So I tried spotted dick..........

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**halonachos**

Toffee should only ever be solid when eaten, like peanut brittle. But if you take that spotted dick, put it on a stick, and fill it with custard then we'll start to get the concept. Then we'll deep fry it and make it better.

**KingCracker**

mattyrm wrote: British food is waz KC, Americans just don't get it.

Get a few pints into you and tell me you don't fancy a pork pie and some jam roly poly.

Whoa. Mattyrm, tone down the.... Im guessing British talk, or maybe its the booze, either way, you lost me. Remember, ME - dumb American, YOU savvy British fellow.

But your right, we dont get it, you guys love meat pies and beef stew and beef popsicles for all I know

Yea and the pics of what Orlanth posted is exactly what I had looked like, so I did eat the same thing, just in a can

**Kilkrazy**

Puddings like that are normally made in a bowl which you seal with a lid and gently boil to cook the food. So a canned version is pretty close to the homemade.

See the bowl shaped can?

Various puddings can be bought in cans. They are convenient because they keep for ever.

**Dark Scipio**

Must ... resists ...

Must... not ... say anything... about British cuisine.

On a side note: Many think ,,dick" comes from the german word ,,dick", wich means fat, gross, thick.

**Albatross**

Dark Scipio wrote:Must ... resists ...

Must... not ... say anything... about British cuisine.

It's funny because you're German.

**theocd**

I'm not ashamed in saying I love Spotted Dick. Can't beat a good Apple Crumble either, both, of course, with custard.

The OC-D

**Dark Scipio**

Albatross wrote:
Dark Scipio wrote:Must ... resists ...

Must... not ... say anything... about British cuisine.

It's funny because you're German.

Hey german cuisine may be hefty, but its not the scourge of the world like british cuisine:

"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day."
W. Somerset Maugham

“It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
'Quotable Feast' by Sarah E. Parvis (2001)

"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."
George Mikes, British author
‘How to be an Alien’ (1946)

"the art of cooking as practiced by Englishmen does not extend much beyond roast beef and plum pudding."
Pehr Kalm, Swedish visitor to England (1748)

“Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it."
Waverly Root (1903-1982)

“I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.”
Margaret Halsey, American writer (1910-1997)

“The British Empire was created as a by-product of generations of desperate Englishmen roaming the world in search of a decent meal.”
Bill Marsano

**Toastedandy**

I tried to google some german food, but found this instead. Its bread.

**Albatross**

I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

**Paul**

Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

A combination of xenophobia and being childish. English food is some of the best in the world now. 30 years ago it was terable. Having said that you are just as guilty with those comments.

Frence food used to be realy good, but is now terable, but getting better. American food violently swings from being painfully bad to being wonderfull, for no clear reason at all.

Japanise food is sublime, and to prove it Tokyo has more michlan stars than any other city in the world.

Back to the origonal point people slate british food talking about things most people have never eaten, but never talk about things like jersy royals, scotish rasberrys, salt marsh lamb etc. Places like the fat duck and the likes of our world renound chefs are never talked about.

Also just because you don't like the sound of someone elses food dose not make it bad. Just diffrent.

**Swordwind**

We don't eat dogs here in Indo-China.

Just China.

**Albatross**

The Vietnamese definitely do. I think the Cambodians and Laotians might, as well.

**Swordwind**

I have to admit that I haven't been there much.

**Albatross**

Paul wrote:
Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

A combination of xenophobia and being childish. English food is some of the best in the world now. 30 years ago it was terable. Having said that you are just as guilty with those comments.

Which comments? Oh, and spell-check, dude. Just saying.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Swordwind wrote:I have to admit that I haven't been there much.

Me either, though one of my best friends is Vietnamese - plus I saw a documentary about Vietnamese food (we actually eat it quite a lot - I'm having it tonight. YAY!), in which a prominent section of it featured dog-farming for food. Just wrong on so many levels, that.

**Cheesecat**

Albatross wrote:
Paul wrote:
Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

A combination of xenophobia and being childish. English food is some of the best in the world now. 30 years ago it was terable. Having said that you are just as guilty with those comments.

Which comments? Oh, and spell-check, dude. Just saying.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Swordwind wrote:I have to admit that I haven't been there much.

Me either, though one of my best friends is Vietnamese - plus I saw a documentary about Vietnamese food (we actually eat it quite a lot - I'm having it tonight. YAY!), in which a prominent section of it featured dog-farming for food. Just wrong on so many levels, that.

What's wrong with eating dogs, there animals like cows why shouldn't I eat them.

**mattyrm**

Savages eat dogs, gentlemen walk them.

**Albatross**

Cheesecat wrote:
Albatross wrote:
Paul wrote:
Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

A combination of xenophobia and being childish. English food is some of the best in the world now. 30 years ago it was terable. Having said that you are just as guilty with those comments.

Which comments? Oh, and spell-check, dude. Just saying.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Swordwind wrote:I have to admit that I haven't been there much.

Me either, though one of my best friends is Vietnamese - plus I saw a documentary about Vietnamese food (we actually eat it quite a lot - I'm having it tonight. YAY!), in which a prominent section of it featured dog-farming for food. Just wrong on so many levels, that.

What's wrong with eating dogs, there animals like cows why shouldn't I eat them.

Feel free to eat your dog, bro. For me, a dog will never be anything other than a companion, and the sight of them in the terrible conditions of that dog farm was appalling to me. YMMV.

**Medium of Death**

I always get a bit nervous when I hear the words German and Cooking in the same sentence.

Food is food is food.

Unless it's some kind of insect or a dog/cat.

FETHING BORKED LINKS...

**Big Mek Dattrukk**

I find it funny that we complain about what goes into British/german/vietnamese... cooking, when for the longest time, there was a Maximum allowable limit for RAT DROPPINGS in hotdog meat...

**KingCracker**

Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

Yea yea yea, and all our music we stole from you guys, and all our food was stolen from you guys and our language was stolen from you guys, and all our skin tone was stolen. We get it.But really, we take everything from everyone man, its how we roll

**Cheesecat**

Albatross wrote:
Cheesecat wrote:
Albatross wrote:
Paul wrote:
Albatross wrote:I find it odd that British food has such a bad reputation. I mean, much of Northern Europe has fething awful food, whole swathes of Asia and Africa eat vermin and bugs without batting an eyelid, the French (and Catalans) eat offal, snails, horses and frogs. Koreans and the Indo-Chinese eat dogs, for crying out loud!

The only real criticism that can be leveled against British cuisine is that some of it is a bit bland, or a bit heavy. Big deal. Isn't that true of most anglosphere countries? The Americans are the worst offenders for peddling this myth, all the more galling when you consider that a lot of their stuff is nicked from us, and that we have easily a more healthy diet in terms of home cooking. Boiling, roasting and steaming are better for you than frying. Too much seasoning is unhealthy.

Sugar, salt and MSG do not good cuisine make, despite what our American friends might say.

A combination of xenophobia and being childish. English food is some of the best in the world now. 30 years ago it was terable. Having said that you are just as guilty with those comments.

Which comments? Oh, and spell-check, dude. Just saying.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Swordwind wrote:I have to admit that I haven't been there much.

Me either, though one of my best friends is Vietnamese - plus I saw a documentary about Vietnamese food (we actually eat it quite a lot - I'm having it tonight. YAY!), in which a prominent section of it featured dog-farming for food. Just wrong on so many levels, that.

What's wrong with eating dogs, there animals like cows why shouldn't I eat them.

Feel free to eat your dog, bro. For me, a dog will never be anything other than a companion, and the sight of them in the terrible conditions of that dog farm was appalling to me. YMMV.

I wouldn't eat my own dog, but I wouldn't have any problem with eating a farm raised (so long as they're treated fairly) dog because I don't have the same kind of companionship with them.

**Kilkrazy**

This one time a travelling salesman was driving through the small towns and his car broke down on a lonely back road late at night.

Seeing a light in the distance he walked to a farmhouse and asked for help. There was no way to get a car repair man out that late, so the farmer said the salesman was welcome to stay for the night and share dinner.

The dinner table was quickly laid for six and they all sat down to eat; the farmer, his wife, two children, the salesman and to his surprise, a large pig with a wooden leg.

The salesman asked the farmer why the pig was sharing their dinner and the farmer told him the story of how his son fell into the river in flood, and the pig jumped in and saved the young boy.

On another occasion, the farmer’s daughter was attacked by a wolf, and the pig fought the wolf and saved her life.

“So now we treat this pig like family, and he eats all his meals with us.”

“Why does he have a wooden leg? Did the wolf get it?”

 “No, nothing like that. The fact is, a pig like this one, you can’t eat him all at once!”

**Perkustin**

My maw makes a superb chocolate pud (steamed pud, with its own sauce). We call it 'pudding number two'. Yummers, usually pour cream or greek yoghurt on it, sometimes cream-fresh if im feeling extravagant.

**RatBot**

Cheesecat wrote:s
I wouldn't eat my own dog, but I wouldn't have any problem with eating a farm raised (so long as they're treated fairly) dog because I don't have the same kind of companionship with them.

Pretty much this. I wouldn't eat my own pet or a friend's pet, regardless of whether it was a cat or a pig or a cow. I don't think I'd go out of my way to eat dog or cat, but if I was in a place where these animals are commonly eaten and I had the opportunity, I might.

**Medium of Death**

I wouldn't eat a mate, I would eat a person that I didn't know if they were raised well...

Perhaps an Oxford student... with some heinz baked beans and a nice kopparberg... fffth ta ta ta ta

**Cheesecat**

Medium of Death wrote:I wouldn't eat a mate, I would eat a person that I didn't know if they were raised well...

Perhaps an Oxford student... with some heinz baked beans and a nice kopparberg... fffth ta ta ta ta

I wouldn't really consider eating a dog to be comparable to cannibalism.

**A Black Ram**

Oh god, I love dick.

**Medium of Death**

Indeed, he is a pretty cool guy. Terrible trouble with acne though.

Also, Cheescat: Did you miss the hyper extended trollololo?

**Avatar 720**

Medium of Death wrote:Indeed, he is a pretty cool guy. Terrible trouble with acne though.

I've heard good things about him, but i'd prefer to know him for who he is, warts and all.

**RatBot**

Avatar 720 wrote:
Medium of Death wrote:Indeed, he is a pretty cool guy. Terrible trouble with acne though.

I've heard good things about him, but i'd prefer to know him for who he is, warts and all.

Yeah, he's a good guy, even if his record isn't entirely unblemished.

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