I have seldom felt more peckish…

[Lixarto]

nice bit of casual racism there mags.

Only if you're English

[Vim Fuego]

Only if you're English

retard

[bochetagrave]

Not that its going to change anybodys mind but heres a nice bit of Foie Gras

I didn't need to see that - I'd never have eaten the stuff, anyway, and now I have that image in my head..

[bochetagrave]

As to the "I'd rather eat a burger, pie ect" fine. It's just like saying I only like music if its been on the X factor. A lovley combination of ignorance and inverted snobbery, and ever so English....

Sorry, but that's bollocks. ...and it's etc - not ect, ffs!

[Lixarto]

retard

It was funny before you edited it.

By funny, of course, l mean laughable.

[Vim Fuego]

It was funny before you edited it.

By funny, of course, l mean laughable.

ofcourse it was dear

[holnrew]

Not that its going to change anybodys mind but heres a nice bit of Foie Gras

Tears pricking, slightly wobbly chin.

[hungrymark]

Foie Gras is utterly amazingly delicious. Must remember to get some next time I'm in France. Fresh Foie Gras lightly fried in Armanac or Calvados is the food of gods.

As for Michellin stars, the trick is to eat lunch as it is generally a lot cheaper.

As to the "I'd rather eat a burger, pie ect" fine. It's just like saying I only like music if its been on the X factor. A lovley combination of ignorance and inverted snobbery, and ever so English....

From what I gather from my travels the English are pretty open-minded when it comes to food. Most cultured people in this country will be willing to try most types of food. Compare to Italy, for example, where they don't even eat the food from up the road because folk up there make their pasta into little bow-ties instead of ribbons, or have the temerity to put a clove of garlic into their ragu, the philistines. In my little town (about 10000 people) there are a couple of passable Indian joints, a Mexican (shit, but with good intentions), Chinese and Thai, as well as the usual gastro-pubs and a Michelin-starred place five miles down the road. And this is in the backwoods of Cumbria, well-off the tourist trail. Try looking in similarly-sized towns in many other countries and you'd struggle. I've struggled anyway.

[guitarnoob]

Foie Gras is utterly amazingly delicious. Must remember to get some next time I'm in France. Fresh Foie Gras lightly fried in Armanac or Calvados is the food of gods.

As for Michellin stars, the trick is to eat lunch as it is generally a lot cheaper.

As to the "I'd rather eat a burger, pie ect" fine. It's just like saying I only like music if its been on the X factor. A lovley combination of ignorance and inverted snobbery, and ever so English....

If it has been does it qualify as music any more?

And it can't be "ever so English" because I am certainly not English. Also it comes down to personal preference - just because you like fancy cuisine does not mean I have to. I am not ignorant of fine cuisine and I am not being an "inverted snob".

I simply prefer simpler food. I like my steaks (dare I say it) medium-well done. I would prefer a real gravy to cubes of jelly and foam. I like potato to look and feel like potato rather than being foamed and adorned with "slow cooked egg and caramelised onions".

[evilmags]

I should have said very 1970s English, when food was truly grim, overcooked, tasteless and a Prawn Cocktail was considered outre.

The guys who make food like that train and practise much in the same way as a classical or jazz musician, a writer, a painter a sculpturer a surgeon or anybody else who is basically at the top of thei game. What they do is basically art and if people want to take pride in being "proleier than thou" fine. But they are basically being philistines. Or trying to look cool while essentially admitting to having never spent the time to properly develop taste buds. Steak and chips is fine, but it is hardly a sensual experience unless it cooked Sous Vide and properly rare.