Hi Ann,

My rationale as to why des is correct here is that using les, if not not referring to previously specified entities, would refer to the universe of take-away meals, i.e.all the take -aways in the world.

Tom

You are referring to takaway food in general, therefore des. With les you'd be referring to specific meals.

@Chris - You may be right, but how do you reconcile that with this lesson that says to use les when generalising?

Using le, la, l', les before nouns when generalising (definite articles)

I don't fully understand this myself, but I have a feeling that the rule seems to change when using manger or boire rather than aimer or détester, say.

I guess you can like all the take-away meals in the world, but you can only eat some of them.

Personally, I don't like take-away anyway.