Random Facts About You XLIX

That's about right - and the rest is kinda nauseating snail taste. Well I dunno, it's been years since I tried it - I might go again sometime.

 

It is, mostly.

 

everyone says that, and i realize we have awesome quality food. What i don't understand is why foreigners don't try to cook the same stuff we cook on a daily basis. I mean u don't have to settle for tasteless food.

 

My 14-year-old daughter doesn't like flavor in her food.

 

Ha ha ... maybe because it's just a myth that our food is tasteless.

Top end British cuisine is a match for anything that anywhere else in the world can produce.

And speaking of produce ... Scottish salmon and langoustines, venison fresh off the hillside, Morcambe Bay shrimps, Welsh lamb, Dexter beef, Cromer crabs, Norfolk samphire, brown hare, pheasant, partridge, woodcock, wood pigeon ... come on guys! We've got the finest larder in the world right here on our doorsteps ...

 

Not to mention blood pudding and kidney pie...

 

oh i know that ALL your food isn't tasteless. in fact, i get more inspired by other countries' recipes when i cook. i was only commenting on the fact that people say french food is sooooo good.

 

Some of it is ... but certainly not all of it.

And as for the Charente Maritime ... *rolls eyes* ... All that GORGEOUS seafood right on their doorstep, and what's the best they have to offer by way of a regional cuisine? Moules frites!!! I ask you!!!!!!

 

italian food is my favorite.....

 

Yes, Italian is bravissimo.

 

And by the bye, the French learned their cooking from the Italians. It's true!!!

 

Italy has exceptionally good products. U just gotta take a walk in a market, the veggies, meat, seafood, everything looks incredibly good

 

Of course, nothing beats Norwegian. Ah, lefse and lutefisk...

 

Bayern Munich over real Madrid what what
Glad they won

 

lol ok.
I think it's a cultural thing. here everyone cooks. we very rarely buy ready-made food, and we don't have a "junk food" culture. Like, for example, it's very difficult to find microwave popcorn here. u can find it, but its like two boxes hidden in a supermarket. because we don't really eat snacks.
If i need a tomato sauce for a recipe, i make the tomato sauce from scratch, with fresh tomatoes, fresh herbs, fresh onion etc. And i know that most people do the same, we don't open cans if we can cook something ourselves.
So yea, that's probably a big difference with other countries.

having said that, i also love eating different food in different countries, and whenever i go to Britain i am amazed at how much choice there is in the ready-made food aisles.

 

See, I never eat anything that doesn't come in a can.

Okay fine, that might be a slight exaggeration. It's just that I spend about three hours every day just getting to and from my job. Somebody else needs to cook, one way or another. Anyway my kitchen is like a scene from Swamp Thing...my wife doesn't keep house or train the kids to, and I don't have the time.

Also by the way, I tried to get a hamburger in Yorkshire once, and what I ended up with seemed to be kinda like thin-sliced breaded veal between two buns with nothing else. That may be atypical, of course.

 

where do u live Zengizmo?

 

But their back kitchens are staffed with Vietnamese.

 

About 40 miles from Boston. I commute by train/subway every day. It sure beats driving.

Imported workers from the former plantations.

 

Has always thought the French stole from the Italians. I mean French fries pizza come on lol is it true?