How Much Would You Pay For A Takeaway?

[Buenchico]

I've been looking at this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55904289

The £16 for a posh burger doesn't seem too outrageous to me. It's not much dearer than the prices charged by many burger restaurants, such as Byron, and (as far as I can tell from that article) it does at least come ready cooked.

However £105 (for two people) for the Northcote boxes does seem somewhat pricey to me, especially when one considers that
(a) the portions are miniscule - see the picture in the article ; and
(b) you've got to cook it yourself!
(Website here, for anyone who's tempted: https://www.northcote.com/at-home/gourmet-boxes )

The £90 boxes from the White Swan (again, for two people) might appear slightly better but
(a) you've still got to cook it yourself ;
(b) the price for their current offering is actually £110 ( https://www.whiteswanatfence.co.uk ) ; and
(c) the pictures here show that they don't exactly believe in big portions either!
https://www.whiteswanatfence.co.uk/pictures

So who here will be rushing to order then?

[barry1010]

The only take away food I've ever eaten is fish and chips from a proper chip shop which I have collected. I have never had a take away delivered.
The most expensive was £10 in that Norfolk

[Apc2604]

Basically I wouldn't order a takeaway even if they were available. It's not something I would think of doing. I would rather get a home cooked meal out of the freezer.

[Ellipsis]

> I thought the idea of a burger is that you can pick it up and eat it like a sandwich. Those stacked up jobs just fall apart when you touch them, leaving you with a plate full of "makings".

aka "a deconstructed burger" ...

[canasta]

Occasionally we have had excellent Indian food delivered. On Sunday there’s a family special meal for 4 people for £20 +£1 delivery. Four popadoms, four starters, three main courses, three sundries. There’s only the 3 of us so we cool half of it and it feeds us the next day. We can choose anything but some things we pay a small suppler for and it’s never cost us more than £25 including delivery. Thank

[emmie]

you get all that for 20 quid plus delivery, crikey thats incredibly cheap

[barry1010]

I keep seeing an ad on Facebook for a Cornish cream tea from a company in Cornwall and it has rave reviews. The photo shows a hamper, a teapot with the company logo, a mug with the logo, four scones with lashings of clotted cream and jam and four teabags - all for £20 plus delivery. A bargain!
When you order and have input all your details you see that what you actually get is four scones, four teabags, a teeny pot of clotted cream (half the size of what I buy from the supermarket for £2) and 4 teeny pots of jam. Scandalous. If you want the hamper (no size given) it is an extra £20.
I left a negative comment on the site and my comment was immediately removed and I can no longer leave a comment. That's one company for me to avoid.