[Closed] Chain food you dislike

Really? EVERYTHING?

I guess a glass of water would be okay...

But why would I return to a chain where I've had bad tasting food? I'm not going to sample every item on their menu just in case there's one or two items that are edible.

As for those chains that I've never visited, I've been with people who have got food from there and have had to move away as the smell has been vomit inducing. Given that smell is meant to entice you to eat something, that says a lot.

There's a fast food outlet near work (no idea if it's part of a chain) that makes the big chains look like like Michelin starred restaurants. It's truly appalling.

Never been in a Subway outlet, can’t say I ever will.
Nando’s and other chicken outlets, nope never will.. if you want to eat malnourished battery chickens that are kept in buckets and fed crap then go ahead, weirdos.
Wagamamas, not keen on being on a long table with others.. but it’ll do because the veggie stuff is really tasty.
McD’s I go about twice a year for the bacon and egg breakfast meal and coffee.. but I do use McDs for coffee takeaways and sometimes those choco doughnuts.
Jamies, overpriced garbage.
Krüger, overpriced beef in a bun.
Pizza Express, once was a decent pizza restaurant but now they’re all rundown outlets that contain surly staff.
Never been to 5Guys, don’t intend to either.
Little Chef, ghah! Was once the only place to get an all day breakfast but it’s hard to find a restaurant these days where I travel.

There's a reason your nose is above your mouth.

Pretty unimpressed by most chain food places. I especially dislike the myriad of burger places that are spreading like a cancer. They rely on selling an array of toppings and breads. The actual burgers are totally average.

Last subway I had gave me mild food poisoning. Rank.

nope never will.. if you want to eat malnourished battery chickens

McD’s I go about twice a year for the bacon and egg breakfast meal

Nope, but twice a year I’ll suffer for thier death.

Context sonny, all in context.

My wife thinks there is a different reason

🙂

As long as you can still hear the stereo it's all good...

As for those chains that I've never visited, I've been with people who have got food from there and have had to move away as the smell has been vomit inducing. Given that smell is meant to entice you to eat something, that says a lot.

How do you cope when you smell something that properly smells bad? Farts, bins, cow shit etc. Faint?

I use none of them, ever. I hate the marketing system ie, selling cheap shit to the masses. I'd much rather use a burger van by the side of the road.
Don't get me started about the amount of McEffingdonalds packaging strewn all over the countryside by the Effing cockwombles that buy the crap!

You're just getting weird now, Tom - casting folk in a light that suits your image of a neurotic weirdo or something. Why not just accept that some folk don't like the same shit you do and really can't stand the smell?

You're just spoiling for a rumble, right... 🙂

*[i]snaps fingers[/i]*

Agree with McD, Subway and Nandos.

Luckily here in Manchester for quick good food there is This and That.

5 Guys seems very over priced for what it is. sadly, they cook their chips in peanut oil so unless I want to go full anaphylactic then I tend to avoid there.

West Cornish Pasty Company is consistently poor.

McD's often feels appealing, then you have it and are completely disappointed.

KFC is greasy and make my stomach churn, the chips are terrible too.

As for what I like, tune in to the other thread...

@tomhoward - I grew up on a farm so am quite used to bad smells, it's just when they are associated with food meant for human consumption that I object.

Indeed. Farts, bins, cowshit - none of those are presented as food to the average human.

[i]Farts, bins, cowshit - none of those are presented as food to the average human.[/i]

Except in McDonalds

🙂

wagamama and the other one (tampopo) I don't mind, but under no illusion of healthy (it isn't)

McD, BK, KFC - bleurgh, my stomach is pretty cast iron but there's something about these that makes me feel gross. domino are too salty and not cheap, pizza express is a no but there are good indy options in Manchester - never been to 5guys but good indy options in Manchester

Wahaca are becoming a bit ubiquitous now, especially in London, but they are my favourite places to eat ever!! dont care if its a chain!!

also very fond of Barburrito and Chilangos!!

KFC is horrible, haven't had one since 1996.

McD is good - you're guaranteed a clean toilet anywhere in the world and their Coke is the same as everyone elses. Food's rubbish but at least it's cheap.

Got a bit of a thing for KFC. Just the chicken though. Have to go through the same rigmarole every time...

- three pieces of chicken please
- as a meal?
- no, just on their own
- umm
- twopiecesofchickendriveroundtowindowtwo
- no, wait!

McDonalds always manage to make a chocolate milkshake taste of banana and when you complain, they claim that it's 'impossible'. Also can get a massive mood crash/comedown after a McD's. The stuff I can't stand are those independent takeaways that cater to binge drinkers. There's about thirty of them on every city centre street, all the same, selling SFC and horrible trans-fat pizza and anaemic fries.

I deliver to most of the main chains and there are 2 I would never use:

Subway
KFC

Both stink and feel really dirty when you leave. 5 Guys mentioned above are usually spotless and clean but their prices are ridiculous!

A little tip I've picked up is to look at the pavement immediately in front of the entrance. If it's discoloured or greasy the place is usually poorly run. Was told that by one of the inspectors that give places the green and black food cleanliness ratings.

5 Guys and prices... can go to a nice country pub in Surrey and get a burger and drink for a similarly ridiculous price, but the burger will be nice, ambience isn't like a hospital, and the drink will be a nice beer. Though the burger might be served on a bloody slate 👿

whattiler - Member
Ginsters is a Cornish company.

Indeed they are, and an insult to Cornwall.

Philps on the other hand 😉

but they're not really a chain, at least not outside of west Cornwall. But then I suppose Ginsters isn't a chain either. Just garbage filling the chain of motorway service stations across the country.

I've never "got" dominos. Soggy and tastes worse than a £2 frozen pizza, also you could cook a frozen pizza quicker so less convenient.

5 Guys is just bonkers. I wouldn't even go if work was paying.

I'll eat any of it if I'm hungry but at 46 years old I have never eaten, or will ever eat, a donner kebab.

Lets not paint pub food as good, for the vast majority it isn't certainly where burgers are concerned. In terms of quality, most are no better than BK.

I don't mind pizza express or wagamama, I've not been in any of the others in years. Subway smells funny.

Greggs.... I don't like Greggs.

I don't like the bits of black gloop that drop off an over lubricated under cleaned chain. They taste a bit like earwax.

Wagamamas
Jamie Oliver

I will never eat there again.

I dislike most of them but especially Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Burger King and Costa

Weather spoons hashbrowns, obviously cooked inthe same frier as the fish,,,,,,,they deny this tho.

Hashbrowns have no place on an English breakfast plate

Overpriced cups of posh Nescafé former Starbucks etc,,,,,,,,,,, shyte

Jeez, it ain’t that bad. Take it or leave it, fast food is just that, fast. As an emergency service worker I have sampled most fast food at every hour of the day, don’t do KFC, McDonald’s is fine, I like it and we get free coffee. Five Guys too expensive, Subway everywhere now but not somewhere I’ve used for a few years. A decent Kebab shop is usually where I end up once a set, chicken and lamb shish in naan, lovely.

Just reading the posts and I have to agree - Dominos are the same as Subway - all smell and taste the same. Are they owned by the same organisation?

The best pizzas (apart from homemade) are Morrison’s build your own.

What ever oil the vast majority of small independents use. The ones where burger and chips is not their native food style, but they serve it up because piss heads love it.

I'm sure it's that ectoplasm which goes translucent when heated. Comes in those industrial buckets, smells like fried lino and melted flip flops. I bet it's the cheapest shit money can buy in bulk.
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I can take or leave a Subway sandwich but I do rather like their salads. 🙂

choppersquad - Member

I'll eat any of it if I'm hungry but at 46 years old I have never eaten, or will ever eat, a donner kebab.

Find somewhere that makes their own, you're missing out.
Agreed the bought in stuff that the majority of takeaways sell is tasteless crap.