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11647. angel-five - 10/12/2004 6:44:59 PM It was odd to see beer and 'lemonade' shandies being sold in a vending machine like soda. I tried one just to try it. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but, still pretty bad. At least it didn't have innards in it. 11648. Jenerator - 10/12/2004 7:10:04 PM I must have had some serious luck because the food I had in England was great. The produce and meats were fresh and the cheeses and creams were incredible.
I, too, ate a ton of Indian food - all of which was excellent, and the home-cooked meals I had at friend's homes was very, very good.
A typical dinner would be: a fresh fruit appetizer followed by a meal of shepherds pie (or lamb), potatoes or rhubarb, peas and bread. Dessert was a delicious trifle, followed by an assortment of cheeses and dessert wine.
I knew the guy that owned a good fish and chips shop - so the fisha nd chips I had was always fresh.
The pubs we ate at had good food, too.
I stayed away from places that specialized in offals or greasy pastries. 11649. Ms. No - 10/12/2004 7:31:44 PM HA!!
You just made me spench!
heh, innards, heh heh.
snort.
Gah!
Cornish pasty, yes!!! Shandies, bleh. I could happily have swilled cider for the rest of my days in Glastonbury 11650. Jenerator - 10/12/2004 11:21:28 PM I never really liked shandies, either. 11651. wonkers2 - 10/13/2004 3:14:54 AM Joy in the wonkers household! Our youngest son announced his engagement to a beautiful and brilliant Indian-American girl! Bachelors MIT, Phd candidate U of W. We met her last year about this time and have kept our fingers crossed ever since. 11652. SnowOwl - 10/13/2004 4:04:33 AM SnowOwl, where do your kids live now?
Mago, one's in Sweden, one in London, one in Australia, and two still here in Dunedin, although one of them will be in Prague in the New Year.
Wonkers, congrats to you all. I love all of my kids' partners - they've been wonderful additions to the family.
11653. arkymalarky - 10/13/2004 4:51:49 AM Congrats Wonk! 11654. Magoseph - 10/13/2004 5:21:01 AM Wonderful news, Wonk, I'm happy for you. 11655. Macnas - 10/13/2004 10:55:48 AM Larger shandy, quarter white lemonade, three quarters larger, is a nice summer thirst quencher. You'd only manage one pint of it though.
Mago, yes you can get baguettes here, but nothing to rival that from a French bakery first thing in the morning.
With regard to offal and innards, well it's true, we old yuropeens do consume a lot of it, particularly ourselves and the brits. I could naver take to kidneys though, always tasted of piss no matter what you did with them. 11656. Macnas - 10/13/2004 10:56:38 AM Just saw wonks good news, well done all involved. 11657. Magoseph - 10/13/2004 12:44:20 PM Hello, Mac,
I can’t remember eating kidneys, but I do eating ‘cervelle d'agneau’ ‘tripes à la mode de Caen’, and ‘fricassée de lapin’, dishes particularly loathsome to me today. 11658. neato - 10/13/2004 1:15:53 PM Macnas, I'd like to know how you know what piss tastes like. 11659. neato - 10/13/2004 2:15:32 PM I love kidneys. And liver. And ox tongue. Yum yum. 11660. Magoseph - 10/13/2004 2:29:41 PM Neato, I asked a son the same question you posed to Mac and he answered--It tastes like a bad beer. I said--did you really taste it?. Of course not, he answered, but everybody knows that a bad beer tastes like piss. 11661. Macnas - 10/13/2004 5:24:02 PM Neato, you know the smell of piss, say stale urine from a filthy toilet perhaps? Well that's what they taste like. In my opinion anyway. But as to what piss actually tastes like, well, I assume it tastes rather like it smells, as do most things. Except petrol, that does not taste anything like it smells.
Tongue I can take or leave, it's best sliced thin for sandwiches. Liver on the other hand I'm quite fond of, especially panfried with seasoned flour coating. 11662. angel-five - 10/13/2004 8:09:11 PM Had a Reuben and fries for lunch. I still hold my heuristic is true about Reubens -- if a place has a good Reuben, it's a good place to eat in the round. 11663. concerned - 10/13/2004 11:07:11 PM I could naver take to kidneys though, always tasted of piss no matter what you did with them.
Is a sparkling chablis preferred with this dish? If prepared with sour wine, would you call it 'Old piss and vinegar'?
11664. Macnas - 10/14/2004 9:27:22 AM Ha!
I don't know what you could have with kidneys that would make them taste any better, vinegar might mask the taste at that.
But the one thing I cannot eat at all, offal wise, is tripe. 11665. alistairconnor - 10/14/2004 10:34:53 AM Is a sparkling chablis preferred with this dish?
Oooh I nearly missed this one!
There is no such thing as a sparkling Chablis. (well, perhaps in New England, but then they probably make it out of dandelion roots.) But thanks for playing! 11666. alistairconnor - 10/14/2004 10:44:29 AM With kidneys, I might recommend a Cornas or a red Hermitage. Something northern Rhone in any case.
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