Brianwarnock
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The wine is to compliment the whole dish, therefore is effected by the dressing/sauce only unknowing snobs insist on white with white meats and fish.
Brian
Brian
The wine is to compliment the whole dish, therefore is effected by the dressing/sauce only unknowing snobs insist on white with white meats and fish.
Brian
You are sure he wasn't norwegian. They always have red wine with cod there.
Talk of peasants always brings this scene from the Holy Grail to mind![]()
I don't think I've ever seen that sort of response from Brian.![]()
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Back in the hotel again for a few days.
On Sunday, the restaurant was rather full for breakfasts. I was asked if I minded sharing a table with ordinary people, I said I would try it and was offered a place with a family from up north. They were from Newcastle Sunderland ( same place I think).
Anyway, they tried to make conversation, but failed as I was unable to understand too much.From what I understood, it was their first venture to the South and London.
I pointed out it must be a culture shock to have inside toilets and a bath not full of coal. They moaned about the lack of black pudding, deep fried mars bars and other unspeakable things.
Isn't it odd how people from a deprived area like the north would even contemplate a trip to the affluent south.
Col
I used to enjoy bantering with col but now a days it is like listening to an old cracked record, repetitive , the humour and wit has gone.
The worry is that some might believe him. I remember a couple of years ago during an exchange I said that it was great lying in the tin bath in front of a coal fire in winter, and either Tess or Cindy was shocked that I didn't have a bathroom, I had to post a picture of my bathroom to convince here that it had all been a joke.
If col had really told a couple from either Newcastle upon Tyne or Sunderland that they were the same place I would fear for his safety, they are two major cities in the North East, hell they are not even on the same river, and they have a fierce rivalry.
Deep fried mars bars are a Scottish delicacy, so I believe, but I have never seen them or met anybody who has had one.
Black puddings were mainly a. Lancashire creation and indeed were a staple part of a fry up, but I haven't seen them on display in the local butchers or supermarkets in recent years.
I doubt that Col is really as ignorant as he pretends to be, but then I don't know when he last ventured north of Watford Gap.
Brian
I remember a couple of years ago during an exchange I said that it was great lying in the tin bath in front of a coal fire in winter, and either Tess or Cindy was shocked that I didn't have a bathroom, I had to post a picture of my bathroom to convince here that it had all been a joke.
Deep fried mars bars are a Scottish delicacy, so I believe, but I have never seen them or met anybody who has had one.
Brian
they are indeed, but I dont know about a delicacy right enough, more a dentists/cardiologists nightmare