Posted on 10/26/2007 11:23:43 AM PDT by the scotsman
Who needs fancy food when you can have the delights of Marmite, PG Tips and Fray Bentos? Last updated at 00:40am on 26th October 2007
'Gravy, PG Tips, Jammie Dodgers, Brown Sauce - the British have one of the most esoteric culinary tastes in the world. Now, award-winning food writer Nigel Slater has written a book celebrating this eccentric culture and choosing his favourites...
Great British traditions include dripping, OXO cubes and trifle..'
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of course, vegetarian-style Haggis are the best (made from organically fed sheep stomachs)
Heaven is an American salary, an English house, a Chinese cook and a Japanese wife.
Hell is a Chinese salary, a Japanese house, an English cook and an American wife. ;)
‘I believe the full version is: Heaven has British police, German engineers, French cooking. Hell has British cooking, French engineers and German police.’
No Americans in heaven then? Obviously God isn’t a fan of Big Macs! ;-)
I just got back from World Market, where I got PG Tips (tea bags), Jammie Dodgers (shortbread cookies sandwiched with a sticky strawberry jam), and gravy mix (Mmmm...Bisto). I also got a bunch of overpriced, but tasty, English candy and a few tins of british baked beans, $1.79 a pop. I blame my English mother for raising me with expensive tastes :D
‘Not even Britain has many British restaurants. The place if overrun with Italian and French restaurants, and, of course, curry shops.’
Does America have American resaurants then? And do they actually serve American food or imported English dishes like roast beef, apple pie, sandwiches and bacon and eggs? :)
I disagree....
HEAVEN is when
The police are English
The cooks are French
The mechanics are German
The lover are Italian
Everything is organized by Swiss
HELL is when
The police are German
The cooks are English
The mechanics are French
The lovers are Swiss
and everything is organized by Italianos
I have never been there, but my son goes there quite often.
He tells me there isn’t a vegatable that they cannot ruin.
His friend from Great Britain tells me that American fish and chips are far better due to the fish we use and the grease content.
‘The only two people I know who’ve been to England both said you can’t find a good steak there. I just wouldn’t want to live in a world like that.’
You need to speak a few more people who know what they are talking about! :)
I’ve travelled all over America and never had a steak that was even close to the Aberdeen Angus cattle my friend rears in his local fields and butchers into perfect fillet steaks with the added benefit of not tasting of MR Monsanto’s best USDA growth hormones, which means I can eat steak everyday and not grow breasts! :)
I grew up in the UK, surviving to adulthood in spite of the food. I joined the US Army, became a citizen, and moved to Texas mostly for barbecue and Tex-Mex.
Perhaps our native cuisine did play a role in making Britain great, though.
I have a theory that Drake, Hawkins, and all the other great explorers and colonizers fanned out across the globe mostly because they were looking for something decent to eat.
‘They have to be the most gaseous nation on Earth, what with beans on virtually everything, even curry, as well as very eggy things, everything is eggy! The Scots even deep-fry hard-boiled eggs (hence the name Scotch eggs, it took me a while to figure that one out until I had the courage to ask because there is no way in Hell I’ll be eating one anytime soon) :-)’
I can happily swallow criticism of English food from the French and Italians, but not from the home of the corndog where people seem to think bright orange plastic strips constitute cheese and serve it on everything, including their bloody eggs for breakfast! :D
“I have a theory that Drake, Hawkins, and all the other great explorers and colonizers fanned out across the globe mostly because they were looking for something decent to eat.”
They were definitely looking for some spices in the East.
That’s a good one.
MMMM! You mean the kind you pump out of a machine and apply like window caulking?! HA HA! Actually, you do have a point, it’s just because I’ve been over in England for the past few years so the cuisine is current for me. However, I do concur about American “cheese food” that they can’t even label as real cheese as it has a shelf life of 7 years! And, lest I forget Frito Pie and bean dip...Oh, dear, now there’s lots of memories flooding in, Thanks alot! :p
And in my “defense”, I did live in New Orleans before coming over here, and the food there is exquisite (or it was, haven’t been back since that bitch Katrina)...Just joking with my spelling...
Does America have American resaurants then? And do they actually serve American food or imported English dishes like roast beef, apple pie, sandwiches and bacon and eggs? :)
Yes, we do! Aren’t hamburgers American? And how about Philly cheesesteaks, lobster and other seafood, California-style organic gourmet food, southwestern food, BBQ in all its forms, beef aplenty, and foods that are the result of our melting pot! (I’m getting hungry for a corn dog, LOL!)
There is no comparison to British bacon and American bacon.
The British bacon I had made American bacon look like scraps.
I disagree about the Italian problem of organization. Do you see what I’m saying?
I watched that particular show and - while I loved it - it left me permanently scarred.
They made a sausage meatloaf and they lined the pan with strips of bacon!
There was more oil in that pan than the Exxon Valdez carried! They were a lot of fun to watch!
You never heard of McDonalds??? :-))
And actually, I will say that there is nothing like a nice country Pub lunch after a day of trawling through the countryside running around castles, which is why I love it here so much...Okay, okay, there is some good grub in England!
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