nandos - c or d

have some friends who'll really rep hard for nandos

i'm not one of them, though i'll eat there no probs, which is a lot further than i'll go for most fast food chain places (refuse to set foot in your kfc/mcdonalds type places)

surely the owner must be a race-baiter or a catholic or something

In what possible way is KFC - which is deep fried, greasy and loaded with MSG - healthier than nandos!?

this like hitler vs. stalin but nando's dressing is essentially pure fat. kfc is fried in vegetable oil. and if you define "healthy" as fewer calories, and order a regular adult meal with fries then kfc is usually fewer calories and less fat. msg is not unhealthy per se.

hang on since when was it acceptable for posters to out themselves as disgusting savages outright, no-holds barred snobs

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whut?

louis is being a dick

food snobs are the worst kind of snobs imo. every1 eats. basically people who hate nandos are racist.

oh man i really want a transcription of the nandos spotify advert right now

louis is being louis. even i've got past that.

i'm basically not a snob about any food ever except shit masquerading as 'authentic foreign cuisine' that's actually unhealthy mass-marketed battery-farmed crap with a truly horrible aesthetic and ad-campaigns dreamt up in Satan's gizzard that are taking people away from actual restaurants because they're not just fast-food, they're 'a proper meal'

nandos isn't taking people away from 'actual restaurants', whatever they may be, or 'masquerading' as relevant foreign cuisine

restaurants where they prepare the food rather than heat up stuff from a freezer look ok I am being a bit snobbish but frankly having eaten at Nandos once this is more an argument born out of loathing than principle - and yeah they really ARE an easy choice for people to eat at - would like to see customer stats of places near recently-opened Nandos

and they do make out they're genuwine Iberian cooking - it's the taste of Portugal dontcha know (or wherever they pretend to be from)

i use the nandos simmer sauces occasionally, the coconut curry one is super tasty

anyway nrq as you well know your most cutting and elegant response would have been the haters gonna hate gif

The OG article was probably written because a new branch has recently opened on York Way where the GDN offices are. I tried it for the first time the other day (it was free) and I rather enjoyed it, but I think the prices could have been slightly lower for what you ended up getting.

Plus they accidentally served up cold mashed potato instead of clotted cream with our desserts. I'm not lying about this, one of the most WTF restaurant moments I've ever experienced.

I've never been but my boss, who is the biggest food snob I know, reps pretty hard for Nandos. I think as chain-place-you-can-take-kids-and-know-what-you're-getting it's probably better than most other alternatives in this country.

It's the 2010s, more cosmopolitan answer to a Harvester or something I guess yeah. The food is definitely not offensive, but then I'ma chili fiend.

been a few years since my last nandectomy but i recall the chips being pretty good.

how bout GIRAFFE?

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ok fine nandos it is then, i wonder if their chickens were mass-electrocuted or simply slammed over the head with a short plank

(my objection isn't so much with the market dynamics as the quality of food and the advertising)

i wonder if their chickens were mass-electrocuted or simply slammed over the head with a short plank

do family-run places universally not use battery chickens?

tbh I don't care I just want to eat out at a nice place that doesn't serve pissweak food and I want to have a bit of choice on the menu and I want to at least run the risk of eating high-quality produce I'm not asking for much please say I'm not asking for much

like most things in lyfe/the present social and economic order, you p much get what you pays for

This place is the biggest fucking rip-off going.

i love nandos fuck yall

go to a nice restaurant and don't get a starter or a dessert or drinks other than tapwater

or just get drinks and get a burger/kebab/_____ after

^much better than nandos tbh

I would like Nando's a lot more if I felt there was value for money in charging £7 for 1/4 battery-farmed chicken and chips. Would rather go to Indian neighbourhood and pay £5 for whole tandoori chicken a la Green Street/Tooting.

nando's fine but only ever had the veggie burger

people go to nandos because it's there and they trust it. it's not about going to a whole nother neighbourhood! it's when their done doing whatevs in a particular place.

Yeah, Nandos is like next to the cinema when you're going for a quick bite to eat and the cinema. We don't all live in London where you have 8 zillion eateries within spitting distance of wherever you want to have your fun.

(I have been to Nandos precisely twice - once because it's near my work and we wanted somewhere cheap that we could get in and out of in an hour, and once because it was near the cinema. It was OK both times. Nothing great, but it fulfilled its requirement in both cases)

people go to nandos cos they are everywhere, they are pretty tasty and it isn't very expensive really jeez.

I've always thought it was just a little too expensive for what you get on the plate/tray but I suppose it could be worse - we live in a world where there is Subway.

yeah i agree. would rather hear suggestions for amazing chicken places that are better than nandos than this boring snobbery plz

I've been repping hugely for Safadi in Holborn, which looks like branch one of a future chain, and they do great Lebanese shawarma wraps or felafel, plus quite amazing skinny chips for £5.

I'm not a massive Nando's fan tbh and I'm not anti-fast food at all. The food seems pretty one note and snoresome.

^this. i'll eat any old shit but have visited a nandos twice and come away saying 'never again' both times. i know its a middle class cliche, but as far as 'family friendly' chain restaurants go, give me pizza express any old time (tho man are they fucking expensive these days)

pizza express make some nice pizzas yeah, and Ask seems to have gone to shit, at least round here

tbrr i haven't been to a nandos since

it's the principle of the thing tho

+ ppl i knew repped for it

since 2002

wtf It is WAY too expensive for what you get! 3 feeble chicken wings for £3, 1/2 chicken for over £6, £5 for the most basic burger they do, £3 for a tiny, tiny stubbie of crap beer. For bog standard fast food it's an absolute fucking rip off.
Such and awful feeding-trough get-em-in-get-em-out set-up they've got going on. Horrendous atmosphere in there always. What a shit house.

wd take KFC over these any day altho both of them are shit at doing chips and KFC need to start selling buckets of just skin

"KFC need to start selling buckets of just skin"

yes - if i could get nandos chicken (which now is virtually tasteless) with kfc skin on top it would be great

i might start making this myself actually

RIP nandos of the late 90s

starting to hate nandos for how they keep manufacturing desire in me for their chicken

Would smash.

lot of fake nandos around east london now

wow, nando's has been going since late 90s. think glasgow got it about 2 or 3 years ago. been once. the hot sauce was dece, sweet potato mash in a restaurant that is effectively equivalent to frankie and benny's or whatever was also appreciated.

used to be standard that the chips would have nandos chilli powder on them but not any longer - theyre slipping

rice is still decent however

waiting for nandos to take a few cues from pret and start doing retro chicken

"retro chicken"

lol

what's that? an egg?

the idea that anyone would willingly eat at a nando's after they had left Luton is incomprehensible

Now, its chicken is the urban youth food of choice and, as if to prove it, I have two quite intense phone conversations about Nando's

Ha ha that Guardian piece. I'm not sure anyone should be having "intense phone conversations" related to chicken restaurants unless this is a code for something.

Nando's would get fucking slaughtered in Montreal though. It's a shame because I admire the ability and efficiency of Portuguese restaurants that are run as businesses over those Portuguese restaurants that are run as Portuguese restaurants. Just once I would like to eat Portuguese-style chicken without unnecessary wait times, obligatory devotional rituals to Benfica FC, domestic violence, or rudimentary home-based wine production.

i just reopened this thinking it was 'nachos: c or d', is there a nachos thread somewhere i can read instead

starting to hate nandos for how they keep manufacturing desire in me for their chicken

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there is literally a whole 'seinfeld' episode w/ this as its plot

I have both rational & irrational reasons for hating on Nandos, of which, more later, but I do derive some comfort from the fact that when it came on the scene here in the UK it was the topic of a heated argument between me and a Spanish colleague, which was one of those brilliant arguments when you're in fact BOTH right but neither backs down. Eventually we threw in the towel and consulted Google for resolution. I *knew* Nandos was S. African, while, at the same time, she *knew* it was Portuguse. Turns out that the people who founded the chain were indeed South African and it was founded in SA but one founder was of Mozambique Portuguse origin and the chicken is cooked in a Portuguese style. Thus was five or so years before I went to Portugal and learnt about the batshit-insane legend of the Rooster of Barcelos which gives the chain its logo.

Thanks for making me crave a Nando’s :D

Anyway, the rational reason I don't like Nandos is that I don't think it's very good. Both the decor and what they serve...a really unimaginative menu of (iirc) three levels of hotness of chicken and salads and that's about it, together with the suspicion that the hotness is simply there to conceal the poor quality of the chicken beneath.

That said, my views may be out of date...I only went once, to the first one in Oxford that opened, in a converted pub in Cowley Road around the time the argument I mentioned above occurred (indeed, the convo may have been prompted by that). It was a work lunchtime do, and we only chose Nandos coz the chicken's halal and one of my colleagues was Muslim.

As for the irrational reasons for me hating it...its ubiquity (rather like Subway, do they really need that many in a single town?), the fact they often take over old pubs, and the fact that when a scurrilous hospital employee "borrowed" my mum's card from the ward safe and went on a spending spree with it, before putting it back there, that was where they spent half of the money!

I think the peri peri sauce is just not that special, in fact none of their sauces are anything below C-tier

anything *above* C-tier!

I definitely don’t think it’s god-tier food and I wish there was something half as good as my rose-tinted memories of peri-peri chicken I can recall from one childhood holiday in Portugal… but as a twice yearly hangover helper it hits the spot for me - but then again I’ll enjoy almost any barbecued chicken and it is remarkably consistent.

The sauces are very blunt and broad, but that isn’t going to stop my chucking loads of it on my plate :D