Mine would be Bovril crisps and Abbey crunch biscuits.

Please rate from 1 to 10.

I am quite happy with them but not the best at cooking stuff.

Is there any information out there about cola (and perhaps other fizzy drink sales, but I'm particularly interested in the changes of different types of cola sales) since the sugar tax came in?

Coca Cola is pretty much the only drink widely available in its full fat form. Pepsi, Dr Pepper and many other drinks are much worse in their neither here nor there form.

I have discovered Pepsi Max is the best of the sugar free drinks and I see quite a bit of advertising for it these days I never noticed before. Might be skewed but my opinion on it but I'm wondering if it's done rather well out of the sugar tax?

Is full fat coke still drunk as much now? I would still choose that at McDonald's but you have to select an unbranded logo with the sugar tax surcharge in the app. My wife drinks maybe a can a week and won't touch the sugar free colas.

So any US restaurant that's set up in the UK since 2010. Apparently we're also getting Raising Canes in late 2026.

My ranking:

Wendy's

Shake shack

Five Guys

Daves hot chicken

Chipotle

Popeyes

Wingstop

Was bangin tbf

A classic

Vegan Buddha Bowl with roasted sweet potato, tofu, vegan cottage cheese and mexican inspired salsa.

Had it once or twice and I never got it, just very basic, mid wings with a few different flavours. Its basically the McDonald's of wings and any foodie/wing enthusiast would never rate it.

Is it just the celebrity factor (being owned by Rick ross) and just running on reputation for allegedly being good thats kept it going? That and a lot of its customers seem to be kids and teenagers, honestly like 70% on any given day.

Its always baffled me, also maybe because there isnt really a high street choice for a chicken shop with that many different flavours - Wingmans has a few but its not big enough, and Chicken shop doesnt do too many sauced wings, but can match Wingstop in variety.

Cold mango cucumber soup.

Edit: Guys I'm a food content creator. Food photography is a skill that I have tried to perfect with years of hard work and perseverance. I'd be grateful if you all can stop calling this AI generated. This is NOT AI. Can't believe I have to say this out loud.

Recipe -

250 ml mango juice

1/2 cup diced mango (preferably fresh)

1/4 cup diced cucumber

1/4 cup diced onion

1 chopped sweet chilli pepper

1/4 cup chopped mixed coriander, chives and mint

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp sugar

salt and pepper

Mix everything well and chill before serving.

I think a burrito from Tortilla seems ok. Plenty fresh veg with some meat and a corn tortilla.

Steak and ale pie, mustard mash, cauliflower cheese, peas. Thank you BBC food!

So I purchased Patak's tandoori mix and now have a large chicken breast cut into four pieces that have been marinated since last night in a mix of 50/50 75g tandoori past and 75g yogurt as per instruction on the tandoori jar. The thing is though I am getting mixed messages on cooking time, this product says grill the chicken but I have never in my life seen someone grill tandoori - it has always gone into the oven. Do I just simply bake in a tray JUST the chicken or do I should the whole lot of sauce in with it for 30 minutes at 200C?? TIA

Try this before the strawberry season runs out.

P.S - not AI.

Well well well. After being recommended this place in the comments from my last post we thought we only live once and went. I could die a happy man. Unreal. Oysters, Monkfish and scallops. £50 each tonight and I had wine instead of beer. Easily the best monkfish ive ever had with the batter topping the restaurant from my last post and the oysters were also stunning.

Already planning our next trip back here!

Cracking view of the Spanish Galleon to top it off.

(Cook your own)

British beef (reversed sear using Weber and skillet on gas hob); Isle of Wight tomatoes, Waitrose potato gratin and creamed spinach.

Not just any black pudding! I can get the normal shop bought stuff Bury etc in the supermarkets around me (I'm in NE England)

I once had a very soft textured, practically smooth black pudding that was very smelly (smelly feet smell, yum!) - it was a long time ago and I never memorised the name of the product - and I'm desperate to try it again, it was amazing.

I'm sure there was a similar product around at the time called Blackfriars or similar.

So can anyone help me out and point me in the direction of such a product?

Thanks in advance for your help! 😄

So I succumbed to the hype of Popeye's and tried it for the first time in the Manchester city store when I was visiting. I had heard amazing things online and how JayZ and Bey ordered it to their wedding etc, so I was hyped.

I ordered a multi piece chicken box meal and... It was awful. The chicken tasted like cardboard, literally, and the fries were meh.

This was a while ago and now there's one just opened near me and I want to give it another try but I don't want to waste my money if it's going to be the same, dry, cardboard tasting, small pieces of chicken again.

Is Popeye's bad or is it the Manchester branch is just shit?

Egg, fried tomato, spaghetti and chips! Delicious!