I think if presented the option majority of students would go for this over the current options. Which are INSANELY expensive now. You’re looking at the guts of €30 for a pizza or Chinese takeaway these days
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True, but you can also get a pizza slice for a fiver or a spice bag for eight or so (my expert informs me). I was a regular customer at the Red Rose but even then I'd only really go at the financial tail-end of the month because it was basically "a fry I'd make at home, but greasier".
aug 18, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
A fiver for a slice of (often tik tok instagram overhyped shite) pizza is what’s wrong in the first place.
aug 18, 2025, 11:31 am • 0 0 • view
What's wrong with it? The margarita slice from Mani is genuinely extremely good (appreciate that other, inferior slices exist) and quite filling. Though having checked is admittedly six euro rather than five. I also miss the late lamented Steps of Rome for similar.
aug 18, 2025, 11:36 am • 1 0 • view
Well we are putting up fast food against food made to order in a cafe. And none of the fast food cheap. I live in Dublin City center so nothing is cheap but none of the fast food is good or good for you either.
aug 18, 2025, 1:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah but the queues of young people are outside Xian to get spice bags and Oakberry to get açai bowls
aug 18, 2025, 11:03 am • 0 0 • view
The TikTok crowd of all ages are the easiest of all to get to buy in. To anything. No reason they couldn’t be swayed into this
aug 18, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
I think the TikTok/Insta crowd might go to an interesting, genuinely old "classic caff", I dunno if even the power of TikTok is going to make new places serving up mediocre sausage and chips cool. That said, my son did once make me queue up with him for an internet sensation apple crumble...
aug 18, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
The main issue, as I said, is that classic caff food was often not just "food you could make at home" but also not very good, and that's a hard sell in a landscape where there is a lot of better cheap food available.
aug 18, 2025, 11:41 am • 2 0 • view
My youth correspondent also adds "... and where chicken fillet rolls exist"
aug 18, 2025, 1:18 pm • 1 0 • view
We do love a chicken fillet roll :) stavin now tell them thanks for that :)
aug 18, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Was that crumble in Spitalfields by any chance? Humble Crumble is worth the queue!
aug 18, 2025, 11:42 am • 2 0 • view
Borough Market branch, but yes, Humble Crumble! We also queued for some TikTok "it sandwich" which I complained about until I actually ate the sandwich and was forced to conclude that it was incredibly tasty.
aug 18, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
Never knew it was in borough too. I caught it at Spitalfields one day with minimal queue, needed to know what all the fuss was about. Now I wish we had it in Dublin.
aug 18, 2025, 12:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I would definitely prefer it to another random burger chain.
aug 18, 2025, 12:07 pm • 2 0 • view