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Originally posted by Victor Galis
What's wrong with English cooking?
What's wrong with English cooking?
The moral of this story: don't be an ass.
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An ancient Greek philosopher once told a tale of a donkey, who was kept by his owner in a small hut, filled with foul ordure and with sparse ventilation. The donkey was happy after his fashion, and refused to leave the hut, even though his friend the badger assured him that it stank. The donkey claimed that he couldn't smell anything and that the flies and maggots were good company.
The moral of this story: don't be an ass.Only feebs vote. -
The second moral of the story is that ancient Greek donkeys and journalists writing in a time of wartime austerity might not be best-placed to comment on it.
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Jesus... when the Indians turned up, you all jumped ship to curry. What more damning indictment of English food could there be?Only feebs vote.Comment
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Dinner today will be two prime ribs of organic Aberdeen Angus. I will be seasoning it with sea salt, black pepper, wild garlic, lemon thyme and a little olive oil, then searing it at 230 degrees C for 30 minutes. Then I'll be cooking it for a further 35 minutes at 160 degrees C, before allowing it to rest for a further 30 minutes.
It will be served in a gravy made from the roast's juices, coupled with my own home-made beef stock and a dash of red wine- thickened with plain cornflour.
It will be served with rosemary-roasted potatoes, roasted leeks, broccolli and carrots, and accompanied with a bottle of Bass.
May all of you denigrating British cuisine dine even half so well tonight.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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There's been a big revival in traditional English foods over recent years. However the huge multicutural input to British foods means that in just about any British city, the world's cuisine is on offer.Originally posted by Agathon
Jesus... when the Indians turned up, you all jumped ship to curry. What more damning indictment of English food could there be?
Try that in Paris.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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Go to Toronto..Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
There's been a big revival in traditional English foods over recent years. However the huge multicutural input to British foods means that in just about any British city, the world's cuisine is on offer.
Try that in Paris.
...I haven't been in the UK for a number of years, so I don't know what's going on lately other than the football results (here's hoping the lads stuff Chelsea this evening). Still the world's best league system.
The inefficiency of the place irks me sometimes, but that is part of its charm I suppose. I don't think I could live there. Academic salaries are a joke in Britain, and the place tends to drive me nuts. Say what you want about the Canadians, but they never messed me around.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Colon cancer FTL (says the heavy smokerOriginally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Dinner today will be two prime ribs of organic Aberdeen Angus. I will be seasoning it with sea salt, black pepper, wild garlic, lemon thyme and a little olive oil, then searing it at 230 degrees C for 30 minutes. Then I'll be cooking it for a further 35 minutes at 160 degrees C, before allowing it to rest for a further 30 minutes.
It will be served in a gravy made from the roast's juices, coupled with my own home-made beef stock and a dash of red wine- thickened with plain cornflour.
It will be served with rosemary-roasted potatoes, roasted leeks, broccolli and carrots, and accompanied with a bottle of Bass.
May all of you denigrating British cuisine dine even half so well tonight.
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... and you'll succeed.Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Try that in Paris."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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I suppose having lived in Atlanta for awhile, I can't imagine how it could possibly be hard to find any sort of strange and exotic cuisine in a large city. That is the only good thing I will say about it."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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@Laz
We have a breakfast that even my French friends love, the mighty roast dinner, and for lunch the Earl of Sandwich invented the, er, sandwich to eat while playing chess - fast food for strategy gamers!
That ain't bad going.
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To make things more 'poly-friendly then may I suggest that we adopt the Greek pronunciation of our next king's old man?Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Of course, the irony in attempting to reproduce Received Pronunciation (ie- Posh English) is that it originated as an attempt to mimic the mangled prot-German accents of the Royal Family.Comment
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Howay Maan!! We should aal be taakin Geordie, reet?Originally posted by duke o' york
To make things more 'poly-friendly then may I suggest that we adopt the Greek pronunciation of our next king's old man?
Lookin forward t' the Toon versus Evil Russian Gangster United, DOY?Only feebs vote.Comment
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Why aye bonny lad. Hee-ya Slurr, wus all gan doon tha Bigg Market fur ta sup a cupple for tha match - jas wanna join wer?Comment
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I took some friends to the Bigg Market once. They didn't believe that such women existed until then...Originally posted by duke o' york
Why aye bonny lad. Hee-ya Slurr, wus all gan doon tha Bigg Market fur ta sup a cupple for tha match - jas wanna join wer?Only feebs vote.Comment
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I thought we weren't allowed to have foreign-language threads
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