What I'm having for dinner.

ROC

ROC

It is what it is
Yeah right.

Mash potatoes from a box was what I witnessed in NYC 6 years ago. The flat mates of the guy I was staying with could not be persuaded to go downstairs and 1 block south for fresh 'produce' as you septics so charmingly call it.

I have 3 friends from uni days living in New York now and I can get signed affidavits verifying the general crappiness of food on offer. Maybe we could sue?

I travelled the US in 2000 from NY to SF from Chicago to New Orleans and can say I've never seen worse food on offer generally.

Third world countries in south east Asia eat better.

That's why you have the highest obesity levels in the world. We are 6th.

1) USA: 30.6 percent
2) Mexico: 24.2 percent
3) UK: 23 percent
4) Slovakia: 22.4 percent
5) Greece: 21.9 percent
6) Australia: 21.7 percent
7) New Zealand: 20.9 percent
8) Hungary: 18.8 percent
9) Luxembourg: 18.4 percent
10) Czech Rep: 14.8 percent


The French aren't even in the top 20, so Beefaroni = bad. Brains in vomit = good. :D
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
So the big one gets away...

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...but the little one gets nuked.

Seems wrong to me... but ok.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
Someone without dreadlocks would be served a different, not tampered, food, in France. A meal worth eating.

Doesn't Franco American make BeefaRoni?? Oh no, worse, Spaghettios.

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chronic

chronic

old and in the way
ROC said:
I travelled the US in 2000 from NY to SF from Chicago to New Orleans and can say I've never seen worse food on offer generally.
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Third world countries in south east Asia eat better.
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You didn't eat in the right places. If you're ever in L.A., I'll take you to some great places for Mexican food or barbecue.

And some of the best food I've ever had was from street vendors in Bangkok.

mjp said:
Everything I ate that was prepared by Parisians was shitty, and that's not an exaggeration.
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I love me some French bread, French toast and Fren... uh, freedom fries.

Escargots are an abomination.

I'd rather eat bull testicles.
 
number6horse

number6horse

okyoutwopixiesoutyougo
ROC said:
I travelled the US in 2000 from NY to SF from Chicago to New Orleans and can say I've never seen worse food on offer generally.
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How could you possibly visit four of the finest restaurant cities in the U.S. and come away disappointed ? You were born without taste-buds ! We need to host a telethon or something to raise awareness of your pitiful condition.
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
The wife's a foody so she researched ahead of time and we ate some fine food on our travels.

But the general stuff on offer (on the beaten track, if you like) was just dreadful.

If you're going to have telethon for me can we make it cash for books?
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
ROC said:
The wife's a foody so she researched ahead of time and we ate some fine food on our travels.

But the general stuff on offer (on the beaten track, if you like) was just dreadful.
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Well, we had the same experience then. Just opposite. I didn't get anything good until I got out of Paris. The general rule I developed was the fancier (and more expensive) the place, the less edible the food.

But as Gerard so helpfully pointed out, I did have dreadlocks both times I went to France (no so common on a skinny white American lad in 1984, so I probably looked homeless), and I was probably a pain in the ass to feed. "Yes, my good man, I would like the pancreas, but with no pancreas or pancreas juices, the brains, but hold the actual brains, and the bœuf bourguignon without beef. And make it snappy boy, I don't want to sit here for the rest of the day waiting!"

I wore a beret to Paris thinking I would fit in, and Americans asked me for directions all day long.

This is all a goof to me anyway because fancy food is lost on me. I grew up in the country. We didn't have bœuf bourguignon in Mahtomedi or Grand Marais.
 
ROC

ROC

It is what it is
chronic said:
If you're ever in L.A., I'll take you to some great places for Mexican food or barbecue.
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I will sooo take you up on that one day (I hope!).


Glowy Joey has real potential.

Anyone else here tried Kangaroo meat? It's very good when prepared properly.
 
Mark73

Mark73

It's just fun to tease Ambreen. I like Ambreen. She's stubborn and proud, even or especially if she's rushing into a dead end street.

It's true the French make the best baguette, but when it comes down to real bread, no one in the whole fucking world can beat us. Us, you understand, Paul Bocuse? You know it. Admit it.

Still the French have a crazy variety of very fine cheese, at a Cora Supermarket you have 16 meters of about 500 different kinds of cheese to choose from. They come over here to buy bread in locust swarms and send packages to their poor relatives who don't live that close to the German border and can't afford the journey. Oh, how happy they are once they've tasted their cheese on our bread. But they're even more ashamed of their own baguettes and punish themselves with Sado-Maso Sex Games. This has been going on for centuries and is the true origin of Marquis de Sade.




The French are a strange bunch...
I have nothing against them, as long as they leave some bread in the shelves.
 
Mark73

Mark73

You'll be served.
I'll charge one kangaroo for that, but leave the head at home. I'm not French.

And can someone please send me a jerk chicken?
I'll never forget the red face of the English woman when she read the sign for jerk chicken.
Supertasty. I'd like to have a Negril jerk chicken.
 
DirtyJersey13

DirtyJersey13

The Cruelty of Loveless Love
I love how this thread has gone from what we are having for dinner, to us strong heartily defending our countries of origin; ROC has even stepped it up a notch and provided factual evidence.

Bottom line, I like my steak and mashed potatoes... even if they come from a box. And as for what I'm having for dinner tonight, it's pizza, from the always classy Little Caesars.
 
hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
Moderator
Founding member
pan fried trout in olive oil and a mixed green salad with feta cheese and raspberry vinaigrette dressing.
 
DirtyJersey13

DirtyJersey13

The Cruelty of Loveless Love
Yeah... that came out wrong. But I think I actually do have a few Banquet country fried steaks in boxes in my freezer; only 88 cents for a TV dinner, gotta love Walmart.

As for a vagiterian, that would be an interesting lifestyle to say the least...
 
Ambreen

Ambreen

Sordide Sentimental
I like you too, Mark!

DirtyJersey13 said:
I love how this thread has gone from what we are having for dinner, to us strong heartily defending our countries of origin; ROC has even stepped it up a notch and provided factual evidence.
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That's the President-Dictator who began all this by denigrating French food whereas nobody had talked of French food.

Hey poor skinny white trash with dreadlocks, next time you come here, ask for Maité and she'll cook you one of her specialities, like this one:

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Or marry me and I'll cook you boeuf bourguignon without beef whenever you want.
 
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DirtyJersey13

DirtyJersey13

The Cruelty of Loveless Love
Nice work digit, that's the goodness I was referring to, complete with the plastic eating utensils, makes it even classier.
 
nervas

nervas

more crickets than friends
The only thing duking it out here tonight was Domino's, Mc Donalds, or Del Taco and Del Taco won, MACHO size! But now I feel like I'm gonna be sick. But the Lakers won their first game of the playoffs, so I think I'll be ok.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
They should advertise it as having more meat now.

You know, just thinking of the positive spin...
 
S

slimedog

I bought a can of that variety Sunday- somehow I feel I'll be very disappointed when I open it up.

I believe the lady should be reimbursed on the portion of the can that was taken up by the rat but not for the whole can.

Rat in a Can.
 
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