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over a year ago
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£6.50 for mushroom rice? What the actual fuck?
That's through Just Eats.
Direct is £5.10
£5.10 for mushroom rice?
I'm a tight arse or is that nuts? I normally don't really check prices but jeesus. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"To be clear - I live in the arse end of nowhere, no London."
I must be more arse end of nowhere than you! We don’t even have all that Uber eats and just eats and Uber taxis yet! |
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"To be clear - I live in the arse end of nowhere, no London.
I must be more arse end of nowhere than you! We don’t even have all that Uber eats and just eats and Uber taxis yet! "
Nor do we and we're in the largest town in GM! We have Uber cabs occasionally (when they're not all in Manchester) but no Deliveroo or Uber Eats. Our takeaway does it's own delivery. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To be clear - I live in the arse end of nowhere, no London.
I must be more arse end of nowhere than you! We don’t even have all that Uber eats and just eats and Uber taxis yet!
Nor do we and we're in the largest town in GM! We have Uber cabs occasionally (when they're not all in Manchester) but no Deliveroo or Uber Eats. Our takeaway does it's own delivery."
Yeah mine does luckily. Can’t get Pizza Hut KFC or anything like that though. Just Chinese or Indian. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Is it just mushrooms and rice? Could be better off just learning to cook it yourself. MSG and oil are very accessible these days lol"
Yeah, I know how to cook, I just can't be bothered - hence the takeaway. The price for just rice is absolutely ridiculous. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"There's restaurants and takeaways from pretty much every country known to man just over the road from me, but that does sound a bit pricey Lib!  "
Again, jealous.
The takeaways here are generally bloody awful too.  |
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"£6.50 for mushroom rice? What the actual fuck?
That's through Just Eats.
Direct is £5.10
£5.10 for mushroom rice?
I'm a tight arse or is that nuts? I normally don't really check prices but jeesus."
Robbery mate... Even for eat in prices... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"To be clear - I live in the arse end of nowhere, no London.
I must be more arse end of nowhere than you! We don’t even have all that Uber eats and just eats and Uber taxis yet!
Nor do we and we're in the largest town in GM! We have Uber cabs occasionally (when they're not all in Manchester) but no Deliveroo or Uber Eats. Our takeaway does it's own delivery."
Tbf Uber Eats and Deliveroo are just daylight robbery by the time they've added service and delivery fees on (and Uber inflates the price of the food too, I think by about 15-20% from my own comparisons). It's alright when you fancy a big chain or food from somewhere that doesn't do delivery but otherwise I use either Just Eat or just order straight from the restaurant. With the other two you have the added bonus of watching your food arrive and knowing exactly when it's going to be here though.
Although saying that I'd rather just drive the 7 or 8 minutes to my local Maccies drive thru than be charged £3.99 for delivery PLUS inflated food prices PLUS 10% service fee... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Is it just mushrooms and rice? Could be better off just learning to cook it yourself. MSG and oil are very accessible these days lol
Yeah, I know how to cook, I just can't be bothered - hence the takeaway. The price for just rice is absolutely ridiculous."
But it's not just rice though is it... It's overheads, wages, delivery etc. You're not paying for the food so much as you're paying for the convenience and service. Not saying that it's not expensive, but just that I understand why it is  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho  "
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I collected our Chinese order on the way home.
Mini vege spring rolls.
Salt and spicy chicken wings
Sweet and sour chicken in batter
Honey chili shredded beef
Boiled rice.
Chips
1/2 portion of peeking ribs
Prawn crackers.
£22
It was lovely |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I collected our Chinese order on the way home.
Mini vege spring rolls.
Salt and spicy chicken wings
Sweet and sour chicken in batter
Honey chili shredded beef
Boiled rice.
Chips
1/2 portion of peeking ribs
Prawn crackers.
£22
It was lovely "
Bloody hell! North versus south prices! That would be at least £50 here! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I never order rice, always go the noodle route. I always have a few packs of microwave egg fried rice if I do fancy it, much cheaper and tastes the same covered in sauce! |
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"Is it just mushrooms and rice? Could be better off just learning to cook it yourself. MSG and oil are very accessible these days lol
Yeah, I know how to cook, I just can't be bothered - hence the takeaway. The price for just rice is absolutely ridiculous."
Iceland do frozen rice, several varieties - I quite like the egg fried |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I collected our Chinese order on the way home.
Mini vege spring rolls.
Salt and spicy chicken wings
Sweet and sour chicken in batter
Honey chili shredded beef
Boiled rice.
Chips
1/2 portion of peeking ribs
Prawn crackers.
£22
It was lovely "
I lived in Haymarket for a few years, the takeaways around there were fantastic! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"£6.50 for mushroom rice? What the actual fuck?
That's through Just Eats.
Direct is £5.10
£5.10 for mushroom rice?
I'm a tight arse or is that nuts? I normally don't really check prices but jeesus."
At that price I'd expect cocaine and rice. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I collected our Chinese order on the way home.
Mini vege spring rolls.
Salt and spicy chicken wings
Sweet and sour chicken in batter
Honey chili shredded beef
Boiled rice.
Chips
1/2 portion of peeking ribs
Prawn crackers.
£22
It was lovely
Bloody hell! North versus south prices! That would be at least £50 here!"
The Indian is way more expensive.
We get it as 2 meal deals and I think that makes it cheaper.
I'm also outside of Edinburgh. I'd pay a lot more in the city centre. |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
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My usual order from my local Chinese takeaway is Special Chow Mein, a portion of plain rice and a portion of chips. I get 2 meals out of that, and for less than a tenner!
I have to make the 15 mile round trip to collect it, though, as no-one delivers to where I live. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret "
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol"
Maybe we are a bit greedy 
1 Chicken and sweetcorn soup
1 portion of vegie spring rolls
1 portion of ribs
1/4 crispy duck
1 chicken chow main
1 chicken with ginger and spring onions
1 beef in black bean and chilli sauce
1 egg fried rice
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To be clear - I live in the arse end of nowhere, no London."
Actually when we are in London and order a Chinese it's cheaper than when we order when we are in Southampton. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For £14 i can get a set meal for 2 which can feed a family of 6.
Sweet and sour chicken Hong Kong style
Chicken curry
House special fried rice
Portion of chips
Chow mein noodles + beanshutes with water chestnuts.
Spring rolls and prawn crackers.
And a bottle of pop.   |
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret "
If I had to tell you, I'd have to shoot you. It's a little ethnic Chinese Malay fish & chips + Chinese/Malay takeaway just up the road from us. They deliver in a 3 miles radius, which excludes Stockport!  |
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho "
£20.60 tonight.
In the North, not frozen, but statistically the driest part of the country. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol"
Ermm.. You said that sounds about right (for London too).
£15 - £6 (just for rice) = £9 remaining.
You get a starter and main for £4.50 each when rice alone is £6?
Behave. |
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
£20.60 tonight.
In the North, not frozen, but statistically the driest part of the country."
Weather app says real feel temp is 1°C - I'm defining that as frozen  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol
Ermm.. You said that sounds about right (for London too).
£15 - £6 (just for rice) = £9 remaining.
You get a starter and main for £4.50 each when rice alone is £6?
Behave."
Depends on where I order but I usually get mini spring rolls for around £3, a veggie main and veggie chow mein or Singapore noodles for around £5-6 apiece. Meat and chicken dishes are obviously a couple of pounds more expensive. Not really sure why I'm being told off for this..? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
£20.60 tonight.
In the North, not frozen, but statistically the driest part of the country.
Weather app says real feel temp is 1°C - I'm defining that as frozen "
that's the temperature of my room I dont think it's that cold to be honest ... got the window open too
When it's cold for me its around -10 that's when I start wrapping up and putting heat on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol
Maybe we are a bit greedy
1 Chicken and sweetcorn soup
1 portion of vegie spring rolls
1 portion of ribs
1/4 crispy duck
1 chicken chow main
1 chicken with ginger and spring onions
1 beef in black bean and chilli sauce
1 egg fried rice
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Ah okay, well as long as you enjoyed it it's worth it!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol
Ermm.. You said that sounds about right (for London too).
£15 - £6 (just for rice) = £9 remaining.
You get a starter and main for £4.50 each when rice alone is £6?
Behave.
Depends on where I order but I usually get mini spring rolls for around £3, a veggie main and veggie chow mein or Singapore noodles for around £5-6 apiece. Meat and chicken dishes are obviously a couple of pounds more expensive. Not really sure why I'm being told off for this..?"
Why do you feel you're being told off? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol
Ermm.. You said that sounds about right (for London too).
£15 - £6 (just for rice) = £9 remaining.
You get a starter and main for £4.50 each when rice alone is £6?
Behave.
Depends on where I order but I usually get mini spring rolls for around £3, a veggie main and veggie chow mein or Singapore noodles for around £5-6 apiece. Meat and chicken dishes are obviously a couple of pounds more expensive. Not really sure why I'm being told off for this..?
Why do you feel you're being told off?"
You told me to behave  |
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
£20.60 tonight.
In the North, not frozen, but statistically the driest part of the country.
Weather app says real feel temp is 1°C - I'm defining that as frozen that's the temperature of my room I dont think it's that cold to be honest ... got the window open too
When it's cold for me its around -10 that's when I start wrapping up and putting heat on."
The phrase "the moderately chilly but not enough to put a big jumper on" North didn't trip off the tongue so freely |
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
How! We've just shat over £50 on Chinese tonight, for 2 adults and soup and 1 dish for the kids to share. Please teach me your secret
No offence, but how..? For a starter, main and side I usually pay around £12-15 max. I think your local Chinese is having you on lol
Ermm.. You said that sounds about right (for London too).
£15 - £6 (just for rice) = £9 remaining.
You get a starter and main for £4.50 each when rice alone is £6?
Behave.
Depends on where I order but I usually get mini spring rolls for around £3, a veggie main and veggie chow mein or Singapore noodles for around £5-6 apiece. Meat and chicken dishes are obviously a couple of pounds more expensive. Not really sure why I'm being told off for this..?
Why do you feel you're being told off?
You told me to behave "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We pay £16.50 for a takeaway for two people, including the delivery. And it's good, fresh stuff. We do live in the frozen North tho
£20.60 tonight.
In the North, not frozen, but statistically the driest part of the country.
Weather app says real feel temp is 1°C - I'm defining that as frozen that's the temperature of my room I dont think it's that cold to be honest ... got the window open too
When it's cold for me its around -10 that's when I start wrapping up and putting heat on.
The phrase "the moderately chilly but not enough to put a big jumper on" North didn't trip off the tongue so freely "
Great slogan for the northern tourism campaign though |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"£6.50 for mushroom rice? What the actual fuck?
That's through Just Eats.
Direct is £5.10
£5.10 for mushroom rice?
I'm a tight arse or is that nuts? I normally don't really check prices but jeesus."
That is Tuf(u) on you, absolutely (prawn) crackers.
Wok you going to do about it?
You can't take this lying flat as pancake,up I'd spring,roll on down there and challenge them.
Tell them you ain't got that kind of sweet corn,so up (ping) their prices just isn't fair!!!!
I hope this changes your fortune ......cookie, or perhaps that's just how the cookie crumbles???
Tad high for us (lol)
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