Food heaven and hell

officer_dibble · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:56 pm

good pre tea topic!

heaven: so much to choose from...lamb curry, bhuna or another tomatoe based one.
garlic naan
hell: prawns
fancy for tea: this stir fry i was served in la farmers market on a banana leaf! was immense

Wandering Willy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:05 pm

Heaven : Curry (esp. lamb moglai from the Islamabad in Leeds), bacon butties, liver, kidney, cod and chips, potato cakes with Lurpack and salt.

Hell: celery, radish, semolina, sardines on a beach, mussels, oysters, cold soup, gristle.

BWFC_Insane · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:10 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:

Heaven: Everything

Hell: .....except British bread. The majority of it. F*cking get it away from me. I can count the exceptions on one hand. The whole thing exacerbated and myself aggravated by the British liking it. Stop it, its rubbish.

Is fresh stuff from the bakers different to stuff elsewhere?

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:22 pm

Oh, other than for offal, the other food hell is whitebait. How can any human being with a single iota of decency about them crunch something's head and eyes? :conf:

Jokers in White · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:12 pm

Heaven - Italian food, Mexican food love my chilli's, Discovery or Old El Paso fajita kit with chicken cut into strips had some jalapenos, sour cream, mature cheddar and you are on to a winner. Indian Food Madras is my limit, i sometimes had abit of natural yoghurt to cool it down. I love the majority of fish Mackerel, Salmon, Hake, Tuna, are the ones i like the most. Roast dinner's of course with either Gammon, Beef, Lamb, Chicken, Turkey with any veg it doesn't matter. I have always been a lover of cheese and have tryed so many that there's to many to list i couldn't live without it, i occasionally have olives with feta cheese nice. All fruit, White chocolate, i'll finish with Warburtons Crumpets with salty butter you can't beat them and many have tryed.

Hell - Duck, Calamari, Goat's cheese (fcuking awful) Alot of Chinese Food, Sunblest Crumpets (shit)

Lord Kangana · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:51 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

Heaven: Everything

Hell: .....except British bread. The majority of it. F*cking get it away from me. I can count the exceptions on one hand. The whole thing exacerbated and myself aggravated by the British liking it. Stop it, its rubbish.

Is fresh stuff from the bakers different to stuff elsewhere?

Depends on the baker. Mostly no. Of the few decent bakers I've come across in this country, two had a waiting list for trade supplies. Its a hard (and highly skilled) job. Very few people in this country seem either willing or able to do it.

Harry Genshaw · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:11 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:

BWFC_Insane wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

Heaven: Everything

Hell: .....except British bread. The majority of it. F*cking get it away from me. I can count the exceptions on one hand. The whole thing exacerbated and myself aggravated by the British liking it. Stop it, its rubbish.

Is fresh stuff from the bakers different to stuff elsewhere?

Depends on the baker. Mostly no. Of the few decent bakers I've come across in this country, two had a waiting list for trade supplies. Its a hard (and highly skilled) job. Very few people in this country seem either willing or able to do it.

I read something recently about a British invention that preserves bread for longer and is used all over the world now? I assumed (wrongly obviously) that as a result most bread the world over was pretty much the same. I love bread me

BWFC_Insane · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:42 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:

BWFC_Insane wrote:

Lord Kangana wrote:

Heaven: Everything

Hell: .....except British bread. The majority of it. F*cking get it away from me. I can count the exceptions on one hand. The whole thing exacerbated and myself aggravated by the British liking it. Stop it, its rubbish.

Is fresh stuff from the bakers different to stuff elsewhere?

Depends on the baker. Mostly no. Of the few decent bakers I've come across in this country, two had a waiting list for trade supplies. Its a hard (and highly skilled) job. Very few people in this country seem either willing or able to do it.

I think Heston was on tv a while ago saying that bread in France has gone to shit because they've all discovered preservatives and it's putting proper bakers out of business.

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:47 pm

Love soda bread, but those farls sold in supermarket don't taste at all like it. Like eating a bath sponge.

boltonboris · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:49 am

Was watching a programme a while ago where some fella was making 2 batches of various things like Cheese, Bread and a few other standard Blackburn fillers.

Anyhow, the verdict was that anything without preservatives is about 10 x better, but without those preservatives, you'd spend 10x more on food. He made a fresh bread that 3 hours later had turned into a brick, even when covered. His 'preserved' loaf lasted (I think) from Saturday to Wednesday before it even started to dry out.

thebish · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:58 am

boltonboris wrote:

Was watching a programme a while ago where some fella was making 2 batches of various things like Cheese, Bread and a few other standard Blackburn fillers.

Anyhow, the verdict was that anything without preservatives is about 10 x better, but without those preservatives, you'd spend 10x more on food. He made a fresh bread that 3 hours later had turned into a brick, even when covered. His 'preserved' loaf lasted (I think) from Saturday to Wednesday before it even started to dry out.

and - interestingly - the reason for "give us this day our daily bread" in the Lord's Prayer... back then, it was made fresh every day for that very reason...

a decent translation would be "enough bread for this day"...

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:47 am

Why did the baker have brown fingers?

Because he kneaded a shit.

Lord Kangana · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:11 am

I don't know waht he was doing to make bread go stale in 3 hours, its usually good for 24 hours. On the issue of spending more on food, well yes, but the actual % of our disposable income spent on food has dropped, and is lower than many European countries (significantly so when compared southern countries with eg France). It is a choice we make.

William the White · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:29 pm

A lot of bread is just a soggy, tasteless mess. But I like Cranks wholemeal.

Raven · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:06 pm

Hell - Cucumber, Celery, Swede
Heaven - Sausages, Treacle Sponge and Custard, Bacon, Very Rare Steak or Beef

Raven · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:50 pm

I forgot the worlds worst...Salmon can't even sit near anyone eating due to the smell...vile stuff

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:03 pm

One of the girls in our office said before that when she was a little girl, every Thursday they'd have tripe and elder with chips.

That's cow's stomach lining with cow's udder :shock:

thebish · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:04 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

One of the girls in our office said before that when she was a little girl, every Thursday they'd have tripe and elder with chips.

That's cow's stomach lining with cow's udder :shock:

an udderly disgusting a-moos-bouche?

The Axman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:12 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

One of the girls in our office said before that when she was a little girl, every Thursday they'd have tripe and elder with chips.

That's cow's stomach lining with cow's udder :shock:

Tripe and onions - I'd forgotten about tripe and onions. How could I, loved the stuff. My mam served it up every Monday or Tuesday. haven't seen it in over forty years, but I can still remember the warm milky smell of it. Delicious. I don't think Sainsbury's does tripe

boltonboris · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:20 pm

Food heaven and hell

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