ITT: i post observations from england

[avi]

if it doesn't exist yet, some enterprising person should make it so

 

[FrostGiant]

Greeting cards have been doing that for a long time.

 

[xfer]

only minxnim's greeting cards have fetuses on them.

 

[minxnim]

=]

 

[Astral Poetry]

"curries" and whatnot usually include things like tomato, hot pepper, etc. which were not in india thousands of years ago at all!

"Apart from this consciousness of our difference, everything else separates us. There are, however, a few surprising similarities in our practices and customs. For example, prominence of chilies in both Indian and Mexican cooking. In the global gastronomic geography the two cuisines share a single place that can only be called eccentric: they are both imaginative and passionate infractions of the two great canons of taste, French and Chinese cuisine. The word chile is of Nahuatl origin; the plant originally came form the Americas. Thus it is a Mexican export."
--Octavio Paz, In Light of India

FTW

 

[Baliset]

honestly, after i finished my sausage and chips (as i don't like fish) and mushy peas (which apparently my gf's uncle was horrified that i enjoyed) i went to throw away the containers in a trash can and there was an empty pack of cigarettes with the label "cigarettes kill" on it.

 

[Baliset]

also, her uncle and aunt surprised us by saying they booked us a night at a bed and breakfast in wales but made sure to not tell us that it was actually a room in Portmeirion the village where they filmed the prisoner and without a doubt now one of my most favorite places in the world. =)

 

[minxnim]

greg are you posting in a british accent?

 

[Baliset]

actually i was going for more of a welsh accent but...yes

 

[Baliset]

here's an update:

i just had haggis

 

[avi]

crikey!

 

[xfer]

after encountering greg's lingering southern accent for weeks after he came back from tour, i can't wait to hear how he sounds when he gets back from wales!

 

[Baliset]

honestly i haven't picked up any accent to tell the truth. i think it is partially because i am being shown around and given hospitality by a British person and i am nervous about offending British culture in front of him.

 

[Baliset]

so far wales has been a real highlight for me. we had an amazing breakfast there two days in a row and i had the best scones i have ever had.

 

[Baliset]

but seriously people:

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

 

[Neoteric]

here's an update:

i just had haggis

It's good, isn't it?

 

[xfer]

bullshit you just don't realize it yet

 

[FrostGiant]

I thought haggis was a scottish food.

 

[Neoteric]

It is, I'm from Scotland. D:

It tastes good, who cares if it is a sheep's intestines?

 

[FrostGiant]

Then why is he eating it in England?

So, does it look like sheep intestines and isn't it served in a sheeps stomach or something like that? I ate a lot of weird stuff in China but I'm not sure I could pull off haggis.