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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago
sheffield |
Bland. Stodgy unimaginative. Like come on. Tikka masala and sausage and mash
Whatever happened to good old pigs trotters and stuffed lamb hearts with a peppercorn jue and propa home made cheese cake. Not that Iceland shite they serve in premier inns |
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By *modDMan
over a year ago
Lichfield |
"Comforting, simple and hearty or bland and stodgy?"
In most average, bog standard restaurants/pubs everything is wet, drowned in gravy or vinegar or some other sauce...and meat is cooked until it resembles a block of wood.
Service in a lot of places is way below the standard it should be. There's just much better value and quality to be had in other countries.
I can't remember the last time I went out somewhere new and was overly impressed. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
One of the many jobs I have had in my lifetime was selling refrigerated vans to the food industry, this involved early morning trips to the big 3 London Markets, Sithfield, New Covent Garden and Billingsgate all of which had super cafes serving up proper full English (Heart Attack) Breakfasts, Fried everything plus bubble and Squeak and a pint mug of tea and doorstep slices of bread and butter, Happy days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't think it helps that we've become reliant on chain eateries and the little man seems to have been muscled out of it, other than in the higher end of the market."
Exactly.
A meal in a good independent restaurant is usually pricey.
But there are some excellent farmers markets that are now making traditional foods on the go for a decent price. |
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During the medieval period, food - for the middle & upper classes - was far from bland
Wasn't that to disguise the taste of the rotting meat ?"
That's a very common misconception - still found in some older textbooks - in reality however, anyone caught selling or serving rancid meat was in for a lot of trouble. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Comforting, simple and hearty or bland and stodgy?
I feel it utterly nonsensical to summarise every food cooked in the UK under one heading
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Oh have a cuppa and a biscuit. |
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"Comforting, simple and hearty or bland and stodgy?
I feel it utterly nonsensical to summarise every food cooked in the UK under one heading
Oh have a cuppa and a biscuit."
Oh is my opinion not valid on an open internet forum ! It do I just have to put up with bland false dichotomy |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Comforting, simple and hearty or bland and stodgy?
I feel it utterly nonsensical to summarise every food cooked in the UK under one heading
Oh have a cuppa and a biscuit.
Oh is my opinion not valid on an open internet forum ! It do I just have to put up with bland false dichotomy"
You seem a bit stressed. Are you eating properly? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We have some of the best restaurants in the world. If you choose to eat in a Hungry Horse or some other shitty pub chain and summarise that as typical British food, that's entirely up to you but it doesn't make it right. |
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