Overrated Food & Drink

You heathen wretches! Has their Chilli Con Carne (with crackers and a sachet of chilli oil) been forgotten so quickly? ISTR they were the last bastion for root beer?

 

What’s the only cheese made backwards?

Edam.

 

There are very few foods that i don’t enjoy and when presented with the opportunity to eat something I usually take it without considering whether the food is that good or not.

Having said that I find avocado a massive let down.

There’s a chippy near Thornham in Norfolk where we often go for weekends away and people lose their ******* minds over this place, going on about it like it should have a Michelin star and it is literally the most bog standard fish and chips you could hope to eat. You sit on a crate and there are brightly coloured salt shakers on the tables though so it’s worth the extra tenner.

 

Which cheese do you use to tempt a Grizzly out of the woods?

Camembert!

 

Fish and chips in general is utterly dismal. About every 18 months we decide to have fish and chips (from the very highly rated Sea Pebbles in Hatch End) and are utterly disappointed by having to plough through mountains of greasy clag. 18 months later, we forget how dismal it was and try again...

And to think this was our national dish, and the extent of our culinary aspirations before Asian immigration and joining the common market.

 

Anything French...is pretentious and overrated.

Give me a plate of pasta any day.

 

I know what you mean, I find that dumping half a pint of curry sauce on top of it usually does the trick for me.

And how is any food enhanced by eating it near to the sea when a combination of sand, seagull **** and the seagull itself will likely find its way into your meal?

 

Anything ?

 

Good God, man!

Ban?

 

What do you southerners put on dry, bland chip shop chips then? Consomme? A port reduction?

 

Sea Pebbles was good over a decade ago, but has gone seriously downhill.

If you want a good fish and chips (takeaway), try the Ideal Fish Bar in Pinner. Probably the best I've had away from the seaside.

The fish is massive and meaty, and if you get a normal size bit of fish, the lovely guy who runs it will give you another piece for free.

 

Fish and chips is boring and bland, and usually so is the person eating it.

 

I've heard good things about it (but at the end of the day it's fish and chips!) Actually, the fish part is okay providing not too much oily batter, but why are chip shop chips always so pale and flaccid?

 

There is a state tradition here of serving cream puffs around State Fair time. All of the locals rave about them. Everyone raved about these things, and told my (then fiancee) she had to take me to State Fair to get one. My wife hates both State Fair and cream puffs, but relented and took me despite her misgivings.

As is turns out, cream puffs are utterly crap. So is State Fair, on a somewhat related note. I cannot understand why people lose their minds over either of them.

 

A sit down (fish cooked to order) is B'wood's "The Golden Plaice" is consistently very good.

Not really. When anything is cooked /served to perfection it's always an experience. Oddly enough properly made scrambled eggs and mashed potatoes (not at the same time) were a revelation.

NBC.

 

Tomato ketchup m8. Lashings of it.

 

I think I've had ostrich while in Nairobi. I seem to remember it being very nice

 

It is! Very tasty.

Swordfish, kangaroo and alligator are also tasty.

 

I thought kangaroo tasted a bit like a gamier chicken when I ate it. Swordfish is delicious. Haven’t had alligator but have had crocodile (also in Aus) which I recall being quite tasty.

I seem to remember that ostrich burgers were once quite popular in gastropubs in the U.K. but I don’t think I have seen any for a while.

 

No comment.

 

Any meal that costs over £12.

Any glass of wine that costs over £6.

 

Get you, Mr Moneybags.

 

Who buys just a glass of wine?

 

Obviously one wouldn't buy a whole bottle of Sauternes to accompany one's foie gras.


******* plebs.

 

A Bee Hummingbird (Cuban Clive) shoved up a Goldcrest makes a decent canape.

 

Mushy peas are quite the most appalling thing ever invented. The contents of a gall bladder on a plate. Beetroot is hardly any better except in thin strips in a bistro salad.

 

I tried beetroot juice about 6 months ago. Vile stuff - it tastes like liquid dirt.

I actually quite like pickled beetroot, but it tastes disgusting to me in any other form.

 

If you ever go to Lostwithiel in Cornwall you must visit the towns Fish & Chip shop and have their Cod & Chips, the cod is probably the best you will ever have, and the chips are pretty good too.

Ironically the owners are not very nice people, but even so I still have to recommend you visit their shop, IMO you will not be disappointed.

 

Yep. Saw plenty of those little bee hummingbirds, the world's smallest bird as you know but others won't, when in Cuba in Feb.

 

Agree on mushy peas. Disagree on beetroot, have it every day in sandwiches, with other stuff obviously....

 

Me.

TBF When I worked in France (for a while in a lycée) it was mandatory to have a glass with lunch and sometimes if chef had really done something extremely special for dessert it would be insulting not to have a vin de dessert to compliment it...

 

Plebs? Plebs? A vin de dessert with a horses doeovery or plat principal... I rest my case.