A bit council Vol 2

[HTP99]

Shakermaker said:

Rawwr said:

I know that when I can't be bothered to make my own under-cooked, over-seasoned chicken and want to pay ten times the price for it, Nandos is definitely my first call.

Find any restaurant that doesn't do this?

In fact, I'd be pretty certain the cost of the ingredients is probably inflated by 20x to what you pay for it. But then staff, rent and profit do not come for free.

I don't mind Nandos or the fact that it is council. I guess this makes me a "council apologist" though.

Nando's is fine, it isn't expensive, the food is ok and most certainly isn't undercooked otherwise you would hear of people becoming ill.

And shock horror a restaurant wants to make some money, and anyway you most certainly wont pay 10 times the price over what you can buy, prepare and cook at home yourself.

Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th March 12:33

[alorotom]

can't remember said:

alorotom said:

The kids names ... not the story itself ...



https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3186862/mums-horro...

Giving your children crap names is council. Reading The Sun if far worse.

no denying it ... ive read it pretty much every day since I started buying it when i was in 3rd year in secondary school mainly for the boobies, but old habits die hard

[Johnnytheboy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4352570/An...

Angry dad - check

Videoing police doing their job - check

Picking daffodils off council land - check checkity check

[Shakermaker]

HTP99 said:

Nando's is fine, it isn't expensive, the food is ok and most certainly isn't undercooked otherwise you would hear of people becoming ill.

And shock horror a restaurant wants to make some money, and anyway you most certainly wont pay 10 times the price over what you can buy, prepare and cook at home yourself.

Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th March 12:33

I can't speak for Nandos but its certainly the case at one of its big rivals, Pizza Express. The cost to them of the ingredients for a pizza is in the 50p-£1 range and they are selling them at £8-£14 (before the reduction from any vouchers etc) so that is... 14-20x the cost of the ingredients.

Still doesn't stop me going in and eating them, that's for sure. I don't have a catering supply of pizza dough and cheese in my fridge that I can buy at their prices!

[Rawwr]

I fear people may possibly have taken my comment a little too seriously.

[Lance Catamaran]

Johnnytheboy said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4352570/An...

Angry dad - check

Videoing police doing their job - check

Picking daffodils off council land - check checkity check

"I pay their wages" comment - check

[DRFC1879]

Johnnytheboy said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4352570/An...

Angry dad - check

Videoing police doing their job - check

Picking daffodils off council land - check checkity check

"Criminalised for something that everybody does".

Anyone else steal flowers that are meant to be on public display?

[HTP99]

Shakermaker said:

HTP99 said:

Nando's is fine, it isn't expensive, the food is ok and most certainly isn't undercooked otherwise you would hear of people becoming ill.

And shock horror a restaurant wants to make some money, and anyway you most certainly wont pay 10 times the price over what you can buy, prepare and cook at home yourself.

Edited by HTP99 on Monday 27th March 12:33

I can't speak for Nandos but its certainly the case at one of its big rivals, Pizza Express. The cost to them of the ingredients for a pizza is in the 50p-£1 range and they are selling them at £8-£14 (before the reduction from any vouchers etc) so that is... 14-20x the cost of the ingredients.

Still doesn't stop me going in and eating them, that's for sure. I don't have a catering supply of pizza dough and cheese in my fridge that I can buy at their prices!

Yes sure a big restaurant chain will have massive mark ups as they have massive buying power so will pay next to nothing for their raw ingredients compared to us going to Sainsburys and buying the bits ourselves; which is what I was comparing it to.

My daughters boyfriend is a chef, last year he was telling us about the cost of ingredients to make a childrens margarita pizza which was selling for around the £8 mark, it was 34p.

[Shakermaker]

HTP99 said:

Yes sure a big restaurant chain will have massive mark ups as they have massive buying power so will pay next to nothing for their raw ingredients compared to us going to Sainsburys and buying the bits ourselves; which is what I was comparing it to.

My daughters boyfriend is a chef, last year he was telling us about the cost of ingredients to make a childrens margarita pizza which was selling for around the £8 mark, it was 34p.

Sounds about right.

A bit like that joke about the £10,000 bill for hitting something with a hammer.

"Cost of ingredients: £0.34
Knowing how to cook and prepare the ingredients to satisfy your child: £7.66"

[Mr Gearchange]

Baz Tench said:

alorotom said:

The kids names ... not the story itself ...



https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3186862/mums-horro...

The mother's a bit of alright though.

Right up until the point where you learn she called one of her kids 'T-Dawg'.

[nigelpugh7]

Mr Gearchange said:

Right up until the point where you learn she called one of her kids 'T-Dawg'.

Or the thinly veiled reason it was a " news story! ". In that she has a blog, and a new book that she is promoting via that blog!

[andymc]

granny views a huge cock on a phone lent to her whilst hers gets fixed, now demands an upgrade

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3165842/shocked-gran...

[Rawwr]

andymc said:

granny views a huge cock on a phone lent to her whilst hers gets fixed, now demands an upgrade

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3165842/shocked-gran...

So traumatised by it that she had to show her friends. Get out, you malingering old witch.

[Bluedot]

andymc said:

granny views a huge cock on a phone lent to her whilst hers gets fixed, now demands an upgrade

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3165842/shocked-gran...

So shocked about the lurid incident she then says "I’ve shown some of my friends and they can’t believe it either."

[Shakermaker]

Rawwr said:

So traumatised by it that she had to show her friends. Get out, you malingering old witch.

"ooh no Maureen I've never seen anything like that! They weren't that size in my day... well apart from that American fellow who came over in the war and treated me to some nylons...."

[austinsmirk]

My daughters boyfriend is a chef, last year he was telling us about the cost of ingredients to make a childrens margarita pizza which was selling for around the £8 mark, it was 34p.
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However, re: pizza, of any other food of course you then "knead" to add in cost of:

wages of staff to collect ingredients

power to keep goods fresh

wages to make pizza, seat customers, take orders

power to cook food

depreciating asset of plates, cutlery, linen, chairs, fridges, cookers and so on

tills, credit card machines, banking facilities

rent/business rates

income tax and so on.


anyway, just been on our estates. watching a mum leave a house- after having turned the thumping rave music off to get her children. In her dressing gown and slippers.

driving a chavved up Audi A3. (what else)

To return to house, with two young ones. thumping rave music back on.

As I said to my colleague- this is why we work hard for a living, so we don't live anywhere remotely like this.

[Trabi601]

Lance Catamaran said:

Johnnytheboy said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4352570/An...

Angry dad - check

Videoing police doing their job - check

Picking daffodils off council land - check checkity check

"I pay their wages" comment - check

Mansfield.

[Jimmy Recard]

andymc said:

granny views a huge cock on a phone lent to her whilst hers gets fixed, now demands an upgrade

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3165842/shocked-gran...

"I've shown some of my friends"

[talksthetorque]

Trabi601 said:

Mansfield.

So council the rest of Nottinghamshire started a petition to move it to Merseyside.

[F1GTRUeno]

talksthetorque said:

Trabi601 said:

Mansfield.

So council the rest of Nottinghamshire started a petition to move it to Merseyside.

There are few ways to make living on Merseyside worse, that would be one.