Mario Addison gets his first taste of British food

[1of10Charnatives]

3 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Japanese Food > all others. Just saying.

I will say that the most delicious thing I’ve ever put in my mouth (sorry ladies) was Sea Bass marinated for 2 days in saki. I would fight your grandmother for a plate of that stuff.

[1of10Charnatives]

11 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

Also, this thread went to hell quick.

 

I blame everyone else.

[Harbingers]

33 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

Totally disagree, but to each their own, it's why I love cooking so much.

Seafood is my go to....Spanish and Souther Italy is my jam.

Ya, I love puglian(sp? boot of Italy), and costal Spain food. 

Exactly, to each their own. When I say Japanese I don’t just mean ramen and sushi. But the cuisine as a whole because of the emphasis it puts on seafood. Plus their emphasis on craft, one master cooking the same dish or style of dish for 40-50-60, 70 in a few cases, years. Plus the concept of Omakase, using fresh local food and changing the menu to suite that every day. Especially their usage of food as health. 

If I had to rank;

1: Japanese

1.5: Eastern Carolina Style BBQ(Obviously gotta he a homer.)

2: Italian(Especially Southern, Sicilian, Sardinian)

3: Meat(Argentinian devotion to steak, American steak culture, American BBQ culture, using a whole animal)

4: The rest of Asia as a whole. Korean, Chinese South Asia.

5: Valencian(don’t get to make it nearly enough)

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Note: I will eat almost anything. No dog, cat, monkey. no Live things besides shellfish. I hate pine nuts unless they are meant to be in a dish. One of my least favorite things is when people try to add pine nuts to be fancy. Love truffles but hate that everyone wants to add it to everything when it’s clearly uncalled for.

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Sometimes I wish Igo would add a food subforum here so we could all trade recipes and ideas and bullshit about food. Instead of just sports and politics. But don’t know how’s much traction it would actually gain. 

[thefuzz]

1 minute ago, Harbingers said:

Ya, I love puglian(sp? boot of Italy), and costal Spain food. 

Exactly, to each their own. When I say Japanese I don’t just mean ramen and sushi. But the cuisine as a whole because of the emphasis it puts on seafood. Plus their emphasis on craft, one master cooking the same dish or style of dish for 40-50-60, 70 in a few cases, years. Plus the concept of Omakase, using fresh local food and changing the menu to suite that every day. Especially their usage of food as health. 

If I had to rank;

1: Japanese

1.5: Eastern Carolina Style BBQ(Obviously gotta he a homer.)

2: Italian(Especially Southern, Sicilian, Sardinian)

3: Meat(Argentinian devotion to steak, American steak culture, American BBQ culture, using a whole animal)

4: The rest of Asia as a whole. Korean, Chinese South Asia.

5: Valencian(don’t get to make it nearly enough)

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Note: I will eat almost anything. No dog, cat, monkey. no Live things besides shellfish. I hate pine nuts unless they are meant to be in a dish. One of my least favorite things is when people try to add pine nuts to be fancy. Love truffles but hate that everyone wants to add it to everything when it’s clearly uncalled for.

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Sometimes I wish Igo would add a food subforum here so we could all trade recipes and ideas and bullshit about food. Instead of just sports and politics. But don’t know how’s much traction it would actually gain. 

IN 100% on the food and drink forum.

[Davidson Deac II]

I found something that I like from almost every food culture that I have tried.  

British - Steak and Kidney pie was great.

French - Crepes made by street vendors in Paris and Corsica were marvelous.  All the pastries are great.

Italian - Everything except squid.

Filipino - Lumpia and adobo are extrordinary

Southern American - Pork BBQ, fried chicken, biscuits etc...

German - Sausages and Cakes

I once went to a Lebanese restaurant, and everything was good.

etc..... 

[mc52beast]

If Eric Reid tests positive he should blame the food in London

[electro's horse]

alright about liver, it is a fantastic meat but you REALLY gotta know what to do with it. You almost have to marinade liver for several days to get it to loosen up if you want to grill it. for this reason it's generally really cheap, but not a lot of people carry it. 

liver and onions is kind of poverty food from the great depression, but some of the best foods in the world are technically poverty food so ymmv

[1of10Charnatives]

2 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

alright about liver, it is a fantastic meat but you REALLY gotta know what to do with it. You almost have to marinade liver for several days to get it to loosen up if you want to grill it. for this reason it's generally really cheap, but not a lot of people carry it. 

liver and onions is kind of poverty food from the great depression, but some of the best foods in the world are technically poverty food so ymmv

Southerners first started eating okra after Sherman burned all the crops on his march to the sea during the Civil War. 150+ years later we’re still frying a weed that grew by the side of the road.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Hope everyone going to London has a great time, just remember you are ambassadors for the USA, don't act like assholes.

[Mr. Scot]

5 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

You are ambassadors for the USA, don't act like assholes.

Aren't you contradicting yourself here? 

[Harbingers]

7 minutes ago, NanuqoftheNorth said:

Hope everyone going to London has a great time, just remember you are ambassadors for the USA, don't act like assholes.

That’s rich coming from you.

[Captroop]

Scotch eggs are delicious. That said, I also got the worst food poisoning of my life from a scotch egg. Right before my vacation in Vegas no less.

FYI, if you're wondering, the nicest bathrooms are in the Bellagio, Paris (in the cigar lounge and especially in Gordon Ramsay Steak), the MGM next to the theater with Ka, and pretty much any of the bathrooms in the Venetian. Avoid Circus Circus like the plague. The sports bar in New York New York has wonderful facilities. And the Luxor's by where they serve the Chongas are nice enough if someone isn,t doing blow in there at the time. Not that I have a problem with it, but you certainly wouldn't want to be inhaling sharply through your nose in there after the war crimes I perpetrated on that commode.

 

Anyway, just hope that wasn't a day-old scotch egg.

[electro's horse]

yeah a scotch egg is a solid food

didn't see the hollandaise sauce though

[Trev_GFC]

As a Brit:

A scotch egg is just a boiled egg with a sausagemeat jacket and breadcrumbs. Cook it right and with a lovely runny yolk you’ve got a nice snack/starter.

A proper Sunday roast is lovely - you need to try Yorkshire pudding (the big round thing) and properly done roast potatoes.

Otherwise a Sunday carvery and an ale goes down well too.

Cod and chip-shop-chips.

Shepherd’s Pie or Cottage pie. Not that they’re really pies.

We do proper pies too, and good stews/hot pots.

I enjoy a good fry-up too, with decent sausages and mushrooms.

Normal burgers are rubbish but look out for home-made Angus beef ones. There’s a burger van in Canterbury High Street which does fantastic ones. Stick some half decent cheese on top and take a blowtorch to it like he does and you’ve got a tasty burger: https://www.google.com/search?q=canterbury sausage burger&tbm=

I tend to put peanut butter or marmite on my crumpets.

Remember over here many Brits will associate US food with just fast food. I can’t believe KFC don’t sell biscuits over here though - they’re practically hard scones but with KFC gravy on them rather than cream/clotted cream.