That is a sad development. I did track down some good cookers in Pennsylvania - eating apples make for shit pies and American apple pie is generally not good. For a superlative in American pies it has to be cherry, pumpkin or pecan.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
i thought i didn't much like tomatoes until i ate them on the amalfi coast (darling) and they were so extraordinary it kinda ruined forevermore the pale imitation-of-an-imitation tomatoes we get here in the uk
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
in general food -- including supermarket food -- has actually improved immeasurably during my lifetime at all levels but the need for unblemished supermarket produce has come at a high price
(i still gag thinking abt the food we were served at the school when i was 8-12, tho i think it was a weird outlier enabled by a headmaster w/no clinical sense of taste or smell)
(the cook was called mr bell, an unendingly angry red-head scot: our schoolboy theory was that he was an escaped criminal who secured his job with threats of extreme physical violence towards the staff and governers)
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
#notallscotsmen he posted quickly
an anglo-greek friend insists it's impossible to have truly great souvlaki in the uk due to the poor tomatoes. I could stand to appreciate apples more. I like a good apple compote with salad, bit of pomegranate... not v trad english though
― ogmor, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
there was a VERY HIGH incidence of large-ball tapioca for pudding: as consequence i cannot look a bubble-tea in the eye to this day
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
Best tomatoes I've bought in London have been from the Turkish grocers in Harringay. Cooking apples come from my parents' garden, fortunately.
― Madchen, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:11 (seven years ago) link
haggis won't win. the american shift will all roll in and vote for stilton or something
check
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:12 (seven years ago) link
goddammit
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:17 (seven years ago) link
i'd be interested to know how many ilxors have tried haggis tbh
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:19 (seven years ago) link
see I've had things purporting to be haggis but let's be real
anyway I like it in principle
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
you used to be able to buy very good quasi-haggis at hackney M&S: plastic boiling skin tho, not a actual real sheep's stomach :(
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:26 (seven years ago) link
Had haggis, neeps & tatties in a pub in Glasgow once but I'm skeptical that it was "real" haggis, it wasn't in any kind of casing and looked more like mince. Probably something like Brain's faggots vs "real" faggots, which tbh I haven't eaten either (call myself a midlander?)
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
i avoided haggis for a long time cuz the ingredients sound pretty foul but it really is delicious - rich and spicy and warming
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:30 (seven years ago) link
Brain's faggots don't taste half as good now as they did when I was a kid, I'm guessing there's less offal in them
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
this really is turning into blood sausage: the thread but i'm cool with it tbh
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:33 (seven years ago) link
I will state for the record that I still enjoy a mouthful of faggots
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
You don't eat the haggis casing, it's usually served in a heap or, if you're somewhere posh, a kind of quenelle. The only time I really see haggis in England is around Burns Night (end of January) but a lot of my scottish acquaintances will have it for a quick midweek dinner, sometimes from a TIN. It microwaves pretty well.
― Madchen, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
i support u xp
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
madchen didn't u once happen on gizzards in a tin or did i dream that :(
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:37 (seven years ago) link
yes i am upping the blood sausage ante here
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
i have eaten locust and scorpion and so shall you yea
i occasionally enjoy this innovative fusion cuisine
http://www.cosmospizzas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pizza-haggis.jpg
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
a friend of mine gave us chicken gizzards one time, wasn't a big fan tbh but her refusing to tell us what they were didn't help
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:39 (seven years ago) link
this was in France tho so
xxp well if it's an authentic haggis pizza how can you go wrong?
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
there just doesn't look like there'd be much good eatin' on a gizzard
xp i'm v much about authentic culinary experiences, as u know
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link
authentic gizzard pizza aka gizza
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:45 (seven years ago) link
bizarro gizzara
Morrison's Gizzard King Pizza
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
i'd accept pizzaro gizzarda, no more no less
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
Am sceptical that haggis is really a British food at all tbh:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkx2jK5XMDRFTF9Kg1e1d8PmItvWd1IaCpx28Ztb1WuXqnrG6y2A
PS veggie haggis is very tasty too
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
haggis pakora is also bizarro gazzara-endorsed fusion cuisine, thx for the reminder ward
― pizzarro gizzarda (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Mark S, your memory is impressive. Gizzards in a tin are to be found in every French supermarket, but I can't in all honesty recommend them. Gizza pizza would be a step even beyond that for me.
― Madchen, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
out of the british-is-blandest pan and into dr. strongo's neuvo cuisine
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:09 (seven years ago) link
"cooking apples often now quite hard to track down *inside* the UK also imo: the apple is going the way of the rubbery and tasteless mass-grown tomato"
sad! i live in apple country. so many great varieties. and great local baking options.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
"i'd be interested to know how many ilxors have tried haggis tbh"
i don't think i've ever seen one in real life. the pictures are so frightening in a cronenbergian way but i imagine they taste fine.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
i voted for short-bread because american and because yum.
― scott seward, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
Ah now shortbread, that shouldn't be on here
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
whit
― pizzarro gizzarda (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Scottish innit
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Orwell was writing at a time when it was ok to describe any part of the British Empire as "English".
if you were a git.
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
i'm sure someone will be along in a minute to shortbreadsplain that actually it was invented in luxembourg or some shit
― pizzarro gizzarda (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
nah I already checked Wikipedia or I would have done that already :D
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
my man
― pizzarro gizzarda (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
recipe for shortbread was actually included in the advanced knowledge cache aliens gave to the old kingdom egyptians
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:47 (seven years ago) link
― pizzarro gizzarda (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:49 (seven years ago) link
erich von ramekin
― mark s, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:49 (seven years ago) link
idk about the mint but boiling new potatoes is the only way to do em so i am with georgie on that much
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
Charlottes of the Gods
― a hulking and impenetrable dump (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 August 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link