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An item nobody originally wanted but everybody suddenly pretends was essential once the minimum spend is reached.
Read full entry →Purchasing unnecessary food solely because spending more somehow feels cheaper than paying a delivery fee.
Read full entry →The comforting fiction that food eaten after midnight still belongs to the previous day's meal plan.
Read full entry →Constructing elaborate nutritional arguments in favour of late-night kebab consumption.
Read full entry →A breakfast consisting entirely of refrigerated takeaway that somehow tastes even better than it did the night before.
Read full entry →Intentionally preserving takeaway leftovers for an unusually satisfying morning meal.
Read full entry →A minor takeaway error elevated to the status of national emergency.
Read full entry →Treating the absence of complimentary sauces as a significant emotional event.
Read full entry →The performance of insisting a painfully hot curry is merely 'quite nice'.
Read full entry →Arguing about chilli intensity using entirely subjective evidence.
Read full entry →A state in which ordering has become so predictable that the menu serves no practical purpose.
Read full entry →Achieving complete culinary routine by permanently abandoning experimentation.
Read full entry →The unavoidable loss of several chips to someone who specifically claimed not to want any.
Read full entry →Declining an entire portion of chips while fully intending to consume another person's instead.
Read full entry →The last remaining poppadom whose ownership becomes a delicate social negotiation.
Read full entry →Employing negotiation, guilt and diplomacy to secure the final poppadom.
Read full entry →An uncomfortable few seconds spent watching the driver slowly walk towards your already open door.
Read full entry →Greeting a delivery driver using GPS timing rather than the sound of the doorbell.
Read full entry →A state of intense concentration induced by staring at a tiny moving scooter icon.
Read full entry →Obsessively reopening a food delivery tracker in the hope that the driver's icon has moved another few metres.
Read full entry →Using 'cheers' as a greeting, farewell, acknowledgement, apology or vague conversational glue.
Read full entry →A universally accepted fallback topic capable of rescuing almost any awkward silence.
Read full entry →Restarting conversation by returning to Britain's most dependable topic.
Read full entry →A remarkably understated account of events that were, in reality, absolute chaos.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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