had some time to burn. I then learnt I had to walk to a cash register to order my food, which arrived and was awful. Crap chicken, little flavor, cheap bread, rubbish chips, I was disappointed after people had said me it's good. Now this could just mean that the people who run Tamworth Nandos are cretins but if they are all like this WTF is all the fuss about Nandos? I am no food snob, I like a nice Mich star outing but I also like a good pie and chips in a pub or a good chuck out, but this was dire. My wife had a different dish and hers too was crap. Left most of it.

I've had to rationalise it, by saying its what people know and have grown up with. it's like the taste tests of proper sausage rolls vs a supermarket one with like 14% meat and the majority in blind taste test prefer the supermarket one. it's mind boggling, what a lot of people actually like. It's one thing if you're limited on choice, or cost to actually liking it.

 

[robfosters]

Quality usually varies greatly in franchised restaurants.

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Lol now its been moved to cuisine, i can watch the thread turn into an anti-nandos thread.

 

[chroniclard]

Also been once, was average, never been back.

 

[Housey]

I've had to rationalise it, by saying its what people know and have grown up with. it's like the taste tests of proper sausage rolls vs a supermarket one with like 14% meat and the majority in blind taste test prefer the supermarket one. it's mind boggling, what a lot of people actually like. It's one thing if you're limited on choice, or cost to actually liking it.

For me this is why review sites rarely work. If your idea of a posh hotel is a 2 star in blackpool that has a kettle in the room, we might have a different perspective on what "best hotel eva" means. I read some reviews on Trip Advisor on hotels I've visited and think WTF, did I get sent to the cell blocks rather than my room by mistake.

 

[tom_e]

Lol now its been moved to cuisine, i can watch the thread turn into an anti-nandos thread.

The food snobs had already found it

 

[XeNoN89]

Quality usually varies greatly in franchised restaurants.

Yep it can be quite different each place you go. I've had amazing Nandos and dry bland ones before

 

[Avenged7Fold]

I've had to rationalise it, by saying its what people know and have grown up with. it's like the taste tests of proper sausage rolls vs a supermarket one with like 14% meat and the majority in blind taste test prefer the supermarket one. it's mind boggling, what a lot of people actually like. It's one thing if you're limited on choice, or cost to actually liking it.

Sausages thing is a big thing for me. This country seems to love its bready sausages with no meat content. Almost everywhere else in the world the sausages are meaty and tend to be very lean and strong flavoured (exception of countries where they tend to be very watery and closer to frankfurters). When i go back from visiting Italian or Filipino family, i bring back sausages but my GF hates them and prefers walls sausages, pfft. Those sausages are good for dipping in batter and deep frying with chippy chips and thats all!

Fatty non lean meat sausages (like English butcher sausages) are good for stuff like bangers and mash and toad in the hole but the really crap ones i never really understood.

 

[something daft already!!]

I had one once. I don't see what the fuss is about. It's a spicy and overpriced KFC . At least the place doesn't smell like death, unlike KFC.

 

[robfosters]

Yep it can be quite different each place you go. I've had amazing Nandos and dry bland ones before

The only franchise I've never noticed much if a difference in is mcdonalds. That seems quite standard across the board.

 

[tom_e]

Sausages thing is a big thing for me. This country seems to love its bready sausages with no meat content. Almost everywhere else in the world the sausages are meaty and tend to be very lean and strong flavoured (exception of countries where they tend to be very watery and closer to frankfurters). When i go back from visiting Italian or Filipino family, i bring back sausages but my GF hates them and prefers walls sausages, pfft. Those sausages are good for dipping in batter and deep frying with chippy chips and thats all!

Fatty non lean good sausages (like English butcher sausages) are good for stuff like bangers and mash and toad in the hole but the really crap ones i never really understood.

I had an ex that thought Richmond "sausages" were the best thing in the world Horrible pasty pink gunk even after cooking, yuk!