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I agree that most bread here is a disaster. Specialty shops are useful things, though, so there's hope.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't know what you people are talking about, I always have wicked good bread. Then again, I don't generally buy loaves at the supermarket...or really have any food in my house in general at all, so really I'm talking about restaurant bread or bread I make myself when I get a random urge.

Otis is a big time fucking hippie.

― Ally, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

England has curry though . I have a hard time findinig a good hearty curry thats also inexpensive. A friend came back from Lonfon and siad there was one on every corner. Could we do a trade. So mexican and chinese takeaway places for some Curry ones.
About Coffee Ice Cream great with iced coffee in milk cartons

― anthony, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well your bread is fucking crusty.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Seppos. Actually, 40% of us are obese, weighing in at 80% of the total weight of the populace.

Food has improved here in great big leaps, though. When I moved here the only place that did The Dazs was Harrods Food Hall and I had to buy Ocean Spray from Fortnums to introduce London to the concept of the Sea Breeze. Now, lots of good food (no Mex, but how many of them want to move here?) and as birthdays and family-visit bonus, ALL the poncey restaurants are around my flat.

― suzy, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My sister is down ("down"=newcastle) from glasgow (=city of KULTUR). She comments that she has never seen so many hideously fat people for a long time (she refers to "heifers") Up here in cold north east of england we have many, many v-cheap good quality indian & chinese takeaways & restaurants. Ther may be a connection there. My favourite ice cream is ben & jerry's chocolate fudge brownie. I don't put stuff on it. In fact, it doesn't always make it into a dish.

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't stand curry, the smell of it gives me heart burn.

As far as Southern California goes, everything here is a chain. I go into a nice-lookng, family-owned Greek or Turkish place, everyone there looks the part, speaks the language -- cool right. I flip over the menu and see a list of other "California locations" and "Herb from Texas" walks out of the kitchen with the chef's hat on. Please........

― tOM p, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Peppermint ice cream is the best there is. And I like it unadorned. Well, maybe with jimmies (chocolate sprinkles).

Sounds like somebody in London could cull some $ with a good cheap burrito joint. Anybody want to open a business? I'll cook, you can provide the downpayment and liquor license.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There is SO good Mexican food in London. You just have to look for it very carefully. It's in Covent Garden, and it's called... Cafe Pacifica or something like that. However, you do have to watch out for their very good and very tasty and very deadly jugs of Margaritas. Oh, the times that I have ended up completely slaughtered by them.

Oh, and their food is good, too. Though you do have to ask them to bring out hot sauces and things.

Taco Bell, however, would be a great addition to the flora and fauna of London's fast food...

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There used to be a taco bell in london. It was near...er (provincial memory blank) er....that place where the big tower records is, and the lit up hoardings (::blank::) you know where I mean, anyway...

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There was a Taco Bell in Leicester Square about ten years ago where the Pizza Hut is now (sandwiched between Burger King and Chiquito's piss poor Mexican). It did appalling business because back then no- one understood how to eat out of soft tortillas. These days even BK does Deli Wraps... Nasty.

Yep, that place in Covent Garden is pretty good. Emma passed out in the toilets there once. That's how good it is.

― Pete, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've passed out in those toilets, too! yay, Emma!

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Taco Bell may still be in the Earl's Court Road, I'm not sure.

― suzy, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I did not actually pass out properly. I merely came over a little unnecessary, as my mum would say. And it was not through alcohol either. Nor was the time I passed out in that Greek restaurant and bashed my chin on the table scarring myself for life. I have a worrying tendency to pass out for no reason. Haven't done it for a while actually, I'm about due for a fainting fit.....

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Could you be anaemic, Emma? That's one of the more alarming symptoms. Do you also bruise easily? If you get to the point in anaemia where you get dizzy and faint a lot, be careful, cause they'll drag you off to hospital and change your blood.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nah, I am very robust and hearty. I just have very low blood pressure which, as my mum keeps reminding me, is useful when you are pregnant.

I once fainted at college during a belly dancing class. I banged my head very hard on the floor and all the other girls crowded round and assumed that I was anorexic (well, a curvy anorexic). I had such a bad headache I could not do my essay that week and explained to my tutor. He thought I said 'ballet dancing' and was quite impressed but when I explained that it was belly dancing he was a bit flummoxed.

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Are you vegetarian?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have these spells of cognitive dissonce . Where i cannot move and do not know where i am . So i feel your pain Emma.

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Green tea and red bean ice cream are the only flavors I will eat.

― Melissa W, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Miretti's daily secial today was casatta. It was the best ever. I'm going to miss miretti's so much.

― Ed, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate Japanese Ice cream, and fo r that matt er most of their sweets. Why the beans! Beans are for salty dishes!

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Like Taiwanese cakey sweetie things. It's like: Here, have a cake. Oh, thanks, don't mind if I do. WHAT THE FUCK? There's a hard boiled egg in here! What's that all about!

― Emma, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I agree. All these special kinds of IC that are made of things that are not sweet. But i do love chinese buns .

― anthony, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I heard CHinese weiners are small

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four months pass...

WHY THE ICECREAM PUT THE STABILISER THAT CAN BE FORMING THE TEXTURE , AND THE VANILLA FLAVOUR IS IT COMING FROM PINE TREE SKIN , PLEASE ANSWER THEM . THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION ! WINSTON LEUNG

― LEUNG MAN KIT WINSTON, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"What is your favorite kind."

The kind that pokes out the top of low-cut Baby Phat tee shirts in the summertime, of course.

"Do you put stuff on it ?"

In this order: my fingertips, lips, paperclips, gatorgrips, Biore strips (I cannot abide leaving a young lady's nipple prone to comedogenic attack apres-freaknasty. I am a man of substance and finesse.)

― Sweet Dick Willie, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan, I told you to cut back on your speed intake.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate Japanese Ice cream, and fo r that matt er most of their sweets.
Wah? I love Pocky. I love doorayaki. I even love those powdered red bean buns they serve with macha tea. Some have been known to choke on'em. I also like macha ice (green tea ice). What about red bean soup? Yummy.

― helen fordsdale, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

GINGER [sp]ice cream

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight months pass...

strawberry flavou any kind of ice cream as long as it's strawberry organic strawberry ice-cream is nice too. I prefer my ice cream without anything on it but if i do have something it would have to be strawberry syrup.

― , Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

banana split is yummy!

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

A few nights ago I found an old container of ice cream in the freezer, it was left over from when I this boyfriend and this one time that we bought some ice cream. It was one of those ice cream containers that has two varieties of ice cream in it, this one was half Vanilla and half Goody Goody Gum Drops. But when I found it there was only Vanilla left. Vanilla was my half of the ice cream purchase. So I ate it.

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

when I this boyfriend = when I had this boyfriend

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

rainy- eating ice cream can be tough, no?

I have been eating ice cream everyday, just before I go to bed...

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah.

― rainy, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like strawberry best but it is surprisingly hard to find, at least at a reasonable price, so I generally buy vanilla which is very cheap indeed.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just read that Sainsbury's six top selling ice creams are all Vanilla?!?!?!?!? what fresh madness is that?

I am a new convert to Phish food, dodgy hippy connotations aside, it is princely.

― chris, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris! Hello! I add to From Russia With Buzz, also Cherry Garcia and Baileys Hagen Daz and an ice cream I bought from a small shop by Lincoln Cathedrall which actually tasted like apple pie, not just apples. I'm not sure jow it works, but it tastes love

― Anna, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

six months pass...

http://www.dreyers-dreamery.com/image/flavorImages/1844p.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 February 2003 02:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

Strawberry, mint chocolate chip, coffee heath bar crunch, oreo cookie, cookies and cream, and in the freezer now but not yet sampled: cherry vanilla.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 14 July 2003 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

Gianduja, Coffee, Vanilla, cookies and cream.

Italian ices esp. Benfaremo and esp. peach and lemon. Sorbets esp. Ciao Bella and esp. blackberry.

Latin Playboys' "Lemon 'n Ice"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 July 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

without question, the best ice cream can be found here:

http://www.thehotspotonline.com/thewurld/articles/GandD1.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 July 2003 08:08 (twenty years ago) link

mark h. i was in oxford for the first time in like 10 years and i met that cow! highlight of the weekend for me.

my faves are mint chocolate cookie and coconut. mint chocolate milk shakes rule.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

I could eat ice cream until it came out of my nose. in fact I often do

however, ice cream that has more chunks and gunge and foreign bodies in it than actual ice cream = dud.

― j0e (j0e), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

MARINE ICES!!!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

Colette, there are now two G&Ds in Oxford - the original George & Davis in Little Clarendon Street and the newer George & Danver in what was the St Aldates Cafe. The latter is bigger and more central and has decor which includes grass for the cow to eat (wooden spiky bits painted green), but the original one has mooing competitions. If yr moo is judged the best you win free ice cream!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 14 July 2003 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

Ice cream rules! We had home made ice creams in the garden yesterday with waffle cornets & neopolitan ice cream. num! (n.b. neither the ice cream or cornets were homemade - just putting them together was our inspired genius!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

thanks Mark H...i'm going to a wedding in oxford on saturday, so maybe i'll try to get into town early to have a cone and check out the cow stuff a bit more. is it bad that i'm wondering if that will be more fun than the wedding itself?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:42 (twenty years ago) link

Colette - do not feel guilty, cows & ice cream, there is no more fun to be had!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 July 2003 11:44 (twenty years ago) link

I had mint chocolate chip ice cream last night. Yum!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Monday, 14 July 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link

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