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Having been for a good couple months all told I think English food is kind of underrated, and Irish food is super underrated; but I do not understand the fascination with fish and chips. You take the absolute best place I went to in Edinburgh (that the locals recommended) and bring those cooks anywhere in the Deep South and your average hole-in-the-wall place would ruffle their hair and tell them that at least they tried. Y'all should be talking up English breakfast. That is legitimately the poo poo. Beans for breakfast, y'all are madmen.
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kimbo305 posted:jet blonde I thought this was an old term for cabin crew?
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InitialDave posted:I think we need to steer this back on the educational track. Only if your taste buds are damaged.
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PT6A posted:I had fish and chips for 15 pounds at Heathrow because I felt like doing a British thing for my two hours on British soil and it was garbage with soggy batter and I hated it. You ate overpriced airport food. Its always bad.
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Dec 7, 2016 10:08
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PT6A posted:I had fish and chips for 15 pounds at Heathrow because I felt like doing a British thing for my two hours on British soil and it was garbage with soggy batter and I hated it. Heh, lemme guess, that place right next to the international checkin counter in terminal 5. I did the same thing, same experience. Everything else I ate that week in London was quite good, actually (as long as I trusted my own instincts預 local friend told me to get a steak at Black & Blue and it was so tragic)
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Dec 7, 2016 12:46
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Doesn't Gordon Ramsey have a restaurant in Heathrow? I think I looked at the prices once and just decided to wait for my next in-flight meal instead.
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Dec 7, 2016 13:22
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serious gaylord posted:You ate overpriced airport food. Its always bad. People who complain about food in the UK are generally victims of only experiencing overpriced crap rather than anything the natives would actively choose. This is often a function of visiting London. Hell, the offerings at my local chippy are better than anything I've found in the touristy areas of London, and Leicester is just about closer to space than to the sea.
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Dec 7, 2016 13:25
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I've found that the best food to be had in the UK is from little pubs out in the middle of the countryside, 20-30mins drive away from even small towns. I have family in Herefordshire and visiting them is a delight, zipping down tiny country roads through the hills in my uncle's austin healey sprite, and stuffing my face with gussied-up variants of traiditional british foods. London can't hope to compare, especially the touristy places as others have said
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Dec 7, 2016 16:23
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https://twitter.com/MrJamesMay/status/806516065752776704
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sean10mm posted:Lots of landlocked states in the US have mediocre to poor cooked fish. Conversely, lots of coastal states near sources of fresh fish have wonderful seafood. Living in Rhode Island I gorged myself on fish all the time. Chicago and surrounding areas get phenomenal fish flown in daily. its pricey but nobody can argue with the freshness or quality. Beyond literally being caught same day as you might find in a fishing village. It makes its way up here to Wisconsin and every bar has Friday fish fry. Quality varies obviously.
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Dec 7, 2016 19:58
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Isn't Wisconsin's friday fish fry tradition based on eating walleye and other locally caught stuff from the lakes? That was always my understanding but I only visit the place occasionally. (welcome to general fish chat)
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Dec 7, 2016 22:07
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Unless I'm misunderstanding your question , I'm pretty sure it's because eating meat on Friday used to be punishable by death in Catholicism (but to be fair what was wasn't). We used to have fish frys in Northeast Ohio as well In South Florida there's lots of places where you can park your boat right at the dock at the restaurant and they will cook the fish that you just caught into a dish. Doesn't get much fresher than that. Battered and fried fish in the u.s. seems to be reserved for the frozen food aisle. MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Dec 7, 2016 22:35
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Yeah, not to derail the "Talk about fish and your most preferred nearest body of water" thread here, but my statement was more surprise that Wisconsin is importing freshwater fish through Chicago when you literally can't walk 100 yards without falling into a lake full of them in WI, and everyone hunts & fishes. I don't think there's much confusion why many communities eat fish on friday.
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Dec 7, 2016 23:02
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My biggest complaint about the new show (aside from the obnoxious fatguy race driver) is that there seems to be almost no reason they need to be in X country for the live shows, none of that last episode had anything to do with Whitby, which is a very nice location to start a race to Italy from.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Yeah, not to derail the "Talk about fish and your most preferred nearest body of water" thread here, but my statement was more surprise that Wisconsin is importing freshwater fish through Chicago when you literally can't walk 100 yards without falling into a lake full of them in WI, and everyone hunts & fishes. I don't think there's much confusion why many communities eat fish on friday. I should clarify that its salt water. Nobody really eats that much lake fish here. Friday fish fry is usually cod.
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Dec 8, 2016 00:11
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Is anyone watching in HDR-10? I wonder if that helps with the apparent overvignetting in the normal HD signal.
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kimbo305 posted:Is anyone watching in HDR-10? I wonder if that helps with the apparent overvignetting in the normal HD signal. I am and it's amazing looking. There's still a lot of vignetting though. I mean, that's just their style.
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Preoptopus posted:I should clarify that its salt water. Nobody really eats that much lake fish here. Friday fish fry is usually cod. Every time I've been to a fish fry with my wisconsinite wife I've had perch or pike.
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Dec 8, 2016 01:24
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HotCanadianChick posted:This post is so wrong it hurts. It is causing physical pain from sheer wrongness. Because everyone knows nothing good ever comes from Ohio. You clearly have not had our beer. Surprise surprise, a state where people learn to just tolerate the lovely parts likes to enjoy their drinking.
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wolrah posted:You clearly have not had our beer. Surprise surprise, a state where people learn to just tolerate the lovely parts likes to enjoy their drinking. This is pretty much the rust belt way. Drink heavily and eat unhealthy food, because you dont want to live in many more winters. (hell, they probably made the fish and chips place i mentioned into a liquor store by now) MattD1zzl3 fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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Dec 8, 2016 02:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMcfsDymtc Grand Tour Episode 4 Trailer The boys are tasked with creating 'Eco-Cars' leading to some... frankly rough designs that are shocking they can even move under their own weight. For those who were lamenting that the challenges thus far have only featured high end super/hyper cars. This will be the episode of "Lets just run this poo poo into the ground" dumb of the old Top Gear
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Dec 8, 2016 11:19
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wolrah posted:You clearly have not had our beer. Surprise surprise, a state where people learn to just tolerate the lovely parts likes to enjoy their drinking. Did the bumpkin from Ohio just try to school someone who lives in the microbrew capital of the world on beer? Someone who lives in Beervana, the city with one of the largest craft brewing festivals in the world? I take it back, two notable things do come from Ohio: bad opinions and ignorance.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:24
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HotCanadianChick posted:Did the bumpkin from Ohio just try to school someone who lives in the microbrew capital of the world on beer? Someone who lives in Beervana, the city with one of the largest craft brewing festivals in the world? Three things...Disgust at Toledo.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:34
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boy I hope the next episode of the grand tour is all about fish and beer locations
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Three things...Disgust at Toledo. Toledo is less a home county of ohio and more a whipped colony we seized by force from Michigan.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:35
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Yeah well I can't take you guys seriously anymore since I learned you're really part of Connecticut.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:40
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Toledo is less a home county of ohio and more a whipped colony we seized by force from Michigan. Didn't Toledo try to rejoin Michigan once and Michigan said, "Uh no. You're Ohio's problem."
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Go Mud Hens!!
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New Episode is up
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For anyone confused, they are in Whitby a second time.
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Ohio's craft beer legit is excellent though. Roughly 160 breweries and at least a couple dozen I can vouch for as good. This is coming from someone who once got in a one-sided drunken debate with Greg Koch.
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That episode was kind of interesting but it's still falling flat.
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I dunno, Episode 4 is the first one that's made me laugh so hard and so energetically that I now have a sore throat. James' ball of twine
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Dec 9, 2016 02:39
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I assume next episode will feature Clarkson doing dumb things while May and Hammond drink beer in a pub.
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Dec 9, 2016 02:41
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I liked it. It was like the old build a thing contests with the ambulance and police car and such.
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Okay, just started episode 4. Even the American was better in this one. It's so obviously over the top and straight satire that I can't help but like it.
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Oh neat, now available here too. Clarksons take on car body materials is.. interesting hillo fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Dec 9, 2016 |
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Dec 9, 2016 18:19
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hillo posted:Oh neat, now available here too. Yeah, that was interesting. I liked Hammond's a lot.
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One thing I don't get is why they kept calling attention to problems with the mortar in james' brickmobile when it was visually obvious that no mortar had been introduced into the system
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Good episode. Hedgehog supremacy.
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