You’ve never had Shrimp chips?
I’m certain I’ve had other shrimp-flavored snacks, too.
You won’t see Liver or Kidney anywhere in my diet either -EUGH!!11ONE
I only ever… wait I don’t boil anything, ever (I was going to say ‘eggs’ but then I remembered that I never boil eggs) I occasionally fail to poach them. I often fry or scramble them.
I’m not a cook. My cooking is of the bare minimum style of needing food. I fry a lot of things, use the toaster, use the oven. but never boil anything!!
When I was in france I only ate out once, and that was italian food (Pizza) and it was pretty good. I was quite surprised at what wasn’t available.
I can hardly judge, but I happen to think most british restraunt food is pretty good.,
Organ meats just aren’t that popular here. Simply smelling liver cooking would make many of us toss our cookies. And most Americans wouldn’t eat mushrooms for breakfast unless they were part of an omelette. Nor would they eat all of the fatty stuff described along with all the carbs—never mind that juice, jam, syrup, and honey don’t even show up on the English breakfast list. (Not actually a criticism–just pointing out a fact. We do love our sweets. Many of us get by on Starbucks latte and a muffin if we have to–or even if we don’t.)
The sauce for prawn cocktail in the U.K. is quite different from the sauce for shrimp cocktail in the U.S.:
Prawn cocktail-flavored crisps in the U.K. are thus a different flavor than you might expect.
I imagine Prawn Coctail chips would probably taste like the spicy shrimp crisps in the Asian food section of a lot of large grocery stores. I’ve had those and they are ok, kind of like a shrimpy Funion without the onion flavor.
Meijers sells Spotted Dick in a can, I bought some on a lark once but never did try it; I think I gave it away as a gift to embarass someone.
And there are many places where one can get Fish and Chips, even with loads of malt vinegar to dump on them ::drools::
No mushy peas though. Although I’ve looked them up. They seem to be a sort of green chick pea or garbanzo bean, boiled down until they basically fall apart then spiced up with some nice curry and, if I am reading correctly, a generous splash of vinegar.
Which can be malt vinegar, rice wine vinegar, balsamic vinegar or if desperate apple cider vinegar but white distilled vinegar would be like putting Windex on the chips… er… I mean fries. Big fat meaty fries with mushy innards and crispy outtards.
Anyone who calls Steak 'n Shake shoestrings “fries” should be shot in the ass with rock salt.
I would guess that at most 1% of the American population has ever eaten squirrel.
I was gonna scream “KRUPUK!” and join you in glee over fishy chip snacks, but then I clicked. Those are pale Western imitations, dangit. The little round pastel colored flour chips are great grease vehicles as well. sob
As a matter of fact we have the orange juice to start, then scarf down the full English, then finish off with toast and marmalade just to fill up any available space:D:D
And in my case a cup, or two, of strong black coffee completes the deal
I thought it was that low at first, but 1.5 million squirrel are eaten a year in KY alone, so I’m thinking it’s high than that…
And blood PIE looks like a pie?? 
I LOVE blood pie and it is quite tasty. But there is no question that it IS an acquired taste. There aren’t that many Canadians who have had it either.
In French, we call it boudin, more because of the shape that it usually comes in than anything else, I would surmise.
Prawn cocktail crisps taste like nothing else on Earth, and certainly not much like actual prawn cocktails, nor the Chinese shrimp/prawn nibbles that you can get here too. I reckon they called them prawn cocktail flavour simply because they had to call them something, and that seemed like the closest real life equivalent. The are sold in bright pink packaging, to make them seem more prawny.
That said, they are quite tasty.
Still on the subject of grub. Why is it in the UK we don’t get those “Fortune Cookies” in Chinese Restaurants.
I’ve had them in the US every time I’ve eaten Chinese, whether eat in or take out
Our local Chinese restaurant has them. I find the actual cookies tasteless, a bit like eating thick paper.
( No, I don’t mean the motto)
Usram writes:
> Prawn cocktail crisps taste like nothing else on Earth, and certainly not much
> like actual prawn cocktails, nor the Chinese shrimp/prawn nibbles that you can
> get here too.
True, but they taste more like prawn cocktails in the U.K. than they do like shrimp cocktails in the U.S. The sauce for prawn cocktails in the U.K. is more or less ketchup, mayonnaise, and horseradish. The sauce for shrimp cocktails in the U.S. is mostly diced tomatoes, horseradish, and some chili sauce.
Lobsang writes:
> Why is it in the UK we don’t get those “Fortune Cookies” in Chinese
> Restaurants.
They were invented in the U.S.
Actually, ketchup and horseradish sounds pretty much like what I’ve always seen served with shrimp cocktails. I can’t remember seeing anything that looked like it had actual pieces of tomatoes in it.
I don’t know. I don’t eat shrimp cocktails very much (or even use cocktail sauce from a bottle), but the sauce doesn’t taste to me like it ever passed through being ketchup. Yes, it’s clearly more blended so that there are no noticeable pieces of tomatoes in it, but it doesn’t have the distinctive ketchup taste. In any case, my post wasn’t about that. It’s about the fact that prawn cocktail sauce in the U.K. always has mayonnaise in it, while shrimp cocktail sauce in the U.S. never does. That’s the basic difference between the two things.
Here are two recipes for Marie-Rose sauce, the sort used in a prawn cocktail :-
4 heaped Tbsp Home made or Hellman’s Mayonnaise
1 Tbsp Heinz Ketchup (or enough to make the mayonnaise pink)
Lemon juice
Pinch Cayenne pepper
1 Tbsp Cream (or enough to give desired thickness depending on preference)
2 heaped tbsps mayonnaisse
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tsp brandy
pinch cayenne pepper
salt and black pepper
squeeze lemon
Yeah, gays ARE kinda stupid.
What?
[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner
They were invented in the U.S.[/QUOTE]
This makes absolutely no sense whatsover:confused:
What does it matter where they were invented?
Ummmm… No I didn’t.