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
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link
ALDOTM!
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(it's the second of two google results for piece'n'mince)
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link
k-OTM.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link
There are some brilliant places to eat in Glasgow, but I've found that if a restaurant has a Reputation or chic interior design, it's best avoided.
Ad-Lib's grey prawns and badly-spelled menu to thread!
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
That was my point, hence the Calabria dig. We get weepy eyed about cuisine de terroir, or difference in ham cures from one italian region to the next and yet forget our own.
those restaurants don't all serve British cuisine
The english language evolves constantly, taking on flavours from other cultures, why not the cuisine? An excellent point is made upthread about curry. Also, some of the restaurants listed serve french in the classical style, a style that was developed in part by imported British cooks. There was enormous crossover in the middle ages when the nation-state concepts of modern day "Britain" and "France" were significantly more ambiguous.
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM! Thank God I'm going back up to Scotland next week! Bring it on!!!
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Friday, 22 September 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The major chain grocer in Chicago (Jewel) has a multi-ethnic aisle that includes a British section. I wanted to try Spotted Dick, but it was unreasonably expensive, so I picked up another tasty-looking item, a can--I mean tin--of Heinz Curry Beans.
They.
Were.
VILE.
All I can taste now is cloves.
Should have gotten the Kit-Kat Chunky. I hear British mass market chocolate is way better than ours, even items of the same name.
Or maybe I should have shelled out for the Spotted Dick??
― Jesse, Thursday, 24 January 2008 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
search:
full engish brek yorkshire pudding marmite clapshot bubble+sqk
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 24 January 2008 06:31 (sixteen 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