Johnny Canuck3
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DrRingDing said:
Apart from passing through the airport, it's been awhile.
what are the main differnces between France and England
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Apart from passing through the airport, it's been awhile.
Johnny Canuck3
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RenegadeDog said:
So, did I just dream that visit? And I can still taste that rubber food in the automated restaurant near Lancaster Gate!
The imagination is a powerful thing.
My wife was there a few months ago. She still can't look a piece of mortadella in the eye.
There are plenty of good restaurants in London all across the price range. Central London can be a bit crap though. It's a common tourist mistake to try the overpriced and really poor restaurants there and think they are representative.
Believe me, in reality North Americans don't have any better taste in food than Britons, and sometimes a lot worse - hence my mashed potato powder example.
Still, play on your prejudices all you like. Judge britain from your cliched 50s comic book if you want.
Believe me, in reality North Americans don't have any better taste in food than Britons, and sometimes a lot worse - hence my mashed potato powder example.
Still, play on your prejudices all you like. Judge britain from your cliched 50s comic book if you want.
I should add that central Paris is also full of woeful touristy restaurants, especially all the cod-greek areas around the 'latin quarter' which serve really decidedly mediocre food.
Actually I found living in Paris a decidedly average eating experience on the whole, definitely not what it is cracked up to be.
Actually I found living in Paris a decidedly average eating experience on the whole, definitely not what it is cracked up to be.
BlackSpecs
The DogFather
the brits have better parks but they need them , since they treat their backgardens as rubbish-dumbs 
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
Johnny Canuck2 said:
The diversity of food availible in the UK knocks the socks off France.
Jus take a wander around Paris and see how many foreign food restaurants they have, not many. Whereas I'd say more than 90% of English ones are 'foreign'.
Their indigenous food may be better but society is not made up of just indigenous people, whoever they are.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Beer v wine, I think.
DrRingDing said:
Exactly, and the Balti was invented in birmingham anyway. ALso if we only judged Canada and the US on 'indiginous' food, we'd have to look exclusively at traditional native american food...
Johnny Canuck3
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RenegadeDog said:
I can't find that Rupert comic anywhere.
This is a thread comparing England and France; my reply rose or sank to the level of the thread topic.
Johnny Canuck3
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RenegadeDog said:
You mean rue de la harpe, rue de la hachette.
Nobody actually eats in Botulism Alley.
Delude yourself all you want into thinking that London is the culinary equivalent of Paris.
Johnny Canuck3
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DrRingDing said:
It's a good thing you have all those curry houses, because the indigenous food is crap.
Paris is a gustatory delight, from the food served off carts in the streets of the left bank, to the patisseries, to the good restaurants. All washed down with good, cheap wine.
Johnny Canuck3
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RenegadeDog said:
I'd rather eat smoked salmon than tripe and boiled dinner.
Johnny Canuck2 said:
What the fuck is tripe and boiled dinner? Never heard of it.
Johnny Canuck2 said:
For one, the curry houses are part of the cuisine in britain. The balti was invented in birmingham.
If we aren't going to count the curry houses, we would have to discount everything in north america other than native american cuisine, famous as that is.
And even if you discount supposed 'foreign' food, there is nothing more delicious than a proper English sunday roast.
Dhimmi
Half Man Half HobNob
Similarily Tikka Massala is a Scottish invention. I don't think we do discount foreign food though do we? It's all part of our lives.
If we're going to start rating food by it's origins then we'll all back to very simple menus which haven't been used for centuries. Much as I like boar and venison that historically accurate bill of fayre has past into history, far more a minority taste than Indian, Chinese or Thai...
If we're going to start rating food by it's origins then we'll all back to very simple menus which haven't been used for centuries. Much as I like boar and venison that historically accurate bill of fayre has past into history, far more a minority taste than Indian, Chinese or Thai...
We have to look at the quality of food served in London today, regardless of its origins, IMO, and its mostly a much better quality than people like Johnny Cannuck, who appears to get his definitions from a Lonely Planet guide, seem to think.
BlackSpecs
The DogFather
RenegadeDog said:
Londond has AMAZING food to offer that is if you can afford it!!! one thing i noticed over here is that you get very good quality food for little money - it's just something the french take as a given....
davesgcr
Reading books
Vast numbers of French come over here to work due to the flexibility of the British job market apparently - jobs are fairly hard to come by over in France for the young in particular - and are apparently not that well paid (though pretty secure once in)
French train drivers can retire at 50 on half pay ! - in the UK a good number of new drivers are over 50 !
Books tend to be a bit dearer and not such a wide choice available.
Vive la difference !
French train drivers can retire at 50 on half pay ! - in the UK a good number of new drivers are over 50 !
Books tend to be a bit dearer and not such a wide choice available.
Vive la difference !
fra
nce has a better football team,
the french chopped their monarchy heads off,
bresse chickens are better than sainsbury
they make chocolate in laboratories rather than factories
although english cheese is easily as good as french
french beef is shite
french lamb is shite
nce has a better football team,the french chopped their monarchy heads off,
bresse chickens are better than sainsbury
they make chocolate in laboratories rather than factories
although english cheese is easily as good as french
french beef is shite
french lamb is shite
would definately disagree with that, as a victim of the french medical system myself,
rekil
to menny cranks
Conservative in some ways but they've never elected a Thatcher. There would be war. They like a proper ruck with the cops. Even the firemen, whose fire engines are much smaller.perplexis said:
