Favourite American foods
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Re: Favourite American foods
Instead of milk like here in the UK? What's to stop you poppin' down to your nearest Waitrose or Sainsbury's or the world's largest supermarket chain bloomin' Tesco where you can buy any kind of cream you like to put in whatever kind of coffee it is you drink.
I am as British as bangers 'n'mash or a bacon 'n' marmite sarnie but I never put milk into my coffee here in my own flat.....it's always cream, or sometimes tinned condensed milk if there's one going spare in my fridge from breakfast, and in restaurants I always demand cream if they offer milk, whether cold or warmed up, and I always get it.
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Re: Favourite American foods
This puzzles me a great deal.......you can get bloomin' onions in any bloomin' supermarket or at any bloomin' market stall or any bloomin' greengrocers in the bloomin' UK - bloomin white, red or bloomin' spring....just takes your bloomin' choice!
Instead of milk like here in the UK? What's to stop you poppin' down to your nearest Waitrose or Sainsbury's or the world's largest supermarket chain bloomin' Tesco where you can buy any kind of cream you like to put in whatever kind of coffee it is you drink.
I am as British as bangers 'n'mash or a bacon 'n' marmite sarnie but I never put milk into my coffee here in my own flat.....it's always cream, or sometimes tinned condensed milk if there's one going spare in my fridge from breakfast, and in restaurants I always demand cream if they offer milk, whether cold or warmed up, and I always get it.
Instead of milk like here in the UK? What's to stop you poppin' down to your nearest Waitrose or Sainsbury's or the world's largest supermarket chain bloomin' Tesco where you can buy any kind of cream you like to put in whatever kind of coffee it is you drink.
I am as British as bangers 'n'mash or a bacon 'n' marmite sarnie but I never put milk into my coffee here in my own flat.....it's always cream, or sometimes tinned condensed milk if there's one going spare in my fridge from breakfast, and in restaurants I always demand cream if they offer milk, whether cold or warmed up, and I always get it.
I never had that one, but another chain, Chilis, had one they called an Awesome Blossom. I had one of those, could barely eat half . Needless to say, Chilis pulled it because it had about 3 million calories . . .
They make you fart like a mother****er as well
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This puzzles me a great deal.......you can get bloomin' onions in any bloomin' supermarket or at any bloomin' market stall or any bloomin' greengrocers in the bloomin' UK - bloomin white, red or bloomin' spring....just takes your bloomin' choice!
Instead of milk like here in the UK? What's to stop you poppin' down to your nearest Waitrose or Sainsbury's or the world's largest supermarket chain bloomin' Tesco where you can buy any kind of cream you like to put in whatever kind of coffee it is you drink.
I am as British as bangers 'n'mash or a bacon 'n' marmite sarnie but I never put milk into my coffee here in my own flat.....it's always cream, or sometimes tinned condensed milk if there's one going spare in my fridge from breakfast, and in restaurants I always demand cream if they offer milk, whether cold or warmed up, and I always get it.
Instead of milk like here in the UK? What's to stop you poppin' down to your nearest Waitrose or Sainsbury's or the world's largest supermarket chain bloomin' Tesco where you can buy any kind of cream you like to put in whatever kind of coffee it is you drink.
I am as British as bangers 'n'mash or a bacon 'n' marmite sarnie but I never put milk into my coffee here in my own flat.....it's always cream, or sometimes tinned condensed milk if there's one going spare in my fridge from breakfast, and in restaurants I always demand cream if they offer milk, whether cold or warmed up, and I always get it.
And Half and Half is pretty good and not something you really get in the UK. It's a different fat content...but also why you don't get much clotted cream over here.
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A bloomin' onion has to be seen to be believed. Sold in pseudo-Aussie restaurant chain, Outback Steakhouse, it is a whole onion, cut so there are a series of onion 'soldiers' for want of a better word, still attached to the base, and then deep fried and served with a dip.
I never had that one, but another chain, Chilis, had one they called an Awesome Blossom. I had one of those, could barely eat half . Needless to say, Chilis pulled it because it had about 3 million calories . . .
They make you fart like a mother****er as well
I never had that one, but another chain, Chilis, had one they called an Awesome Blossom. I had one of those, could barely eat half . Needless to say, Chilis pulled it because it had about 3 million calories . . .
They make you fart like a mother****er as well
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Re: Favourite American foods
Bear in mind Lothianlad - this is a starter . . .
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Re: Favourite American foods
I guess I was just talking about the 'laying on' generally of half and half in the US. eg at my work we get free tea and coffee but they only provide little pots of long life semi skimmed milk, rather than cream. I know I can buy cream for home use, but in the US every convenience store has cream, here I don't really want to carry cream around with me.
#38
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It is...but it is also awesome...and also not something meant for one person...they're meant for 4-6 people...so it's only slightly bad
#41
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It amazes me the choices people make with food. I don't really watch what I eat and consume plenty of crap, but I don't understand why people would eat something with that many calories, it's just crazy.
You could have 2 slices of Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for those calories.
You could have 2 slices of Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for those calories.
#42
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It amazes me the choices people make with food. I don't really watch what I eat and consume plenty of crap, but I don't understand why people would eat something with that many calories, it's just crazy.
You could have 2 slices of Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for those calories.
You could have 2 slices of Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake for those calories.
And, I'd rather a bloomin' onion to the CFC....nom,nom, croak
#44
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I had my first Bloomin Onion in Scotland at a restaurant called Roos Leap it's an Aussie themed restaurant like Outback.
I would miss paying $6.00 a lb for Gulf Coast Shrimp and going back to spending £6.00 for a packet of 8 'King Prawns'.
I would miss paying $6.00 a lb for Gulf Coast Shrimp and going back to spending £6.00 for a packet of 8 'King Prawns'.