Quick Chef Chicken Kebab

Firstly, a bit of background. As mentioned a few days ago, I live in Liverpool, and one type of restaurant which is very popular here is the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/African cafe, serving traditional burgers, pizzas and kebabs alongside more exotic cuisine. A relative newcomer to this niche of the market is Quick Chef, which has won fans with solid food and cheaper prices than its direct competitors in the area. Today I am reviewing Quick Chef's chicken kebab, which I had with chips, a side salad, a pitta bread, mayonnaise and chilli sauce.

The meat is not what you'd expect from a stereotypical kebab, being fleshy chunks instead of wafer thin slivers. They are also well spiced, and taste like more care went into their preparation than probably did.

The sauce packs a punch, and I personally am always quite glad to see the mayonnaise accompanying it!

The salad is was a bit soggy to be honest (possibly due to being transported in a hot container), and is the low point of an otherwise good meal. Presentation in general is a little poor, the chips suffer from being squashed underneath the chicken, and the sauces are mixed together. I think the sauce is partially my fault, as I walked home with them from the restaurant.

Overall, a good meal, and a filling one, there is a lot to eat here, and I think you may even get slightly more if you eat in (and will avoid the presentation woes mentioned above). Recommended if you're in the area.

7/10

Quick Chef, 49 Hardman St, Liverpool, L1‎ - 0151 708 8525‎

Subway Turkey Breast and Ham

I'm going to kick things off not with a burger at all, but with a sub. The Subway turkey breast and ham sub to be precise. I had it toasted on honey oat bread, with all the salad apart from olives (as they're horrid), and a small amount of mayonnaise.

Firstly, the filling. Turkey breast and ham is fairly standard fayre for sandwiches, there will be no prizes for originality here. The meats themselves were tasty enough, and any potential dryness was well countered by the salad and sauce.

Moving on to the salad itself, whilst the moisture was very welcome, I felt that the flavour of the meat was overcome by the raw onion and Jalapenos. As much as I love both those toppings, I may omit them from future Subway review subs in order to fully appreciate each filling.

The bread was interesting. I'd never had this bread before, and to be honest I was disappointed by the first 80% of it - it was just brown. However, at one end there was a cluster of seeds on top of the bread (see picture), and this made the last two or three bites of this sub a joy, releasing a smoky, roasted sweetness onto my tongue. I'm intrigued to try this bread again, and hope I am given a less polar piece next time.

All in all, a steady sandwich with which (hehe, say that last bit out loud) to kick off BMS, but nothing out of the ordinary (apart from the bread, which has garnered itself a second tasting later on).

5/10

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Hi, welcome to Burger Me Senseless - a review site for fast food.

I know, I know, fast food is mass produced slop, produced by greedy conglomerates exploiting unskilled labour at minimum wage to entice our children in with promises of awesome toys and non-paedophilic fun with clowns, when they in fact cause heart disease, high cholesterol and an early death. Sadly, all that salt and MSG can make the stuff taste quite nice, and I believe that anything in moderation is fine. So, if you're eating in moderation and therefore eating less, aren't you sure you want to be eating the best?

With that conundrum in mind, I created this blog. I first had the idea in 2001, when I went to Chicken Cottage on Kentish Town Road and ordered a beef burger. To my surprise, it was actually quite pleasant. I wondered if people would like to read my thoughts and musings on the world of fast food, and eventually decided that they probably wouldn't. However, the seeds of this blog had been planted, and they would not rot, much like a piece of uneaten chicken left in a roof cavity at Archway Quasar for two months, then sent to me in my flat in Liverpool (that's actually true by the way (cheers Mike and Spikey!), and the chicken actually still looked edible).

What the seed needed was a trigger to grow from a foetal idea into a mighty blogging juggernaut. That trigger was Mockmaster, with his Tasks of the Week game on GRCade.com. He required us to create a blog and post for three consecutive days. With nothing better to write about, and a deadline looming, I metaphorically showered this seed with Mockmaster's water, sunlight and nutrients. Here it is, a first green shoot poking up among the detritus of the blogosphere. The alternative was a urinary diary which I would've called Weeblog (that's the level we're at kids).

After the first three posts, things will slow down a bit, for the sake of my wallet and my health. I will still endeavour to update on a regular basis. Photos will be sporadic however - I'm not taking pictures of burgers in public. Even I have a line.

Finally, a disclaimer - I say that fast food is great every once in a while, but moderation is the watchword, and I advocate regular exercise to keep healthy, otherwise your body will get really burgered! (cue badly dubbed laughing and "THUNDERTHUNDERTHUNDERTHUNDERCATS! MEEEOOOWWWW!")