Its one of those areas where the public get ripped off on and no-one complains. This is highway robbery in its most basic form. You pay your £5 for your food and its a tiny amount of what you would get elsewhere.
An easy example of this is the Burrito.
I love burritos like many other people, but i am shocked at the size of these things in the UK. If that got served anywhere else people would start rioting.
Shops selling these have started cropping up all over the place in london to service the ever hungry workforce. Examples Chipotle, Mas Burrito, Chilango
If you take a look at the size of these you will see what i mean. Burritos usually have something to bulk them our, either beams or rice. But you buy one of these and the tortillas are very small, and they are hardly bursting at the seams. They end up only being moderately bigger than a regular wrap which you would buy at one of the sandwich chains.
Now with the staples not costing very much why are they so small?
I had one of these in Reno from a shop and it cost something like $4 but was massive. I ate the whole thing but i was stuffed to the gills. It was about 4" round and about 7" long. Thats value there my friends.
Even if it is stacked full of fillings that could be GM meat or beams, i don't care, i want to be full when parting with my money, not hungry.
So going back to my original gripe about these. Last time i ate in Chilagos i ate one burrito washed down with a coke, i was actually hungrier after eating that but didn't want to spend the extra cash to buy yet another Burrito to fill the gap.
Beware the Burrito.
If you know any good Burrito places in london however let me know.
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