Full disclosure: I paid for this entire meal, well other than a pot of BBQ sauce. I can explain though. You see, I couldn’t spot anywhere on the electronic terminal to add ‘extras’ such as sauces. A kindly member of staff (probably realising who I was) offered me it for free. However, please don’t let you think this has clouded my judgement on the shit food.
As my grandfather used to sing, “Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, let me cover you in buffalo sauce and put you in a tortilla you stupid, fucking bird.”
Grandfather was an angry man, but boy did he love fried chicken. He used to serve it to American fighter pilots during one of the wars probably.
Next scene
Grand Central. “Just popping to Grand Central to run some errands,” we’ve all been there. You see, my watch doesn’t work properly. The hand designed to count seconds just slightly juts back and fourth between 34 and 35. The manufacturer of said timepiece told me to go to one of their stockists, and blow me down there was one in Grand Central.
To cut a long story short, they wanted to charge me £25 to send the watch to the manufacturer.
“Couldn’t I just do that myself?” I asked.
“Yes,” the shop assistant responded.
“Very well, I shall have my watch back and I’ll go and get myself some lunch”
That is LITERALLY what happened, there’s no room for exaggeration here.
What to eat though? Terrible macaroni cheese? Crap tapas? No, let’s go and try that new chicken place.
Slim Chickens
First things first: the name. Is it a play on ‘slim pickings’? As in, there’s not much choice? Or is it something to do with Louis Burton Lindley Jr, better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, who was an American rodeo performer and actor? I guess we’ll never know.
The other reason it’s a crap name is it makes me think of weird, skinny chickens trapped in cages. I want to eat big, fat fucking chickens not scrawny bastards.
There was quite a queue when I approached, a queue I briefly joined until I realised they’ve got those electric payment terminals, I hopped over to one and competed to get my order finished before the bloke next to me.
A buffalo chicken wrap, fries and a sparkling water was my order. What? Yes, sparkling water, look, I’m watching my figure.
Let’s start with the fries – shite. Bland, lukewarm, shite.
Buffalo chicken wrap – quite shite. A modicum of buffalo heat on a miniscule amount of quite reasonable tasting chicken encased in a noticeably cold wrap.
£8.95.
You’d have got the same thing and better chips for less than a fiver from McDonald’s.
A burger from Bonehead would have been 45p cheaper. Christ, that’s just made me sad.
TOP TIP
If you want to watch someone rubbing the raw chicken in buttermilk grab this seat for the hottest view in town.
Foodie Boys 