Is fast food dead?

[Wretched Vengeance]

Was at Heathrow Tue night. We had all decided to have a quick scran (Wetherspoons) ordered a burger called Cheese Meltdown on the app. The ungodly thing arrived within 3 minutes - which was a worry in itself. Inhaled it and the chips like a ravenous hound.

Felt bloated and devoid of energy for a few days. Although the long-ish flight doesn't help.

Have only just felt back to normal today. Prior to that had been training well and eating clean. The filthy thing completely fucked up the way I felt and functioned.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I should hope so, I wouldn’t want my burger crawling away on its own accord.

 

[doots]

Stupidly ordered a pizza from papa johns tonight.
Fast food,nope.Took 2 hours to get here.
An own goal by my own admission thinking this place may have upped it's game after a hugely disappointing food experience from them a while back but I took advantage of a 'deal' on uber eats.
30 quid for 2 cold,crap piles of shite.
Before the discount it was 60 quid!
Never again.

 

[idahoblues]

Stupidly ordered a pizza from papa johns tonight.
Fast food,nope.Took 2 hours to get here.
An own goal by my own admission thinking this place may have upped it's game after a hugely disappointing food experience from them a while back but I took advantage of a 'deal' on uber eats.
30 quid for 2 cold,crap piles of shite.
Before the discount it was 60 quid!
Never again.

Any chain pizza joint is shite

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Occasionally if I have travelled back after a night match, unable to use the kitchen for whatever reason or after a long journey in the car and can't be arsed cooking.

Probably average one a week, we have our chippy, kebab shop and Chinese that we use who all produce good food at a decent price.

I had a Maccies breakfast last month, my kitchen wasn't available , it was ok but, thrown together however, I won a free double cheeseburger in the Monopoly promo.

Now I can't remember the last time I had a burger from there and I should have just not bothered....bread crap, cheese crap, burgers like cardboard. As I handed over my freebie token I noticed they were £2.49...I suppose £2.49 isn't expensive for a burger but it still wasn't anywhere near VFM.

 

[heslops barnet]

Stopped eating takeaways over 3 years ago after getting sober, feel a lot better knowing I haven’t got all that greasy shit in my body.
Takeaways are for lazy people who can’t be arsed to prepare their own food.

 

[M16 citeh]

Occasionally if I have travelled back after a night match, unable to use the kitchen for whatever reason or after a long journey in the car and can't be arsed cooking.

Probably average one a week, we have our chippy, kebab shop and Chinese that we use who all produce good food at a decent price.

I had a Maccies breakfast last month, my kitchen wasn't available , it was ok but, thrown together however, I won a free double cheeseburger in the Monopoly promo.

Now I can't remember the last time I had a burger from there and I should have just not bothered....bread crap, cheese crap, burgers like cardboard. As I handed over my freebie token I noticed they were £2.49...I suppose £2.49 isn't expensive for a burger but it still wasn't anywhere near VFM.

Why is your kitchen never available haha?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Why is your kitchen never available haha?

Does read strange but, a few weeks ago we had it ripped out back to brick, took 2 weeks for the rebuild for it to be functional.

 

[bezyar]

Stopped eating takeaways over 3 years ago after getting sober, feel a lot better knowing I haven’t got all that greasy shit in my body.
Takeaways are for lazy people who can’t be arsed to prepare their own food.

I wouldn’t say fast food is dead, but I get where you’re coming from. Once I started cooking more at home and using food prep containers to have meals ready in advance, the temptation to order takeaway dropped a lot. It’s cheaper, you know what’s going into your body, and it honestly doesn’t take that much extra effort once you get into the habit.

 

[Nethermoor]

Stopped eating takeaways over 3 years ago after getting sober, feel a lot better knowing I haven’t got all that greasy shit in my body.
Takeaways are for lazy people who can’t be arsed to prepare their own food.

Bit of a generalisation. I eat clean and healthy 99% of the time. Do love a Chinese, Pizza, Indian once/twice a month.

Always have a maccies after away games as it's tradition.

Doesn't mean i'm lazy. I cook very often.

 

[PistonBlue]

Stopped eating takeaways over 3 years ago after getting sober, feel a lot better knowing I haven’t got all that greasy shit in my body.
Takeaways are for lazy people who can’t be arsed to prepare their own food.

Not always. Working away from home and staying in Premier Inn, Travelodge etc can be really difficult to eat properly.

 

[pee dubya]

Fast food can be good.

There's a couple of places in Glasgow that do falafel wraps for a fiver. Made totally fresh, while you wait. Huge and delicious.

We're missing fast noodle bars though, went to a few in Spain, they just have shit loads of pre-cooked noodles, fry them up on hotplate with your veg and whatever, season it. Cost a few euros. Closest is Chopstix but it's shit.

 

[ballbag]

Chippy dinner on a Friday followed by a burger and chips in the evening. Not lazy, just can't be arsed cooking on Fridays as Saturday morning is prep time for the first half of the week ahead with veg, boiled spuds, hard boiled eggs, chicken, etc. Plus I'm usually stoned out of my box on Friday nights catching up with all the TV shows I don't have time for during the week.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Me and my Mrs use fast food, especially macdonalds, for the energy.

If we have decorating or some project we're working on we always get a maccies for the energy and the buzz. We have a fairly good diet so anything like that with the salts and sugars etc, sorts us out.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've just seen a load of burgers legging it out of a MacDonalds.

 

[JULES]

fast food....our nearest KFC is an hour and a a half away, for McDonalds its 3 hours.

 

[hilts]

Was at Heathrow Tue night. We had all decided to have a quick scran (Wetherspoons) ordered a burger called Cheese Meltdown on the app. The ungodly thing arrived within 3 minutes - which was a worry in itself. Inhaled it and the chips like a ravenous hound.

Felt bloated and devoid of energy for a few days. Although the long-ish flight doesn't help.

Have only just felt back to normal today. Prior to that had been training well and eating clean. The filthy thing completely fucked up the way I felt and functioned.

I once ran 14 marathons in 14 days, had some chicken nuggets and haven't been able to leave the house for 10 years.

 

[BimboBob]

Not always. Working away from home and staying in Premier Inn, Travelodge etc can be really difficult to eat properly.

Most pubs these days do good food.

Anyhoo...

Judging by the queues at my local drive through I'd suggest no, no it isn't.

 

[PistonBlue]

Most pubs these days do good food.

Anyhoo...

Judging by the queues at my local drive through I'd suggest no, no it isn't.

Pub food soon gets extremely boring when it’s the same shit every night

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Bit of a generalisation. I eat clean and healthy 99% of the time. Do love a Chinese, Pizza, Indian once/twice a month.

Always have a maccies after away games as it's tradition.

Doesn't mean i'm lazy. I cook very often.

Exactly.
I had health issues last year.
Didnt drink for 3 months.
And had to eat healthy since.
Still have the odd takeaway.
2 stone less than i was.
no right or wrong though