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Yeah, Hershey's tastes cheap and nasty even compared to Cadbury's, our baseline buy-it-anywhere chocolate. That's before you start getting into Thornton's etc.

 Albatross wrote:
Yeah, Hershey's tastes cheap and nasty even compared to Cadbury's, our baseline buy-it-anywhere chocolate. That's before you start getting into Thornton's etc.

Sorry you need to provde proof of that bold statement. I'll send an address where samples can be sent so that I can make a proper, nuetral taste test.

 Albatross wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Palindrome wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

CANADIAN FREAKING BACON!

The clue is in the name, very few of them are actually from the US.

You said American. Thats two continents boyo.

Frankly our cuisine crushes Britain. Your big claim to fame is...haggis.

Not a fan of sandwiches, then?

That's actually a common misconception. The term "sandwich" is British, but the food's history goes back a lot further than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich

So the sandwich was first made by a Jewish wiseman (supposedly).

Now Branston pickle is from the UK. It's pretty good.

Frazzled, how could you not mention Pumpkin pie and Tollhouse cookies? I am disappoint.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Albatross wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Palindrome wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

CANADIAN FREAKING BACON!

The clue is in the name, very few of them are actually from the US.

You said American. Thats two continents boyo.

Frankly our cuisine crushes Britain. Your big claim to fame is...haggis.

Not a fan of sandwiches, then?

That's actually a common misconception. The term "sandwich" is British, but the food's history goes back a lot further than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich

So the sandwich was first made by a Jewish wiseman (supposedly).

Now Branston pickle is from the UK. It's pretty good.

Frazzled, how could you not mention Pumpkin pie and Tollhouse cookies? I am disappoint.

Tollhouse is awesome. I'm not a fan of pumpkin pie myself.

off topic much?

 Testify wrote:
off topic much?

Not at all. The primacy of the US as a culinary superpower, and the need for GB to import more immigrants to suppliment their haggis laden diet with more competitive weaponry is a key topic.

I do have to concur that British chcolate is sadly on average better than American chocolate. Legoburner brought some amazing stuff over to our meetup at Adepticon this year. That being said, of course America is a big place with lots of foodies, so higher-end stuff is readily available pretty much everywhere.

That being said, Testify is correct that we're off-topic and general food banter should be taken to another thread. I appreciate that the culinary variety immigrant bring is part of their value and the expansion of a culture, but comparing British vs. American food in general is a bit astray of the point.

Bah, that's immigrant talk!

I for one support immigration. Just think of the food they would bring!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I for one support immigration. Just think of the food they would bring!

Imagine! You could stop eating snails!

 Albatross wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I for one support immigration. Just think of the food they would bring!

Imagine! You could stop eating snails!

But I like eating snails

Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I propose a chain of restaurants at two levels, a four star nice joint, and a more family and wallet friendly venue, both of which will serve as United Nations of Food, their mission to promote peace and international brotherhood/understanding/cooperation via the ONLY true universal language.

Chow.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I've noticed that this thread has died.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I propose a chain of restaurants at two levels, a four star nice joint, and a more family and wallet friendly venue, both of which will serve as United Nations of Food, their mission to promote peace and international brotherhood/understanding/cooperation via the ONLY true universal language.

Chow.

And slowly, finally, the world enters a thousand years of peace!

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I like to look at it as a peaceful impulse on the part of our posters. By talking about food people turn sometimes unpleasant discussions into something more fun and friendly. That said, it does still oft go off-topic.

 Testify wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I've noticed that this thread has died.

Maybe everyone went out for a bite to eat?

 Frazzled wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I propose a chain of restaurants at two levels, a four star nice joint, and a more family and wallet friendly venue, both of which will serve as United Nations of Food, their mission to promote peace and international brotherhood/understanding/cooperation via the ONLY true universal language.

Chow.

And slowly, finally, the world enters a thousand years of peace!

Vote me for UN Secretary-General! My new UN Culinary Corps will change the world with flavor!

 Mannahnin wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Has everyone noticed whenever we get talking international affairs or cultures it all comes down to food?

I like to look at it as a peaceful impulse on the part of our posters. By talking about food people turn sometimes unpleasant discussions into something more fun and friendly. That said, it does still oft go off-topic.

This entire forum has a strong case of AD... hey! A duck!

Could a mod lock this please?

Cheers.

Testify wrote:Every morning a filthy transient pisses in my cereal.

This must be the reason you keep forcing yourself to post in here.

Now here's the hard question. Instead of said each other's opinion is full of poo, how would the various interests go about in addressing the concerns put forth?

 Medium of Death wrote:

Testify wrote:Every morning a filthy transient pisses in my cereal.

This must be the reason you keep forcing yourself to post in here.

Wait, what? Where the feth did you get that quote from?

 Frazzled wrote:
Now here's the hard question. Instead of said each other's opinion is full of poo, how would the various interests go about in addressing the concerns put forth?

With appetizers "The Delegate from China would invite the Delegate from the United States to sample this Dim Sum, and consider the following document over dessert"

 Frazzled wrote:
Now here's the hard question. Instead of said each other's opinion is full of poo, how would the various interests go about in addressing the concerns put forth?

That's my point.

I think everyone except genuine racists would agree that zero immigration is bad. A lot of people think that 13% immigration is too much.

We don't know if it is objectively, but since it is causing social concerns it needs to be looked at.

Presumably there is a happy compromise, which should include quality of migrants as well as quantity.

The points based plan introduced by the previous government is a move towards that.

(Caution all of this is taken from ancient sociology classes Frazzled had when dinosaurs roamed the earth and fire was but a dream).
13% is actually pretty high if true. Historically in the US immigration highs were generally at 8%. Thats also typically at the level you would see a rise in nativist sentiements. It might be higher now with the large illegal immigrant population, but legal immigration was typically 8% or lower.

Speaking of the UK, we don't know what the foreign born percentage has been historically, as there were no tests or records of immigration and emigration. (It's important to realise that large numbers of native born British people continue to emigrate, which of course weights the scales differently.)

I have no idea if there is a typical percentage of foreign born people that triggers "nativist" sentiment. I think it is more to do with visibility and economic conditions than a sort of psychological constant.

The Japanese, for example, get very nervous about foreigners despite the fact that there is only a tiny foreign born population in Japan, but of course they are very visible.

Yes this is the fact.All is due to the easy rules of immigration by the UK government.Immigration is good but it should be calculated to maintain a balance between the locals and the immigrants to avoid any further complications.

From a man who has lived in a mixed ( *cough* spot the white man) area, I can tell you it is bad when you let them form a comunity with in a comunity.

Also promoting their culture's as the best think since sliced bread then changing the birth of my Lord to winter festival is not going to help the situation.

How about this, get them to learn english before they come, it's not rocket science people. Learning the natives language is the bedrock of intergation, enough said.

 Themanwiththeplan wrote:
Also promoting their culture's as the best think since sliced bread then changing the birth of my Lord to winter festival is not going to help the situation.

 Themanwiththeplan wrote:
From a man who has lived in a mixed ( *cough* spot the white man) area, I can tell you it is bad when you let them form a comunity with in a comunity.

Also promoting their culture's as the best think since sliced bread then changing the birth of my Lord to winter festival is not going to help the situation.

How about this, get them to learn english before they come, it's not rocket science people. Learning the natives language is the bedrock of intergation, enough said.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to go on about how immigrants should learn English, you could at least make sure that your post doesn't have more spelling and grammar mistakes than my thirteen year old dyslexic younger brother.

The point.


Your head.

 Ratbarf wrote:
The point.


Your head.

I understand his point, I just find it amusing that he's saying they should learn English whilst having a quite badly spelt post.