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Andy_Panthro: We have far more than fish and chips! We have pies and pastys, hot pot and pease pudding, tikka masala and many more!
In fact, it has been said that chicken tikka masala is now more widely eaten than fish and chips.
Anyways, how am I supposed to chose between something I can't buy, and Walkers which isn't even the best type of crisp available in the UK.
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hansschmucker: I think food (by definition) only means stuff that's edible :)

And what food is germany known for? sausages? :P (Kinda losing my own argument here, since I do like my pork products)
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hansschmucker: I think food (by definition) only means stuff that's edible :)
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Andy_Panthro: And what food is germany known for? sausages? :P (Kinda losing my own argument here, since I do like my pork products)

Internationally it probably really is. But that's not the point. In England when I wanted a decent meal for a reasonable price I could choose between Chinese food, Italian food, Indian food, American food and well, Fish n Chips. When I walk down the main street in Mannheim on the other hand I can get a good steak without draining my bank account. There apparently is a really good upper class cuisine in England, but the normal everyday food is mostly horrible.
England so far is the only country where I've seen people buy canned spaghetti with tomato sauce.
Post edited February 24, 2009 by hansschmucker
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hansschmucker: Internationally it probably really is. But that's not the point. In England when I wanted a decent meal for a reasonable price I could choose between Chinese food, Italian food, Indian food, American food and well, Fish n Chips. When I walk down the main street in Mannheim on the other hand I can get a good steak without draining my bank account. There apparently is a really good upper class cuisine in England, but the normal everyday food is mostly horrible.
England so far is the only country where I've seen people buy canned spaghetti with tomato sauce.

It's true you don't tend to find many places that serve british food, more so in the cities. If you can find a good pub (harder to do these days), then you can get good food cheaply. Otherwise, you have to appreciate we have run headlong into the arms of a mix of multiculturalism and big chains (mostly imported from the US).
Out of interest, what city/cities have you been to in the UK? I've lived in the north of the country and scotland, but have rarely gone to the south, not sure if theres a difference in what you'd find, but theres quite a big north/south divide.
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hansschmucker: Internationally it probably really is. But that's not the point. In England when I wanted a decent meal for a reasonable price I could choose between Chinese food, Italian food, Indian food, American food and well, Fish n Chips. When I walk down the main street in Mannheim on the other hand I can get a good steak without draining my bank account. There apparently is a really good upper class cuisine in England, but the normal everyday food is mostly horrible.
England so far is the only country where I've seen people buy canned spaghetti with tomato sauce.
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Andy_Panthro: It's true you don't tend to find many places that serve british food, more so in the cities. If you can find a good pub (harder to do these days), then you can get good food cheaply. Otherwise, you have to appreciate we have run headlong into the arms of a mix of multiculturalism and big chains (mostly imported from the US).
Out of interest, what city/cities have you been to in the UK? I've lived in the north of the country and scotland, but have rarely gone to the south, not sure if theres a difference in what you'd find, but theres quite a big north/south divide.

A few places. I've spent 3 months near Exeter when I was 16 (yes, I did go to the pubs back then... it was a small town so my age wasn't a problem and I usually went there at least three times a week and usually didn't leave before 11pm) and did a few visits to London. I also did a short vacation near Edinburgh, but I didn't see much of the cities.
Many family owned diners here in Connecticut offer fish n' chips and I must say its one of my favourite foods. Also, I should mention that although I live in the United States, it is not by choice. I was born here and currently I am not monetarily stable enough to move to a completely different country. that and I'm only 16. If I could move to England, I would in a heart beat. I even intentionally spell certain words like favourite and colour differently intentionally.
Back on topic, I have never tried Walkers so by default I have to choose Lays, which are actually pretty good anyways.
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hansschmucker: England so far is the only country where I've seen people buy canned spaghetti with tomato sauce.

Sadly Australia has this too, quite disgusting but I know several people who upend a tin of it over some toast and call it a meal.
You get great chippies over here too, we have 2 local ones who make awesome hamburgers & chips. Of couse some sicko in the past insisted on putting beetroot on hamburgers and now it's traditional so unless you remember to say "no beetroot" when ordering, you have to remove it and have lettuce that looks like someone's bled all over it.
Damnit, that salad sandwich I was planning to make for lunch suddenly sounds a lot less appetising...
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hansschmucker: England so far is the only country where I've seen people buy canned spaghetti with tomato sauce.
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Aliasalpha: Sadly Australia has this too, quite disgusting but I know several people who upend a tin of it over some toast and call it a meal.
You get great chippies over here too, we have 2 local ones who make awesome hamburgers & chips. Of course some sicko in the past insisted on putting beetroot on hamburgers and now it's traditional so unless you remember to say "no beetroot" when ordering, you have to remove it and have lettuce that looks like someone's bled all over it.
Damnit, that salad sandwich I was planning to make for lunch suddenly sounds a lot less appetising...

That's terrible! But I'd still prefer a burger with beetroot to canned spaghetti.
About that sandwich: I wish I could send you a bit of Pfälzer Leberwurst (don't look it up in Wikipedia, the article has nothing to do with what you get over here). I'm pretty sure you'd like it (and no, it doesn't taste like liver... I %$§% hate liver)
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Aliasalpha: Well lays sounds like you've shagged them and left sticky residue all over so I'll go for walkers

Well I think a name like wankers also has sticky residue written all over it.
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hansschmucker: That's terrible! But I'd still prefer a burger with beetroot to canned spaghetti.
About that sandwich: I wish I could send you a bit of Pfälzer Leberwurst (don't look it up in Wikipedia, the article has nothing to do with what you get over here). I'm pretty sure you'd like it (and no, it doesn't taste like liver... I %$§% hate liver)

Ahh well I've done the tinned spaghetti thing once or twice and it's preferrable to beet enabled burgers but mostly because I can pretend they're worms and take it like a Klingon (Yes, I AM a nerd).
I really should get around to inventing that food-email-teleport gadget I thought of, I could sell copies of my pizza online and maybe install secuROM into people's colon so if they don't connect to the net at least once a month to prove that they've not pirated any of my pizza, their bowels prolapse!
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Aliasalpha: Well lays sounds like you've shagged them and left sticky residue all over so I'll go for walkers
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Zhirek: Well I think a name like wankers also has sticky residue written all over it.

Thats a good point actually, I'll pass on those. Pringles make decent chips but they're overpriced and a Pringle sounds like some sick, perverted & obscure sexual act I'd prefer to indulge in rather than eat.
Arnotts used to make a salt & vinegar rice chip that had so much flavour it could be a danger to the tongue, they got taken off the market, probably because wusses complained about tongue melting. I miss those, they were like the Habanero of chips, a real test of manhood (or womanhood where appropriate).