Fellowship and general chat Part 1

[Criada]

Black pudding is good... as long as you don't think too hard about it..

 

[porterross]

I forgot baked beans! I don't deserve to call myself English

Have you ever tried black pudding, lady?

Nope. I have determined that if FH won't eat it, I shouldn't try. That's been safe, except for Branston Pickle.

I rather enjoy fried Mars bars, though. I guess it's in me blood.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Black pudding is good... as long as you don't think too hard about it..

What does it taste like?

Nope. I have determined that if FH won't eat it, I shouldn't try. That's been safe, except for Branston Pickle.

I rather enjoy fried Mars bars, though. I guess it's in me blood.

Branston Pickle is a fine and noble thing! Not to mention yummy! What about proper country ploughman's lunch? Big slab of cheddar, crusty bread and Branston pickly goodness

(Also, what is FH, please?)

 

[WalksWithChrist]

English food is much maligned and under-rated, Jimminy.

You've not lived til you're had an English breakfast, and Cornish vanilla ice-cream, and scones with fresh cream and homemade strawberry jam, and fish and chips wrapped up in a piece of newspaper as you walk along the pier... we have yummy food. It just isn't particularly... classy We sort of plumb the depths of cuisine, really. But! It could be worse. In Scotland they have a habit of deep frying everything. *Everything*.

Deep fried battered chocolate bar, anyone?

That all sounds yummy! Even the deep fried critter there.

 

[MN John]

That scares me!

 

[porterross]

Branston Pickle is a fine and noble thing! Not to mention yummy! What about proper country ploughman's lunch? Big slab of cheddar, crusty bread and Branston pickly goodness

I'll stick with a Cornish pasty or some shepherd's pie, thanks.

(Also, what is FH, please?)

Future hubby, of course.

 

[Zecryphon]

English food is much maligned and under-rated, Jimminy.

You've not lived til you're had an English breakfast, and Cornish vanilla ice-cream, and scones with fresh cream and homemade strawberry jam, and fish and chips wrapped up in a piece of newspaper as you walk along the pier... we have yummy food. It just isn't particularly... classy We sort of plumb the depths of cuisine, really. But! It could be worse. In Scotland they have a habit of deep frying everything. *Everything*.

Deep fried battered chocolate bar, anyone?

Having been to England and having sampled your local fare I can say that it's not actually underrated. It's rated as it should be. There's a reason that the second thinnest book in the world is "Great Chefs of England". "Great Chefs of Ireland" is the first.

 

[Nadiine]

If I ate food like what's pictured there, I'd be BLIMP.

I'd like to know what types of healthy food they have.

 

[porterross]

If I ate food like what's pictured there, I'd be BLIMP.

I'd like to know what types of healthy food they have.

Well, there's sprouts and peas.

 

[Rhamiel]

ohhh shepherds pie!!! there is a dinner run by Turks and they make great shepherds pie!!! very fine ground beef (maybe a little lamb added too?) nice spices and peas, I add a little pad of butter ontop of the potatos because A. i like rich food and B. it is hotter then the surface of the sun when it comes out

 

[WalksWithChrist]

Shepherd's pie rulz!!

 

[porterross]

Yep and lamb is my now my preference over beef.
Besides, I want more flokatis to keep my feet warm.

Seriously, though, the food in England is fine and apart from a few things that aren't easily found in the grocery stores, it's not that much different. Doritos, Pepsi & Coke and many other foods we take for granted here can be found. Oh and the grocery stores deliver.

What I enjoy is all the new and more varied Chinese and Indian dishes that I've never heard of before and within our neighborhood there are enough different takeaways that my palate will never get bored. If I eat as many prawn crackers as I want to, I'll have to run there and back to balance out the caloric intake, though. Man, are those good!

 

[Rhamiel]

awwww, i am at school and out of cash, so all i can do is get caffateria food...
and it is so bad, I am kinda a gluton (in the orthodox way C.S. Lewis uses it not the modern way that just reduces the sin to over eating)

 

[AnneSally]

If I ate food like what's pictured there, I'd be BLIMP.

I'd like to know what types of healthy food they have.

Not much. Here in NZ they make the most wonderful salads, they come up with the most yummy combinations, and when I visited back home a few years ago I really wanted to eat salads but everytime I ordered them they were yuck.

Stodge food is the best over there. So I just lived on Cornish Pasties and F&C's instead because that is good.

In their defense though, the food has definitely improved, it used to be shocking, but it has gotten better than I remember (except the salads). And they serve up some of the best Indian food ever, Brits go nuts for curry, I think they've named it the national dish now.

 

[AnneSally]

English food is much maligned and under-rated, Jimminy.

You've not lived til you're had an English breakfast, and Cornish vanilla ice-cream, and scones with fresh cream and homemade strawberry jam, and fish and chips wrapped up in a piece of newspaper as you walk along the pier... we have yummy food.

I agree! And who can resist a sticky toffee pudding?

Hello Munchkin

 

[AnneSally]

What does it taste like?

Horrible. bleh. I don't like it. Congealed blood studded with bits of fat, just the thought makes me want to vomit. It's a blood sausage...urgh, I think I am gonna puke....

 

[AnneSally]

Black pudding is good... as long as you don't think too hard about it..

LOL! And keep your eyes shut as you shovel it in....

 

[AnneSally]

Well, there's sprouts and peas.

LOL! Hilarious, yeah that's about it.

 

[AnneSally]

True story -
me & my husband had to stop by a business friend's house to pick something up there.

We hadn't seen his wife in well over a year & she had definitely put some weight on...
My husband in his tact & wisdom asks her if she's pregnant.

She replies "no".

AWKWARD MOMENTS.........

Oink oink.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Hey, can anyone tell me something, please? How easy/hard/HAHAHA!!!!1! is it to emigrate to the States now?