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Jamie and Hugh would be in for starters.

I like food.

I won five pounds on a scratchcard this morning.

i'm ill off work and i reckon this would make me better. or send jamie or hugh

Also:

Why on God's Grey Earth hasn't anyone started making REAL AMERICAN ITALIAN PIZZA BOI DA SLOICE! in London yet?

like you get in New York...It's so fucking BOSH and seems cheapish to make...You could SO easily get the Zone 2 Foodie Bellends to part with their readies for this.

Pizza:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW21lp833Vo

It was straight up awful.

Can I still have some pizza? Look, I've got all this money.

Kind of fits the bill for decent cheap chicken. Much rather have that than KFC any day.

there's all manner of 'street food' vans that knock up korean, vietnamese, bbq stuff all for non street food prices. Pizzas would be quick, tasty and cheap. Let's start one up.

how dare you.

Well, Clark did- I should have claimed it in the divorce. He did get my bin, after all.

Need more pork butchers serving hot roast pork with stuffing, apple sauce and crackling in a fucking bap. Imagine if they were late opening, IMAGINE.

It's great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EX--vdxh4

(see link)

It's like saying "I prefer Enchiladas to HoFo"

sent him this link following a guilty kfc... http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/jul/24/kfc-secret-recipe-revealed

i would be more than willing to pay quite a bit more for ethical southern fried chicken.

i'm going to try the economy gastronomy recipe at the weekend and overcome my fear of deep frying: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/colonelmerrettsbucke_91985

High quality fried chicken is not too different from the lower quality Perfect Fried Chicken stuff (unless there has been some kind of chicken revolution I'm not aware of), whereas cooking a burger has vastly more permuations where you can introduce a variance of quality and taste.

Of course, you can make it more ethical but I don't think there'll be a significant leap in quality to justify the inevitable extra cost. Gourmet fried chicken would be a challenging business that's for sure.

This cook book sounds good. Jamie Olivers American cook book had load of amazing stuff in but all had about 200 ingredients. The southern fried chicken was horrid tho.

I'm the brains behind the operation. So I've come to the den looking for investment and a chef.

his monocle falls out and smashes on the floor

http://www.nandos.co.uk/menu/our-food

on a Saturday afternoon, look out for a charity who's staff have enterprisingly built a pizza oven on an unused bit of land and are knocing out amazing Italian style pizzas to raise money they are losing in funding cuts. The Big Society: staff working for free on Saturdays!

but they get to have a nice ride on a red tractor for five minutes on their birthday.

but I haven't read the actual docs in here which may be more enlightening, so who knows?
http://assurance.redtractor.org.uk/rtassurance/farm/poultry/pl_docs/pl_standards.eb

Freedom Food (RSPCA assured standards of anmial welfare) is probably much more trustworthy as a not quite free range trademark.

as i feel awful when i think about where the chicken i ear at late night take-away places might come from, not because of the taste.

We could do all types of soul food. Yes, it would all still be generally unhealthy but you could have some amazing sides and alternative dishes. I dunno ask Meo and Chintz about their soul food cookbooks.

is the lack of proper Chicago-style pizza that I can go outside of my house in this country and buy with my money.

http://www.coupondad.net/Images/Chicago_Style_Pizza.gif

Fact: Climbing the Walls by Radiohead is about Thom's frustrations at being unable to buy this kind of pizza in west london

Ham hock! Cornbread! Hoppin' John!

Can I be one of the cooks, pls?

what with it not being kfc and thereby being an ethical alternative by default.

either way it was fucking tasty chicken they cooked there.

Italian food, not just Pizzas. Can't think of anywhere where you can rock up and order a big slice of lasagne or a box of carbonara. A big box of pasta would be ace after a night on the town.

they have mini pizzas, sausage sandwiches, fried pastry filled with cheese and ARANCINE, the king of all takeaway snacks.

when I was at school, we used to go into town for lunch to an italian delicatessen, where you could get a box of freshly made pasta with sauce for £1.50 or something. It was amazing. More places should do that.

Imagine just rocking up and grabbing a fresh tasty calzone at 3am. Imagine the jealous looks of everyone else on the night bus. You'd probably get mugged for it actually...

It's like minimum standards from the AFS.

Chapters on Bishopsgate do nice pastas, but you rarely see it at nighttime, or for delivery.

But perhaps a bit more like a jumbo sausage roll rather than a folded pizza. Its be all over your best blazer before too long.

Lasagne. In a pitta bread.

I'd demand every store was 24 hours, they'd make a killing

Especially in places like McDonald's or Subway, where the vegetarian burgers are basically just chopped up potato and carrot and stuff like that fried in a patty.

Falafel's ridiculously cheap to make but actually tastes nice. Do takeaways ever have it as an option? Fuck no do they.

but standards drop when im drunk

And again on Saturday, and Sunday.

if I was really pissed, I would forget that that bit of flesh behind my front teeth is *not* in fact madee of asbestsos. Owww.

I suppose not all of them, but certainly a lot. At the moment most are even closed on Sundays so they're missing out on the hangover market too.

I wish they were open 24 hour :'(

In New York you can just buy a slice of pizza for a few 'bucks'.

can get to fuck.

There’s also that place on Wardour Street that does pizza slices, lasagne, pasta dishes and cakes. Can’t remember its name though.

Whats Hoppin John?

thank you very much

Chicken
Grease
Salt

every kebab shop ever does falafels. I eat 3 a week when I'm in busy periods and dont have time to cook.

I have a friend who's obsessed with potatoes and cooks them every day and normally I'd bow to his potatoe preferences but he likes his roasties very big with loads of fluffy white flesh in the middle.

I like the fluffy middle sure, but I like my roasties irregular shaped and sizes, some small and crispy, some medium and still crispy.

I'd wager for most of us the highlight of a roastie is the crispy, fatty outside.

Kebab shops are well outnumbered by the typical cheese'n'chips type of takeaway.

just off the grassmarket in Edinburgh does this. It's pretty much the best place in the world.

OHYES

i fucking love pizza and hotwings!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_(food)

So there's four whole places you can get it. It's a revolution!

In fact, I don't think I've ever been into a kebab shop and them not sell falafel

All we need is a few more chippys that do chips cheese & bolognese.

I was in a kebab shop in Headcorn, Kent on Tuesday night, eating a falafel.

I'm a kebab man all the way, but sometimes you just gotta have chips in pitta

they're 2 different things

I swear you'd make a killing (once a week)

I can get 6 (but they sometimes bung in 8) wings and chips for £2. It's a tough market.

but a) I'm not a chef and b) I don't trust the British public to be honest with the sticks.

It's my new life's ambition though

the calzone sausage roll hybrid does exist!

more of a tapas ordering thing rather than plates and plates on the counter help yourself thing. Would be great but I just don't think it would work with Brits, much like the German beer system they have in some places where you just get your glass refilled, your beermat stamped and you pay before you leave. We're too sneaky a nation and those places would be bankrupt within months.

I really fail to understand why Asian style street stalls haven't taken off here. It would be pretty simple-get a vat of rice going and cook a few other bits on the side. Cheaper than chips! It's bizarre that nothing has stepped in to fill the hole that single income families (i.e. one partner having time to cook) have left.

other regulations

rice + something is filling, healthy and cheap, and fucking easy.

However, festival food stands don't seem to be affected.

I don't see why the enterprise couldn't be extended to "normal" life.

You'd buy it at your local and then take it home. Like how, y'know, actual takeaways work.

As you said street stall I thought you meant standing around on the pavement trying to eat rice.

Wouldn't be bad mannered as such, it'd just be highly masochistic.

THEREFORE THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS SOLVING.

Also I think my point about McDonald's/Subway/etc. still stands.