I just went and bought one of those little bottles of lucozade from the corner shop up the road from us. In the refridgerated cabinet, 2 items caught my notice:
1/ a "chargrilled chicken" burger, IE a compete burger bun w/trimmings, & slab of chix0r3n, in a plastic clamshell box w/ peel off lid. The lid proclaimed that if one wished to eat this, it would only take 70s in a microwave oven to prepare it
2/ a lump of "mexican chicken" in a sort of shrinkwrap-header-card package. A lump of red-coloured meat. What caught my attention was the sell-by date - something like 6 months hence!
Who has eaten such fare? Was it any good?
When we go out and play live, we often stop at service stations for food, and I myself have purchased and eaten "ginster's" produkt on occasion. Last saturday I bought an item from their new "deli" range, which seems to consist of pasties cooked in olive oil. Apparently low fat or something. The thing, when removed from its wrapper, was rather oily looking, almost slick, but it actually didn't taste that bad. The next day though, I had the farts, and my god were they toxick! Good grief!!
Plz share experiences of bad (or even palatable) off-the-shelf heat & eat savoury foodstuffs. Yes, I am bored. Perhaps you are more bored.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)
I love your spelling. It's wrong, but somehow more magickal.
― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)
When I'm in post-work binge mood I sometimes eat a whole pack of 'chinese-style' chicken from Londis. It's pretty fatty but you can't tell what's fat and what's flesh until you've bitten into it because it's all dyed red. Sometimes, one of the drumstick bones will have snapped - while the chicken was alive or dead I know not. Being in binge mood means I can smother the insticts that usually lead me to buy organic, free-ranging food until my stomach is full and it's too late. 'Chinese-style' chicken does not make me windy.
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
I once mistakenly bought a slice of "cheeseburger pizza" from one of them wee little foodstands in the back of a gas station. It had PICKLES and SHREDDED LETTUCE on it, and, judging by the texture/consistency of the lettuce, I am fairly certain that the lettuce
was baked with the pizza. I didn't eat it.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)
some of those microwave burritos aren't that bad, but I wonder if they have that stuff in the uk.
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)
oh god. the torture of being famished at 3am, pulling over at a service plaza, and finding only ginsters pork products or all day breakfast sandwiches with pink plastic bacon in the fridge.
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)
microwave burgers are not actually that bad, in terms of taste, but they must have an unholy amount of salt in them, you'd be drinking water for hours after.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
I got loads for free when I did office work for a petrol company, the people who make things like that would often try and get them stocked by giving them to the staff in the office.
they were amazing if you came in drunk, 70 seconds.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)
In that scenario I rely to this day on bananas. But everyone was given a bag of those microburgers to take home. You could have left them in the office I guess, but eating a microwave burger at your desk would be a clear act of deviancy.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)