J wrote:jamesmcdonnell wrote:Riddick Blowe wrote:My mates call me a food snob, just because I feel that food here in general is vastly inferior to most places on the continent and therefore MOSTLY not worth going out to eat.
Of course there are exceptions, but most of the time they're bloody expensive ones whereas you could get the same quality meal in france for half the price.
Their response: 'Go live in France then'
Take a homemade sandwich to the fight!
I did that last time I went to Old Trafford, some raised eyebrows at me. At least I didn't have to endure that British abhorration, the fatty, shitty, football ground pie
The pie was made of ground football! No wonder they taste bad. Ground beef is iffy enough.
Ian, your Zebra and chips comment made me chuckle. Funnily enough though, there is a restaurant in brixton that serves zebra steaks with chips, as well as crododile, kangaroo, ocelot, elephant and tiger penis soup.
Ok, I made the last three up, but who the fornicate wants to eat Zebra, it's just horsemeat with stripes.
hmm dunno some of the african game type food is very rich and nice, had springbok, kudu steaks in SA they were fornicating ace.
As is ostrich. Dont worry these are all free range famred before anyone comments, also had crocodile and carpaccio of anteater of all things! All tip top.
as for ribs in an Italian restaurant, not in the ones i go to Riddick.
I would imagine Springbok and Kudu would just taste like Venison, they are both types of dear after all. Anteater, fornicate knows.
The restaurant in brixton is shit, and half the menu is all these exotic meats, because they are trying to look trendy. 7 quid for a plate of antipasti consisting of 2 artichoke hearts, a few slices of what looked like luncheon meat, and a bit of salami with about 10 olives...fornicate off!
There's plenty of good french restaurants, and some of them are even fairly reasonable, and I've eaten in France and yes the food is generally much cheaper as eating out is more ingrained in the culture, and their bars all do food too. There's a reasonable one in South Ken which does pretty rustic french food.
Personally, I say you cannot beat home cooked food, I like nice simple stuff, like a proper barbecue with blackened chilli and garilic chicken, seared beef and lamb, succulent peppers, steaming baked onions, mushrooms, home made chilli burgers, sausages sizzling on the grill........a nice fresh new potato salad, fresh hummus, grilled aubergines.....christ I'm hungry.
What I also hate is 'Italian' restaurants in this country. There is nothing remotely italian about any of them, I can't remember the last time I ate bbq ribs or iceberg lettuce in Italy..
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