so i was at dinner with a britisher. she ordered a prawn and rocket pizza. when it came, she put ketchup on it. I have pics

Britishers, explain yourselves

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wtf? should have used HP Sauce

i have a vivid memory of visiting still-commie poland as a kid and getting "pizza" off a street stall that literally was just bread with ketchup on top

later on in life i would have a gf that liked to dip her slices in a bit of ketchup on the side. found the vinegar boost hard to resist myself after a while tbh

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:32 (1 month ago) Bookmark

tell that bish i said hi

Also, is that necklace made out of teeth? Because, you know, arguing about choice of pizza condiments with someone who wears a necklace made out of teeth seems unwise.

she'd never put it actually on top of the za tho. or wear that outfit

they look like seashells. a necklace of teeth would be bitchin' though: cannibal chic

anyway this behaviour has gustatory logic and i am cool w/ it

Its a fuckin disgrace, but cf trainspotting im in no place to complain, the fuckers conquered us for centuries on that diet

this is the least of ketchup savagery though, i mean i know this one guy, you'll make him a beautifully scrambled or soft boiled eggs and what does he do yep you guessed it

Wait now, are we differentiating twn ketchup and say a tomato relish, cos the latter just loves egg yolk ime

non-britisher ketchup story: at lunch with co-workers and this one guy i didn't know so well ordered a burger and when it came asked for a bottle of ketchup. the server said they only supplied it the little pots. without pausing the guy said he wanted six of them. then proceded to pour ketchup over every bite he took.

First day in the US, my husband is dining alone, eating chips or something (fries! god) and asks for tomato sauce. The waiter is hugely confused, trying to work out what kind of tomatoey sauce he could possibly mean, eventually bringing out the chef so that they can work together and bring him this elusive jus.

On the plus side I learned how to pronounce geh-redge tonight

This woman is not representative of British culture. She is an aberration. This behaviour is disgusting.

Though to be honest I'm less concerned about the ketchup factor than I am about putting prawn and rocket on a pizza.

USA: takes rocket to the moon
UK: puts rocket on a pizza

i just...i don't think we can ever get along

did she leave a tip?

I endorse this ketchuppy move because why not? Carpe diem, #YOLO, etc.

On the plus side I learned how to pronounce geh-redge tonight7

And I'm not even sure what this means. Garage? That's not how you pronounce garage. Kedgeree? David Gedge? Nope, not those either.

It's how you pronounce garage if you don't want to be POSH

It sounds more posh than the way I say it. Garridge. Not Geh-redge.

garridge m8. xp!

Away with ye britsih phonetics

I finally met one of yous tonight. I know everything about your culture. What you eat, what you wear

actually geh-redge is kinda how i would say it if my the v unposh scottish element of my accent was more prominent. gerrij.

Starting to think yr friend is not really a britisher dude, soz

Its pronouned shed, s-h-e-d shef

wd it have been more acceptable w/sriracha y/n

No side of chicken wings & barbecue sauce = not very British

Sriracha and pizza were made for each other

does she know about this thread?

http://typophile.com/files/daddies_340g_4879.jpg

HP Sauce = the only brown sauce worthy of being put on anything
Daddies = vile chemical filth

I mean, never mind cola flavoured wine, I'd drink an HP flavoured cola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YKFV45M18

乒乓, repeat after wiley

I think the fact that the shrimp on the pizza were served in-shell is the worst part; it's like getting barbecue chicken pizza with the chicken in the form of bone-in wings

that said, HP sauce is indeed superior to any US condiment

tbh if you put ketchup on any pizza you're out of my team - i'll allow it for crust dunking

also re: pronunciation was this woman Daphne Moon by any chance?

Lol

Prawn/rocket pizza obv classic. Ketchup obv fucking insane.

Love,

The Original Batshit Britisher Pizza Thread Monster

Girl at school used to put ketchup on her *breakfast cereal*. She was German.

ketchup doesn't taste very good

How about dipping pizza in burger sauce (Woking style: half salad cream / half ketchup)?

In Trinidad you have to specifically ask them not to smother your pizza in hot pepper sauce, otherwise it comes as standard irrespective of which pizza you ordered. Ketchup is barbarianism, though.

hot pepper sauce and pizza is a gr8 combo, when I have pizza at home I usually put encona on it anyway

They put mayo on pizza here in Mexico gaaaaaaaaah so much worse than ketchup.

What's with "Britisher"?

what is brown sauce

*leaves goal unattended*

My friend's father regularly puts butter on his pizza
He is from Sligo

xp
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/23Daves/left%20and%20to%20the%20back/iwannabeawinner.jpg

My mother in law always poured olive oil on her pizza. She would also cut herself slices of cheese and then spread butter on them.

i like pepper sauce on pretty much anything but the thin stuff not the gloopy stuff

A brushing of olive oil on a fine Italian pizza makes perfect sense. Butter on cheese is vomit central. All sorts of weird associations itt

how i break it down is pizza is not essentially fancy food and people shdn't get over-protective and pissy about it but grown adults who put ketchup on any food bar fries and the occasional sandwich needs to get their tastebuds shaved

absolutely otm

that said, pizza is still a great Italian dish and the deep-pan monstrosities visited upon it by Americans are galling enough without 'em having the barefaced cheek to claim a bit of fresh rocket on pizza is the devil's work

does rocket = arugula?

Yes.

Wait wait wait! So people are shocked and offended by someone putting arugula on a pizza, when spinach is a pretty common pizza topping, and arugula is a similar leafy green vegetable?

look the rudimentary idea behind ketchup application is in the vinegar content, it's like balsamic for toddlers

I think one person was shocked and offended by the rocket xp

supermarket shortcut balsamic is r/w vinegar with shitloads of sugar anyway so not even too dissimilar tbh

I love all this ilx US/UK coldnwar shit.

i am not offended by shrimp or rocket but am deeply hurt by shrimp shells/tails

big fan of ketchup but would not put it on my pizza

I would like everybody to note that in the second picture, the slice on the right is not a slice that was upended and left on its back

The slice on the right is in fact a slice laid on top of another slice that's had ketchup applied to it like jam

she then chewed it and spread the resulting paste btwn 2 ketchup packets and ate that

Yes

In memory of diana ;_;

i love dining out, such a treat

did you f

The slice on the right is in fact a slice laid on top of another slice that's had ketchup applied to it like jam

Now it makes sense. I still couldn't get past why you were saying pizza when the photo clearly showed a quesadilla.

It was not a date xp

I want a pizza...fuck yes...delicious pizza pie....let's see, what do I want...cheese...nah...let's spice it up a little...quattro stagioni maybe...nah...too fancy...wait I know...throw some fucking prawns on there...yeah...then put some some arugula...now slather that motherfucker with some goddamn ketchup...fuck yes...all that ketchup...and these prawns...can you smell that? that's the prawns...now this...this is a fucking pizza

n.b. i was being retarded

i am not offended by shrimp or rocket but am deeply hurt by shrimp shells/tails

^^^^this. Truly unforgivable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omb_4O5DkQ

Tail in so you know it's a fresh prawn

in tribute to this thread, i made three pizzas tonight. one had red sauce, mozz & variety shrooms. one had pesto, chevre & red pepper. the other had sliced potatoes, olive oil & rosemary. all were served under an inch-thick blanket of rocket & ketchup. except for that last part.

Tail in so you know it's a fresh prawn

have the waiter remove the tails at the table then, fancy place

the devil is in the de-tail

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Nice

At the Cubs game tonight I saw a Boy Scout cover a slice of cheese pizza with chopped onions and ketchup. I thought about taking all his merit badges away from him.

rocket is good on pizza although obv it goes on after the oven which maybe in those pics it did not, so comparing it to spinach is apples and oranges.

prawn is terrible on pizza.

ketchup is wtf, but who cares pizza is basically children's food.

i haven't had a really good slice in new york yet imo. why don't they use better cheese on the cheese pizza?

If there was a "rocket, prawn and ketchup" sandwich option at an M&S I might go for it. Britishes did invent the winning combo of cheddar + relish

pizza is a delicacy caek.

I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....

Have we discussed yet how in greasy British pizza places you often get pizza & chips. Soggy chips.

look the rudimentary idea behind ketchup application is in the vinegar content, it's like balsamic for toddlers

― r|t|c, Saturday, July 13, 2013 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a late lamented ilxor once told me that he didn't like ketchup in plastic bottles because they put more vinegar in it??

how did rocket come to mean arugula in certain places?

how did you lose the ability to google

i actually didn't.

in french it's "la roquette", is my guess

The names are fairly similar rocket / roquette / rucola / arugula

yall are such good googlers! my bad.

<3

<3

I love how every time this argument comes up the question of what they do IN ITALY is always completely overlooked.

Prawns are disgusting and eating them has no place in a civilised society but they are totally a standard pizza topping in Italy, especially by the sea. Shell-on is doubly vile and just makes no sense though.

Rocket is an amazing and totally standard pizza topping but you need it with proscuitto and parmesan really, added after the pizza has gone in the oven. That combination of flavours can be utterly glorious. Rocket and grated horsemeat = also delicious.

Ketchup is obviously wrong but I agree it's for the vinegar kick rather than anything else.

That pizza in the original post looks revolting and totally not how rocket on pizzas is supposed to look.

wth is horsemeat

if only crutacean shells dissolved

Horse is delicious and the British and Americans are so stupid for not realising.

Well Tesco did

Yeah if I wanted to eat horse I'd grab a Findus lasagne.

literally FP'd you for that

"hey, guess what! jimmy savile!"

I don't think that even Findus would put Jimmy Savile in a lasagne.

"don't eat British Beef, you'll get MAD COW DISEASE lol!"

Matt we've established that your Google skills ain't the best but did you seriously just ask what horsemeat is

i'm sure horsemeat is a-ok but how you can dismiss prawns and rep for grated horse well the mind boggles

i wager if an enterprising restaurateur were to arrange a prawn cocktail on a cooled thin base (poss with a thin smear of tomato puree) and called it summer fruits de mer en plein air pizza or whatever if would sell 10x what a prawn cocktail in any other form would

prawns tangiers on a za would probably work fine i imagine

i'll take that wager r|t|c

Surely the knowing 80s yuppy food revival is so close at hand they'd be able to do that with an only-slightly ponced up prawn cocktail before long, without even having to bring pizza into it.

pretty much anything is good on pizza, when combined with agreeable other things

pretty sure there's been several poncy prawn cocktail revivals since the 70s.

go the whole hog, nouveau prawn cocktail, steak and chips and Black Forest gateau menu

wd eat btw

^this is a dece meal except the starter

it's not the naffness of prawn cocktail that's shit

???

few things better than shrimps & cocktail sauce (provided both are fresh)

They do shrimp on pizza in Rome fwiw. I don't know if anybody orders it. But it's on the menu. So are figs! And zucchini flowers! Actually zucchini flowers on pizza are to die for

PRawns on pizza are fine, I think we are getting distracted from the main point which is ketchup on cheese on tomato paste

I semi-regularly eat Gammon Steak Hawaii.

???

few things better than shrimps & cocktail sauce (provided both are fresh)

maybe cocktail sauce is different in the states but here it's basically ghastly pinkish tangy mayonnaise = gross

yeah "cocktail sauce" uk is pretty rank

the essence of even the finest marie rose sauce is to flirt with rankness surely

anything you can accurately simulate by mixing ketchup and mayo is leaning on the sickly side imo

it's not simulation, that's the thing, k&m actually is the recipe

i made cocktail sauce from scratch once (one of the ingredients was ketchup) and it was pretty indistinguishable from store bought stuff

yeah and it's not leaning either, it fully inhabits the fucking sickly side xp

xp with alcohol?

the sauce is finessable imo

nah not with alcohol, and the pot of horseradish i had on hand was a bit old too. might give it a go w/ fresher ingredients next

yeah u fucked up dun

the fuck is this 'za' ting

stop trying to make za stop happening

rtc doesn't regret za

like Piaf, no regrets

za: nu-Piaf

MUGABE

Its a fuckin disgrace, but cf trainspotting im in no place to complain, the fuckers conquered us for centuries on that diet

You're in no place to complain because the Irish diet is arguably worse.

this person seems not so much a "Britisher" as a "disgusting savage" ime

fuckin prawns on pizza jfc

You wouldn't catch an Irishman putting prawn and rocket on a spud.

maybe cocktail sauce is different in the states but here it's basically ghastly pinkish tangy mayonnaise = gross

― ^do not heed if you rate me (wins), Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:06 AM (2 hours ago)

proper cocktail sauce has no trace of mayonnaise, or even oil. it's just ketchup, horseradish, lemon juice, worcestershire, vinegar-based hot sauce of some sort. plus whatever else you might want. minced scallion or onion can be nice. some people like a little sugar (savages). good w shrimp.

no version is "proper", don't lower the tone

Is there a thread for foods savages eat?

Paleo

go the whole hog, nouveau prawn cocktail, steak and chips and Black Forest gateau menu

I had a Black Forest gateau for my birthday cake, it was delicious. Bring on the revival. (Needs lots of Kirschwasser though, none of that wimpy alcohol-free Sara Lee stuff.)

Not really against prawns on pizza (can't imagine ordering it though) but shells/tails on is a weird choice. But, where was this restaurant? Not fair to blame Britishers if it's on an American menu, as presumably some of the locals would need to eat it for it to be viable to keep the prawns in stock.

Black Forest gateau is one of my favourite desserts full stop but i don't think i've ever been lucky enough to try a boozy one

yeah me neither. let's go to Germany!

currywurst & Black Forest gateau sounds like a proper meal

otm

gah 10am and I'm salivating

pizza is just cheese on toast - not something to police.

otm obv

Theres a gourmet pizza chain here that does dessert pizzas (obv they dont have cheese and tomato on them) that do a black forest one, as it happens.

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Theres a gourmet pizza chain here that does dessert pizzas (obv they dont have cheese and tomato on them) that do a black forest one, as it happens.

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Sunday, July 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean, add some more crust and it could be like cheesecake, no?

(But it sounds more gimmicky, to be honest.)

jam tart
http://cakeitaly.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/lavagnacrostataaicorbezzoli008.jpg

Sounds fitting. :D

Sometimes I like to read these threads out to my (American) wife and it's a really great way to pass an evening.

Would be interesting to see what these 'pizzas' have, considering some people call pizzas 'pies'. I guess it's not too far-fetched.
I mean, add some more crust and it could be like cheesecake, no?

― c21m50nh3x460n, Sunday, July 14, 2013 10:43 PM (30 minutes ago)

glad you're back, buddy!

My personal recipe for a great summer salad:

Mix together in bowl, not on plate

1. salad leaves: fresh spinach, lamb's lettuce, watercress with stalks cut off
2. melt a table-spoon of lurpak butter into the salad leaves
3. add a squeeze of lime juice
4. grate plenty of extra mature cheddar on top
5. layer on thin slices of sweet emerald green tomatoes
6. plus sugar-drop tomatoes, these cut into 4, length & crossways
7. drizzle on some Harissa dressing (best not to overdo it,
I prefer Sainsburys taste the difference, but if you like it really hot: use Belazu Rose Harissa)
8. mix in a little extra virgin olive oil
9. and some sainsburys tomato puree with hint of garlic
10. and a scoop of pequillo pepper dip
11. and an smaller scoop of beetroot tzatziki
12. then add one packet of Marks & Spencers classic beef jerky
(this is the soft kind anyway, but to prevent any excess chewiness, should be cut into small pieces first)
13. cut up a few sugarsnap peas and toss 'em in too
14. sprinkle some chilli flakes, and grind plenty of salt & pepper, over everything.
15. toss together

― Campari G&T, Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:19 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lurpak

`\o_O/`

seriously that salad sounds terrifying

and I *like* the recognizable ingredients!

mystified by the oscillations from enticing to bleagh and back again. you start out all, "fresh spinach, lamb's lettuce," yeah that sounds good, i bet lambs know what's up with lettuce. and suddenly you're awash in drizzled lurpak. "thin slices of sweet emerald green tomatoes" makes me want to eat it NOW, but they only occurs between waves of cheese, harissa and beetroot tatziki. and beef jerky.

(with affection, campari. i'm sure it's delicious, that we are uncomprehending apes before your wisdom-bearing salad monolith.)

seriously it's like something out of a lovecraft story. the horrible accumulation of ingredients! xp

wait, I assumed that post was a comedy recipe

pretty sure campari g&t is crazy and from great britain.

oh i hope it is a comedy recipe!!

please let it be comedy. who puts tomato puree in salad

i have been not-really-vegetarian-because-i-still-eat-fish (NRVBISEF) for a while now, but i still occasionally experience a faint twinge of jerky lust. then i am ashamed.

I have just farted, I'm really sorry.

were some people confused what Lurpak is, or.

is it butter?

it's just a brand, i've had it before, tastes like butter... because it is butter

I believe it.

Not just a brand, also a type. Its danish cultured butter. Very nice.

You can tell it's cultured because the mascot owns a trombone.

looool

You forgot to garnish that salad with cheesy footballs.

That salad is the sort of thing ppl sometimes do on come dine with me and they're really confident that it'll win them the competition, as theyre cooking they say to camera "I came up with it myself, the secret is to put pringles in the soup" and then later it cuts to one of the horrified guests going "it tasted a bit like he put...pringles...in the soup?"

"serve in a ceramic sombrero with loads of cheetos!"

http://www.burgerbusiness.com/?p=16970

http://i.imgur.com/1BbCOCV.png

i have noticed people trying to make hot dogs happen of late, it's true. maybe start off by not using those horrible inflatable sausages, i dunno

really hope at some point there's a faction insisting on "frankfurter" or maybe such "franks"

do Americans eat sausage rolls? How to make those trendy?

xp the big innovation over the previous 5 years has been the proliferation of Brats and Bocks, some of which i've actually found edible and similar to their German cousins

how do you make a sausage roll?

you push it down a hill

One reason for hot dogs’ surge may be that they are priced below other options. According to the Menurama research, hot dogs’ average price of £6.12 ($10.21) is lower than that for any other item in the Top 20 for restaurants. Across all segments, hot dogs average £7.14, compared with £9.42 for a burger, £10.02 for pizza, £9.66 for fish & chips and £8.26 for perennial favorite sausage & mash.

Who the fuck pays £6.12 for a hot dog?

where the fuck charges those prices? is that Loldon weighting?

i guess they're "restaurant" prices rather than takeaway but still

yeah US style diners are a thing in London, you can kid yourself you're not eating at a declasse fast food joint while gorging on fatty junk food.

everyone's a winner.

also: bottles of over-priced US "craft" beer

I really, really do wish that Not Dogs or Tofu Pups or whatever would become a thing in Britain, though.

Well, there's always the vegetarian hot dogs at Ikea...

That would involve going to Ikea. I am NEVER going within the biosphere of Croydon ever again.

Branwell, plz order these, they are 1000x tastier than not dogs or tofu pups i SWEAR

http://fieldroast.com/product/frankfurters/

wtf is rocket? who has prawns on a pizza? everything about this is sickening.

rocket = arugula

for the billionth time: king prawns on a garlic and cheese pizza can be lovely, although never my ideal topping. best used in conjunction with other seafood

arugula is probably the greatest of all pizza toppings aside from cheese & tomato sauce. the best pizza ime is simply italian thin-crust cooked with sauce and mozzarella, with thin-sliced fresh tomatoes and fresh arugula sprinkled on top. lol @ americans thinking they know pizza better than italians

well, americans do know pizza better than italians.

http://www.fastrackonline.net/flags/images.1/LargeUSFlag.gif

Wait, do you NOT have nice juicy prawns on pizza in the US? Seafood pizza is the oldest deal in the book, what the hell oh wait this is a pizza thread what am I even.

i want pizza with scallops on it. is there some sort of intra-ilx ordering service conceptually similar to uber whereby i can just pay someone to make me a scallop pizza and bring it to my house?

of course we do. there's two places just in my neighborhood that will bring me a white pie with shrimp, red onions, capers, and lemon right this second if I want one. xpost

it'll cost more than a british hot dog though.

Best pizza Ive had in ages - one with falafels on it from the joint near my bandmate's house, we eat em during jams. Soooo good.

arugula and shrimp are perfectly great pizza toppings. Arugula isn't that common as a topping here, but it's similar enough to spinach, which is a common topping, I really have no idea why people are pretending to be shocked and offended, unless all they eat is like domino's or tombstone or the pizza equivalent of mcdonalds.

arugula/prosciutto pizza = godly.

^^^both preceding posts otm

seafood pizza is a classic, who the hell is shocked by that

news just in from Facebook: apparently northerners call a pizza with chips (fries) on it a "London pizza". Can anyone confirm or deny?

not round our end

Veggie Field Roast frankfurters look great, but the nearest retailer appears to be over 1000 miles away. ::sadface::

Seafood on pizza = death on a plate for me, but seriously, I don't understand Americans if they think this is weird?

Pizza with chips sounds gross, but... (I kinda want it now.)

London pizzas all round!

The London Pizza. I think I saw them support Pulp in 1995?

This video suggests it's pizza + chips + garlic sauce in middlesborough, menus confirm.

whoops, *middlesbrough, apologies the north.

the pizza in the video is an abomination

OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDS REVOLTING/AMAZING I wish I still drank so I could try that around 2am, super drunk and needing stodge.

(I can't stop reading this thread title as if it were song lyrics, dear god help me
Dinner with a Britisher
She ordered prawn and rocket pizza
When it came she put ketchup on
I have piiiiiiiiiiiiics...)

((I have not watched the video))

so much yucky looking sauce on the thing, wtf the north?

you shouldn't need to eat pizza with a spoon

prefer to dip into my sauce tbh but if that's garlic yog then i'd still smash it

but it's delicious garlic sauce! wish more places did garlic mayo in London, you used to get that a lot when I lived in Bristol

In Britain, I always eat pizza with a knife and fork. It seems only polite.

(In NY, I spent many, many years perfecting the art of eating a slice of pizza without ever, ever touching it with my fingers.)

looking forward to opinions on the London pizza from our cousins across the pond

it looks like a fucking pond tbh

two nations, separated by garlic sauce

London Pizza posing formidable challenge to Scottish munchy box's position as 'heart disease in a box' champion. Good work, Middlesbrough.

Pizza with chips on is standard in pretty much every takeaway place I've been to.in Italy. I've never seen it in London though.

Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.

http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article6695590.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS32292742-6695590.jpg

Cheeseburger & chips pizza from Dogs'n'Dough, Manchester

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45124000/gif/_45124560_death_map_466.gif

London pizza is champion forever. first one I had was in Nottingham it was so horrible but the sheer triumph of the "let's put french fries on a pizza, we will call it the London pizza" concept was more important than trivialities like taste

prawns on pizza are of course hilarious but as there is actually a Mexican restaurant in London that calls itself, I shit you not, Wahaca, there are presently bigger fish to fry

there are a bunch of those, and they're really popular

one of the less successful reboots of the Q-bert series there xp

Wahaca is pretty decent, on the whole.

sad lol @ Wahaca.

The London Pizza looks delicious and I would eat a pizza

I could murder a prawn and garlic and white sauce and rocket pizza.

up north, the pizza murders you

http://www.vice.com/read/this-man-has-survived-on-pizza-alone-for-25-years

Wahaca is pretty decent, on the whole.

― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:50 (13 minutes ago)

otm

I have lost any kind of discernment WRT Britishes Mexican food, I mean, I eat at Benito's Hat quite happily.

Vice's withering, haughty fascination with what they deem to be outsider culture never fails to come off as a sort of self-loathing regret at being a magazine by and for hip urban sophisticates with precisely zero excitement or novelty in their own lives

lol at American "Taco Bell" what is that, a bell made out of tacos???

Taco Bell is like the mission bell at the end of Hotel California to tell you all you dead now.

pizza diet man is a hero

london pizza is an abortion

italian willingness to abort pizzas shows how they ceded their birthright long ago to the U.S.A.

no tails on pizza, if you want another meal just have another meal, pizza is for pizza eaters like dan

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/138857/select-2-copy-copy.jpg

Poor Steven Merchant, surviving on nothing but pizza for 25 years :(

imago what are you talking about.

Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)

Parmo is insane, and every one I've seen looks awful, but I still have a sneaking suspicion I would love it if I tried it.

I have nothing to add to the current conversation other than, thanks to the Beyonce album, the thread title immediately made me think "Let me put this/ASSSSSSSSSSSSSS on your pizza"

Mmmmm, parmo.

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s3/old_tonto/Blitz/Blitzbau%20VIII/Parmo.jpg

would eat

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right? hope y'all will come enjoy the banger and mash at my new American chain, it's called Lundin

that salad is hugging the wall in sheer terror

Love the neat piles of salad tucked discreetly away from the greasegasm in the rest of the box xxp

Seafood on pizza = death on a plate for me, but seriously, I don't understand Americans if they think this is weird?

because it's not at all common here. If you look at 100 pizza places' menus, maybe 1 or 2 would have some sort of seafood option for a topping (other than anchovies).

I need to document the midwestern US "taco pizza" phenomena

The standard you'd get at most place still has red sauce, then typically has cheddar added to the cheese mix and at least some of tomatoes/black olives/shredded iceberg/taco chips (taco-flavored Doritos) on top, served with Heinz Taco Sauce packets.

The better versions replace red sauce with a refried bean sauce, and my favorite local place has the following:
normal crust, refried bean sauce, blend of cheddar cheese, black olive and fresh tomato chunks on top, baked. when removed from oven, topped with about a half bag of smashed nacho cheese doritos and served with the taco sauce packets

also still facepalming at "wahaca"

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right? hope y'all will come enjoy the banger and mash at my new American chain, it's called Lundin

yes, I knew this. I think they've just used a phonetic spelling of a name which might not be very familiar to a lot of Brits?

because it's not at all common here. If you look at 100 pizza places' menus, maybe 1 or 2 would have some sort of seafood option for a topping (other than anchovies).

move to the East Coast and this changes RADICALLY btw; everyone has at least one seafood pizza

come to my new british-themed pub, Wooster's, we have a special house sauce

y'all know that Nahuatl precedes its transliteration into the Latin alphabet, right?

xp Yes, JD, we know - and have known for the c. 10 years it's been around - that Wahaca is really spelled Oaxaca!

I don't really like seafood pizza (unless anchovies are involved) but will eat my own body weight in prawn puri, if available.

OMG just disappeared into a Wikiwormhole of all possible permutations of schnitzel. THANK YOU PARMO.

to be fair the east coast never really threw off the sniveling adoration for our former colonial overlords like the more red-blooded part of the U.S.A.

Wahey!ca

you mean this I think mh: http://www.hendersonsrelish.com/home.htm

I remember the 1st time I ever encountered the word "Oaxaca"...it was over 20 years ago, a restaurant in O'Hare airport was named that. It gave the place an air of authenticity. I had to ask my mom how to pronounce it. I assume many people didn't know how to pronounce it, esp back then. We learned something!

Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.

Porto wins this easily with the Francesinha. They are delicious but good grief I felt like I was going to die afterwards.

xpost but I'm going to hit send anyway.

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right?

Yes we know it's called Wahaca. Even if we didn't before we came to ILx, we've been told repeatedly on these threads that it's called Oaxaca. But yes, we knew. Some of us.

I've been through this before here but for some reason I'm going again.

Wahaca's actually quite a smart name for a place which aims to introduce Britishes to something approximating Oaxacan street food - if you look at their menu and associated stuff you learn quite quickly about their relationship with Oaxaca and its style of cooking. But they (apparently) try to source their ingredients from the UK, which means that you do sometimes get their take on a Mexican dish rather than a carbon-copy. they don't pretend to be ultra-authentic. So I reckon the name, with acknowledgement that it's a reference to a place in Mexico, is not really that lol-worthy.

There isn't much of a history of immigration from Mexico to the UK, though happily it's been on the increase in recent years, and there isn't the same knowledge of Mexican food here as there is of other - particularly Asian - cuisines. Again, not really all that lol-worthy, but y'know, LOL if you feel you need to.

to be fair the east coast never really threw off the sniveling adoration for our former colonial overlords like the more red-blooded part of the U.S.A.

well that and...do you really want to be eating SEAFOOD at some random pizza place in Wichita??

it's spelled Oixichita

First place I encountered the word Oaxaca:

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8538939-The-Smoke-Off-by-Shel-Silverstein

if you look at their menu and associated stuff you learn quite quickly about their relationship with Oaxaca and its style of cooking.

there's a lot of non-Oaxacan stuff there. which is fine! just so you know. menu sounds better than taco bell, chipotle, baja fresh etc.

i mean ffs there's no chipotle in ANYTHING at Chipotle (think that's still the case, right?)

chipotle is spanish for 'rice', right?

I was hoping "Wahey!ca" was worth at least a polite chuckle ;_;

wokka wokka

chipotle is spanish for 'rice', right?

can't even get chips with your otle :(

Wahaca Flocka Flame

thanking u

SEAFOOD at some random pizza place in Wichita

depends on the kind, most seafood you eat even a little ways inland has been flash-frozen at some point. this is probably most true of sushi-grade fish, which is now comparable in quality no matter where you go.

it's not about it being "fresh"

it's true, we inlanders have a suspicion of all seafood and think of things mostly in terms of fish sticks and Red Lobster

i prefer to think of us as indwellers

yeah there's just not a seafood culture inland. maybe that will change now that, as you say, "freshness" of seafood isn't an issue. Though it's been my assumption that, apart from a few high end restaurants in the bigger cities, coastal areas scoop up the choice seafood and so inland stores and restaurants don't get the pick of the litter.

it's spelled Oixichita

― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S)

Also this (A+).

trying to loop this back to the classic chori-zed-o comment but I'm failing

Wahacky phonetic spellings are annoying but you'd have to be a simpleton to see that restaurant name & go OMG THEY SPELLED THE PLACE NAME WRONG THE IDIOTS DID THEY NOT PROOFREAD BEFORE PRINTING UP THE SIGNS

that said the fact that a joint with that name is pretty much our only successful halfway decent Mexican outlet is worth a lol

I mean I know we don't have a huge number of Mexicans living here but surely the secret should be out by now that Mexican food is the best & we are doing it wrong

Also Matt otm re francesinha & to bring thread full circle I'm partial to one w prawns in

On the phonetic spelling front, there's a pizza place in LA called Cheebo.

Where I'm from, we pronounce it Ox-aka. As in, the Chipotle restaurant downtown serves Oaxaca cheese.

It wasn't till recently that I found out the correct Mexican pronunciation. Mexican words are so strange even for non-Mexican speakers of Spanish.

<3 wahaca

Thus, a joke was risen: I don't like my chicken bowl with Oaxacan cheese, because I've heard people from there are always Oaxacan off.

*crickets* :^)

*chapulines*

(guessing they don't serve those at wahaca)

do Britishers pronounce Oaxaca so that it rhymes with whack?

Where I'm from, we pronounce it Ox-aka. As in, the Chipotle restaurant downtown serves Oaxaca cheese.

WHERE ARE YOU

anyway plenty of Texans can't even pronounce Chipotle correctly so why worry

true, I think I heard Chipoltay often

or the kind of endearing "chipoat-l"

They could have just chosen a damn english name for their damn english mexican restaurants

oh yeah, chipohtal is definitely common

Smoky Hollerpenyo's Good-Time Burrito Factory?

a lot of brits still struggle with "tortilla"

you should hear Argentinians say it!

lol I have! That's just a difft accent tho

It's hard when two strong consonants are next to each other in Spanish, though.

Smoky Hollerpenyo's Good-Time Burrito Factory

yessssss

that's steven tyler's restaurant, right?

@mh
Or the Trailer Park Boys skit where Ricky pronounces it ja-LA-pe-no.

"Wahaca" infuriated me every time I saw it in London this/last year, feels like its been named patronisingly for small children who are expected to be too dumb to ever learn

what if it turns out Wahaca was the founder's dad. Sir James Wahaca of Montacute

big chief wahaca's crazy tacos

the founder's name is thomasina miers

they should have called it "oaxachester"

the founder's name is thomasina miers

brb dying

Hang on you brits, you dont get to own whatever your "parmo" is, thats an Australian thing, and its called a Parma, thank you very much.

http://mrsparmas.com.au/

http://media.truelocal.com.au/C/7/C03C484E-6D3F-4D5F-B7DE-63693BA17F37/1388565687444_upload-938x704.jpg

They always pile it on top of the chips, I hate them, and theyre bloody everywhere.

Well, no, they both originate from parmigiana, but Parmo is a decidedly British version.

Yeah fair point.

do you eat it or do you watch it eat the salad?

I think we just have chicken Parmigiana (or chicken parmesan, as it's commonly called) in these parts. no history of slathering random sauces on it.

http://f.cl.ly/items/2r3T2w2W3J38133D0r28/Screen%20Shot%202014-03-01%20at%2014.56.59.png

mh: so like, just a chicken schnitzel, then? No red sauce or cheese or anything?

yes, served w/red sauce and typically a pasta and some cheese

parmesan is cheese, too

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chicken-parmesan-recipe.html

which sauce is "random"?

the founder's name is thomasina miers

brb dying

― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, February 28, 2014 1:30 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

¡ikr!

I realise now I think mh was likely referring to the Mrs Parmas menu that has some inventive takes on ye olde parms, like pumpkin and bolognese and curry sauce and whatnot.

saw the url, just thought "Melbourne!" and didn't click

lol

was more confused by béchamel sauce on what seemed otherwise trad

Cant say ive ever seen bechamel on a regular parma. One being a sort of "lasagna" style maybe but the standard is ham, tomato passata and mozza cheese afaik.

bechamel is on a parmo, not a parma

both being bastardized forms of the same dish, right? there's no distinctness to me, I guess I lack that culinary derivation

I think gloop is obligatory, whether of the processesed cheese or flour and milk variety I don't suppose it matters. Not that I've had the Melbourne version.

http://i.imgur.com/88LaByT.jpg

:D

i am happy every time this thred revives

i am dying

note to self: don't get the Winds of Change pizza

*whistles dramatically*

xp - ok lol

Personally I think even prawn on pizza is a bit of a no-no.

loool DJP

http://i.imgur.com/44itrXA.jpg

dope

I just skimmed back through this thread and am coming to the conclusion that pizza must be stopped

every year we must perform the great dance

that looks more like flatbread with stuff on it rather than pizza, but it looks appetizing nonetheless

gross imo.

https://twitter.com/BevisSimpson/status/624638853215682560

Is that sweetcorn? Vile stuff that doesn't belong on a pizza or anywhere else for that matter.

it's Sean Bean

Sweet corn belongs on pizza for the same reason pineapple and (some) BBQ sauces do - sweetness works well with the savoury.

i fucking loathe sweetcorn on pizza but my gf adores it. diff't strokes idk

don't like sweetcorn on pizza or on/in much of anything, but that picture says mango

Sweet corn belongs on pizza for the same reason pineapple and (some) BBQ sauces do - sweetness works well with the savoury.

― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd)

NO

pizza

ftr my post was triggered by looking at the scorpion pizza again; I am completely down with the concept of mango + crayfish even if that particular picture doesn't look great

Ha, I grew up in the age of baked bean pizzas (am Britisher). But I'm getting a newfound love for pizza since I gave up meat at the new year - it's the basic veggie eating out choice. And while everyone else is picking delicious meats you're just trying I cram veg toppings on.

Sweetcorn is literally the worst. Makes me think of what it would be like to eat dead people's teeth.

I like corn on the cob though. More food should be on the cob.

The Minnesota State Fair puts an alarming array of foods on a stick, it's pretty awesome

http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2155195.1426776975!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/rangers-food.jpg

How can you like corn on the cob and hate sweetcorn?

I actually had a pizza with corn and chorizo recently and it was great. Sorry thread.

Yeah they are literally the same product unless you're like eating the cob

wait

dog latin

are you

are you eating the cob

filed under "things that sound dirty but aren't"

They don't taste the same at all.

Sweetcorn generally come from a tin or a packet and is all squishy and tastes like foot-shavings. Corn on the cob, especially off the bbq and rolled in a little smoked paprika and grated cheese is a thing of wonder.

I think they must add sugar or something to sweetcorn before transit. It's malevolent. Imagine eating that shit. Yeeuch.

Tinned sweet corn is in some kind of sugary brine. (And is still delicious)

this is a weird level of antipathy for something as ultimately harmless as sweetcorn, even if I agree that it doesn't do well on a pizza

Tinned vegetables are usually not good, yes

Corn on the cob is still sweetcorn

dog latin otm

It's more a problem of putting stuff on a pizza that too easily falls/rolls off.

yeah sweetcorn is just a basic veg

my dubious weight is behind dog latin here too

well you endorsed that crayfish and mango atrocity

that should be illegal

i should confess here that i had a "pizza" with slow-roasted goat and yoghurt recently, it was a delicious kebab imo but it was in a pizza place and they called it pizza.

Sounds more like a lahmacun

Crayfish & mango is good in a salad imo

Was it Turkish pizza? That can be good but imo is also not pizza.

xp actually wins is that the proper name for Turkish pizza? I think it might be.

Thought a Turkish pizza was a pide

yeah i guess a lahmacun is more accurate - it was at homeslice in covent garden. nice pizza imo.

xpost i was thinking pide also.

It's all pizza to me man

What is existence but pizza

we are merely toppings on life's great flat dough

some of us crayfish, others sweetcorn.

wiki says lahmacun is Turkish pizza (also known as Armenian pizza) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahmacun

ah man we're crashing into a caucasian semantic hellzone now

calzone more like

https://twitter.com/Pideoven

i heard this place is good, they seem to say pide. but i've definitely seen lahmacun.

here we go, i googled and found this nice blog:

I am often asked the difference between pide and lahmacun, another national favorite. Lahmacun is also a flat bread with ground meat topping, but it is thinner and in round shape. We like to squeeze lemon over it liberally and roll it like a wrap to eat lahmacun. Pide is oval in shape, thicker and we serve in slices.

http://ozlemsturkishtable.com/tag/pide/

crayfish and mango lahmacun

imagining wins' circuits shorting in an effort to find the best pun in 'lahmacun'

puns shouldn't be effortful

wikipedia doesn't seem to acknowledge the common Australian form of pide at all, where the bread usually encloses and is baked around the "toppings" >:(

za'atar man'oush is big round my way though

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Israeli_zaatar_manakeesh.jpg

sorry for trying to steal your photo, wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manakish#/media/File:Israeli_zaatar_manakeesh.jpg

I pretty much think the only dead animal products acceptable on pizzas are of the cured porky variety.

Sweetcorn seems like it would go very well with pizza in terms of flavor. It doesn't seem like the texture would blend though. I'm going to have to try it and report back at some point.

Love the hell out of lahmacun too. I had some when I went to Germany in the late 90s, then completely forgot about it until last winter for some reason when I went scrambling for a recipe. Damn, and then I forgot about it again until now! I'm going to make some lahmacun this week for sure.

Sweetcorn on pizza is gross and doesn't work at all IMO but I don't think that invalidates the existence of sweetcorn as a food

is "sweetcorn" somehow different from "corn"

do you live somewhere where it's known as "corn"

tinned sweetcorn kind of tastes of fake butter. I like it in small quantities with other things but not really on its own. Corn on the cob is different, yeah

I absolutely just mean "corn". Don't know how we got started on the sweetcorn thing.

sweet corn is corn

If sweet corn is corn why not call it corn?

DL otm btw. Off the cob all the way.

i didn't make the rules!

:)

Hey, 'sweetcorn' is Britishes for 'canned corn' and I'm going to stand with my fellow island-dwellers in saying it's vile, while fresh and lovely corn on the cob is amazing (especially with paprika butter).

what about frozen sweetcorn

Corn on the cob (known regionally as "pole corn", "cornstick", "sweet pole", "butter-pop" or "long maize")[citation needed] is a culinary term used for a cooked ear of freshly picked maize from a cultivar of sweet corn.

or like if I made a soup or salad or whatever and put fresh corn in it I guarantee you that any British person I served it to would understand it to be sweetcorn

seems like plenty of americans itt were familiar with the word

yep xp, sweetcorn is basically all corn that is people food as opposed to like a feed crop

http://i.imgur.com/tPbxi8K.png

Corn on the cob is vile too though. :-o

I guess I've only ever heard people call it "corn" except for Minnesotans. It's not like there's other kinds of corn you just eat, is there?

not really - had this at a restaurant once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_corn

i doubt the potential for ambiguity is high but next time someone says "corn" be sure and check "do you mean peruvian corn or sweet?"

Peruvian ceviche with that corn and cold sweet potato would be my frontrunner for last meal on earth, only thing that might come close is my aunt's pozole. Come to think of it I just love corn. Hooray for corn!

They make monster munch out of it too

Corn on the cob is vile too though. :-o

― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Monday, June 6, 2016 12:23 PM (12 minutes ago)

YOU LIE

thread makes me want a big buttery corn on the cob

"Corn" could also be popcorn or flour corn or barleycorn, if barleycorn is indeed an actual thing and not just a name for pubs? I quite liked canned sweetcorn anyway, but corn on the cob is better.

q for americans

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr05/2013/4/8/18/enhanced-buzz-12014-1365461764-2.jpg

I can't speak for the UK but in the US, I have a strong suspicion that serving someone popcorn after they have asked for "corn" would get you a lot of puzzled stares

Mexican style - Elote

http://sanchosmexican.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/corn-2-image.png

All corn is good, but fresh is much better, of course. And frozen corn beats canned corn.

I don't understand how anyone can find corn on the cob vile unless the only time they had it, someone pooped on their corn

so can an american explain creamed corn to me (that was the log lady img I posted just now that isn't showing up on my browser but it is on zing?)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0e/d6/91/0ed69101789e81b54a2793da8d186c66.jpg

like this def seems like it would push the limits of the "all corn is good" theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creamed_corn

btw creamed spinach >>> creamed corn

that wikipedia article comes within inches of using the term "resultant paste"

yeah I mean creamed corn is not the best idea in the world

creamed spinach, esp if made with cream cheese, is delicious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paste_(food)

Blenders, grinders, mortars and pestles, matates, and even chewing are used to reduce unprocessed food to a meal, powder, or when significant water is present in the original food, directly into a paste. If required, water, oil and other liquids are added to dry ingredients to make the paste. Often the resultant paste is fermented or cooked to increase its longevity. Often pastes are steamed, baked or enclosed in pastry or bread dough to make them ready for consumption.

we call it sweetpaste in the uk

tbh I would eat corn chowder so I should probably get off my high horse wrt gloopy corn mulch

I guess I've only ever heard people call it "corn" except for Minnesotans. It's not like there's other kinds of corn you just eat, is there?

I'm pretty certain all non-American ilxors know this shit and so do many American ilxors, but there are tens of millions of Americans who don't know this, so ftr:

British English has for centuries used "corn" as a generic term to denote all kinds of grain crops: wheat, barley, oats, millet, etc. When English colonists got to north america they quickly discovered that indian corn was by far the best and easiest grain crop to grow. It dominated American agriculture and diet to such an extent that in America the generic word "corn" soon became exclusively associated with indian corn, and then, by extension sweet corn. It lost its generic meaning here, but it still gets used generically in other English speaking countries.

Is that like how they call any kind of yarn "wool", even if it's 100% acrylic?

I've never heard anyone use "corn" in the generic sense in everyday life, but I work in a lab that does quality testing on cereal crops and sometimes the term corns will be used in place of grains/seeds eg "number of whole corns in [barley] sample". we do analyse maize but call it maize because science

Yeah I have no objections to using the word "maize" when necessary for precision.

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

yeah I mean creamed corn is not the best idea in the world

Depends on how fresh it is. Creamed was the only method for putting up the summer sweet corn* crop when I was growing up. Nowadays it seems like everybody has enough freezer space to put the ears up whole, on the cob, sometimes unshucked even.

2-3 times per summer we'd have so much corn coming in that we'd have fresh creamed corn on biscuits instead of gravy.

* As opposed to field corn, which was dried and went to feed livestock.

The fading away of "corn" as a generic term for grain seems inevitable atm, because of the global influence of American films and television and the global popularity of maize as a food crop.

http://cdn.firstwefeast.com/assets/2015/07/cream-corn-potato-pizza.jpg

"Managing partner Hillary Barq and chef Nick Vella took over in June and have maintained the restaurant's focus on Sicilian-influenced dishes" in a casual setting at this spot, sandwiched between stunners Herbsaint and Marcello's. While appetizers can tend toward the bland or unbalanced, stick with the pastas—especially the squid ink linguine—and the best bet of all, the wood fired pizzas:

A standout Parmesan creamed corn and shrimp version sounds strange at first but is a showstopper. The buttery corn topping tastes like a bisque but is thicker; crispy, salty slices of speck add deep fatty flavor, which is balanced by heaps of fresh arugula.

just to bring us full circle

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, June 6, 2016 2:18 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We call it corn on the pole.

I've tried several different variants of "stripper corn" joke and none of them have really worked ;_;

hominy hominy hominy

From a lifetime of parties with extended family that is Polish, this is the true Pole corn
http://images.media-allrecipes.com/userphotos/250x250/00/32/21/322161.jpg

wait hold up a second

"pole corn"?

― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP)

I'm imagining Dan as Butthead in the Sex Ed class scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmsReGYnCs

Sweetcorn/corn is great in all its forms imo. A bowl for lunch with salt, as part of a barbecue, on pizza, to yellow up any dishes that need it (paella), popcorn... This 'creamed corn' looks delicious too, so I'll be making that soon.

Once I lived near a stand that sold it with different combinations of salt, paprika, cheese, chilli, sugar, chocolate...there wasn't a single bad one.

When vegetarian pizza offerings are so often composed of mystifyingly stew-centric components (why should I enjoy courgette on a bread? Aubergine? Are you crazy?), sweetcorn is the salvation from getting a plain one. What a great texture!

yellow up

courgette and aubergine on a pizza work really well. my pizza last night had courgettes on it and was much the better for this. keep your goddamned creamed corn away from me

*plans dinner*

aubergine on bruschetta is nice

we have a corn stand round our way too, cups of fresh sweetcorn with various toppings/flavours, always smells delicious

I envy you.

Spicy corn in a cup is a thing in South Asian neighbourhoods in London and it's only about a pound or £1.50 per serving.

2 spices 1 cup

what do you mean by stew-centric? i've never had stewed egg plant or zucchini or had them in a stew. i have had many stews with corn

Stewed corn? That is to mask its finest properties. Maybe there's another big continental divide to be observed over stews. I've had plenty of vague, European stews involving courgette during long, sad winters.

stewed aubergine def a thing in lebanese &c cuisine

if you've not had baba ghanoush then frankly you can't say anything about aubergines

Ratatouille is a type of stew! How have you not heard of that?

I always feel a bit of a fraud posting on food threads as I don't know shit about food and don't really care about it, but considering stews and stew-like soups (or "stewps") are the only thing I can cook I feel like I can speak more assuredly on this matter.

staidinterface

i lump stews, chowders, soups together in my head i guess. i've had ratatouille but always thought it was baked so i never have thought of it as a stew

All of this said, I did once make a Bamia pizza (like a Middle Eastern okra stew, but on a pizza base), so I don't think I can be critical of any food combination. 'Stewp' sounds marketable.

I saw a woman pour ketchup all over her pastrami sandwich in a noted Jewish deli. I found it offensive, and I think a rabbi should rule it traif.

i don't think i've ever encountered the word 'courgette' before today

I would have guessed it meant "little cougar"

phonetically speaking, zucchini might beat courgette, although the endings are problematic for both - zucchini looks like a singularised plural and courgette seems to use the feminine diminutive that so benights the french language

however, nobody on this earth could convince me that 'eggplant' is a more euphonious name than 'aubergine'

courgette is probably a better name than zucchini. aubergine is definitely a better name than eggplant.

lol xp

Totally agree w/ imago (xp and wins!). Though I have no real problem with -ette being appended to things, as opposed to people.

zucchini and egg plant are both the native american names iirc

agree that 'aubergine' as a word is vastly superior to 'eggplant'

white aubergines totally look like eggs tho!

http://www.khiewchanta.com/images/small-white-eggplant.jpg

wow

I have to assume that whoever named them was looking at those and not the common purple ones

round yellow courgettes are even more mindblowing (and really nice)

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/attachments/fruit-vegetable-showcase/31807d1346881803-virtual-show-2012-pair-courgettes-voting-100_0490.jpg

shit that is huge, sorry

i will start using 'zucchino' in penance

I prefer "zucchinus"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgmOs10W4AIG6kg.jpg

thundercrack.gif

for all my bemoaning of the french feminine diminutive i've actually been frightfully androcentric in my assumption of 'zucchino'; it transpires the original was 'zucchina'

no wait the plot has thickened

Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin/squash and zucchino/zucchina (zucca + ina = little) are diminutive forms, becoming zucchini/zucchine in the plural. Zucchino, the masculine form (zucchini in the plural), is the first form to be documented in writing.[2] An Italian dictionary called lo Zingarelli 2015, Zanichelli Editore, gives both forms, as does the Devoto-Oli published by Le Monnier, but the Accademia della Crusca, the most important research institution on Italian language, defines zucchino as the preferable form.[2] The Treccani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, another highly respected linguistic authority, gives zucchina as the main Italian word, and the masculine form as Tuscan dialect.

got to go with lo zingarelli 2015

/lo italopop zing cru

rolling zingarelli

without this threadbump we'd never have discovered the bitter italian academic war to sex the courgette so thanks dayo basically

"Sex the Courgette" sounds like an obscure Sugarcubes b-side

speaking of which, I've realised that they were cucumbers in thundercrack!

corn chowder is great, pennsylvania dutch classic

I'm still lolling about the picture of the all-too-familiar corn casserole Sufjan G. posted upthread

also this

Spicy corn in a cup is a thing in South Asian neighbourhoods in London and it's only about a pound or £1.50 per serving.

― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 6, 2016 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Despite my terrible joke, I would eat about 500 helpings of spicy corn. One of my go-to "recipes" when I was a kid learning to cook was steamed corn with cracked red peppercorns.

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TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CORRRNNN

I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, July 14, 2013 4:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

???ppl really eat the shrimp tails? other ppl do this??

A coworker did. He was lactose intolerant and said the tails gave him calcium.

I ate a shrimp head accidentally once (misjudged the teeth/shrimp intersection) and it didn't taste any different than the shrimp body.

I wouldnt care for it but people eat soft shell crab, so *shrug*

If the shrimp have been properly fried, go for it and crunch the shell; otherwise, you may prefer the packaging your carry-out came in.

the juices from the head of the prawn are amazing! certain types of frying make it p easy to eat more of the prawn in its entirety. in spain you see people sucking the shrimp head p much everywhere.

glad dan is presumably in bed as i posted that.