Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, you're quite a few years behind the times - probably about 20, in this case, or at least 15. It may still be true about the steak, but steak is a lot more rare on menus these days in every sense of the word - it has been passed in popularity by an awful lot of things. Food is now hugely more important to us in the UK - certainly many of my French work colleagues now take local sausages home with them, and many actually look forward to eating here now - we have a much more eclectic mix. There are many good things to eating in the US, but I have to say here and now that if one were to judge the culinary performance of a nation on its bacon, the poor old US would be bottom of the pile - never have I tasted anything so awful as what is generally served up - tasteless crunchy garbage. Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>; Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, 11 September, 2006 9:36:34 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Marmite? an English mistake? 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! _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information