I love hot sauce. Over the years I've tried all sorts but my first love was Encona hot pepper sauce and tonight I returned for the first time in a long while. It's bloody delicious, proper tasty.
Anyone had a good meal out in London recently? I want to book somewhere interesting, not too pricey and not burger-based for Monday. It'll be the second meal out with just Nicki and I in 10 months, need it to be banging.
First off, gotta give a shoutout to the customer service at McDoland's, pretty lil 20yo tick ting served me, kept catching my eye and smiling, was gonna hit her up for a Whatsapp but hambeast family behind and the kids were clearly wasting away going off their grumbling so I pegged it sharpish.
Anyway, for the princely sum of £8.67, I managed to procure five fine looking chicken select pieces, large fries, large Strawberry shake and Big Maccy Mac.
After getting back home, I laid all that shit out. Festival of delight. Slipped the fries into the chicken box (clever design, Mr McDoland) and tucked right in. My first bite was of the Big Maccy, and sauce dribbled teasingly down my chin and got all up in my beard. Gotta say, that first mouthful was like nectar from the Gods. Grey, textureless beef, crunchy cold veg, soggy bun, the works. Washed it down with a slug of Big Sexy as its known round these parts, then onto the chicken select.
Now you may not have had chicken selects before. They're a selection of the most select chicken selects, coated in slightly hard breadcrumb, golden, warm, greasy, everything you ever wanted. You rip one open and inside is just pure, stringy whiteness. No juice, which is essential for a meal such as this. On that first bite though, you get massive amounts of cheap Southern Fried flavour. No hint of chicken as it dances on your palette and gets stuck in your teeth. Luckily I'd procured two BBQ dips, and shiiiiit that stuff is clearly brewed on a farm in the South and not some industrialised anonymous waehouse.
You know when you see a kid put summat in their mouth for the first time and their face visibly does a twerk? That's your reaction. Sets your taste buds on a dance of confusion, don't know if you're eating chicken, grit, or the remnants of a bonfire. Highly, highly recommended. Then you got the palette cleanser, thick, sticky spunky milkshake with a delicately unnatural flavour that can easily clean plaque and enamel from your teeth. Mix it all in with wet, cold, depressive fries and you've got a winner.
All in all, 10/10 would eat and regret for days again. I recommend such a combo if you're ever wandering past a McDoland's BigHouse and get a desire to have your shit tear your asshole a new one in the morn.