Posted on 10/26/2013 3:42:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We were on a tour of Scotland and haggis was on the menu. I follow my Dad’s policy of trying anything, and the haggis wasn’t bad. Although the Scottish waitor gave me a funny look...
OK, OK. I was talking mostly about the beef, the mushy vegetables, and the eggs and bacon. Mostly the mushy vegetables and the beef and the eggs and bacon.
I spent a few days in Britain, and had a hard time finding anything decent to eat. It was all fish and chips.
The blood sausage is really good stuff if you like black pepper.
French food is for people with no teeth.
I attended a banquet held at the end of a medical team competition in England. The main course was pork chops.
Mine was so tough I broke a molar trying to chew the first bite. The next day I had to fly back to Alaska. It was Memorial Day weekend so I couldn’t see a dentist for 5 days. Judging by the local teeth I saw over there I don’t think there are any dentists in England at all.
Ah yes, British food...
No fish & chips, nor bangers & mash, but traditional meat dishes, potatoes, roasts, lamb, pork, gravys, tasty traditional british breakfasts, and wonderful desert carts. No complaints. All well done. Tasty. It made me wonder why their reputation was so bad. I suppose because of the relative simplicity of the dishes compared to the saucy french.
Speaking of which, I finally got a job.
I’m working for St. Halibut’s Fish and Chips.
Right now, I’m just a Chip Monk, I’m hoping to work my way up to Fish Friar, and with luck, some day maybe even up to ...
Lord of the Fries!
“... and the haggis wasn’t bad. Although the Scottish waitor gave me a funny look...”
Why anyone would think that the ground organs of a sheep mixed with oats and boiled in said sheep’s stomach is anything but delicious I do not understand.
After 5 or 6 shots of Scotch whiskey toasting Robert Burns I could have eaten anything... and I think I did!
Blasphemer!
You’re right. What was I thinking?
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It’s about time that jughead English prince stopped bashing American food (and American anything else).
It was W. Somerset Maugham who wrote that if you wanted to eat well in England, you needed to eat breakfast three times a day. That was a long time ago but I don’t things have changed all that much since.
I don’t know what British food was like 50 years ago, but its is great now. Everything imaginable is available and great fusion cuisine
Say what you like, but French cars last forEVER. (lol oh wait. Maybe that’s why you said hell.)
...a famous Scottish restaurant. In fact, this Scottish cuisine is readily available in the U.S. as well. It is called, “McDonalds”.
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Wouldn’t that be Irish? It’s “Mc”, which is why Irish immigrants to America were often referred to as “Micks”.
I think it’s the “Mac”s that are the Scots.
Of course, in my genealogy serchin’ I found there was a lot of migration between Scotland and Ireland, so I guess either of them could be of either nationality.
Gallic food does not agree with me.
British, Irish, um - no Scot experience to evaluate, Italian, German, um - no on Iberian food, yes on Slavic and Romani, but nothing from the Land of Gaul interests me.
It was THEY who foisted upon the rest of the world, that eight-inch blade, that for many, including myself here, is too darn big and cumbersome. The standard G.I.-blade is no more than 7 1/4 inches long. (Why else would all those smaller plastic-covered knives on QVC always sell out?)
I don’t think I could order ‘spotted dick’ with a straight face.
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