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Chicken George?

edited December 2024 in General Charlton
When did Chicken George bail out? I was just in the mood for some overpriced dried Fried Chicken today.
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  • Hal1x said:
    When did Chicken George bail out? I was just in the mood for some overpriced dried Chicken today.
    I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was overpriced dry food . My chicken strips were like chewing cardboard the one and only time I bought from them.  
  • Thought I saw their van in the Fans Zone today?
  • edited December 2024
    When I saw the title I thought of George Lawrence. 

    The spanners used to call him this, @MillwallFan will be able to confirm.
  • se9addick said:
    Thought I saw their van in the Fans Zone today?
    I looked but couldn't see it.
  • Hal1x said:
    se9addick said:
    Thought I saw their van in the Fans Zone today?
    I looked but couldn't see it.
    That lasted long!
  • Is this another one of Nathan’s bloody Luton mates?
  • edited December 2024
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
  • edited December 2024
    shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    Yeah I went to the fans bar (north stand) a couple of weeks ago for the first time (at "that" Tuesday game) and whilst there was nothing particularly wrong with the food itself, £12 for two TWO pieces of slightly larger than nugget sized chicken and some fries I thought was taking the piss, even by London standards.

    The chicken George I had way back when we beat Birmingham I thought was decent enough for the money.
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  • edited December 2024
    shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    It WAS overpriced and dry regardless of any comparison with other stadium food. You can buy food from other places locally you know, where it may be less dry and overpriced. It just didn't seem worth paying the premium. If it was so incredibly popular where has it gone? or was it never scheduled for winter?
  • That (Turkish?) kebab/burger place down the road with a few sit down seats is great.  I wish it was closer to The River though 😄

    Maybe we need a "pre/post game grub" mega thread somewhere.
  • edited December 2024
    shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    Yeah I went to the fans bar (north stand) a couple of weeks ago for the first time (at "that" Tuesday game) and whilst there was nothing particularly wrong with the food itself, £12 for two TWO pieces of slightly larger than nugget sized chicken and some fries I thought was taking the piss, even by London standards.

    The chicken George I had way back when we beat Birmingham I thought was decent enough for the money.
    I'm confused, was it a different price v Birmingham, or better quality? or does the perceived value vary according to the result?, you seem to be contradicting yourself. 
  • edited December 2024
    Hal1x said:
    shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    Yeah I went to the fans bar (north stand) a couple of weeks ago for the first time (at "that" Tuesday game) and whilst there was nothing particularly wrong with the food itself, £12 for two TWO pieces of slightly larger than nugget sized chicken and some fries I thought was taking the piss, even by London standards.

    The chicken George I had way back when we beat Birmingham I thought was decent enough for the money.
    I'm confused, was it a different price v Birmingham, or better quality? or does the perceived value vary according to the result?, you seem to be contradicting yourself. 
    I think you need to try reading it again.  One was chicken George in the fan zone.  The other was in the fans bar and was not chicken George, I forget what the branding was.
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  • edited December 2024
    Hal1x said:
    shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    It WAS overpriced and dry regardless of any comparison with other stadium food. You can buy food from other places locally you know, where it may be less dry and overpriced. It just didn't seem worth paying the premium. If it was so incredibly popular where has it gone? or was it never scheduled for winter?
    So some local non football food is cheap, so it means CG is over priced ?.  It's a completely different point than I was making but that's absolutely fine. Just to be clear, the award winning food is priced exactly the same in the shops that they have running everywhere else including St Albans fc where it also does incredibly well too (hense us taking them on).

    Some don't like it and that's fair enough, but you can buy cheap beer in Sainsbury's so that argument never really stands up.



  • Face it, chicken is fowl.
  • shine166 said:
    Anyone that thought it was overpriced and dry, obviously has never purchased any other food from the ground. Fans bar food is even more expensive, shitter and dryer than CG.

    Many people liked it and it was incredibly popular. Personally I don't see how our fan zone works in the winter anyway. 
    This. Every time I’ve been to The Fan Zone the CG van has been really busy they probably make a fortune each time I’d be surprised if they dropped out.

    It was advertised as being there yesterday too so assume it still was?
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  • I tried the chicken van fare yesterday for the first time. I doubt I’ll try it again. 
  • I quite liked the fan zone on the one visit I made to it with a friend.

    Felt felt like a decent vibe, and we both got chicken George and liked that as well. 

    If I take my friends who are not Charlton fans to a game over the summer I wouldn’t have any issue taking them there beforehand. 
  • Hal1x said:
    When did Chicken George bail out? I was just in the mood for some overpriced dried Chicken today.
    I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was overpriced dry food . My chicken strips were like chewing cardboard the one and only time I bought from them.  

  • IdleHans said:
    That (Turkish?) kebab/burger place down the road with a few sit down seats is great.  I wish it was closer to The River though 😄

    Maybe we need a "pre/post game grub" mega thread somewhere.
    I defer to your superior knowledge given your user name, but is there any other kind?
    Bar stools?
  • I quite liked the fan zone on the one visit I made to it with a friend.

    Felt felt like a decent vibe, and we both got chicken George and liked that as well. 

    If I take my friends who are not Charlton fans to a game over the summer I wouldn’t have any issue taking them there beforehand. 
    Buy them some ear plugs if you take them there,  and perhaps a book on sign language in case you want to ‘talk’ when the chap with the microphone is speaking.
  • I quite liked the fan zone on the one visit I made to it with a friend.

    Felt felt like a decent vibe, and we both got chicken George and liked that as well. 

    If I take my friends who are not Charlton fans to a game over the summer I wouldn’t have any issue taking them there beforehand. 
    Buy them some ear plugs if you take them there,  and perhaps a book on sign language in case you want to ‘talk’ when the chap with the microphone is speaking.
    I prefer the background noise of  middle aged men talking to a 18 year old like a POS because he's been queuing in Crossbars for 3 minutes.
  • 14th in league one and the anger is directed at the chicken wings.
    Come on Rodders, it’s bad enough when the forwards at Charlton don’t deliver so when the wings fall short as well it just makes it worse…
  • 14th in league one and the anger is directed at the chicken wings.
    Nice try, but you'll not make that fly.
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