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doublemes takeout food review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQnUFjhD3qwSo yesterday I went to Barnacles to pick up a fish and chips takeout. We are on a brief break from keto diet because I got a few free meals out which wernt keto (long story different story not interesting not making a thread on that) and then we go either to manchester or to visit my girlfriends folks depending on if I win sat because booked the time off work. its not practical and very difficult to keep to keto whilst away from home.
Anyway had always wanted to try barnacles as I had heard very good things about the place and they had been ranked among the top fish and chips in Bournemouth.
So for the review I will mention first Lebron James and Kevin Durant they are both very good NBA basketball players but receive more hype and credit then they deserve which leads to me having to say they are over rated which seems silly because they are phenomenal talents but they dont live up to the hype so they are over rated.
It sadly is the same story for Barnacles now don't get me wrong I am not going to slate them here their product was very good, It was top quality fish and chips. However they just dont compete for best in Bournemouth which is what several sources have tried to claim.
I would like to say they beat Harry Ransoms as I have a grudge against that place but I just can't objectively do that they don't. harry Ransoms is better. Now of course no one has anything on Chez Fred which is the best fish and chips I have had anywhere ever.
you cant give harry ransoms or Barnacles a five out of five that would put them on par with Chez Fred which is just not true Chez Fred have a strong lead against anyone. Its Chez Fred who have to get the five out of five.
now Harry ransoms are better then barnacles I hate to admit but they are but not as good as Chez Fred so you can't give Harrys a five maybe a 4.5.
Barnacles I would say comes in at 4.2 their fish was very nice but its batter was behind both Chez Fred (well its impossible basically to compete with Chez Fred on anything I dont believe in god but if Jesus did come back maybe he is working in Chez Freds kitchen) or Harry ransoms a very strong performance on the chips bit weak on the salt and viniger but this was fixed at home by adding more so seems harsh to dock points there.
the battered sausage was good but the savaloy thingy my girlfriend got was apparently lacking somehow.
She wanted to give them a four but after much debate we agreed Barnacles comes in at a strong 4.2 not living up to the hype but a good takeout.
Chez Fred remains the Michael Jordan of Fish and Chips it may not even be possible to do better which is the challenge Barnacles faced their good but who can compete with Chez Fred.
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so tonight we ordered food from the sunflower chinese takeout. We had not planned on ordering food from there we were going to cook the chicken we had in the fridge but it had gone bad likely because fridge is on its way out. So if I win any proper money on sky any time soon people can say that will pay for my new fridge. (I mean it would but then I already have the money and will be buying a new fridge soon anyway.)
So we had to get a take out and we went with the Sunflower chinese place.
Overall I think the sweet and sour chicken balls were top notch I mean 5 out of 5 as good as they could be, cant imagine them been done better. the noodle thing my girlfriend got for me was alright but mostly standard.
My girlfriend said it was really good but the onion slices were a bit to thick and should have been thinner. on top of this could have done with a tad more salt but I think thats a bit harsh myself as can just add salt our end. After much debate we agreed on a score of 4.3 out of 5.
So this one is not from Bournemouth because I had booked the time of work but did not qualify for Manchester we went to visit my girlfriends folks in Kent. Now every time we go up my girlfriend looks forward to seeing her parents and I look forward to the pride of Thanet. I of course am referring to the Olympia breakfast café the 7 hour journey is generally worth it My girlfriend says I have 3 speeds when walking somewhere standard speed emergency rush speed and then Olympia speed and of course she does not mean olympics she means me heading to the Olympia for breakfast.
Now it is rare that the food critic finds themselves apologising to an establishment but fortunately/unfortunately in this case that is exactly what we find. You see normally on ranking scales we have the food been ranked from a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 equates to god awful and 5 equates to perfect. Now this goes wrong because it does not allow much scale to rank the full difference between eating establishments. Some people may argue that in fact this is a ten to 50 scale as an establishment cant score lower then 1 as they dont have a category for zero and five is the highest score but usually it averages out and rounds to 1 decimal place eg 4.3 or etc. the thing is usually ranking an establishment below 3 means it was very bad and 3 seems like it was okish but still bad so usually anything below 4 looks bad, and then you have all the good places sandwiched between 4 and 5. Now 4 and above is good but it does not really capture the difference between good very good and olympia cafe in thanet. I mean when I say 4.3 for one place 4.5 for another and 4.7 for yet another most people dont put a great deal of difference. perhaps if we went to 2 decimal places it may help in this regard. We can't really give anyone a 6 out of 5 or a 5.2 because you cant be better then 5 that would make no sense. perhaps if we went to two decimal places it might highlight the differences more. So on this occasion we wont be giving them a 5 we will instead be giving olympia a 5.00 to highlight this issue.
Oh yeah and my girlfriend said they do very good eggs too.