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**Alfndrate**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Leigen_Zero wrote:
I understand the technical advantages, of stick-mounted foodstuffs, but just don't understand the need to fry and impale every last edible substance...

You mean unlike Glasgow, home of the deep fried pizza and battered Mars bar?

There is a place in Cleveland, Ohio that sells deep fried twinkies and Oreos... I still don't think Glasgow has anything on America >_<

**dogma**

Snrub wrote:
...can do Yorkshire pud properly.

This would be horribly misinterpreted by many denizens of the Midwest.

Alfndrate wrote:

There is a place in Cleveland, Ohio that sells deep fried twinkies and Oreos... I still don't think Glasgow has anything on America >_<

I know of numerous places that make deep-fried sushi, so you are correct.

Also, deep-fried sushi is exactly as awful as you would expect.

**Nevelon**

One thing to remember about american cuisine it that it is far from homogenous. While our nation bills itself as a melting pot, we are really a chunky stew. So what is unknown in one spot might be common in another. Some families might keep making traditional dishes from their place of ancestry, while others might swap with the neighbors.

I, for example, know what toad in the hole is. My mom made it occasionally when I was growing up. I know she didn't learn how to make it from her mother, but it may have been common in Boston where she grew up.

Dinner last night was a ham and onion quiche. It would have been bacon and onion, but The Wife used up the bacon bits I was saving for another dish. The onion was sautéd in the bacon fat though, so it wasn't a total loss.

Tonight is The Wife's turn to make dinner. I suspect it's going to be something from the freezer, but she might surprise me.

**KalashnikovMarine**

RossDas wrote:
KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Snrub wrote:
Toad in the hole is sausages baked into Yorkshire pudding. It's a wonderful dish if the person making it can do Yorkshire pud properly.

Excellent thank you, now what in the blue hell is Yorkshire pudding?

A savoury pudding made from a batter of eggs, plain flour, milk and a little salt, baked in a little oil. They go well as a side for a roast dinner.

Learning all sorts of interesting new things today! Can someone point me to a solid recipe for toad in the hole, or share a family one?

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Leigen_Zero wrote:
I understand the technical advantages, of stick-mounted foodstuffs, but just don't understand the need to fry and impale every last edible substance...

You mean unlike Glasgow, home of the deep fried pizza and battered Mars bar?

Wait you mean the Scots beat the Texans to those?

I don't think it's traditional but have you all heard of a Scottish Egg? They're a favorite at the local Renn Faire.

**H.B.M.C.**

Prawn Malabari.

Mmm....

**Necroagogo**

@KalashnikovMarine: Well-made Scotch eggs are fabulous. The best ones I've ever had used black pudding in their construction. Mmmm ....

**KalashnikovMarine**

I'm off for Sushi for dinner, date night AND my pre surgical "Last meal"

**Kanluwen**

I had speedies tonight.

They were delectable. Also, very hot.

**Ensis Ferrae**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
PredaKhaine wrote:
On a related note - do most people have lunch and dinner or dinner and tea?

I just realised I could've been on about the wrong meal...

From the speaking-the-same-but-different-language moments my wife and I have it seems to be;
In the UK and Ireland lunch and tea/dinner/supper (last three being interchangeable)
In the US lunch and dinner (when I say tea my wife assumes I'm talking about the hot beverage. Sometimes supper is used also when talking about dinner)

Yeah, in the US, depending on where you are, it's Breakfast, lunch and dinner. other places it is B-fast, dinner and supper... and if you are a "working man" you may get b-fast, lunch, dinner (round the time you get off work at 430-5), AND supper (round 9-10 pm)

Automatically Appended Next Post:
... Or maybe I got that last one backwards, I think it goes supper then dinner, as dinner is more fancier.

**KalashnikovMarine**

My three meals a day are all "Chow" if I eat three a day any way

**Ensis Ferrae**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
My three meals a day are all "Chow" if I eat three a day any way

I guess we soldiers are slightly smarter then

we have Breakfast Chow, Lunch Chow, and Dinner Chow, least thats what the mess hall posts for hours anyway (and I still fail to see how calling it that can be so offensive..)

**Shadowseer_Kim**

Tonight, Fried Chicken and Waffles.

Yes I know it is breakfast food, but breakfast for dinner is a tradition.

**whembly**

Pizza Hut & Hot wings... with Budlight lime.

**Alfndrate**

Made home made tukey burgers, snap peas, and a nice beer to wash it all down with

**Dreadclaw69**

KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I don't think it's traditional but have you all heard of a Scottish Egg? They're a favorite at the local Renn Faire.

Before I moved over I'd have those from time to time with curry chips **drools**

**PredaKhaine**

Having seen scotch eggs on here, I wondered what other 'traditional' dishes britain has unleashed on the unsuspecting world. I found the beneath list -

Cornish Pasties
Cottage Pie
Lancashire Hot Pot
Bangers and Mash
Shepards Pie
Bubble and Squeak
Corn Beef Hash
Black Pudding
White Pudding
Ploughmans Lunch
Jam roly poly
Bread and Butter pudding
Bakewell Tart
Spotted Dick

Any of these gotten over the pond?

And I also found Bacon Roly Poly - this needs trying.
http://www.mydish.co.uk/recipe/2954/Bacon-and-Onion-Roly-Poly-Easy-Peasy-Style

**Ensis Ferrae**

The nearest Whole Foods carries in their meat counter, Irish Bangers, so the wife and I have done bangers for dinner on occasion...

I do wish that I could find more places that serve haggis here in the US though.

**PredaKhaine**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

I do wish that I could find more places that serve haggis here in the US though.

Deep fried Haggis is where it's at. I love going to scotland - they'll fry anything

. I also got haggis on a pizza up there.

Remember - there are no calories if you didn't cook the food. Also calories don't count on a friday.
These are facts.

**Dreadclaw69**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:
The nearest Whole Foods carries in their meat counter, Irish Bangers, so the wife and I have done bangers for dinner on occasion...

One thing I do miss is Irish bacon, its back bacon rather than the streaky bacon that's more common in the US. I had lunch with my mother-in-law last week and we went to an Irish bar for the breakfast - eggs, toast sausages, beans, potatoes, mushrooms, white pudding, black pudding and they had just run out of proper bacon so we had to settle for the house bacon. We didn't need to eat for the rest of the day

Last night we were really healthy. My wife had seared ahi tuna pot stickers and I had a rack of baby back ribs

And then after we finished all our errands we went home for night 3 of the Insanity workout

**Palindrome**

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

I do wish that I could find more places that serve haggis here in the US though.

Real haggis is illegal in the US as sheep lung, an essential ingredient, is not classed as a foodstuff. As I understand it US haggis is basically a sausage with oats.

Irish bacon is very nice, although a decent butcher in the UK has bacon that is nearly as good. I don't think that you can beat Irish steak though.

**Albatross**

Having had both top quality English and Irish bacon, I can comfortably state that the difference between the two is negligible.

I just had pie, chips and gravy for my dinner, incidentally. It were reet nice.

**Dreadclaw69**

Palindrome wrote:
Real haggis is illegal in the US as sheep lung, an essential ingredient, is not classed as a foodstuff.

Kinder Eggs are also banned here because there is a toy inside the confectionery, even though its in a large bright coloured plastic egg

**PredaKhaine**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Palindrome wrote:
Real haggis is illegal in the US as sheep lung, an essential ingredient, is not classed as a foodstuff.

Kinder Eggs are also banned here because there is a toy inside the confectionery, even though its in a large bright coloured plastic egg

Seriously?

Have they banned the Kinder Chicken too?

Ps - that would be one talented chicken, laying toys inside eggs, inside multi colour chocolate eggs...which apparently, are too confusing to be food and must be banned...

**mega_bassist**

Hmmm, tonight will be corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots. Super tasty!

**PredaKhaine**

mega_bassist wrote:
Hmmm, tonight will be corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots. Super tasty!

Mash the potatoes and mix the corned beef in. Add a little cheese (to taste - not essential). Chop and the cabbage and carrot. Stick it all in a pan and cook the lot.

Corned Beef Hash with bubble and squeak

**mega_bassist**

PredaKhaine wrote:
mega_bassist wrote:
Hmmm, tonight will be corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots. Super tasty!

Mash the potatoes and mix the corned beef in. Add a little cheese (to taste - not essential). Chop and the cabbage and carrot. Stick it all in a pan and cook the lot.

Corned Beef Hash with bubble and squeak

That's basically what we do, but I've never added cheese to it before. What do you use?

...and where does "bubble and squeak" come from?? Haha

**PredaKhaine**

In the UK, Bubble and squeak was the left over veg from a sunday roast. It's called bubble and squeak because of the noises it made while being cooked

I use applewood smoked cheese for everything, but any cheese would work. Just till it goes brown.

**mega_bassist**

PredaKhaine wrote:
In the UK, Bubble and squeak was the left over veg from a sunday roast. It's called bubble and squeak because of the noises it made while being cooked

I use applewood smoked cheese for everything, but any cheese would work. Just till it goes brown.

Huh, looks like I learned something today!

And interesting! I'll have to check that out

**Dreadclaw69**

PredaKhaine wrote:
Seriously?

Just ask these fellas - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/07/18/kinder-eggs-illegal-candy-canada-border.html

Two Seattle men say they spent more than two hours in a detention center at the Canadian border after U.S. border agents discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their car.

Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney told Seattle's KOMO-TV they decided to bring home some treats for friends and family during a recent trip to Vancouver. They bought Kinder Eggs — chocolate eggs with a toy inside.

The two men say border guards searched their car and said the eggs are illegal in the United States because young children could choke on the small plastic toys. Importing them can lead to a potentially hefty fine.

Sweeney says the bust was a waste of his time and the agents' time. The men eventually got off with a warning.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman declined to comment about the case Tuesday night.

The agency warned on its website around Easter that the treats can't be imported legally.

The agency says it seized more than 60,000 Kinder Eggs from travelers' baggage and international mail shipments in fiscal 2011, which was more than twice the amount seized in the previous year.

Seems the US law has been around for a wee while;

The 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act contains a section highlighting that a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States, unless the FDA issues a regulation that the non-nutritive object has functional value.[13] Essentially, the 1938 Act bans “the sale of any candy that has imbedded in it a toy or trinket.”[14]
In 2012 the FDA re-issued their import alert stating “The imbedded non-nutritive objects in these confectionery products may pose a public health risk as the consumer may unknowingly choke on the object.”[15]
In 1989, Ferrero sought a regulation through a petition, but it was later withdrawn and no such regulation has been issued.[citation needed]
In 1997, the staff of the CPSC, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, examined and issued a recall for some Kinder Surprise illegally brought into the US with foreign labels. The staff determined that the toys within the eggs had small parts. The staff presumed that Kinder Surprise, being a chocolate product, was intended for children of all ages, including those under three years of age. On this basis, the staff took the position that Kinder Surprise was in violation of the small parts regulation and banned from importation into the US.[16]
Kinder Surprise bears warnings advising the consumer that the toy is “not suitable for children under three years, due to the presence of small parts” and that “adult supervision is recommended.”[17]
In June 2012 the potential fine per egg was quoted as US$2,500.[18] The rationale against a ban of the product also takes the form that deaths have been too few for it to be considered a serious danger. Additionally, the argument is made that there should be a consistent standard in place, as several worse dangers are not regulated.[19]
On December 26, 2012, a petition was created on the White House website through the "We The People" campaign to end the ban on the import and sale of Kinder Surprise Eggs in the United States. However the petition failed to meet the required number of signatures by January 26, 2013 and was therefore declined.

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

PredaKhaine wrote:
that would be one talented chicken, laying toys inside eggs, inside multi colour chocolate eggs...which apparently, are too confusing to be food and must be banned...

It would be funny if it weren't for the fact that people have in fact died,

In 2000, the parents of three children in the United Kingdom who died after choking on Kinder toys campaigned for the products to be withdrawn from the European Union.[5] At least six children worldwide have died from choking on the toys.[6]
Defenders of the chocolates said that these had been unfortunate fatalities. This was discussed in the UK House of Commons[7][8][9] and also by the UK Department of Trade and Industry which said, "The child’s tragic death was caused by the ingestion of a small part of the egg’s contents. Many other products and toys with small parts are available in the market place. If we were to start banning every product that could be swallowed by a child, there would be very few toys left in the market.

- from the same wikipedia as above

**Leigen_Zero**

PredaKhaine wrote:
In the UK, Bubble and squeak was the left over veg from a sunday roast. It's called bubble and squeak because of the noises it made while being cooked

I use applewood smoked cheese for everything, but any cheese would work. Just till it goes brown.

Over in Wales it's known as 'fry up' (take leftover sunday dinner, mash together and fry in a pan), while we use 'bubble and squeak' to refer exclusivly to mashed-up potato & cabbage.