Terrible British Food

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D. Spencer Hines

Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 06 nov 2007 21:00:09

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

John Townsend

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av John Townsend » 06 nov 2007 21:42:18

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any
of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

We are doing something about it. Kindly note the sharp increase in recent
years in the number of immigrants into Britain, some of whom open
restaurants ...

Best wishes,

John Townsend
Antiquarian Bookseller/Genealogist
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 06 nov 2007 21:54:51

INDEED!

The little yellow, brown, red and black brothers and sisters of The British
Empire, whom you used to look down upon, are bailing you out....

But VERY slowly -- as you have so many recidivists to the typical British
native cuisine.

Cheers,

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

"John Townsend" <john@johntownsend.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fgqjjc$p3u$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any
of the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

We are doing something about it. Kindly note the sharp increase in recent
years in the number of immigrants into Britain, some of whom open
restaurants ...

Best wishes,

John Townsend
Antiquarian Bookseller/Genealogist
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk

Bryn

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Bryn » 06 nov 2007 21:59:19

Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:
You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any
of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

We are doing something about it. Kindly note the sharp increase in recent
years in the number of immigrants into Britain, some of whom open
restaurants ...

Best wishes,

John Townsend
Antiquarian Bookseller/Genealogist
http://www.johntownsend.demon.co.uk

And soon we will be able to compete with the States in the OBESITY
Olympics.




--
--
Bryn

"On any other day, that would be an unusual sight!"

Cameron Poe

Baldoni

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Baldoni » 07 nov 2007 00:06:41

on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :
"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !


I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.



No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?


P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 07 nov 2007 00:28:13

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

HardySpicer

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av HardySpicer » 07 nov 2007 01:44:07

On Nov 7, 12:06 pm, Baldoni <baldoniXXV<nientespam>@gmail.com> wrote:
on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :



"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni

I was in LA this year and didn't find the food much different from the
UK. The usual international crap - burgers,chips etc - except that the
Yanks individually eat a plate that in the UK would feed a family of
4!

Since the 1960s 'foreign' restaurants are now part of British cuisine
- esp Indian,Pakistani food. In fact the UK has some of the best
curries anywhere in the world. Look at the English football team -
it's mostly black and they are English. Ditto for American footballers
- it has nothing to do with colour of your face.

As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort of
ok).

Hardy

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 07 nov 2007 03:34:09

D. Spencer Hines wrote:

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...


Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 07 nov 2007 03:35:12

HardySpicer wrote:

On Nov 7, 12:06 pm, Baldoni <baldoniXXV<nientespam>@gmail.com> wrote:

on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :




"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni


I was in LA this year and didn't find the food much different from the
UK. The usual international crap - burgers,chips etc - except that the
Yanks individually eat a plate that in the UK would feed a family of
4!

Since the 1960s 'foreign' restaurants are now part of British cuisine
- esp Indian,Pakistani food. In fact the UK has some of the best
curries anywhere in the world. Look at the English football team -
it's mostly black and they are English. Ditto for American footballers
- it has nothing to do with colour of your face.

As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort of
ok).

Only when it's a battered mouse.

Westprog

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Westprog » 07 nov 2007 09:20:03

"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
news:Bu9Yi.9137$7k5.299@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
D. Spencer Hines wrote:
....
Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.

No! Really!

I'm sure he's spoken to hundreds of tourists who've told him about the
faggots and toad in the hole they were forced to eat.

--



J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

Eugene Griessel

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Eugene Griessel » 07 nov 2007 09:22:35

"Westprog" <westprog@hottmail.com> wrote:

"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
news:Bu9Yi.9137$7k5.299@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
D. Spencer Hines wrote:
...
Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.

No! Really!

I'm sure he's spoken to hundreds of tourists who've told him about the
faggots and toad in the hole they were forced to eat.

With Spotted Dick for afters?

Eugene L Griessel

In any organization there will always be one person who knows
exactly what is going on. This person must be fired.

- I usually post only from Sci.Military.Naval -

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 07 nov 2007 11:39:01

"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
news:Bu9Yi.9137$7k5.299@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
D. Spencer Hines wrote:

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...


Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.


Sorry - had some the other day. Delicious when done well.

Surreyman

Westprog

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Westprog » 07 nov 2007 11:46:56

"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote in message
news:473175af.8277472@news.uunet.co.za...
....
Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a
near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their
boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.

No! Really!

I'm sure he's spoken to hundreds of tourists who've told him about the
faggots and toad in the hole they were forced to eat.

With Spotted Dick for afters?

Served by a butler wearing a top hat, with a Dick Van Dyke accent.

--



J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

SomersetSue

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av SomersetSue » 07 nov 2007 13:01:24

What a laugh!

The Americans kindly show us the benefit of their fabulous cuisine via
fast food outlets.

Right........next time I'm in MacDonalds I must remember that this is
the high level I should be trying to emulate.

I've travelled through many European countries and sampled a variety
of national dishes. I think the problem is that too many British food
outlets have attempted to recreate foreign foods badly. Very few
tourists will have stayed in British homes and actually eaten real
home cooking. A few days in London is hardly representative of the
whole country.

I think increasingly the skill of cooking from scratch has become less
common with ready meals so available and people working long hours so
wanting meals in a hurry, but out in the countryside we eat well. Here
it's good home cooking with home grown vegetables and produce from
local markets.

Maybe this false reputation for poor food dates from the war and post
war years. It's not that easy to create great meals when basics are
rationed. I think a generation grew up grateful for anything they
could get and so less fussy. This whole mentality of not complaining
still lingers I think.

Not sure what this has to do with medieval genealogy! It might be
interesting to discover how far back this accusation of awful British
food dates from.

Sue

Vance Mead

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Vance Mead » 07 nov 2007 13:43:29

This is from Wikipedia:

During the Middle Ages, English cuisine enjoyed an excellent
reputation; its decline can be firmly traced back to the mid 20th
century when the quality was compounded by the effects of rationing
during two World Wars (rationing finally ended in 1954), followed by
the increasing trend toward industrialised mass production of food.

Not genealogy byut medieval anyway.
Vance

Not sure what this has to do with medieval genealogy! It might be
interesting to discover how far back this accusation of awful British
food dates from.

Sue

Jack Linthicum

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Jack Linthicum » 07 nov 2007 15:34:14

On Nov 6, 7:44 pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 7, 12:06 pm, Baldoni <baldoniXXV<nientespam>@gmail.com> wrote:



on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni

I was in LA this year and didn't find the food much different from the
UK. The usual international crap - burgers,chips etc - except that the
Yanks individually eat a plate that in the UK would feed a family of
4!

Since the 1960s 'foreign' restaurants are now part of British cuisine
- esp Indian,Pakistani food. In fact the UK has some of the best
curries anywhere in the world. Look at the English football team -
it's mostly black and they are English. Ditto for American footballers
- it has nothing to do with colour of your face.

As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort of
ok).

Hardy

I wonder if you every looked into the idea of eating in Los Angeles at
a restaurant that wasn't a burger, chips etc place? There are quite a
few if you take the time to find them, but then if you want a burger
you go to a burger place.

Conway Caine

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Conway Caine » 07 nov 2007 15:37:06

"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:m7mdnSf4aIKOZa3anZ2dnUVZ_uvinZ2d@comcast.com...
Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

The English Public School education, no doubt.

Westprog

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Westprog » 07 nov 2007 17:11:16

Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Nov 6, 7:44 pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
....
As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort
of ok).


I wonder if you every looked into the idea of eating in Los Angeles at
a restaurant that wasn't a burger, chips etc place? There are quite a
few if you take the time to find them, but then if you want a burger
you go to a burger place.

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.


--



J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

Feck all sassanaigh

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Feck all sassanaigh » 08 nov 2007 00:41:41

On Nov 7, 4:11 pm, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Nov 6, 7:44 pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
...
As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort
of ok).
I wonder if you every looked into the idea of eating in Los Angeles at
a restaurant that wasn't a burger, chips etc place? There are quite a
few if you take the time to find them, but then if you want a burger
you go to a burger place.

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.

--

J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

British food is one the world's best oxymorons

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 08 nov 2007 02:12:42

"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
news:Av9Yi.32575$uH.136@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
HardySpicer wrote:

On Nov 7, 12:06 pm, Baldoni <baldoniXXV<nientespam>@gmail.com> wrote:

on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :




"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni


I was in LA this year and didn't find the food much different from the
UK. The usual international crap - burgers,chips etc - except that the
Yanks individually eat a plate that in the UK would feed a family of
4!

Since the 1960s 'foreign' restaurants are now part of British cuisine
- esp Indian,Pakistani food. In fact the UK has some of the best
curries anywhere in the world. Look at the English football team -
it's mostly black and they are English. Ditto for American footballers
- it has nothing to do with colour of your face.

As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort of
ok).

Only when it's a battered mouse.


"Since the 1960s Foreign restaurants are now part of British cuisine",
You have to be kidding?
What the hell were those places I was eating in in Edinburgh before 1950?
Just to get things in order even before those Chinese, Japanese, German,
Greek, French, Spanish, Italian and Hungarian places we ate in the old
Italian chippies were foreign owned too you know?
Not only that but the Scottish hotels always offered things like trout,
salmon, and many other sea foods, great, Scottish beef, lamb and pork. Not
to mention great fresh vegetables.
How long, for example has Cullen Skink been featured in Scotland?

Here is a recipe for you -
The name of this rich, tasty soup comes from the fishing village of Cullen,
in Morayshire. "Skink" is a soup made originally from a shin of beef. But in
this case, the main ingredient is smoked haddock.

Ingredients:
A large smoked haddock (weighing around 2 lb)
1 medium onion, finely chopped.
1½ pints (900ml) milk
2 tablespoons butter
8 oz mashed potato
Salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
Chopped parsley
Water
Triangles of toast (as an accompaniment)

Method
Cover the smoked haddock with water, in a shallow pan, skin side down. Bring
to the boil and simmer for 4/5 minutes, turning once. Take the haddock from
the pan and remove the skin and bones. Break up the fish into flakes, return
to the stock and add the chopped onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Simmer
for another 15 minutes. Strain, remove the bay leaf but retain the stock and
fish. Add the milk to the fish stock and bring back to the boil. Add enough
mashed potato to create the consistency you prefer (don't be afraid to make
it rich and thick!). Add the fish and reheat. Check for seasoning. Just
before serving, add the butter in small pieces so that it runs through the
soup.
Serve with chopped parsley on top, accompanied by triangles of toast.

Here is another traditional recipe.

Traditional Scottish Recipes
- "Auld Reekie" Cock-a-Leekie Soup

The "Auld Reekie" does not refer to the soup being "smokey" but to the
origins of the recipe in Edinburgh which used to be called Auld Reekie in
the days of coal fires. Cock-a-Leekie soup makes a regular appearance in
Scottish kitchens but this variation has a special ingredient - Scotch
whisky! It will, as the say, "stick to your ribs".

Ingredients:
3lb boiling chicken (giblets removed)
3 slices of streaky bacon
1lb shin of beef
2 lb leeks
1 large onion
5 fluid ounces Scotch whisky
4 pints water
1 level tablespoon dried tarragon
Salt and pepper
8 pre-soaked prunes (optional but traditional!)

Method:
Mix the whisky, tarragon and sugar in the water. Chop up the bacon and place
the chicken, bacon and beef in a large bowl and pour over the whisky
marinade. Leave to soak overnight. Place the chicken etc in a large soup
pot. Chop up the leeks (reserve one) and onion and add to the pot. Salt and
pepper to taste. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for two hors, removing
any scum as required. Remove the chicken from the pot, remove skin and
bones. Chop the meat into small pieces and return to the pot. Cut up the
shin of beef, if required. Add the prunes and the last chopped leek and
simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. It will serve up to eight people.


And here is another -
- Arran Potato Salad

Although Ayrshire is traditionally the county where the best potatoes are
grown, Arran Chief is a particularly good, waxy variety, ideal for salads.
Of course, you can use any available variety which produces a firm, waxy
texture when cooked.

Ingredients:
10 waxy potatoes, diced
4 ounces (100g) shelled fresh peas (or frozen peas)
4 ounces cooked beetroot (red beets) diced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Two teaspoons chopped onion
One teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
Four tablespoons (60ml) salad dressing or salad cream
Fresh parsley to garnish
Method:
Boil the potatoes in salted water for ten minutes or until tender. Drain and
pat dry. Cook the peas separately for about five minutes or until tender and
then drain.
While the vegetables are still warm, mix together and stir in the chopped
parsley and onion and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Fold in the salad dressing (or salad cream) to moisten, and garnish with
sprigs of fresh parsley.

These are not my own recipes but copied from
http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/ ... _index.htm

Go have a read and a nice wee slubber, (drool).

We Scots do not all eat cairiy-oots, (take away meals), ye ken, (you know).
Noo, awa an bile yer tatties.
--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 08 nov 2007 02:14:00

"Westprog" <westprog@hottmail.com> wrote in message
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"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote in message
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...
Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another
thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a
near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their
boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.

No! Really!

I'm sure he's spoken to hundreds of tourists who've told him about the
faggots and toad in the hole they were forced to eat.

With Spotted Dick for afters?

Served by a butler wearing a top hat, with a Dick Van Dyke accent.
At least it was not a Scrooge McDuck accent.

--



J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed


Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 08 nov 2007 02:14:53

"a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines wrote:

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...


Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.


Sorry - had some the other day. Delicious when done well.

Surreyman



Aye bit thir Inglis onywey.

Peter Jason

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Peter Jason » 08 nov 2007 03:02:17

British food is one the world's best
oxymorons




kewl

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 09:07:53

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:00:09 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
<panther@excelsior.com> wrote:

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread. In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots. We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries. "The
English Disease".

Despite my personal distaste for the English, I have to protest.

I've never seen so many gays as I have in the US and quite bluntly, I
also have my doubts about your own sexual orientation. I have picked
up on several hints that you may be a cross-dresser and I need hardly
add that my mind boggles at the very thought - a rather raddled
looking Marie Antoinette with an excess of ginger nasal hair
protruding from each nostril.

Do please post a colour picture of yourself in drag! My cup of
happiness would overflow!

Is this really you when you were in the military?

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoon ... an609l.jpg



DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 09:08:51

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:12:10 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
<panther@excelsior.com> wrote:

Horsefeathers!

Pogue Linthicum is obviously as dumb as a sack of hammers.

Furthermore, I'll bet he just LOVES that Terrible British Food.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

"Jack Linthicum" <jacklinthicum@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1194379697.683013.224040@e9g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Hines forgot where the thread was so he starts another.


ROTFLOL!

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 09:11:27

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:54:51 -0000, "D. Spencer Hines"
<panther@excelsior.com> wrote:

INDEED!

The little yellow, brown, red and black brothers and sisters of The British
Empire, whom you used to look down upon, are bailing you out....

MacDonalds, A&W, KFC Coca Cola - the list is endless.

What do you mean, "Used to"? Don't you read SCS any more?

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 09:38:00

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net>
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?

James Hogg

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av James Hogg » 08 nov 2007 10:59:18

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:38:00 GMT, The Highlander <micheil@shaw.ca>
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

<anti-Italian obscenity snipped>

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

James

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 08 nov 2007 11:14:39

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

James Hogg

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av James Hogg » 08 nov 2007 11:30:09

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:14:39 GMT, "a.spencer3"
<a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote:

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.


Didn't Highlander recently send Princess Anne to Roedean?

James

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 08 nov 2007 12:31:40

The Highlander wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********

Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?

Indeed, I'm sure there is. I used to chuckle when you would say that
sometimes you felt like you were shooting fish in a barrel here. I guess
you were right, all along...

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 08 nov 2007 12:49:35

James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go.
I doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Adam Whyte-Settlar

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Adam Whyte-Settlar » 08 nov 2007 15:09:51

"a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Winston went to Harrow.

He was also crap at Latin. No wonder the idiot Hines admires him so.

Bryn

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Bryn » 08 nov 2007 15:15:51

Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:
"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

And by his own admission was a crap speller...


--
--
Bryn

"On any other day, that would be an unusual sight!"

Cameron Poe

Conway Caine

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Conway Caine » 08 nov 2007 16:04:47

"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:PL2dnXgM783WZa_anZ2dnUVZ_t6onZ2d@comcast.com...
James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go. I
doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Ah, Turlough, I didn't realize you had gathered such a grand following from
amongst the Drum Pounders.............
(I'll bet you cut a fine figure with your sash and Bowler)

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 16:49:43

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:49:35 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net>
wrote:

James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

Oh dear, you're really straining your political correctness today.
When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

Why not? Baldoni has had plenty fun at my expense.
When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Absolutely - O'Hara has genuine problems with typing and unlike you, I
don't care to see people mocked for their disabilities.
Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Indeed it is and especially because of my distaste for self-appointed
nannies dashing round the group looking for opportunities to boss
other people around by berating them for lack of political
correctness.

You should change your sig to "Miss Prim" and pay less attention to
your agenda and ego and more to what the people posting here are
really like.

Furthermore, I made no comment about your recent "poem", which I think
speaks to my incredible decency as it screamed to be booted around
before being put out of its misery.
Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go.
I doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

You can safely ignore Hogg. He's all agenda and wannabe ego.

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 17:24:50

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:04:47 GMT, "Conway Caine"
<ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:PL2dnXgM783WZa_anZ2dnUVZ_t6onZ2d@comcast.com...
James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go. I
doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Ah, Turlough, I didn't realize you had gathered such a grand following from
amongst the Drum Pounders.............
(I'll bet you cut a fine figure with your sash and Bowler)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHXQgEVN0M


Turlough is the one beating the Lambeg drum... Note how his coat is
turned back to front!

Later he was spotted in a Shankhill Bar playing The Sash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoX5b1ooCnw&NR=1

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 17:25:58

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:14:39 GMT, "a.spencer3"
<a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote:

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

Whatever. The price of Lagavulin remains unchanged.

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 17:34:11

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:30:09 -1000, James Hogg
<Jas.HoggOUT@SPAM.gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:14:39 GMT, "a.spencer3"
a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote:


"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.


Didn't Highlander recently send Princess Anne to Roedean?

James

I don't take much interest in such matters - I leave the arse-licking
minutae to Hogg, Surreyman, and the other dedicated social climbers
like Hines, all scrambling desperately for recognition as one of us,
and much prefer the company of real people like Auld Bob and a host of
other non-Britclone Scots who post here.

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 17:45:21

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 00:09:51 +1000, "Adam Whyte-Settlar" <none@none>
wrote:

"a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:jkBYi.13255$%j2.11459@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...


Winston went to Harrow.

He was also crap at Latin. No wonder the idiot Hines admires him so.


I note that "the Idiot Hines" has become a standard appellation here.

Has poor David already attained the dizzying depths of just another
trolling asshole taking up space in scs?

Well done David!

(Keep taking the tablets!)

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 17:50:32

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:31:40 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net>
wrote:

The Highlander wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********

Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?

Indeed, I'm sure there is. I used to chuckle when you would say that
sometimes you felt like you were shooting fish in a barrel here. I guess
you were right, all along...

We're being a little rotten to the poor c(o)unt, but God knows he has
laboured hard and his sterling efforts are obviously much appreciated!

We don't want to press this too hard, as Nanny Hogg will be along in a
moment to dole out smakkies and scream at us...

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 18:13:51

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 01:12:42 -0000, "Robert Peffers"
<peffers50@btinternet.com> wrote:

"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
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HardySpicer wrote:

On Nov 7, 12:06 pm, Baldoni <baldoniXXV<nientespam>@gmail.com> wrote:

on 06/11/2007, D. Spencer Hines supposed :




"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy,
expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

It happens that D. Spencer Hines formulated :

"John Cartmell" <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...

Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

---------------Cordon Sanitaire---------------------------------

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

Quite !

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

Why do Americans get so worked up at the mere mention of "toad in the
hole" and "spotted dick" when over here.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of
any of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Why don't you DO something about it?

What do you think we brought all those Indians and Bangladeshi's into
the country for ?

P.S. And you DON'T have to tell us any more about eating faggots.
We're
all quite aware that many of you do that -- and have for centuries.
"The
English Disease".

Many consider homosexuality a disease but to eat gay men is taking it a
bit far. Now look here Hines know your limits with this trolling
business.

You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public
school Hines, then you would be qualified to comment.

The standard American tourist over the last 30 years heads for "The
Scotch House" and "Burberry" and then round off the day in a
Knightsbridge pub eating food that has been under the lamps of the hot
press for a day and a half.

And still they come !

--
Count Baldoni


I was in LA this year and didn't find the food much different from the
UK. The usual international crap - burgers,chips etc - except that the
Yanks individually eat a plate that in the UK would feed a family of
4!

Since the 1960s 'foreign' restaurants are now part of British cuisine
- esp Indian,Pakistani food. In fact the UK has some of the best
curries anywhere in the world. Look at the English football team -
it's mostly black and they are English. Ditto for American footballers
- it has nothing to do with colour of your face.

As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort of
ok).

Only when it's a battered mouse.


"Since the 1960s Foreign restaurants are now part of British cuisine",
You have to be kidding?
What the hell were those places I was eating in in Edinburgh before 1950?
Just to get things in order even before those Chinese, Japanese, German,
Greek, French, Spanish, Italian and Hungarian places we ate in the old
Italian chippies were foreign owned too you know?
Not only that but the Scottish hotels always offered things like trout,
salmon, and many other sea foods, great, Scottish beef, lamb and pork. Not
to mention great fresh vegetables.
How long, for example has Cullen Skink been featured in Scotland?

Here is a recipe for you -
The name of this rich, tasty soup comes from the fishing village of Cullen,
in Morayshire. "Skink" is a soup made originally from a shin of beef. But in
this case, the main ingredient is smoked haddock.

Ingredients:
A large smoked haddock (weighing around 2 lb)
1 medium onion, finely chopped.
1½ pints (900ml) milk
2 tablespoons butter
8 oz mashed potato
Salt and pepper
1 bay leaf
Chopped parsley
Water
Triangles of toast (as an accompaniment)

Method
Cover the smoked haddock with water, in a shallow pan, skin side down. Bring
to the boil and simmer for 4/5 minutes, turning once. Take the haddock from
the pan and remove the skin and bones. Break up the fish into flakes, return
to the stock and add the chopped onion, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Simmer
for another 15 minutes. Strain, remove the bay leaf but retain the stock and
fish. Add the milk to the fish stock and bring back to the boil. Add enough
mashed potato to create the consistency you prefer (don't be afraid to make
it rich and thick!). Add the fish and reheat. Check for seasoning. Just
before serving, add the butter in small pieces so that it runs through the
soup.
Serve with chopped parsley on top, accompanied by triangles of toast.

Here is another traditional recipe.

Traditional Scottish Recipes
- "Auld Reekie" Cock-a-Leekie Soup

The "Auld Reekie" does not refer to the soup being "smokey" but to the
origins of the recipe in Edinburgh which used to be called Auld Reekie in
the days of coal fires. Cock-a-Leekie soup makes a regular appearance in
Scottish kitchens but this variation has a special ingredient - Scotch
whisky! It will, as the say, "stick to your ribs".

Ingredients:
3lb boiling chicken (giblets removed)
3 slices of streaky bacon
1lb shin of beef
2 lb leeks
1 large onion
5 fluid ounces Scotch whisky
4 pints water
1 level tablespoon dried tarragon
Salt and pepper
8 pre-soaked prunes (optional but traditional!)

Method:
Mix the whisky, tarragon and sugar in the water. Chop up the bacon and place
the chicken, bacon and beef in a large bowl and pour over the whisky
marinade. Leave to soak overnight. Place the chicken etc in a large soup
pot. Chop up the leeks (reserve one) and onion and add to the pot. Salt and
pepper to taste. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for two hors, removing
any scum as required. Remove the chicken from the pot, remove skin and
bones. Chop the meat into small pieces and return to the pot. Cut up the
shin of beef, if required. Add the prunes and the last chopped leek and
simmer for 10 to 15 minutes. It will serve up to eight people.


And here is another -
- Arran Potato Salad

Although Ayrshire is traditionally the county where the best potatoes are
grown, Arran Chief is a particularly good, waxy variety, ideal for salads.
Of course, you can use any available variety which produces a firm, waxy
texture when cooked.

Ingredients:
10 waxy potatoes, diced
4 ounces (100g) shelled fresh peas (or frozen peas)
4 ounces cooked beetroot (red beets) diced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Two teaspoons chopped onion
One teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
Four tablespoons (60ml) salad dressing or salad cream
Fresh parsley to garnish
Method:
Boil the potatoes in salted water for ten minutes or until tender. Drain and
pat dry. Cook the peas separately for about five minutes or until tender and
then drain.
While the vegetables are still warm, mix together and stir in the chopped
parsley and onion and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Fold in the salad dressing (or salad cream) to moisten, and garnish with
sprigs of fresh parsley.

These are not my own recipes but copied from
http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/ ... _index.htm

Do you know, I found that very same site yesterday and was going to
draw it to the attention of scs but had to go out and forgot about it!
Go have a read and a nice wee slubber, (drool).

We Scots do not all eat cairiy-oots, (take away meals), ye ken, (you know).
Noo, awa an bile yer tatties.

As I read, I am nibbling on the remains of a smoked herring. Scots
food and cooking can hold its head high in any company. Even the great
Escoffier gave recipes in his seminal cookbook for Scotch broth,
Scotch egg sauce. Scotch Kale, Scotch pullet and Scotch woodcock.
(Scotch was the word of the time for Scots)

In culinary tems, to have a recipe selected by Escoffier for his
cookbook was like being knighted by God!

Only Paul Bocuse ever come close to his culinary expertise, in my
opinion, and I speak as one who had eaten in every three star
restaurant in Paris and others elsewhere. (Five star restaurants are
an American invention which no serious gourmet pays any attention to.)
It was an incredible experience, took me two weeks to eat at them all
and damn near bankrupted me, but I was determined to taste the very
best.

I saved Maxims for last, as in its day, it was considered the finest
restaurant in the world, as witness the thousands of overseas
restaurants which have borrowed the name to cash in on its reputation.

If it isn't in Paris and it's called Maxims, keep walking.

Séimí mac Liam

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Séimí mac Liam » 08 nov 2007 18:15:32

The Highlander <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in
news:53b6j3pq2ah2tpjl0atkutgu1qmnu5focm@4ax.com:

You can safely ignore Hogg. He's all agenda and wannabe ego.


Boys and girls, here is an excellent example of irony.

--
Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 18:19:46

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:41:41 -0800, Feck all sassanaigh
<seamusot@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 7, 4:11 pm, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Nov 6, 7:44 pm, HardySpicer <gyansor...@gmail.com> wrote:
...
As for toad in the hole etc this is a home food which I doubt you
would fine very often in most diners nowadays. In fact the US fast
food outlets are even worse than trad Brititsh food. eg is anything
worse than a McDonalds? Like cardboard and tomato sauce! Then KFC
which has dangerous amounts of fats (even though it does taste sort
of ok).
I wonder if you every looked into the idea of eating in Los Angeles at
a restaurant that wasn't a burger, chips etc place? There are quite a
few if you take the time to find them, but then if you want a burger
you go to a burger place.

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.

--

J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

British food is one the world's best oxymorons

Spoken like a true aficionado of corned beef and cabbage, Ireland's
greatest contribution to the destruction of dining enjoyment..

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 18:20:08

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:02:17 +1100, "Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com>
wrote:

British food is one the world's best
oxymorons




kewl

Cruel

The Highlander

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av The Highlander » 08 nov 2007 18:22:14

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 01:14:53 -0000, "Robert Peffers"
<peffers50@btinternet.com> wrote:

"a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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"Renia" <renia@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote in message
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D. Spencer Hines wrote:

"John Cartmell" <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f3da19bbdjohn@cartmell.demon.co.uk...


Weren't we talking about bacon butties? - or was that another thread.
In
any case a faggot (meat (usually liver), herbs, bread) would be a near
substitute.

Faggots? No one's eaten one of those in decades. They're used for
lighting bonfires these days, when they're not kissing their boyfriends.
You really are out of touch.


Sorry - had some the other day. Delicious when done well.

Surreyman



Aye bit thir Inglis onywey.

"No Quarter" Peffers strikes again!

James Hogg

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av James Hogg » 08 nov 2007 18:26:04

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:49:43 GMT, The Highlander <micheil@shaw.ca>
wrote:

Furthermore, I made no comment about your recent "poem", which I think
speaks to my incredible decency as it screamed to be booted around
before being put out of its misery.


Which "poem" are you referring to? I write so many.

I'm sorry that particular one failed to please you, Mike, but I thank
you for your lavish praise of some of my other pieces. Curious that
you only seem to appreciate the things I write under assumed names,
like Ilya Sonobavich Yugotanastikov.

James

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 08 nov 2007 19:25:10

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Utter Horse Manure...

Cousin Winston went to HARROW.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

Baldoni

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Baldoni » 08 nov 2007 19:48:02

Conway Caine used his keyboard to write :
"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public school
Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

The English Public School education, no doubt.

A simple typo but something that would not have happened had I not took
a blow to the head a couple of years ago.

--
Count Baldoni

Baldoni

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Baldoni » 08 nov 2007 19:51:20

The Highlander was thinking very hard :
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:04:47 GMT, "Conway Caine"
ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:


"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:PL2dnXgM783WZa_anZ2dnUVZ_t6onZ2d@comcast.com...
James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go. I
doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Ah, Turlough, I didn't realize you had gathered such a grand following from
amongst the Drum Pounders.............
(I'll bet you cut a fine figure with your sash and Bowler)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHXQgEVN0M

Turlough is the one beating the Lambeg drum... Note how his coat is
turned back to front!

Later he was spotted in a Shankhill Bar playing The Sash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoX5b1ooCnw&NR=1

And what would a good Catholic fellow like yourself be doing listening
to "The Sash" ?

--
Count Baldoni

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 08 nov 2007 20:54:23

Bryn wrote:

Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:


"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school

Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 08 nov 2007 20:55:04

The Highlander wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:02:17 +1100, "Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com
wrote:


British food is one the world's best
oxymorons




kewl


Cruel


Gruel.

Bryn

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Bryn » 08 nov 2007 21:43:36

Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:
The Highlander wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:02:17 +1100, "Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com
wrote:

British food is one the world's best oxymorons




kewl
Cruel


Gruel.

Fuel.

What's happening?

--
Bugrit!

Foul Old Ron.

Cory Bhreckan

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Cory Bhreckan » 08 nov 2007 22:40:13

Bryn wrote:
Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:
The Highlander wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:02:17 +1100, "Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com
wrote:

British food is one the world's best oxymorons




kewl
Cruel


Gruel.

Fuel.

What's happening?

Shut up you mule.




--
"For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed." - William Topaz McGonagall

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 08 nov 2007 23:54:29

Bryn wrote:
Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:

The Highlander wrote:

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:02:17 +1100, "Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com
wrote:

British food is one the world's best oxymorons




kewl

Cruel



Gruel.


Fuel.

Fool.

What's happening?

Dunno.

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 09 nov 2007 01:21:18

"Turlough" <turlough@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:PL2dnXgM783WZa_anZ2dnUVZ_t6onZ2d@comcast.com...
James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go. I
doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Oh! I Dunnow! The Lodge laughed at this one.

Mrs. O'Hare had a visit from Father O'Brian who had heard her little baby
was a a prodigy.
He asked for a demonstration and the good lady picked up an apple from the
fruit bowl and said to the baby, "Apple".
The baby replied, "Apple".
The surprised priest then picked up a banana and said, "Banana", and baby
replied, "Banana".
The priest said, " That's amazing", as he picked up an, "Orange and said,
"Orange".
The baby replied, "Bastard".

I'll get my coat!


--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

John Briggs

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av John Briggs » 09 nov 2007 02:13:56

Renia wrote:
Bryn wrote:

Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:


"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school

Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two
spelling mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize
for that - Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.

Einstein was hardly a dummy at school - true, he dropped out of high school
at 16, but that was in order to apply to university!
--
John Briggs

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 09 nov 2007 02:17:05

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


A simple typo but something that would not have happened had I not took
a blow to the head a couple of years ago.

You don't type with your fingers?

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 09 nov 2007 02:44:13

Robert Peffers wrote:

Oh! I Dunnow! The Lodge laughed at this one.

Mrs. O'Hare had a visit from Father O'Brian who had heard her little
baby was a a prodigy.
He asked for a demonstration and the good lady picked up an apple from
the fruit bowl and said to the baby, "Apple".
The baby replied, "Apple".
The surprised priest then picked up a banana and said, "Banana", and
baby replied, "Banana".
The priest said, " That's amazing", as he picked up an, "Orange and
said, "Orange".
The baby replied, "Bastard".

I'll get my coat!

Good one, Bob...:>)))

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 09 nov 2007 06:01:41

John Briggs wrote:

Renia wrote:

Bryn wrote:


Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:


"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...


On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:


Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:



You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school


Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two
spelling mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize
for that - Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman


And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.


Einstein was hardly a dummy at school - true, he dropped out of high school
at 16, but that was in order to apply to university!


For which he failed his entrance exam even though he excelled at maths
and physics. He left school without obtaining his certificate because
the family had left for Italy due to the failure of his father's
business. His father sent him to Italy to finish secondary school.

Gregory

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gregory » 09 nov 2007 06:07:27

Turlough wrote:
Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


A simple typo but something that would not have happened had I not
took a blow to the head a couple of years ago.


You don't type with your fingers?



My left arm is still gunked from a high speed descent into the third
lock on the Belfast - Lisburn canal,

I just thought I would point this out to everybody. When I was going
down I took my hand off the brakes, because in mid-air

That is what you do.

G.

Gregory

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gregory » 09 nov 2007 06:14:14

Renia wrote:
John Briggs wrote:

Renia wrote:

Bryn wrote:


Needing no introduction "an" Usenet stalwart wrote:


"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:5mh5j3pe7963h0tkrbgsfmote0sjvsu2cd@4ax.com...


On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:


Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:



You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public


school


Hines, **********



Ah, yes, good point...


LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two
spelling mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize
for that - Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman


And by his own admission was a crap speller...


Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.



Einstein was hardly a dummy at school - true, he dropped out of high
school at 16, but that was in order to apply to university!



For which he failed his entrance exam even though he excelled at maths
and physics. He left school without obtaining his certificate because
the family had left for Italy due to the failure of his father's
business. His father sent him to Italy to finish secondary school.



That was luckily before Amanda Knox got there.

G.

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 09 nov 2007 11:02:01

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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I speak as one who had eaten in every three star
restaurant in Paris and others elsewhere. (Five star restaurants are
an American invention which no serious gourmet pays any attention to.)
It was an incredible experience, took me two weeks to eat at them all
and damn near bankrupted me, but I was determined to taste the very
best.


There are only 4 or 5 aren't there?


Surreyman

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 09 nov 2007 11:11:42

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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:

Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:


You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school

Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman

And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.


Well, Winnie weren't not no Einstein!
But he was in fact excellent at English, history and fencing, which follows
........!

Surreyman

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 09 nov 2007 11:22:50

D. Spencer Hines wrote:


Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied International
Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any of
the allegedly First World Nations.


Just found this. (Dunno what the latest is.)


World’s Top 50 Restaurants 2005
Worldpress.org
May 30, 2005


Europe-based Restaurant Magazine recently revealed the 50 Best Restaurants in the World for 2005, chosen by an international panel of more than 600 impossible-to-please restaurateurs, chefs, food critics and industry experts.

The winner of the coveted number one spot was The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, Britain. The pioneering restaurant is famed for introducing the world to delicacies such as snail porridge, mussels in popcorn sauce, and bacon and egg ice cream. The bizarre-sounding dishes are part of The Fat Duck’s bid to create food that is both delicious and fun. In addition to “Best Restaurant in the World,” the Fat Duck also picked up an award for the second year in a row for “Best Restaurant in Europe.”

Of the top 50, 14 of the restaurants are in Britain. According to Restaurant Magazine, “There will be some who feel this year’s list is too London-centric, with 26 percent of the list given over to restaurants in and around the English capital.”

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 09 nov 2007 11:51:54

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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:


Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:



You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school


Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman


And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.



Well, Winnie weren't not no Einstein!
But he was in fact excellent at English, history and fencing, which follows

Fencing? This is true. He was a great DIY man. Well, he wasn't great at
it, but he loved it. I know some people who bought his daughter's house.
Winnie had a field day, building walls and whatnot. The people felt the
work was third-rate and have had everything re-done!

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 09 nov 2007 11:55:54

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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:


Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:



You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school


Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman


And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.



Well, Winnie weren't not no Einstein!
But he was in fact excellent at English, history and fencing, which
follows

Fencing? This is true. He was a great DIY man. Well, he wasn't great at
it, but he loved it. I know some people who bought his daughter's house.
Winnie had a field day, building walls and whatnot. The people felt the
work was third-rate and have had everything re-done!


He was good at getting rid of dodgy goods, too.

Surreyman

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 09 nov 2007 12:10:38

Gregory wrote:

My left arm is still gunked from a high speed descent into the third
lock on the Belfast - Lisburn canal,

I just thought I would point this out to everybody. When I was going
down I took my hand off the brakes, because in mid-air

That is what you do.

Were you just after participating in the happy hour activities at the
Brazen Arms before that perilous ride home? That is the question I would
ask...

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 09 nov 2007 16:28:47

Hilarious!

Desperate Renia Feebly Fights Back...

"Snail Porridge"...

"Mussels In Popcorn Sauce"...

And, for the _pièce de résistance_:

"Bacon and Egg Ice Cream"

No Wonder The English Have The Worst Food In The World Of Any Supposedly
First World Nation.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

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D. Spencer Hines wrote:

Damn!

You British really do eat TERRIBLE FOOD.

I'm talking about the Standard British Fare -- not that served in some
fancy, expensive restaurant in London that serves a rarefied
International Cuisine.

No wonder you have a Worldwide Reputation as having the WORST FOOD of any
of
the allegedly First World Nations.

Just found this. (Dunno what the latest is.)


World’s Top 50 Restaurants 2005
Worldpress.org
May 30, 2005

Europe-based Restaurant Magazine recently revealed the 50 Best
Restaurants in the World for 2005, chosen by an international panel of
more than 600 impossible-to-please restaurateurs, chefs, food critics and
industry experts.

The winner of the coveted number one spot was The Fat Duck in Bray,
Berkshire, Britain. The pioneering restaurant is famed for introducing
the world to delicacies such as snail porridge, mussels in popcorn sauce,
and bacon and egg ice cream. The bizarre-sounding dishes are part of The
Fat Duck’s bid to create food that is both delicious and fun. In addition
to “Best Restaurant in the World,” the Fat Duck also picked up an award
for the second year in a row for “Best Restaurant in Europe.”

Of the top 50, 14 of the restaurants are in Britain. According to
Restaurant Magazine, “There will be some who feel this year’s list is too
London-centric, with 26 percent of the list given over to restaurants in
and around the English capital.”

Deirdre Sholto Douglas

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Deirdre Sholto Douglas » 09 nov 2007 16:51:56

"a.spencer3" wrote:
"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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I speak as one who had eaten in every three star
restaurant in Paris and others elsewhere. (Five star restaurants are
an American invention which no serious gourmet pays any attention to.)
It was an incredible experience, took me two weeks to eat at them all
and damn near bankrupted me, but I was determined to taste the very
best.


There are only 4 or 5 aren't there?

There are now...in the early '80's there used to be six:

L'Archestrate
Le Grand Vefour
Lasserre
Taillevent
Tour d'Argent
Le Vivarois

Le Vivarois closed a while back, so barring some cheeky place
coming up through the ranks, only five are left.

L'Archestrate (assuming I'm thinking of the right place at
rue de Varenne and rue de Bourgogne) became L'Arpege but
ownership remained the same so I expect it's as pretentious
and self-important as it ever was...the wine is savagely over-
priced...just Highlander's sort of place.

As for "expensive", Grand Vefour is a good value from the
money, no more than the cost of a pair of concert tickets...
and the restaurant itself is stunning. Tour d'Argent is a
bargain (as long as one doesn't include the wine bill), about
130 Euros for two and a nice view. Taillevent may have
decent food, but it's filled with American tourists gasping
at the 400 Euro cost of their meal. Lasserre is lovely and
reasonably priced for what it is...about 300 Euros or so.
(And for my money, L'Olivier on Place Garibaldi deserves a
star or two for being the definitive great hole-in-the-wall
bistro.)

Nonetheless, the only way eating in all of them could bankrupt
someone is if that someone doesn't have much of an exche-
quer to begin with...and it certainly doesn't take a fortnight
unless one includes the wait for the reservation.

Deirdre

Gregory

Turlough interviews a darn 100 percent hero.

Legg inn av Gregory » 09 nov 2007 18:08:00

Turlough wrote:
Gregory wrote:

My left arm is still gunked from a high speed descent into the third
lock on the Belfast - Lisburn canal,

I just thought I would point this out to everybody. When I was going
down I took my hand off the brakes, because in mid-air

That is what you do.


Were you just after participating in the happy hour activities at the
Brazen Arms before that perilous ride home? That is the question I would
ask...


I tried to do it straight with the very best light tech that money could
buy, it all added to the bill as the poor old bike ham-fisted itself
into a sudden stop. I actually thought of the bike first and only when
my brain kicked in with a hi-dosage over-ride did 'DEATH ALERT'zip
between the few brain cells I devote to self-preservation.

The canal lock was like thirty feet deep!

I dialled 999 (911 for Micks) and was told by the Castereagh PSNI that
they had no 'current' map and as the path had not been used for
commercial purposes since 1798 or whatever I was probably going to have
to endure a loney demise. They called me back every so often to let me
know I was very much not doing it alone.

G.

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 09 nov 2007 18:33:28

D. Spencer Hines wrote:

Hilarious!

Desperate Renia Feebly Fights Back...

"Snail Porridge"...

"Mussels In Popcorn Sauce"...

And, for the _pièce de résistance_:

"Bacon and Egg Ice Cream"

These are all from the top Michelin 3-star restaurant in England.
Pretentious crap, I say. I hate nouvelle cuisine and arty-farty designer
food, so, DSH, I'm with you on this one.

In Greece, hubby has ice-cream with balsamic vinegar in one restaurant.
A strange combination, probably discovered accidentally, but hubby
reckons it tastes quite good.


No Wonder The English Have The Worst Food In The World Of Any Supposedly
First World Nation.


All the arty-farty Michelin 3-stars around the world have this kind of
pretentious food. You're obviously not a gourmet. Nor am I. I don't deny it.

Martin

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Martin » 09 nov 2007 20:39:11


SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

British food is one the world's best oxymorons


the worst thing about British food is that you get used to it so
fast :)

Baldoni

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Baldoni » 09 nov 2007 22:14:00

Renia explained on 09/11/2007 :
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:28:13 -0500, Turlough <turlough@comcast.net
wrote:


Baldoni <baldoniXXV wrote:



You should have had the privaledge of attending an English public

school


Hines, **********


Ah, yes, good point...

LOL!

Damn my eyes if the fellow isn't an old Wellingtonian, what?

Winston, who went to Wellington, would have cringed.

Actually it's quite an achievement as he managed to make two spelling
mistakes in the same word. Isn't there some sort of prize for that -
Italian citizenship or something equally squalid?




Winston went to Harrow.

Surreyman


And by his own admission was a crap speller...

Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.



Well, Winnie weren't not no Einstein!
But he was in fact excellent at English, history and fencing, which follows

Fencing? This is true. He was a great DIY man. Well, he wasn't great at it,
but he loved it. I know some people who bought his daughter's house. Winnie
had a field day, building walls and whatnot. The people felt the work was
third-rate and have had everything re-done!

I was told that when at school he relished a good game of "chase the
snake" after "lights out" and was indeed house champion during the time
he spent there.

--
Count Baldoni

Doug McDonald

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Doug McDonald » 09 nov 2007 22:46:44

Renia wrote:

"Snail Porridge"...

"Mussels In Popcorn Sauce"...

And, for the _pièce de résistance_:

"Bacon and Egg Ice Cream"

These are all from the top Michelin 3-star restaurant in England.
Pretentious crap, I say.

Probably. Do you folks get the US pay-TV network "FoodTV"?
Watch their show "Iron Chef America". That's fancy, very fancy,
very pretentious food. Yet when I have made the recipes it has been
uniformly wonderful. There are always groans when oddball
mixtures go into the ice cream machine, and these usually
get very bad reviews.

I once last summer ate at the restaurant of a winning (US) chef,
and the food was absolutely exquisite. The appetizer was
a mussels and clams dish, the main course was venison with
a nice sauce, served with truffle (very truffle!) "macaroni
and cheese" which was actually a different sort of pasta
with a cheese which I did not recognize. The dessert was
a very fancy flan. And they all were, on a 0-10 scale
for taste, 7 to 9, for presentation on a 0-5 scale,
unfortunately a low 2, and for originality the seafood and
dessrt were high, the others only moderate.

Now actually, I had better food down in Santiago Chile,
at a restaurant called Bristol. One appetizer, a seafood
soup dish, was the best appetizer I ever ate. I ate two meals
there, one a Christmas Eve banquet, and both were very very good indeed.

Doug McDonald

Doug McDonald

Michael Kuettner

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Michael Kuettner » 10 nov 2007 00:40:47

"Renia" schrieb
John Briggs wrote:

Renia wrote:
snip
Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.

Wrong.
Einstein wasn't a dummy at school.
There were disciplinary problems (spealing one's mind in the
Krautreich).


Einstein was hardly a dummy at school - true, he dropped out of high school
at 16, but that was in order to apply to university!

ETH Zürich, to be exact.

But since his family had moved to Milano and he liked to visit,
he failed in French.

For which he failed his entrance exam even though he excelled at maths and
physics.
He failed because of his lack of French.


He left school without obtaining his certificate because the family had left
for Italy due to the failure of his father's business.

Bullshit. He left school because of not fitting in the Kraut mold.

His father sent him to Italy to finish secondary school.

Bullshit again.

He made the "Abitur" in Aarau in _Switzerland_.
And then he went to the ETH.

If you insist on "correcting" "errors", learn some facts first.
(gyne - gynaika comes to mind).

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 nov 2007 10:56:10

On Nov 7, 8:11 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.

At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 10 nov 2007 10:57:14

jt_stewart@yahoo.com wrote:
On Nov 7, 8:11 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:


The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.


At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.


Only to Americans.

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 nov 2007 11:06:23

On Nov 10, 1:57 am, Renia <re...@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote:

At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.

Only to Americans.

I'm not an American.

Westprog

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Westprog » 10 nov 2007 14:28:37

jt_stewart@yahoo.com wrote:
On Nov 7, 8:11 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of
the good places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I
think it's fair to say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as
in some other places.

At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.

That's not my experience. In quantity, certainly. But where did they get the
idea that a one-inch thick stalk of brocoli was a salad ingredient?

The American diner is worth a visit, as is the drugstore - more for the
experience than the food. But that's the cheap end.


--



J/

SOTW: "Good Evening Mr. Waldheim " - Lou Reed

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 10 nov 2007 17:04:01

That's an intelligent appraisal.

DSH

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On Nov 7, 8:11 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the
good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.

At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 10 nov 2007 21:47:18

<jt_stewart@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 7, 8:11 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

The same pretty much applies to the British Isles. The standard of the
good
places is as good as anywhere in the world. However, I think it's fair to
say that the low-to-middle end isn't as good as in some other places.

At the high and low ends Irish/British and American food are
comparable. It's the middle where American food wins, both in quality
and variety.



That are you classing as Irish/British?
Is that Northern Ireland, the only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.
What are you classing as American food?
If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 nov 2007 23:25:01

On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British?
Is that Northern Ireland, the only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food?
If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 nov 2007 23:34:01

On Nov 10, 5:28 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

That's not my experience. In quantity, certainly. But where did they get the
idea that a one-inch thick stalk of brocoli was a salad ingredient?

The American diner is worth a visit, as is the drugstore - more for the
experience than the food. But that's the cheap end.


At the end of the day it comes down to taste. For me personally I like
the food here in America better.

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 11 nov 2007 02:12:42

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On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com
wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British?
Is that Northern Ireland, the only part of Ireland that is part of the
UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food?
If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.


In the first place Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh food is not really
that similar.
Unless, of course, you mean what they serve in the Global Chain places like
McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut.

Indeed, each area of England seems to have their own special recipes.
Furthermore, America is the continent that runs from the Arctic right down
to the Antarctic and has many different countries.
Are you suggesting they all cook the same things?
While I appreciate that the World's best dishes are copied and eaten the
World over and many cities have foreign, (to them), seating places, the
topic here was how the natives ate, mainly at home.

While I could go out to eat, or carry out, here in this small village,
Italian, Chinese, Indian and such things as Pizza and Kebabs this is not the
general way the residents eat on a daily basis.
Indeed, around these parts taking the children for a McDonald's is
considered as a special, once in a while, outing.
--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 11 nov 2007 02:35:54

<jt_stewart@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 10, 5:28 am, "Westprog" <westp...@hottmail.com> wrote:

That's not my experience. In quantity, certainly. But where did they get
the
idea that a one-inch thick stalk of brocoli was a salad ingredient?

The American diner is worth a visit, as is the drugstore - more for the
experience than the food. But that's the cheap end.


At the end of the day it comes down to taste. For me personally I like
the food here in America better.


So, now we know what you eat while away from home, what do you eat on a
daily basis though?
See that heading?
It states, "Terrible British food". Now I have eaten in homes on the English
South Downs and in homes all the way up to the Scottish North Coast and, on
not a few, of the Islands including the Channel Islands.
In none of them was I served anything like they serve in McDonalds, or even
the local Chippie or Chinese carry-out.
I have though, had a Devon Cream Tea in a Devon village, Roast Beef and
Yorkshire Pudding in a Yorkshire home, Arbroath Smokies in Arbroath, A
Forfar Bridie in Forfar and Cullen Skink in, if memory serve, Buckie.
I've also eaten a Jethart Snail in Jedburgh, but that's another story.
I've sat in a home in Anstruther and had the man of the house come home from
a day at sea and bring with him a lobster, among other things.
The locals usually do not spend their time eating in places that sell
terrible food - they know where the good stuff is when they eat out.
You eat in crummy places you get crummy food.
--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

Conway Caine

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Conway Caine » 11 nov 2007 15:52:58

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On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:04:47 GMT, "Conway Caine"
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James Hogg wrote:

anti-Italian obscenity snipped

When Turlough makes a joke about Baldoni's misspelling "privaledge",
your Loyal Orange Lodge applauds.

When John Briggs makes an intelligent joke about O'Hara's misspelling
"hypocracy" you call it a "Cheap, unfunny shot".

Is this "abyssmal" inconsistency due to your habitual racial
prejudice?

Baldoni's error was unbelievable, as he made it while upbraiding DSH for
not being *nglish schooled. O'Hara has previously told us that he has a
legitimate physical problem with typing, so we don't harass him. O'Hara
and I are both Americans, and are certainly the recipients of more than
our share of Highlander's Yank angst. Highlander is an equal opportunity
poster. Nearly everyone takes one on the chin now and then, except Auld
Bob, because he tends to become a pit bull when riled, and won't let go.
I
doubt if the *range Lodge has ever laughed at anything I've ever
written...

Ah, Turlough, I didn't realize you had gathered such a grand following
from
amongst the Drum Pounders.............
(I'll bet you cut a fine figure with your sash and Bowler)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulHXQgEVN0M

Turlough is the one beating the Lambeg drum... Note how his coat is
turned back to front!

Later he was spotted in a Shankhill Bar playing The Sash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoX5b1ooCnw&NR=1

Boy Turlough?
Never!!!

Conway Caine

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Conway Caine » 11 nov 2007 16:00:38

"Séimí mac Liam" <gwyddon@comcast.nospam.net> wrote in message
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The Highlander <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in
news:53b6j3pq2ah2tpjl0atkutgu1qmnu5focm@4ax.com:

You can safely ignore Hogg. He's all agenda and wannabe ego.


Boys and girls, here is an excellent example of irony.

JAMES, WHY IS TURLOUGH GETTING MY SPUDS???????????

Turlough

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Turlough » 11 nov 2007 16:35:19

Conway Caine wrote:

Later he was spotted in a Shankhill Bar playing The Sash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoX5b1ooCnw&NR=1

Boy Turlough?
Never!!!

Turlough Boy was what the auld ones called me. After routing the
O'Donnels, it became Turlough Mor. I was forced to drop the Mor after
using this cheap keyboard that won't do fadas. It was not from modesty,
I assure you. Anyway, that musician had more hair than me...

jl

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av jl » 11 nov 2007 21:17:02

In article <lZCdndJTYdzdyqvaRVnyigA@bt.com>, Robert Peffers
<peffers50@btinternet.com> wrote:
jt_stewart@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1194733501.823565.131730@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British? Is that Northern Ireland, the
only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food? If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.


In the first place Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh food is not really
that similar. Unless, of course, you mean what they serve in the Global
Chain places like McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut.

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen

--

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Limavady and the Roe Valley
http://www.jochenlueg.freeuk.com

Feck all sassanaigh

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Feck all sassanaigh » 11 nov 2007 21:36:12

On Nov 11, 8:16 pm, jl <j...@spamnet.co.uk> wrote:
In article <lZCdndJTYdzdyqvaRVny...@bt.com>, Robert Peffers





peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:
jt_stew...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1194733501.823565.131730@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British? Is that Northern Ireland, the
only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food? If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.

In the first place Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh food is not really
that similar. Unless, of course, you mean what they serve in the Global
Chain places like McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut.

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen

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- Show quoted text -

Jochen

Go easy on the home cocking - people might not fully understand that
you are preparing Coq au Vin..

D. Spencer Hines

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 11 nov 2007 22:09:14

Bingo!

DSH

"jl" <jl@spamnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:4f403c1638jl@spamnet.co.uk...

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen

Renia

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Renia » 11 nov 2007 23:24:12

jt_stewart@yahoo.com wrote:

On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com
wrote:


That are you classing as Irish/British?
Is that Northern Ireland, the only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.


No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.


What are you classing as American food?
If you mean Mexican, perhaps.


Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.

Anything available in Britain includes American, French, Turkish, Greek,
Indian, Thai, etc, etc, etc, food.

So, would you like to re-define American food or would you like to
re-define British food?

John Briggs

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av John Briggs » 12 nov 2007 00:59:32

Michael Kuettner wrote:
John Briggs wrote:
Renia wrote:
snip
Like Einstein, Churchill was a dummy at school.

Wrong.
Einstein wasn't a dummy at school.
There were disciplinary problems (spealing one's mind in the
Krautreich).

Einstein was hardly a dummy at school - true, he dropped out of
high school at 16, but that was in order to apply to university!

ETH Zürich, to be exact.

I decided that "university" was the least misleading translation. I suppose
I could have said "college".
--
John Briggs

John Briggs

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av John Briggs » 12 nov 2007 01:01:55

D. Spencer Hines wrote:
Bingo!


What do you mean, "Bingo!"? Was it the "home cocking" gag? [pun
intended...]
--
John Briggs

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 12 nov 2007 01:02:57

"jl" <jl@spamnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:4f403c1638jl@spamnet.co.uk...
In article <lZCdndJTYdzdyqvaRVnyigA@bt.com>, Robert Peffers
peffers50@btinternet.com> wrote:
jt_stewart@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1194733501.823565.131730@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British? Is that Northern Ireland, the
only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food? If you mean Mexican, perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.


In the first place Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh food is not really
that similar. Unless, of course, you mean what they serve in the Global
Chain places like McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut.

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen

--

------------------------------------
Limavady and the Roe Valley
http://www.jochenlueg.freeuk.com

Methinks we may have a little clue as to the standards from your description
of the music.
As I pointed out before, the locals know where NOT to eat.
--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

Robert Peffers

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Robert Peffers » 12 nov 2007 01:04:25

"Feck all sassanaigh" <seamusot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194813372.344349.242940@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 11, 8:16 pm, jl <j...@spamnet.co.uk> wrote:
In article <lZCdndJTYdzdyqvaRVny...@bt.com>, Robert Peffers





peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:
jt_stew...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1194733501.823565.131730@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 10, 12:47 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com
wrote:

That are you classing as Irish/British? Is that Northern Ireland,
the
only part of Ireland that is part of the UK.

No, I mean Irish and British food, as they're very similar.

What are you classing as American food? If you mean Mexican,
perhaps.

Anything available in America, so yes, Mexican is included.

In the first place Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh food is not
really
that similar. Unless, of course, you mean what they serve in the Global
Chain places like McDonald's, KFC or Pizza Hut.

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels
they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen

--

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Limavady and the Roe Valley
http://www.jochenlueg.freeuk.com- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Jochen

Go easy on the home cocking - people might not fully understand that
you are preparing Coq au Vin..


Coq au van - isn't that chicken as served from a mobile snack bar?
--
Auld Bob Peffers,
Kelty,
Fife,
Scotland, (UK).

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 12 nov 2007 03:49:45

On Nov 11, 2:24 pm, Renia <re...@DELETEotenet.gr> wrote:

Anything available in Britain includes American, French, Turkish, Greek,
Indian, Thai, etc, etc, etc, food.

Yes I know.

So, would you like to re-define American food or would you like to
re-define British food?

My definitions include everything available in each respective
country, regardless of origin. And I still fell there's a much better
selection of medium level places in the States versus the British
Isles.

Gjest

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av Gjest » 12 nov 2007 05:10:15

On Nov 10, 5:35 pm, "Robert Peffers" <peffer...@btinternet.com> wrote:

So, now we know what you eat while away from home, what do you eat on a
daily basis though?

I actually eat out quite a lot, to be honest. When I do cook, I try to
keep it varied. My skill isn't that great though, it's one of the many
things that I will work on when I get the time, if ever .
To answer your main point, home cooking is always better than fast
food, no disagreement there.
As for "Terrible British Food", I never said it was. All I said was
that there's a much greater range of reasonably priced, decent quality
mid-range places to eat out in the States than in the UK ( or in
Ireland). It's one of the main things that struck me when I moved
here, and I had lived in London just prior to that.

a.spencer3

Re: Terrible British Food

Legg inn av a.spencer3 » 12 nov 2007 11:22:01

"D. Spencer Hines" <panther@excelsior.com> wrote in message
news:9cKZi.492$Ig4.2379@eagle.america.net...
Bingo!

DSH

"jl" <jl@spamnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4f403c1638jl@spamnet.co.uk...

The one thing I never liked about these isles is the food - equally
indigestible in all the above named places. Even in the better hotels
they
can fry a steak - who can't? - but once it gets down to the vegetables
or
more refined ways of preparing food all hope fades.

Add to that the noisy atrocious music blasted at you when you try to
swallow the mess - it makes you long for either France or home cocking.

This is an entirely personal opinion of course.

Jochen



Frying a steak must be one of the most appalling examples of cuisine.

Surreyman

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