It seems as though a Chopped has popped up on every street corner, in every shopping centre and airport terminal in Dublin in the last year. 

Is Chopped the new Starbucks? 

However, we thoroughly enjoy their salads and smoothies so we don't really mind them saturating the market so rapidly. 

This Twitter user hilariously highlighted the rapidly multiplying Chopped salad bars:

Dublin 2020 pic.twitter.com/BQ7tduGtmp

— stinky diver (@Ohjann) August 30, 2017

Luckily, Brian Lee of Chopped has a sense of humour...

"We're not here to take part, we're here to takeover!" New Freshly Chopped opens today on Camden St. pic.twitter.com/cEkboDkAYs

— Brian Lee (@BrianLBruce) August 31, 2017

Dead right. 

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