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Subject: [Leica] Marmite? an English mistake?
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon Sep 11 13:50:45 2006
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Marc,

English food is MUCH better than its reputation. Whenever I have gone 
out for a proper English pub lunch, the food has been superb. And the 
curries of Brick Lane, which are as much part of the English cuisine 
these days as kidney pie, are simply orgasmic.

Nathan

Marc James Small wrote:
> At 04:15 PM 9/11/2006, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> Count me among the haters--and I otherwise adore all things English!
>
> Nathan
>
> You actually can tolerate those awful excuses for breakfast link 
> sausage the English eat?  All filler, no meat, and ratty, to be 
> polite, in taste.  And how about English steaks?  I acknowledge that 
> you CAN get a great English steak, but this is not nearly as common 
> there as it is in the US, where a good steak can generally be found a 
> mile or so from where one lives.  And what about soggy, over-cooked 
> Brussels Sprouts?
>
> I can go on.  British cuisine has its high points -- Yorkshire 
> pudding, Steak and Kidney Pie, Bass Ale, and the like.  But there is a 
> lot which most folks with an interest in tasty food properly prepared 
> would hold against the denizens of the UK.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
> Marc James Small
> Quo Usque Tandem Abutere, Catalina, Patientia Nostra?
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
>
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