General Chat

Ooo-errr :-D

Oh yes, scrumpy!

A couple of years ago, I had some ale called Knights of Old and that would do very nicely. It was delicious and I want some NOW!!!!!

Well I will settle for a vodka and tonic now, normal or what!?

The last one I had was in Somerset and it was called crippled cock. Now wait for the rr'r to strike :-D :-D

Bet they don't :-D

We will see :-D :-D

They would if I wrote it!

Late night munchies leading to morning upsets ;-)

:-D :-D :-D :-D. I'll reach for the Gaviscon just in case

Of course,we ALL eat raw vegetables when we eat salad, don't we?
I mean,spinach is regularly eaten raw or cooked, as are carrots, onions and tomatoes.
But, we don't often cook lettuce or cucumber, but it's possible to do!

Arranging raw vegetables on a plate, with a dip, and giving them a French name may, to some, make them 'posh', 'more cultured' or from 'the other side of the track' - but they're the sort of people who would call a gravy or sauce 'jus'.
Giving the gravy you made from meat juices, that you pour over your Sunday roast a French name, is just pretentious.

Every country/area has it's own cuisine, they have their specialities and failures, and French cuisine (according to many, including the French) is vastly overrated!

I eat raw cabbage once I've prepared it for cooking.
As I'm snacking on it before my main meal, perhaps I should up my pretentiousness and start calling it my 'crudite' :-D :-D :-D :-D

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Sounds like something out of the Kenneth Williams song My crepe Suzette :-D :-D :-D

I once had to get some fuel from a Tesco little service station on the way home and picked up a bag of carrots for tea from the reduced trolley only we didn't get to have carrots for tea and I didn't have room for much anyway. Gutbucket strikes again!

What is it with dips anyway? Does anybody eat dips at home?

No wedon't Sharron, too much faffing about :-D

The Fox isn’t in Winchester itself. A bit of a walk to raise one’s appetite.

Hmm..... Maggie .....Winchester.....haven't been there for years what is the food like and how I wonder does it compare to other random places like London or Christchurch....

There used to be a brilliant Italian restaurant in Bognor where you could have crudities as a starter.

A big basket would be brought to table containing all sorts of whole raw fruit an veg with some bowls of dips and a fruit knife so you could cut your own fresh pieces to dip.

Being an Italian restaurant I bet they didn’t call it crudités.

Caroline, Rollo is almost right about Winchester restaurants but last time I was there we had a really good meal in the Crown & Anchor which is more convenient than the two referred to. I had had a really good fish soup off the specials board for lunch.

I think they did call it crudities.

Well, you have to remember that it was Bognor and that was about as haute cuisine as they could cope with! I used to go in there.

'The Fox' Winchester, well actually, 'The Fox' Crawley - not exactly in Winchester, hasn't even got a Winchester postcode, but then, RTR would pick anyone else up on that faux pas!

I'm intrigued about how/why you regard The Chesil as pretentious is it the set up - I mean an original old medieval building - how pretentious is that! Or,the food - which has really good reviews.

I'm sure there are rubbish restaurants in Winchester, likewise in Paris.

Which Asian restaurant in Winchester has gleaned your approval, RTR?

Is that praise from you, for my knowing gravy, or to be more precise, stock - which doesn't use gravy granules - in France is called 'jus'?
I also make my own salad dressing.
Aren't I a clever pleb?

How does your wife being French, and her father being a partner in a restaurant make her pretentiously French, or even, as implied, an expert on cooking?
I was talking about the pretentiousness of you directing us to a rather bland site on raw vegetables - sorry, crudeties.

You generalise about how the French allegedly take more time over/spend more money on food than the English - how do you know this?

May I also just direct you to this:
"In an international survey of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries, French cuisine was shrugged off as the most overrated of all cuisines. Even the French agreed - 28 Jul 2019"