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Old Jun 6th 2005, 10:38 pm
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Des Small
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emilia <[email protected]> writes:

    > Miss L. Toe wrote:
    > > "emilia" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > >>Donuts ARE European!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    > >>
    > > DoUGHnuts are European.
    > > Donuts are merkan.
    >
    > Don't be silly, they are the same thing.
    > Anyway, what's "merkan"?
    > Is that something to do with Switzyland?

Which reminds me to ask: do they sell "cheese holes" (à la donut
holes) in the Switzyland?

Des
 
Old Jun 6th 2005, 10:41 pm
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Earl Evleth
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On 7/06/05 10:03, in article [email protected],
"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Their smoked fish & eels are excellent. Probably the best in Europe.


Isn't that from Sweden originally??

From what I have read from studies of recover bodies from the bogs, they
historically ate gruel.

Earl
 
Old Jun 6th 2005, 10:51 pm
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:41:06 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On 7/06/05 10:03, in article [email protected],
    >"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Their smoked fish & eels are excellent. Probably the best in Europe.
    >Isn't that from Sweden originally??

What do you mean originally? That Sweden invented preserving food by
smoking it?

    >From what I have read from studies of recover bodies from the bogs, they
    >historically ate gruel.

Who is they?
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Old Jun 6th 2005, 10:52 pm
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Martin
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:10:28 +0200, emilia <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >Miss L. Toe wrote:
    >> "emilia" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >> news:[email protected]...
    >>
    >>>Earl Evleth wrote:
    >>>>Well, of course, Europe takes the world leadership
    >>>>in food. Hotdog, Hamburgers and donuts have failed
    >>>>as a world food.
    >>>Donuts ARE European!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    >>
    >>
    >> DoUGHnuts are European.
    >> Donuts are merkan.
    >Don't be silly, they are the same thing.
    >Anyway, what's "merkan"?
    >Is that something to do with Switzyland?

It's a pubic wig.
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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:00 pm
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Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And
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Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

    > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:51:33 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    >
    > >On 7/06/05 9:38, in article [email protected],
    > >"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >>> But there is also a standard European cuisine, generally found
    > >>> in Swiss hotels and some stateside restaurants. It is not
    > >>> really French, nor German nor Italian but some vague choice
    > >>> of something from everybody. The "mix grill" is British however,
    > >>> it did export. Kippers at breakfast did not.
    > >>
    > >> The Dutch eat kippers.
    > >
    > >The less said about Dutch food the better.
    >
    > Their smoked fish & eels are excellent. Probably the best in Europe.

I had a platter of smoked fish in Amsterdam a couple of years back, at a
pre-concert event. I was astonished at the variety- I'm not even sure it
was all smoked (do they eat any raw?) as some of the flavours were so
subtle.

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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:00 pm
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Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And
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Earl Evleth <[email protected]> wrote:

[]
    > From what I have read from studies of recover bodies from the bogs, they
    > historically ate gruel.

And they discovered that Gauls were eating Beluga then?

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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:04 pm
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Martin
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:00:52 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:

    >Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:51:33 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
    >> wrote:
    >>
    >> >On 7/06/05 9:38, in article [email protected],
    >> >"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> >
    >> >>> But there is also a standard European cuisine, generally found
    >> >>> in Swiss hotels and some stateside restaurants. It is not
    >> >>> really French, nor German nor Italian but some vague choice
    >> >>> of something from everybody. The "mix grill" is British however,
    >> >>> it did export. Kippers at breakfast did not.
    >> >>
    >> >> The Dutch eat kippers.
    >> >
    >> >The less said about Dutch food the better.
    >>
    >> Their smoked fish & eels are excellent. Probably the best in Europe.
    >I had a platter of smoked fish in Amsterdam a couple of years back, at a
    >pre-concert event. I was astonished at the variety- I'm not even sure it
    >was all smoked (do they eat any raw?) as some of the flavours were so
    >subtle.

They eat herring both raw and smoked.

and occasionally serve raw chicken in motorway restaurants. :-)
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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:05 pm
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Martin
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:00:52 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:

    >Earl Evleth <[email protected]> wrote:
    >[]
    >> From what I have read from studies of recover bodies from the bogs, they
    >> historically ate gruel.
    >And they discovered that Gauls were eating Beluga then?

and Churchill's bogies?
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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:06 pm
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Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

[]
    > They eat herring both raw and smoked.
    >
    > and occasionally serve raw chicken in motorway restaurants. :-)

What do the chicken pay with? At least ducks can just charge it do their
bills...

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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:17 pm
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Martin
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:06:47 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:

    >Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >[]
    >> They eat herring both raw and smoked.
    >>
    >> and occasionally serve raw chicken in motorway restaurants. :-)
    >What do the chicken pay with?

their lives!

    >At least ducks can just charge it do their
    >bills...

...sounds quackers.

They serve lovely smoked chicken in French Guyana :-)
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Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:48 pm
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Earl Evleth
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On 7/06/05 12:51, in article [email protected],
"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >> Isn't that from Sweden originally??
    >
    > What do you mean originally? That Sweden invented preserving food by
    > smoking it?

Smoke fish in Northern Europe. I don't know of any smoked Salmon from
Holland. It is Scottish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
 
Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:49 pm
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Earl Evleth
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On 7/06/05 13:00, in article
1gxsbye.5slo001dqol29N%this_address_is_for_spam@ya hoo.com, "chancellor of
the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    > And they discovered that Gauls were eating Beluga then?

I think they ate Romans
 
Old Jun 6th 2005, 11:52 pm
  #28  
Martin
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:48:41 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On 7/06/05 12:51, in article [email protected],
    >"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> Isn't that from Sweden originally??
    >>
    >> What do you mean originally? That Sweden invented preserving food by
    >> smoking it?
    >Smoke fish in Northern Europe. I don't know of any smoked Salmon from
    >Holland. It is Scottish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

The Dutch smoke herring and eel, and pot.
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Old Jun 7th 2005, 1:21 am
  #29  
Earl Evleth
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On 7/06/05 13:52, in article [email protected],
"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Smoke fish in Northern Europe. I don't know of any smoked Salmon from
    >> Holland. It is Scottish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
    >
    > The Dutch smoke herring and eel, and pot.

Peasant food
 
Old Jun 7th 2005, 1:26 am
  #30  
Martin
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On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:21:43 +0200, Earl Evleth <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >On 7/06/05 13:52, in article [email protected],
    >"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Smoke fish in Northern Europe. I don't know of any smoked Salmon from
    >>> Holland. It is Scottish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
    >>
    >> The Dutch smoke herring and eel, and pot.
    >
    >Peasant food

and did you ever try it?
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