Religious lobsters ...
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I think that if you take the pickle and the lobster, and put them in a pot, you would create an even better deity that tastes great too, I hope. (never had lobster).
Posted 2 years ago # -
Jabster
MemberLobster is nice (a bit like a sweeter version of white crab meat) although I hazzard a guess that it's price relative to other foods means it's thought to be even nicer!
p.s. I wouldn't put pickles it though as they are better combined with something that is fatty.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Jabster
MemberSo it's me and Kodie against Ty, Brian M, Siberia and Custador. Well we've got the looks, the wit and the brains and you've got the anger, tattoos and and what could be a mullet if I'm not mistaken ... :-)
Seriously guys/girls how can you not like crab/lobster ... oh hang on does the fact that there is no objective taste prove that god doesn't exist?
p.s. What about oysters ... you must like oysters?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Brian M
MemberWell...not really a case of "not liking it." It's more "my eyes start itching and my throat swells". I worked for a short while in a restaurant. They steamed crab. Not a good thing for me to be around...I would have to go out into the parking lot and cough my lungs clear. :(
I like oysters. Pretty expensive, though.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Kodie
MemberOysters are everywhere but don't eat them. The main problem with oysters is you can get them at a lot of places and they'll taste nasty and chewy. The next problem after that is, once you've had the nasty chewy oysters, you won't try them again. If you've had them and they tasted good, you might tolerate the nasty chewy ones if they're the only ones you can get, but try not to get someone else to try oysters for the first time unless they are good.
You know what's good, mussels.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Jabster
MemberI've had oysters a couple of times in the states and I can't say I was overly impressed compared to the average oyster I'm used to in England. Without wishing to slight US restaurants (but I'm going to anyway) generally I've found that the food may be cheap but it's not that good - I still remember the mistake I made of going to Subway for one of the worse rolls I've ever tasted and to cap it all I won another free meal with some "pull off sticker".
Mussels ... erm goodness .. chopped shallots, white wine ... ermmmm
Posted 2 years ago # -
Kodie
MemberWeird, you went to Subway so you think all American food is that crappy? It's cheap and it's everywhere but it smells weird and fills your gut less greasy than McDonald's when you're starving but forgot to pack your own lunch. Other delis make really good sandwiches same price. I don't think I've ever been to a deli that makes worse sandwiches than Subway, they're about even with it at the worst. I wouldn't say it's terrible, but I bet you have in England someplace that's ubiquitous but crap and someplace that's a better example of the same fare to show someone who is visiting. What am I saying, English food is known for being shitty.
At least that's what we hear. I wouldn't turn down a fish and chips if you could tell me where it's sort of sublime compared to bleh average. I would eat the oysters too, but I would tend to stick to my American caution of expecting to see them too much in restaurants I probably shouldn't bother trying them, and few that know what they're doing with them.
Posted 2 years ago # -
UrsaMinor
MemberThe rolls at Subway are disgusting. When I want a sub, I go to an independent deli or one of the two small local sub shop chains that bake their own bread and do it right.
I've never had real English fish-and-chips, but where I live, the Friday night fish fry is a firmly entrenched tradition in the restaurant industry. Used to be cod, now it's mostly haddock, covered in beer batter and deep-fried to golden perfection, served with a big heap of french fries (and usually a token side of coleslaw that nobody seriously expects anyone to eat). I may be way off, but I imagine that fish and chips are not all that different from our Friday fish fries.
Posted 2 years ago # -
@ Kodie: "English food is known for being shitty"
Back in the eighties and early nineties, maybe. These days Britain is very much a gourmet nation - we've absorbed a lot of good food ideas from near neighbours and learned how to do it well. Besides that, a well made roast-beef dinner is still one of the best things to eat on the entire planet, bar none. Nobody but the British cook it right. Or roast lamb, come to think of it. Everybody else cocks it up - such a waste.
Posted 2 years ago # -
UrsaMinor
MemberEnglish cuisine has a fascinatingly checkered history. It was exotically spicy by today's standards up until the Renaissance- lots of saffron, cardamom, cubebs, cinnamon, cloves, sugar- no meat went unseasoned or unsauced, in ways that we would find very strange today.
And then for some reason, it all went away, and English cuisine settled into that bland wasteland whose ill reputation clings to this day. It is good to hear that our neighbors across the pond have begun to try new things again. My Irish friends report that something similar has been happening there since the early 1990s, too.
American cuisine was pretty boring in the 1960s when I was growing up. Meat, potatoes, and overcooked vegetables were the norm. White bread was king, pizza was a rare ethnic food, and enchiladas were positively exotic. Chili peppers simply did not exist outside of the Southwest. Around 1970, California started mixing cuisines of diverse kinds and eventually convinced the rest of the country to try new things. While I can't say that I am in love with the moo shoo fajita (eeeewwww!), at least there is some uninhibited experimentation going on.
Sadly, lamb is still considered exotic on this side of the Atlantic. If restaurants serve lamb at all, it's in the form of lamb chops, and seldom cooked correctly.
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