10 Jun 06
Good things:
Food: Spanish, Italian, and French
Music: Germans, English (Edwar Elgar is a personal favourite), French, Spanish (Alanjuez)
Humor: English
Chess: Russians
Bad things
Food*: English, Germans
Humor: Germans
*getting better as countries open up more foreign restaurants
I can't think of much else at the moment
13 Jun 06
Originally posted by zeeblebotIt isn't particularly interesting unless you fill up the whole with some gravy full of herbs and tobasco.
never tried it but that picture makes me want to, every time i see it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_in_the_hole
I was quite interested in the link to "British Cuisine" because it ges a bad press which is really a hang over from the fifties and sixties. Nowadays it's completely different in the UK. It's rather adventurous and multi-cultural.
Having said that though, Porters restaurant in Covent Garden is a traditional English Restaurant (where you'll get your toad in the hole) . After suffering much laughter and derision I managed to persuade some friends, a Finn, a German and an Italian to go there one evening. They all LOVED the food even though it was British and they had looked at is as though it had just insulted their mothers. Try it if you're ever in London (and it's still there)
17 Jun 06
Originally posted by Seitsenice post !
Some good things about Europe
1. Roquefort cheese is cheap
2. Socialdemocracy 😵
3. Beer is top quality
4. For some reason, Mexicans are liked here... and not precisely as gardeners or janitors -I guess they feel bad for us having a neighbor they hate 😉
5. If I want to drive a tractor crashing inside a McDonald's... I may find supporters and m ...[text shortened]...
And I can keep up... I guess all the latter are a good price for missing my Raiders' games 😳