What happened to Burger King?

[Fab Foodie]

And why not? We believe there are few things in life more important than the food we buy for ourselves and our families, don't we?

Clearly after our bicycles .... yes.

 

[mjr]

Snobbery is a pretty ugly characteristic IMO.

Snobbery yes. Food snobbery no: I think it's a good thing to rebuff the advances of food that is considered inferior - with good reason, in most cases. Returning to the case of Greggs' sausage rolls: pastry made from white flour that's "fortified" with calcium carbonate (aka chalk), wrapped around sausagemeat with high fat content containing sugar, malt and herb/spice extracts instead of actual herbs and spices, glazed with a concoction containing water, oils, milk protein, modified starch, milk powder, cellulose rather than milk or beaten egg... it's stretching the bounds of what I'd call "sausage roll" - how about you? Would you make them anything like that?

Good food doesn't have to be expensive, so food snobbery doesn't necessarily mean social snobbery.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Yup, I'm quite partial to the occasional Sausage and Egg McMuffin and their coffee is excellent.

Some amount of food snobbery on this thread!

I would reply but probably a bit below me. I don't do 'smiley faces' but I should hope most could see it wasn't meant to be a serious reply.

 

[AndyRM]

I would reply but probably a bit below me. I don't do 'smiley faces' but I should hope most could see it wasn't meant to be a serious reply.

Apologies, I wasn't aiming the snobbery comment at you, just my McDonald's one, should have been clearer and missed the humour.

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 4160022, member: 259"]I make my own middle-class organic sausages as well - and bloody good they are too - but I want a crappy Greggs product every now and then, thank you very much.[/QUOTE]
Parsons Bakery Steak Pasties are my guilty secret .... dirrrrty ....

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Apologies, I wasn't aiming the snobbery comment at you, just my McDonald's one, should have been clearer and missed the humour.

Not a prob Andy. I'm a little tetchy tonight so apologies from me too.

 

[Cold]

I know they're all sh*t for you but a McDonald 1/4 pounder, BK fries & Bacon Double cheeseburger and KFC gravy are all fantastic.

 

[User6179]

Yup, I'm quite partial to the occasional Sausage and Egg McMuffin and their coffee is excellent.

Some amount of food snobbery on this thread!

I ate 4 sausage and Egg mcmuffins before I climbed a Munro , by the time I got to the top it was only 3
I canny face them now , the coffee is good though

 

[User6179]

The Macdonalds quarter pounder , do they now count the roll and salad in the claimed weight, last one(3) I had was tiny.

 

[Fnaar]

I prob'ly only have a fast-food burger about twice a year, but I love those occasional Maccy D's. Burger King OK too, but pricier. If I'm going to eat fast food, it may as well be cheap

 

[ianrauk]

Exceedingly plain and definitely filth IMO: they use herb extracts because they're too tight to put real herbs in the sausagemeat... but then, this may be because I've been spoiled by the East Anglian traditions: the very herby Lincolnshire and Suffolk, the mustardy Norfolk, the very seasoned Cambridge and the spicy Newmarket... not to mention the ones we seem to have imported from our friends across the North Sea.

Yegods! This post confirms it.

 

[NorthernDave]

[QUOTE 4159417, member: 259"]I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Harry Ramsden's yet.[/QUOTE]

In my experience, quite possibly the worst fish n chips in the world. If they were the only chippy in town I'd rather go hungry.
The one in Scarborough is spectacularly poor, even by their low standards.

 

[Beebo]

The post about quality actually said "the cheapest lowest quality they can get away with", which I think is true, but it doesn't mean the cheapest lowest quality that exists. I think the price of this kind of "food" is kept down by intensive farming practices, such as the terrible conditions in which the chickens that end up in chicken-based fast food shops are kept for their miserable short lives. When 'fast food' first started to appear in the UK it was regarded as an occasional treat, but now it's seen as cheap food that can safely be eaten every day, when it really isn't that wholesome.

A KFC chicken, like most other factory chickens is only alive for 35 - 40 days. In that time it goes from fluffy yellow chick to fully grown bird. Amazing really that they have been bread to grow so quickly.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

In my experience, quite possibly the worst fish n chips in the world. If they were the only chippy in town I'd rather go hungry.
The one in Scarborough is spectacularly poor, even by their low standards.

Harry Ramsdens is just a franchise now.The original one in Guiseley did lovely fish and chips back in the day.

 

[NorthernDave]

Harry Ramsdens is just a franchise now.The original one in Guiseley did lovely fish and chips back in the day.

The 'original' Harry Ramsdens was bought by The Wetherby Whaler - now they do know how to make decent fish n chips, although for our "national dish" it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a consistently good chippy. Even the once legendary Coe's at Cross Gates can be hit & miss nowadays.