A place for everything, everything in its place.
As a spinoff to the wibbly wobbly bit. Me and Mrs Lastlid go to Macdonalds about once a week, for example. For a while she had either the same as me, a burger meal or similar. However I noticed she struggled to eat everything so I started to buy her the kids Happy Meal. And she said that the kids Happy Meal portions were like standard portions back in the Philippines. Also a similar story when we eat out elsewhere. She says the portions are so big here in the UK.
I will just have a little visit on your house Moy and lets have a DRIED FISH party2x!Originally Posted by Moy
im not surpriseyou still as sexy as me melovesnengland..
wait until you live here for few years and you will love the food you most love baCk when you are in PH
Think you're eating in the wrong places mate! I've had some fantastic british grub recently from top end resturants to my local gastro type boozer. British fod has come on leaps and bounds if you go out and look for it. The wife and me also knock out some fantastic stuff (even if I do say so myself) now with the help of cook books done by UK chefs.I was going to reply to the thread about the "60 reasons Britain is great", however I thought this deserved a new one.
Why is British food so awful... Really, why do we serve such garbage. We have some great chefs in the UK in addition to some fantastic cookery shows but then when you go out to eat, it's all garbage unless you eat something none British.
The UK must be one of the easiest places in the world to make money on food, you take any old garbage, deep fry or microwave it, and provide the biggest portions you can find, and everyone is happy.
I mean why take a perfectly good fish, and deep fry it to destruction, probably to hide the fact it wasn't a good fish in the first place.
What really annoys me is that places in the UK can't even serve basic food from basic ingredients, I mean if you can't serve chips that are made freshly from potatoes, why even bother. We can make frozen chips at home.
English breakfasts and Sunday Roasts are probably the wierdest food in the world, you can take a combination of random food, over cook it, and throw it all on a plate, in enormeous portions.
Salad, I mean what do we do to a good salad in the UK, we take the worst possible lettuce and murder it, then throw in something random for the garden and then serve it with everything that we can, knowing that no-one will eat it because its awful.
Meat, we have a great habit of destorying the meat. We love our meat to be overcooked until it barely resembles meat, and then cover it in gravy and sauces to hide the fact it's awful.
OK rant over....
Awaiting the incoming......
I'll not disagree that there are places that still knock out below par stuff that they've basically taken out of a bag and warmed through in the kitchen, thinking about those 2 for 1 pubs. Horrible.
It's been emontional
I dont think the general quality was being berated just the blandness of the overall British diet.
This was the observations of my dear wife when she first arrived here. Believe me, I took her and experienced many of our finest but, alas all found to be tasteless compared to her normal Filipino fare.
Luckily, thanks to the multicultural society we now live, we are able to get most of the Filipino foods we both desire, apart from a few exceptions
That's what I thought so too..I dont think the general quality was being berated just the blandness of the overall British diet.
This was the observations of my dear wife when she first arrived here. Believe me, I took her and experienced many of our finest but, alas all found to be tasteless compared to her normal Filipino fare.
Luckily, thanks to the multicultural society we now live, we are able to get most of the Filipino foods we both desire, apart from a few exceptions
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...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
Anyone eaten 'Aso' ?
I have...except I didn't realise it until I was told later.
....Thought those legs of pork were a bit skinny.
C'mon what about beef stew and dumplings,faggots(no offence) and pasties Mmmm Delishh especially when served with rice ! ! !
Yes, I can spell, Just can't tpye
Part of the problem, I think, is that when eating out you have to pay a bit extra for British grub in a restaurant that is tasty, nutritional and healthy.
I just had some absolutely cracking english food recently, eating out, for example, but had to pay more for the privilege of the quality.
My son cooked us a scrumptious home-made Lasagne again today.
Me, I'll eat owt as long as it looks dead, but I think as you get older your taste buds (like everything else) require a bit more stimulation.
Speak for yourselfMy son cooked us a scrumptious home-made Lasagne again today.
Me, I'll eat owt as long as it looks dead, but I think as you get older your taste buds (like everything else
rather eat anything what em cooks for me then going back to my old ways, toast and more toast, those was the days
To be fair I actually find some of the SE Asia food to be a bit bland, especailly when I tell them I don't want MSG used! I think it could be down to the fact they over cook alot of their meat, not a fan of well done. Just my opinion.
It's been emontional
Too much fat and salt in a lot of Filipino food for me, and not enough spices.
Sugar in the bread...yuk.
Confectionery and cakes either too sweet or too bland.
That'll be why I cook my own food when over there then.
I love the Pili and Peanut brittle though...plus all the fresh fruit.
... SACRILEGE! Almost as bad as adding sugar to porridge!
I put honey on mine.
I've got my son into the habit of making porridge too...as it's so healthy.
I just wish I could also get him into the habit of washing up afterwards.
Ah ... 'course you're a "busy bee"I put honey on mine.- not a retired old codger
like me!
I just wish I could also get him into the habit of washing up afterwards.... porridge pots ain't the easiest to wash!
We both like porridge.
My wife likes it more than me and will eat it anytime not just for breakfast.
Porridge is a very healthy food with lots of benefits.
Yep, I'll cook it anytime too.
Cheap, filling and good for you.
At this moment I'm cooking liver and onions, potatoes, mixed veg and gravy...all from fresh ingredients of course, like mum used to make.
Wot, no chilli?............At this moment I'm cooking liver and onions, potatoes, mixed veg and gravy...all from fresh ingredients of course, like mum used to make.
Where as using salt which I believe to be the preference north of the boarder is so much more healthy and tastey!!!! Not
It's been emontional
Ah ... only a mere pinch of salt ... just to take away the blandness. Oh ... and also for the sake of bringing out its full flavour.
Yes, that's what I do too.
Funnily enough ... porridge was the first dish I ever cooked!
Honey and / or carnation milk helps. Or some stewed fruit.
Or some stewed fruit.
I love stewed fruit, Arthur. Gooseberries. Rhubarb. Apple. Plums. Etc.
Cant get Mrs Lastlid to eat it though....
And prunes.....
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