Edna Bucket

Heston Blumenthal has a very tasty snail porridge on his menu

ManBearPig

Mattesons fish paste - terrible, but strangely appealing

holbendem

The only culinary scene that has changed here in Britain is fast food and indian take always. If you see a shop premises empty, you try and get a licence to sell english food and you may not get it, but try to sell indian food and they will even help with a grant. its called helping with interrogation of different cultures. the fact that there is also 4 other indian take always on the same stretch of road doesn't matter.

who invented the microwave? loads of english pub- restaurants are starting to serve 2 meals for ten pounds. It sounds good but most are utter c--p just pre cooked factory prepared garbage served the toffy english way with knives and forks.

please give all your views to this very bad way us {soon not} Brits have to put up with.

Hart50

Touche! My apologies, I was a bit over the top I've had some great dining experiences in Britain, including a few Michelin restos. I just get a little annoyed with people who can't get out of their box and enjoy the vast array of good eating opportunities in Canada, excluding the crap fast food of course.

ManBearPig

I think you guys are taking this a tad too seriously. There are good and bad restaurants everywhere - I've eaten some terrible food in France and Italy and some truly excellent food in UK and Canada (though on balance I've eaten better in Europe - excluding the UK).

I just like having fun with all the fast food terminology. I think we can all tell the difference between frozen honey garlic wings and a decent freshly made meal. What gets on my nerves (and makes me laugh) is when the fast food is branded as 'gourmet' (another overused and totally inappropriate term - eg gourmet burgers ).

That said, of all the places I have been, I do stuggle to find a real variety of food at least in Southern Ontario, there are Chinese and Indian places of course, but even these are on the bland side.

Hart50

Fair enough. We are lucky in Calgary in that for the size of the city we have quite a good ethnic culinary scene, if one chooses to explore of course.

dbd33

Can you get to Brampton or Toronto proper? There are good Indian places in both.

ManBearPig

Yes I've heard, and I have Indian and Chinese friends who can recommend good authentic places in Toronto, but it's difficult for us as we have two very small children. If we do ever get baby sitters, we tend to say local. KW is not exactly the height of refinement - but hey it's home.

dingbat

I think this is probably the funniest, if telling, Freudian slip I've read in a while. The microwave was invented by an American, actually, Percy Lebaron Spencer in fact. Perhaps you should venture South in the UK; London has some of the best restaurants in the world. You may need some help with the menu, however.

Londonuck

Herb/Errrb was the one i hated. I remember Eddie Izzard's stand up in San Francisco. The reason we pronounce erb, Herb, is because there's a fkin H in it!

Rodger Rabbit

[QUOTE=ManBearPig;5596484]I think you guys are taking this a tad too seriously. There are good and bad restaurants everywhere - I've eaten some terrible food in France and Italy and some truly excellent food in UK and Canada (though on balance I've eaten better in Europe - excluding the UK).

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Sorry just want to add been going to a fab pub for ages in uk 4 of us went yesterday as a girls last supper type thing and we have all got food poisoning! So my good resturant has now just been branded very bad! Just thought i'd share, as we're all ill.

Lisa

Rob4BC

Well, at least you won't forget your last supper with them in a hurry!

I'll get me coat

holbendem

Care to elaborate with help?