But you can’t beat those milkshakes anywhere. I wish KFC did milkshakes.
All it does for the Irish is make them homesick 
The Euro’s fine, thanks. Adoption hasn’t been too problematic; big amounts like houses, salaries and so on, are often still thought of in Irish pounds. Foreign travel in the Eurozone is also cool, and each country’s coins are starting to get mixed up.
The drawback has been rampant inflation caused by underhand price increases by unscrupulous retailers (i.e. all of them).
To those that haven’t already figured it out : Most of those brands in the OP I made up deliberately such as Coke-Yellow.
Am I right in thinking that hot-dog sausage is different from normal sausage or ‘banger’ sausage? I have had hot-dogs home made before. the ‘meat’ came in a tin. it was all rubbery and tasted horrible. But ‘banger’ sausage - I can’t get enough of.
So Is the standard American Hot-dog made with that rubbery type of sausage?
despise kidneys too. S&K pudding is just about the worst thing any one can put in their mouths. next to liver of course.
JJimm I think England’s national dish is changing to become Donner Kebab
Personally the only type of curry I like is Chicken Korma.
f the peanut butter in PB&JSs is different from UK-sold Peanut butter, and the ‘jelly’ is actually jam. then they don’t sound as bad as I thought.
I imagined a sandwich with a bitter tasting brown mush accompanied by a wobbling mess which would struggle to get out of the sandwich. now I know what it is it doesn’t sound so bad.
BTW I have re-read my OP and it does sound rather blunt and confrontational. I really did not mean it to sound that way
I don’t drink, but the post insinuating that American’s don’t drink to get drunk is still the funniest thing I’ve read all week. I know very few people who are also non-drinkers, and the vast majority of those I know who do drink do so with great gusto.
That’s been my experience too, but when coworkers of mine visit the New York or Houston offices, they often report back how there was much raising of eyebrows when they suggested a third drink. Maybe it’s just a joke they keep ready for the visiting limeys? When the Americans come over here they’re generally pretty keep to enjoy themselves as much as possible 
I know what you mean, but there are proper Irish pubs in all the cities I’ve lived (and no I’m not talking about O’Neils). As a northerner I miss getting a decent head on my bitter.
That’s been my experience too, but when coworkers of mine visit the New York or Houston offices, they often report back how there was much raising of eyebrows when they suggested a third drink. Maybe it’s just a joke they keep ready for the visiting limeys? When the Americans come over here they’re generally pretty keep to enjoy themselves as much as possible
I know what you mean, but there are proper Irish pubs in all the cities I’ve lived (and no I’m not talking about O’Neils). As a northerner I miss getting a decent head on my bitter.
Thank you… although there was no need to apologize to me… I was completely in the wrong. Consider it behind us. Anyway. Truth be told I cannot stand ANY american fast food, and it’s kind of sad this crap has been spread worldwide. “Convenience foods” are inedible. And while my irish/brit roots should endear me to their particular brand of “cuisine”, I can’t stand that shit either.
I am fortunate enough to live in a multiculteral location of the us, and about all i can stand is asian food these days. Particularly Thai, often Chinese and Vietnamese, and occasionally Mexican. The hotter the better.
And while I’d like to actually contribute constructively to this thread for a change, has anyone witnessed the horror which are “lunchables”? cheese-type crap, combined with psuedo-meat, all to be consumed between a couple crackers straight from your vending machine. Repulsive.
Why is it always the good ones that die?
zuma
lunchables: yeah we get them here too (although not from a vending machine as far as I’m aware). They’re marketed at parents who don’t have time to make their kids a proper lunch, and who don’t mind them growing up on a diet of over-processed, salted fat apparently. See above link for how it should be done. They’re obscenely overpriced too.
Kraft Dairylea Lunchables, in case you haven’t trodden in them yet.
One portion of Lunchables contains 50% of the daily recommended salt intake for a child. And they are being marketed as suitable for a child’s packed lunch. Also Sunny Delight is now selling itself as " no added sugar " but have you ever looked on the label and seen all the other additives in it ?
ack. I’m only vaguely aware of the lunchables as food for your kid thing lately. A few years ago they showed up in my work vending machine… lately I have learned that parents are actually buying and sending this shit off to school with their kids. How lazy can you be? Even if you are completely retarded, can you not at least pack a turcky sandwich, or 1.25 for a school lunch?
You wouldn’t have thought it was too difficult would you? It seems to be part of a general trend for parents to go for the quickest, easiest option in all circumstances and for their little dears to insist on everything having been bought from a shop and having a fancy wrapper around it.
I’m a bit out of touch with the school lunch situation, but in my day there was free milk for the five- and six-year-olds and a cooked meal in the middle of the day, subsidised to be affordable by every kid. I’m sure there still are cooked meals available but perhaps not universally, and there’s the constant threat of a wedge being driven in by fast food manufacturers and soft drinks firms, either by supplying inappropriate food and drinks vending machines or by offering commercial sponsorship of books etc., that becomes nothing more than advertising.
This story caught my eye. “[School officials in Los Angeles] have banned Coke, Pepsi and Seven Up from vending machines in schools and replaced them with water, fruit juice and milk.” Good for them.
Just watched ‘Interview with a Vampire’ and now have a strange urge for some blood pudding.
What LA school kids drink for lunch made news in England???
Slow news day?
I assumed it was published for comparisson at a time when what British school kids drink for lunch was in the news. If Coke, Pepsi and Seven Up had been banned in a European country that would have been the story.
Not if you are in Turkey…
The organ eating habit is big here… Tripe soup, grilled heart, grilled kidney, fried liver, boiled brain and “kokorec” - intestines on skewer…
And as gross as they might sound at first…they are definitely delicious…
Kinda grosses you out when people call it blood pudding, huh? Kinda makes you want to re-think your culinary choices, eh?
BLOOD PUDDING BLOOD PUDDING BLOOD PUDDING!!!
Whatchoo gonna do about it, Lobby? Bring it on! 
It didn’t come out sounding nasty. It was hilarious!
Here’s another example of a weird British thing. Calling something that tastes good “nice.”
People are nice, i.e. “What a nice man.” Clothing is nice, i.e. “Nice shirt!” Food is not nice. Food is tasty, yummy, delicious.
everton, I think zuma was saying that the crackers included in the “lunchables” set were exactly like the ones you get from a vending machine, not that “lunchables” were available from a vending machine. AFAIK, that’s not yet true anywhere.
I have to put another vote for Lunchables being vile. The idea of all that processed and salt- and nitrate-laden stuff going into your child’s diet is pretty disgusting. The idea of their “pizzas” is even more unappetizing – no-bake pizzalets of round dough that you smear tomato sauce on and sprikle with shredded cheese.
Good idea about re-stocking the school vending machines. When I was in high school, one of the schools we visited during a competition had an apple vending machine! We need more of those.