UK! What pops into your head?

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by Oerdin




Few countries can offer a steak any where near as good as those you can find in just about any city or town in America.

And who says americans think they do everything better then everyone else

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Fusion cuisine makes me ill.

Mixing Chinese food with Italian sauce? :vomit:

It's actually a mixture of American, European, and Asia flavors. It's very good if the chief knows what he's doing.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Haven't you heard? Eidos Interactive is bankrupt. Besides even on their best day they didn't make 1% of what Microsoft, IBM, or Lotus's software departments made and most of the big game makers reside in the US or Japan. The UK does have a nice cotage game industry though.

Well, show your ignorance for all to laugh at... who makes the game isn't the same thing as the name on the box.

Core Design are still doing very nicely, thank you, and as for the GTA lot, they're still hanging out in Scotland.

[Dinner]

Take it up with the BBC because they were the one's who said Eidos made Tomb Raider and they said Eidos was bankrupt.

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

Is this supposed to be a good thing? I seem to recall Rome had pretty good food as it imploded into lead-poisoned barbarised ruin.

Rome had its lead, we've got our estrogen mimicing organic pesticide residues, heavy metal buildup, nitrate contamination, etc etc etc....

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by MikeH


That as well, and as you mentioned it, it was rebelling against the British government that directly led to the foundation of the US as a nation. So your argument is actually supporting mine not contradicting it.

British government directly led to the foundation of the American colonies - not US as a nation. The extent of British influence on the development of the US as a nation is confined to the writings of Locke and Hobbes..

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


Well done Molly Bloom on picking up the typo but I think I see an even larger flaw...Ulysses is by James Joyce, who is Irish

The novel, 'Ulysses' is indeed by James Joyce, who although born in what is now Eire, was actually a citizen of the British Empire.

One of the virtues of the Irish is that like the Iranians beaten by the Arabs, they later on conquered their conquerors with their civilizing gifts.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
'The beau monde brand of cooking that is gracing restaurant menus across the country is called "new American cuisine."

There is no avoiding a simple conclusion: Whatever else may be true of our cultural condition, future gourmands, "foodies," and social historians alike will conclude that by the end of the twentieth century, the golden age of cooking and eating was upon us.'

Oh yeah.

" Today I have tasted a Hardees Monster Thickburger.

It is the Greatest Burger ever.

2 x 1/3 Angus patties
16 Strips of Bacon
Mayo
3 slices of Cheese "

from booger's king of kings thread.

[mindseye]

When I think of the UK, COOL is what pops into my head.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Oerdin


It's actually a mixture of American, European, and Asia flavors. It's very good if the chief knows what he's doing.

"chef"

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Oerdin

What about roast turkey or apple pie or or New England Clam Chowder or dozens of other uniquely American foods?

Few countries can offer a steak any where near as good as those you can find in just about any city or town in America.

I'm sorry Oerdin old bean, but you've lost the plot.

There is nothing 'uniquely' American about roast turkey. In fact, not long after the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, the Spanish were shipping the bird back to Europe where it soon started supplanting the goose as fare on holy days. Domesticated turkeys were in fact shipped from Europe to colonies in North America.

If you'd said, for instance Mole poblano de Guajolote, or a whole turkey tamale (as served by Caribbean Indians to Columbus and later Spanish settlers) you might be barking up the right tree. As it is, Europeans in Europe were eating roast turkey before the United States were even thought of.

And where do you think clam chowder originated ? Try Cornish and French/Breton sailors. In fact, its roots go even further back- a seafood/shellfish stew or soup with milk would have been eaten on any of the fish days prescribed by the Mediaeval Christian calendar- there's a recipe for 'Caudel of Musculs to Potage' in the recipe collection 'The Forme of Cury' copied by the scribes of Richard II of England- the compilation dates to about 1399, although the recipes are of earlier derivation.

I believe that 'Le Viandier' a cookery book collated by Guillaume Tiral or Taillevent and dated 1380, has a similar recipe. 'Caudel' and 'chowder' derive from the same Latin root as the French 'chaudiere' .

Now the apple pie thing is utterly hilarious- again, Kent and Somerset in England alone are renowned for their varieties of apples, and I can attest to the delicious taste of succulent fragrant spiced Dutch apple pie, redolent of cloves and sweetened with dried fruit.
Now remind me- wasn't New York once New Amsterdam?

Hmm... I'm sensing a connection.

As for the steak- you should travel more. Argentina and Brazil and Uruguay all have restaurants solely devoted to meat dishes, or cuts of meat. Australia and New Zealand can also boast plentiful supplies of world class beef.


Next you'll be claiming Americans invented eating.

http://www.thousandeggs.com/glossary.html

http://www.psgrill.net/Encyclopedia/ENCYCLOPEDIA.html

[MikeH]

Originally posted by bfg9000


British government directly led to the foundation of the American colonies - not US as a nation. The extent of British influence on the development of the US as a nation is confined to the writings of Locke and Hobbes..

Without us you'd be nothing! Get over it!

[The Mad Monk]

Our cuisine is as old as the oldest cuisine we've assimilated.

[MikeH]

Cuisine is a French word defined as the French history/tradition of cooking. It's deliberately defined as such so that no-one else's food heritage can quite match up to it so they can declare theirs superior.

[Dinner]

to the people who claim America never invented any cuisine. I've traveled to numerous countries and can attest that there is a unique combination of food and flavors here..