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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Apr 6, 2023 12:22:07 GMT -5
We really liked the food we got in Greece I spent a lot of time in Greece. One of the real dining pleasures I've experienced was sitting at a beachside taverna and ordering octopus. The waiter said they were currently out, but they expected some to arrive very soon. Right about then, a guy with a mask and snorkel and fins emerged from the water with a bagful of octopuseseseses. He emptied them of ink and took them straight into the kitchen where they were turned into my dinner. That and fried potatos and a few ice cold Amstels and good friends. Holy Grecian Formula, Batman! |
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Post by NoSoapRadio on Apr 6, 2023 12:48:23 GMT -5
I love me some biscuits and gravy -- just not for breakfast. I eat a banana and an apple for breakfast most days -- if I ate B&G I'd be useless for the rest of the day.
I'll make my own biscuits and gravy for supper every couple of weeks during the cold winter months. We prefer the hot Jimmy Dean sausage that comes in that appetizing tube.
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Post by hushnel on Apr 6, 2023 16:57:51 GMT -5
I’ve worked in a lot of restaurants. I was the day food director at the Bodega Steak and Wine Restaurant. Highly rated in South Miami. It just ment I did all the prep work including salad, steamship round, Key-lime pie, bread pudding, quiche etc. I started out cleaning, vacuuming and washing dishes, then promoted to the steak line cook to Food Director.
It worked out good for me, I did a couple of hours across the street at a chain steak house and managed to play Coconut Grove 2 to 3 nights a week with the band.
In a convoluted way that led to getting the gig in Biomedical Engineering, that lasted 30 years, and covers my retirement.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Apr 7, 2023 1:55:11 GMT -5
Have to be honest, outside of the English breakfast, and a couple of pub meals, I don’t know how British my food was. But aside from their hamburger being cooked much further than we do, it’s not all that different.
Ate in a phenomenal Italian restaurant actually. So good we went to another owned by that same company in Paris last night. Also excellent. And we have very high standards for Italian food living where we live.
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Post by pdf64 on Apr 7, 2023 5:36:59 GMT -5
Beans on toast is typically a quick, utilitarian meal, the kinda thing that might be fed to kids when they return home from school etc and are absolutely starving, can’t wait a couple of hours for the family meal. Or a factory canteen, truck stop etc. If on a vacation over here, hopefully you’d find somewhere nicer to eat  The beans mix nicely with the best butter on the toast. At home, I’ll have it if I need a meal in a hurry, typically I’ll have a fried egg on each slice, on top of the beans, or put beans onto cheese on toast. I stir a knob of miso paste into beans once they’re heated, maybe add a bit of kimchi to provide some zing. If there’s a ripe avocado handy, I sometimes mash it and use that instead of butter on the toast. Is cheese on toast a thing elsewhere, dunno if that’s a Staffordshire UK speciality? |
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Post by hushnel on Apr 7, 2023 9:59:13 GMT -5
We make grilled cheese sandwiches. Basically the same thing.
I lived a total of 6 years in Europe. Three in England and 3 in Germany. I tried to order a Hamburger in France. What I got was composed of mostly the same ingredients but far from expectations. The Col.’s Law was “you order it you eat it”. They used ground meat partially cooked and inside was a raw egg, it was served on toast with a side of unknown cheese. The “had to eat it” turned out to be a great idea, after a few ewe moments, it was actually very good. Mom had a three bite rule when trying something new, before she’d let us turn it down.
In Rome we stopped at a street side restaurant for lunch. I don’t know what I ordered, it was a seafood plate with various critters slaughtered and stir fried, I wanted deep fried fish, what I got was stir-fried and looked like a Mediterranean Armageddon, it had obvious octopus parts, squid and other masticated ocean critters, over brown rice. I was nearly gagging until I took a bite of it. Maybe the best thing I’ve ever eaten.
In Germany nearly every town, large or small, made their own sausage/Bratwurst, beer and cheese. I was too young for beer but I tried everything else.
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Post by RufusTeleStrat on Apr 7, 2023 10:05:34 GMT -5
I don't know about you but I get a very European Vacation vibe from the boss' post.
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Post by LesTele on Apr 7, 2023 10:47:52 GMT -5
Americans getting snobby about food.
😂
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Post by Mfitz804 on Apr 7, 2023 12:47:41 GMT -5
I don't know about you but I get a very European Vacation vibe from the boss' post. No berets, but otherwise accurate. |
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Post by Ayns on Apr 8, 2023 15:49:11 GMT -5
I love beans on toast; I must’ve had it it 2-3 times a week when I was a kid. It’s got to be Heinz beans and Lurpak butter mind.
I started having it occasionally as a light lunch when I retired a couple of years ago, but since Mrs Ayns stopped working I hardly ever have it.
Last time I had biscuits and gravy was in Texas. :-)
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Post by K4 on Apr 8, 2023 23:14:31 GMT -5
Beans and toast, NEVER!!!, but the only beans I like are green.
Biscuits and gravy, although I love this I haven't had it in years.
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Post by oldnjplayer on Apr 9, 2023 6:11:40 GMT -5
I think the real lesson is that young boys the world over will try any food no matter how terrible it looks to them. Remember the commercial about "give it to Mikey".
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