OT: Accross the irish sea to scotland...

piperdoc · Post by **piperdoc** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:51 am

when will this nutritional trend make its way accross the water to ireland, and eventually the USA?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 1216144522

Thorpe · Post by **Thorpe** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:01 am

For your sake, hopefully soon. Theyre great!!!

Hmmm makes me hungry

Dan

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:10 am

A verrrrrrrrry tasty heart attack in a plastic wrapper.

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:13 am

I wish Ireland's contribution to world cuisine, i.e. curried chips, would spread here. Hmm, I wonder what curried poutine would be like ....

djm

Thorpe · Post by **Thorpe** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 9:14 am

You guys dont get chips and curry sauce?!?!?!?

Thats a crime!

Dan

No E · Post by **No E** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:16 am

Old news... They've been deep-frying candy bars (and everything else imaginable) at the Los Angeles County Fair for years. Fortunately, it's a once-a-year event, so there's only a small spike in the number heart attacks around Fair time.

No E

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:21 am

What I found amusing about Scotland was the number of Thai restaurants in the country.

In the small town of Fort William, there were FOUR of them. Two had closed, though. Guess there wasn't that much demand for them.... though I still couldn't see how even 2 got by.

And in Edinburgh, in the "new" city, on one corner there were 4 authentic (we tried them all) Italian restaurants.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:15 pm

the best ever spring roll my wife and I ate was in Dublin. We still talk about the chinese resturant that we went to 20+ years ago.

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:27 pm

fel bautista wrote:the best ever spring roll my wife and I ate was in Dublin. We still talk about the chinese resturant that we went to 20+ years ago.

if you're talking about the same one that i ate in at nearly the same time, i heartily agree. the food was as good as some of the ny or san francisco chinatown restaraunts.

Uilliam · Post by **Uilliam** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:41 am

Scotland has some of the best natural foods in the world but ironically some of the worst food habits imaginable..
For that special evening with someone ye can get a Deep fried mars bar with chips£1.70 washed down with a bottle of Buckie£1.99(cheap tonic wine favoured by jakies or most o the folk living in Lanarkshire,especially my neck o the woods,Coatbridge)
Then for dessert at least 20 cigarettes.
Sitting in the restaurant(cafe) would be considered too effette so you treat your partner(if your feeling flushed with money,or normally ye would try and get your partner to pay) to an al fresco meal...after your meal don't forget to throw all your rubbish on the pavement aff then to the pub for a wee nightcap then on the way hame have a pish wherever ye please before boking, again, wherever ye please...
Ye don't get this on the Scottish Tourism Leaflets do ye!!
Deep fried mars bars are nothing,everything is feckin deep fried.
Those brave souls who try to encourage a more cosmopolitan flavour to the diet should be applauded and not thought strange.They are pioneers in what is really a hopeless cause.
Slán Go Foill
Uilliam

Royce · Post by **Royce** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:24 am

djm wrote:I wish Ireland's contribution to world cuisine, i.e. curried chips, would spread here. Hmm, I wonder what curried poutine would be like ....

djm

They've had curry sauce/chips here in a couple of Irish pubs run allegedly by Irish guys for years, but the curry is barely detectable. Tastes a bit like potato soup gone off a bit and leaning on the yellow side.

Royce

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:20 am

I trained as a nurse in Glasgow (Southern General) 1n 1988- 1991.
The west of Scotland had the largest heart disease problems of any other country in Europe!
There was an iniative then to try and edycate the population of Scotland to eat healthy (er)
Uilleam by all accounts this Healty Heart iniative failed dismally!
I remember when I first moved to Glasgow. Apart from the language barrier(They couldn't understand Mancunian) I once asked for Pizza and Chips from a place in the East end of Glasgow...Tollcross.
To my horror the man put the Pizza in the fat frier along with everything else!

David Lim · Post by **David Lim** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:57 am

Hi,

Here in Manchester we have the famous "Curry Mile". About 40 asian restaurants crammed together, offering every posible variation of curry you can imagine.

Nestled in the middle of this is the Rusholme Chippy.

Surely the ultimate place for chips and curry sauce.

David

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 6:19 am

Mmmmmmm Curry Mile

brianc · Post by **brianc** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 11:39 am

Ben - nice picture.

That couple at the left in the picture... they seem to be "currying" favor with each other.