Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
Nov 1st 2013, 3:25 am
#106
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
oh dear, the food police are now telling us what we should eat
eating food is all about eating what YOU want to eat, when you want to eat it, no rules, no restrictions.
I know people who prefer to have mayo on sausage & egg sarnie
you will be telling me next I shouldn't put red wine in the fridge nor should I drink white at room temp
eating food is all about eating what YOU want to eat, when you want to eat it, no rules, no restrictions.
I know people who prefer to have mayo on sausage & egg sarnie
you will be telling me next I shouldn't put red wine in the fridge nor should I drink white at room temp
Ketchup with bacon
HP with bangers
Mayo is not allowed with either of the above.
Most white wines especially the Spanish crap needs chilling into submission before it's remotely quaffable.
A great deal of red wines benefit from a cooler environment.
Nov 1st 2013, 9:51 am
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
If you live in a foreign country for long enough, you get used to the food there and get to like it. I used to eat a lot more 'British' food when I first arrived, but tend to eat mostly Spanish produce now.
For all the difference it makes. If you look closely at labels or enquire of the origin, you might get a surprise and find that nothing in your food cupboard actually comes from the country you live in.
Refrigerated lorries and container ships can get to Mercadona quicker than the stuff grown under plastic in Almeria - and often taste better.
For all the difference it makes. If you look closely at labels or enquire of the origin, you might get a surprise and find that nothing in your food cupboard actually comes from the country you live in.
Refrigerated lorries and container ships can get to Mercadona quicker than the stuff grown under plastic in Almeria - and often taste better.
Nov 1st 2013, 9:57 am
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
There are still large segments of the population of UKANIA who would not dream of ingesting "foreign muck". Travelling to Spain does not transform them ! Caelum non animam mutat quis trans mare currit !
Nov 1st 2013, 10:22 am
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
As for nothing in our cupboard being from the country we live in, I guess if you live on supermarket food there may be a grain of truth in it. But even supermarkets source local food whenever they can, have a look out of the aircraft windows next time you're up there, UK and Spain are covered in farms, where do we imagine all that produce goes? We are forever hearing about supermarkets screwing the UK farmers. As a big user of local farm shops, I know exactly where most of our meat, veg, pies, bread etc comes from, all within a 10 mile radius of where we live. A lot of that great Spanish seafood has never spent any time in Spanish waters though, a big percentage comes from UK, especially Scotland.
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Nov 1st 2013, 10:52 am
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
The UK probably has as cosmopolitan a taste in food as anywhere in the world.
Nov 1st 2013, 11:11 am
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
There is a very nice restaurant in Hampshire run by ex-Ghurkas. Most decent restaurants even if run by English have dishes from various countries. I can never understand why there aren't more Mexican restaurants in Spain. Have seen some but mainly the fast food type. Mexican food is more interesting than Spanish.
Most of the food in my kitchen is British including supermarket food. I check origin before I buy.
Most of the food in my kitchen is British including supermarket food. I check origin before I buy.
Nov 1st 2013, 12:36 pm
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There is a very nice restaurant in Hampshire run by ex-Ghurkas. Most decent restaurants even if run by English have dishes from various countries. I can never understand why there aren't more Mexican restaurants in Spain. Have seen some but mainly the fast food type. Mexican food is more interesting than Spanish.
Most of the food in my kitchen is British including supermarket food. I check origin before I buy.
Most of the food in my kitchen is British including supermarket food. I check origin before I buy.
Nov 1st 2013, 12:56 pm
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
Why would I do that. Rarely buy tins of anything. It is rare to see Spanish produce in the local Waitrose. Tomatoes are still local but in winter they tend to be mainly Morrocan. I just looked in my fridge. Even the stuff in jars are all produced in the UK except a jar of Mayonnaise which comes from Belgium
A bottle of M&S Mango dressing with lime juice and peri peri chilli says "made in the UK"...not sure about the ingredients. Everything fresh is British produce, mainly English although I have some Scottish mussels.
Nov 1st 2013, 2:58 pm
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
Why would I do that. Rarely buy tins of anything. It is rare to see Spanish produce in the local Waitrose. Tomatoes are still local but in winter they tend to be mainly Morrocan. I just looked in my fridge. Even the stuff in jars are all produced in the UK except a jar of Mayonnaise which comes from Belgium A bottle of M&S Mango dressing with lime juice and peri peri chilli says "made in the UK"...not sure about the ingredients. Everything fresh is British produce, mainly English although I have some Scottish mussels.If Morroco is doing the same thing, saying it is packaged in Morocco, then it keeps the fluffy bunnies in the EU from getting upset. However, as M is not in the EU imports from there must attract import duties which would lead to them being more expensive.
Does Morocco have preferential terms in the same was as Bangladesh does for cheap clothing ??
Nov 1st 2013, 2:59 pm
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
Why would I do that. Rarely buy tins of anything. It is rare to see Spanish produce in the local Waitrose. Tomatoes are still local but in winter they tend to be mainly Morrocan. I just looked in my fridge. Even the stuff in jars are all produced in the UK except a jar of Mayonnaise which comes from Belgium A bottle of M&S Mango dressing with lime juice and peri peri chilli says "made in the UK"...not sure about the ingredients. Everything fresh is British produce, mainly English although I have some Scottish mussels.
Nov 1st 2013, 3:04 pm
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Re: Do you eat 'Spanish' food when you are in Spain?
Bragging again
Actually the Moroccan tomatoes are cheap. Perhaps because they don't have to comply with EU regulations.
Actually the Moroccan tomatoes are cheap. Perhaps because they don't have to comply with EU regulations.
Nov 1st 2013, 3:59 pm
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