you're right, of course - i've had some delicious sourdough in the states before. but the difference is you can find ace bread in UK supermarkets, which i haven't seen in the US supermarkets i've been to (but the last i visited tbh would be austin 2004). american bread i've eaten from supermarkets has been insanely nasty, airy, weirdly-textured stuff.
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
my point for myself was maybe i failed to sufficiently appreciate the flavors of what i was eating because i was first experiencing it through a less-familiar textural lens. (and i shouldn't have passed up the epicerie at orrery.)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.blackfriarsbakery.co.uk/product_pics%5CFlapjacks.jpg
Not to be confused with the US pancake style flapjacks.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
bah xpost
― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost Ally, they sort of look like that, but they're way better. More cakey.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― ampersand, hearts, semicolon (cis), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, that's the problem with flapjacks, you think "ooh, healthy oaty goodness!" and forget there's like 1000 calories in a bar. Think about it, they weigh about 500g each.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Read it here.
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― ten kebabs maaaaate (fandango), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link
i remember no bread from my one trip to Berlin. only sausage. plenty, plenty sausage.
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I think the joy of British food is that there are still distinct regional identities e.g. ask for Stargazey Pie outside Cornwall you'll get blank looks. Bath Chaps, Pan Haggerty, Pond Pudding etc. Some British foodies get all weepy eyed over the distinct cuisines of other countries (well you simply can't compare Calabria to any other region etc yawn) and forget that we have our own.
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 21 September 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 22 September 2006 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link
British food haters = ill informed.
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 22 September 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
this isn't true everywhere in the world?
i admit that i am scared of words like treacle and suet and "marrow jam". reminds me of that famous brit offal dude with the famous restaurant. the whole pig dude.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 22 September 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 September 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 22 September 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link
(Bit surprised that Orwell says back there that if you want a good cheap meal you'd go to a Greek or Chinese restaurant; I'd been led to believe you just didn't find such things until at least the 70s. Maybe you only did in London.)
things that are readily available in the US but are completely different in the UK
Saw a webpage recently that was some American kid going "holy crap WTF look at all the weird shit the Brits eat! Here is the British food I have been eating on my holiday" and it was, like, "Coke! In funny-shaped metric bottles! Salt and vinegar crisps, gross! [picture of a tin of Pringles] Curry sauce?! [picture of McDonalds sauce sachets]". Still not sure whether it was a joke.
― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link
The Royal Oak in Borough is good for pies as I think I mentioned up thread and i really like the square pie company chain doing take away boxes of pie, peas and mash.
― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
My minging flatmate once bought some, and left half a loaf mouldering in a cupboard - the mould infected the wrapper too, crawled through the wrapper, and spread itself over the inside of her cupboard.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Scottish things and people that I like
It is horrible. My husband loves it and keeps buying it. It doesn't even fit in a toaster!
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah I think they did a champagne Marmite one time and that tasted just like regular Marmite, 😥
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Literally the worst thing about Hull is chippies don't do potato scallops
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
Muswell Hill (of course) has a gourmet fish n' chippy, bit out of the way for the average tourist though
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Marmite is still made in Burton-on-Trent, I think, having outlived the brewing industry it is a by-product of there. Yes, Guinness flavour Marmite was nothing special, but Marmite flavour Guinness is still widely available in corner shops.
― fetter, Friday, 24 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
There's still a humongous brewery in Burton, one of the multinationals iirc, and yeah they make Marmite there too. We used to go shopping there once a fortnight or so when I was a kid, the whole town stank of yeast
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Having just visited there at the weekend I can confirm that Edinburgh still smells of yeast too.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
hmmmm... supposedly trying to make homemade marmite is "dangerous and hard to control".
― Yerac, Friday, 24 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
Just found a "recipe" that takes 10 days
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Friday, 24 January 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
I really miss the cheap fishcakes I used to get from the fish and chips shops in Liverpool as a kid.
― kraudive, Saturday, 25 January 2020 00:25 (four years ago) link
actually bought my first ever squeezy marmite yesterday, will report back on the consistency.― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:08 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, January 23, 2020 9:08 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
My report is that it's just regular marmite. The pot is good though, it dispenses the very thin stream which you need.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
Cheesy chips at Cheltenham Town (@CTFCofficial) 💷 £3 pic.twitter.com/B3ACM7OCbP— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) December 26, 2021
― 龜, Saturday, 15 January 2022 01:59 (two years ago) link
This may be an appropriate thread for me to rediscover the enthusiasm expressed by ILX whenever DUMPLINGS! get mentioned.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
assuming it's the same one, somewhat impressed it's still going. there was a fancy fish & chips place there when I lived there 2003-6. I only went there a couple of times because the queues were ludicrous but it was pretty good (and didn't cost a fortune either, 17 years ago anyway)
― bovarism, Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link
I had some very bland chips at Whaddon Road in 2003 with no not very melty cheese slices. My most notable memory of the day was the house right next to the football ground with a boarded up window where presumably a league two standard defensive hoof had smashed through it at some point.
― calzino, Saturday, 15 January 2022 03:30 (two years ago) link
Pie, peas, gravy and a sausage roll at Barnoldswick Town (@barlickfc) 💷 £5.50 pic.twitter.com/21EWlCWcH6— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) December 1, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 1 December 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link