Popular Dublin Takeaway Has €3 Main Courses For Today Only

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They say that hunger is the best sauce - such people have obviously never tasted that weird mystery goop found exclusively in Big Macs; its flavour is as delicious as it is unsettlingly ambiguous. It is an age-old adage and, like most idioms passed from one generation to the next like tattered heirlooms, it is not quite true. As an abstract concept, hunger is a solid sauce. It is dependable and reliable, if unremarkable. It is the ketchup of the world of metaphysical sauces. But it has nothing on the true best sauce: thrift.

Thrift if the garnish that improves any meal. The knowledge that your are eating frugally, and therefore have put as meagre a dent in your already beleaguered finances as possible, is the most delectable of all embellishments. Thrift is the relish that assuages the guilt when you eat out, because you go for an early-bird; thrift is the dressing that allows you to justify eating an entire pack of discounted crisps for dinner as a student; it is the condiment that consoles you while you eat sub-standard sushi from the 'reduced to clear' section in Tesco and later find yourself hunched over the toilet bowl. Thrift is the grand enabler.

It is for this, for my love of thrift, that I have been moved to such quivering excitement by the fact that Camile, beloved Thai takeaway Camile, are selling main courses for €3 today. All of their vegan dishes are available for €3. Each and every one. Whether it's Vegan Pad Thai or Pad King all the way to a Vegan Pad Prik Haeng and Fried Tofu and Kale Slaw Salad, they really do have it all - if your definition of 'all' starts and stops with these four dishes, as they are all they only vegan dishes available.

If you are a fan of vegetables and/or reconstituted matter from soya beans, then sweet mother of pearl is this the deal for you. And don't worry about this deal seeming too good to be true and that you will be hoodwinked by having to buy necessary carbohydrate bases for each meal, the three 'Pad' dishes are all made with noodles while the fried tofu and kale dish comes with brown rice included.

Lovely stuff.

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