Overrated Food & Drink

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Clive_ofthe_Kremlin, Nov 11, 2019.

  1. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    What on earth is uncultured about using ketchup for the very purpose it was intended? Chips are tasteless, fatty lumps of starch without ketchup.

    People who put mayonnaise on chips, however, are scum.
     
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  2. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    Go to Holland and say that. They'd run you into the sea - that's basically the national dish.
     
  3. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    The Dutch are the most tasteless people on earth.
     
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  4. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Probably doped up on space cakes and can't taste anything. Dutch cuisine isn't really a thing is it?
    :D
     
  5. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Also, running me into the sea would involve negotiating dykes (stop it!)
     
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  6. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Have you seen the length of Moog's legs. He ain't running anywhere fast.[​IMG]
     
  7. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    It's awful. We go there every year and the only thing they seem capable of making that isn't just something indistinguishable swimming in grease is bland cheese. They have the worst food in Europe, bar none.

    The only other thing they have is something called "Joppie Sauce" which is a sort of mustardy mayonnaise (and a bit Worcester sauce tasting) that you put on your chips and is nice. They do crisps in that flavour too and go well with a beer. When that's the height of your national cuisine, there are problems.

    [​IMG]
     
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  8. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Worth seeking out some Indonesian restaurants if you can find them there. Certainly some good ones in Amsterdam.
     
  9. Daft Row

    Daft Row Reservist

    Jerk Chicken Wrap Stall has always served me well. Two for £6, bargain.
     
  10. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Actually now I recall in my first job I had to visit hampsterjam quite regularly the hotel the company used served up cheese and cold meats for breakfast.
    Weird.

    They did however have an "English Pub" in the basement for which you got one beer token on check in. They only served Heineken but had free peanuts.

    Nice people but the place was just a little odd.
     
  11. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    No. Weird is what my Dutch mate used to have for breakfast - a 100's and 1000's sandwich.
     
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  12. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Wasn't the particular JFC I was thinking of, but good to know for the next time I'm on the piss in Aylesbury! :D
     
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  13. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    You sir, just described my life from 16-22. Well played.

    I usually venture down to Bon Appetite post-beers whenever I’m back in AY and manage a night out.
     
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  14. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    I'm glad that I am ingratiating myself with the culture of Aylesbury. I've never tried Bon Appetite, is it any good?
     
  15. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    It’s not weird at all. Pretty much every hotel I have been to in Europe does this. As do quite a few in the U.K., for that matter.
     
  16. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    I don’t know if the kebab they offer is significantly better to the extent that it’s worth the hike down to the bottom of the high street if you’re not going that way, but it’s always been my go-to choice when it comes to dirty drunk food. On my trips home over the last 5-6 years, it’s never let me down when I’ve needed refreshment at the end of another night enjoying the sights and smells of Aylesbury after dark.

    That said, it provided a natural stopping point for my walk home, and would keep me going until I’d reach the Tesco on the Tring Road, and a raid of the reduced to clear section, so this may have influenced my decision making somewhat.
     
  17. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    What's weird about the Netherlands is that this fayre is repeated for lunch, dinner and special feasts too.
     
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  18. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    With loads and loads of sprouts, hot and cold.
     
  19. domthehornet

    domthehornet Moderator Staff Member

    If I'm right in thinking it's near Mendoza's so in prime position for a dirty kebab. Aylesbury is the only place that puts cheese and coleslaw on kebabs, it was incredibly confusing ordering my first kebab up here with that concoction.

    Ah I'm the other way so Tring Road is a bit of a detour, it's a shame Morrisons shuts at ten otherwise I'd be ram raiding the deli section.
     
  20. NathWFC

    NathWFC First Team

    Nando's is possibly the only thing in the world that doesn't anger me or disappoint me on a consistent basis.

    The most overrated "food" in the world is ketchup. Utterly vile.
     
  21. Why is cold meats and cheese any weirder than bacon and eggs (and even black pudding)?!
     
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  22. CleyHorn

    CleyHorn Reservist

    Pretty much any hotel I've been in the world ever will have cold meats and cheese as part of a breakfast buffet.
     
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  23. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    One can only surmise Hornmeister doesn’t get out much.
     
  24. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    You cant eat them if they live. A fact* that somewhat murks the water of your mortality rate statistic.

    * you can technically eat a goose alive, I guess.
     
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  25. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Given that they're compared to ducks raised by conventional farming methods (who are also eventually slaughtered) that logic doesn't hold up.

    https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/43a7/d513518cc8717e6123413a23d8cb433258f0.pdf

    Foie gras production is banned in the UK for a reason.
     
  26. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    The debate about what is too weird to eat for breakfast crops up a lot in our house. For me, anything is fair game for breakfast. You name it, I’ve had it for brekkie either cold as a leftover or freshly cooked because I fancied it. I had a stinking hangover on Saturday morning so I knocked up a nice greasy egg fried rice with loads of soy sauce. Other half was appalled but I needed that specific food to get my day going. I spent the day tiling at my mum’s house, she spent the day feeling sorry for herself.

    For too long now hard working, honest people of been conned into think they can only have one or a combination of toast, eggs, cereal and hot processed meat to start the day.

    Eat a boiled egg for breakfast and you stink of it for the rest of the day, might as well have something with some flavour and finish off that chickpea curry from the night before. (This morning’s breakfast)
     
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  27. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I get you. Hangover food is different. Last nights leftover pizza hot or cold is a good one.

    My particular gripe was the best thing about staying in a hotel is getting a cooked breakfast (doesn't happen much in Meister towers) To be served up some sliced ham and plastic cheese is a massive disappointment. Their orange juice was weird as well. More like squash.
     
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  28. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Perhaps the hotel was cheap?

    You’ve heard the term “continental breakfast”, right?
     
  29. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Possibly the most heroic post I’ve ever read on here.

    Bravo, Sir. Yours is noble crusade.
     
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  30. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    So the farmed ducks have a 100% mortality rate? Wheres the petition.

    (I'm not saying foie gras production isnt cruel for the benefit of doubt).
     
  31. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    I had my first trip to America last month and I was deeply impressed with the attitude to breakfast there.

    Philly cheesesteak in an omelette covered in chilli sauce? Yes please!
     
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  32. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Yep tastes great but given 97/100 of every Americans are scientifically classed as "big fat wobblers" there may be a connection ?
     
  33. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Nothing wrong with a warm croissant, lashings of butter and a decent cup of coffee. But ham plastic cheese and an orange squash is somethign you'd put in a kids lunchbox in the 1970s.

    The Hotel was bloody expensive becasue it was next to Schipol Airport. Which is surprising as I've had a couple of bloody good meals actually in Schipol airport. Had to spend 18 hours there once when the Italian ATC was on strike. Time flew by. Far better than having to sit in a dirty Wetherspoons at Heathrow.
     
  34. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Pop a couple of slices of ham and cheese and some bread rolls in your bag - free mid-morning snack sorted.
     
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  35. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Much prefer a couple of sausages in between some slices of toast.

    Ham is nasty
     

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