last weeks calorie labelling should help, pity its just 600 odd employees or more
... maybe we should have a tax basd on average calorific value of meals they serve. versus rdi.
Take Away curries, why do we never learn?
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last weeks calorie labelling should help, pity its just 600 odd employees or more
... maybe we should have a tax basd on average calorific value of meals they serve. versus rdi.
Dont know what I would do if I was in a position to do something, but I do know its a growing problem, on my street there is 17 takeaways. Only a few business premises are non food related.
Caporegime
Then we’re crossing into onto the death of the high street argument. It seems like takeaways and bookies are the only viable high street businesses these days
Even those are slowly changing, for a few around here where they now work out of an industrial place and do delivery only.
Wow, that's shocking stuff.
You should have reported them to the authorities, a gangmaster is probably exploiting them and they are all illegal. Also, the 'food' they are serving is likely to kill someone so they should be shut down for that alone.Yea, when inspected thinking at worst it might be beef, it turned out to be chicken.
Horrific. They were sharing 1 shower between about 16 people and there was a steady traffic of them going in and out. Dead rats and rat poop all in the roof spaces and walls. There were a few "storage" units outside that had food in them barely covered up.
The worrying thing is that they have moved up the town to another location and are opening up a Chinese up there.
Nope, never again will I have Chinese food. I understand that I might be tarnishing them with the same brush but this was just horrible.
When I first walked in there I was gagging and had to leave the building for a few minutes before going back in. They were also re serving left over prawn crackers.
How it got past the food standards agency is beyond me, probably a bit of cash in hand to turn a blind eye. Im sure it happens a lot.
I don't think I'll be having takeaway full stop now
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There was one not far from me that was hit with the biggest fine ever issued by the council, they find body fluids in the food. Chicken kept in buckets outside.
It closed down and a while later reopened with the blokes wife now down as owner.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/30000-fine-for-curry-house-907624.amp
Crazy that local people still go there.
Insane stuff, are people oblivious or do they really not care? It's amazing what you can get away with in business sometimes and they shouldn't be able to do so.
Commissario
Mmm, medium rare chicken. Who remembers this idiot?
I believe it was actually a semi-troll post but that's what some of the pictures here remind me of
I believe it was actually a semi-troll post but that's what some of the pictures here remind me of
Soldato
Mmm, medium rare chicken. Who remembers this idiot?
I believe it was actually a semi-troll post but that's what some of the pictures here remind me of
The 'good stuff' is @4:00
Caporegime
Similar situation to a Chinese takeaway near where I used to live. The food was genuinely amazing. This was the days before Just Eat and if it stuck around with the original owners, crikey, it would have boomed! Fresh vegetables and the Duck (which is usually a total rip off) was decent. The original family left and I guess, another family member took over, its awful and a mere shadow of its former self. Its funny that members have said, large barrels next to the building, I presume and hope its oil for disposal - now reading this thread, its enough to put me off further!
Again going back a while, used to order from a local takeaway, very generous portions, and one day, discovered the health rating, 1 star - makes me feel very queasy in retrospect! I like to think I built up my immune system.
Nowadays, rather than simply rely on Just Eat etc, ask locals, neighbours as they know the area etc.
Again going back a while, used to order from a local takeaway, very generous portions, and one day, discovered the health rating, 1 star - makes me feel very queasy in retrospect! I like to think I built up my immune system.
If it helps a 1 star can be as little as not properly documenting everything (fridge temps, wastage, cooking temps, closing checks etc.) and having 1 or 2 things a day out of date or not correctly labled (but still fine).
Honestly, I wish the FSA had more powers to shut down actually dodgy places. A 1/5 can be anything from a few minor issues to major safety problems and they still have to give places time to fix issues before shutting them down.
Caporegime
It should be law for takeaways to show their H&S rating on their paper menus as well
That had crossed my mind.
I dont think we should do nothing though, I think if we prepared to do things like add a sugar tax, pressure supermarkets, then there should be similar stuff done to takeaways.
Remove all those taxes you mentioned. Then add tax on people's BMI the higher your BMI the more you pay.
Don't punish people like me who enjoy a takeaway but look after themselves, punish the people that eat it every night and look like a planet.
The problem doing that, you tackling the problem "after" its happened. Not to mention there is health conditions that affect BMI.
How do you know people with high BMI are not just having takeaways once a week?
But you did say remove all taxes which means you not discriminating against supermarket food vs takeaways which is something I am ok with. My issue really is the bigger culprit is getting less targeted.