mmm, swanky
Lastminute.com is giving £10 gourmet meals away to celebrate 10 years of… whatever it is they do when you book online.
You can also finegle a free birthday meal for two. Yes they do want proof. And you have to go all the fuck way to Battersea. Also it’s in a butcher shop-themed restaurant.
they want your cheques
An entire website dedicated to the art of living on buy-one-get-one free offers. Inspired.
How else would you find out that Tesco’ll sell you 2 Cadbury’s Halloween Ghost Biscuits for £1.39 (perfect if you need to stop trick-or-treating hoodies egging your front door) or that Co-op has giant packs of Kleenex on sale (infected yet?): 2 for £2.80. You can buy everything you never wanted. In bulk.
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cheap overpriced sushi
Deeply inauthentic but cool-looking Japanese conveyor-belt based restaurant chain Yo Sushi! is offering more recession-based bogof action.
See how cheap overpriced sushi can be, especially when you have to buy a total of 10 plates for it to kick in. Thanks, Mr Woodroffe.
shitty, but cheap
So PovertyPorn’s been to Strada maybe, three times and its never been anything short of god-awful. The first time, there was sand in the mussels (I know, authentic), then the pasta was cold, then the final time, the food was okay, but it took us 5 tries and 30 minuites to pay the bill. In the end, we just got up and made like we were leaving…
But cheap(ish) food is cheap(ish) food, and Strada, like every other credit crunched restaurant with an increasingly desperate parant company (we’re looking at you, Pasta Hut) is offering 2-for-1 mains.
If you like your pizza overpriced, and your Italian restaurants all faux cosmopolitan (and we do), Pizza Express is luring punters in with 2-for-1 main courses. PovertyPorn went with a party of 8, and our overfriendly waitress didn’t blink when we offered up four vouchers.
Of course, she had just hammed up a veggie order with actual ham, but the point remains: cheap(ish), tony pizza.
